December 2016 Google Webmaster Report
It was a busy month with lots of nuggets, the biggest news was Google’s beginning of their mobile first index. We also saw an unconfirmed Google…
Google: Going HTTPS vs Switching URL Structures Are Different
An interesting question came up during the Google webmaster hangout on YouTube Live this past Friday…
Google Recipes In Search: Found In Related Search
Seems like Google is trying out a new search feature for recipe search results. Wendy Kirwan searched for [fleishig vegetable soup recipe], fleishig means meat…
Google Rolling Out New Desktop Search Interface?
It looks like Google is starting to roll out the new desktop search interface we saw them testing a month or so ago. It might be Google just bumping up the people who see the test, but I am now even able to replicate it across several browsers…
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Google AdWords Editor Is Not Available For Chromebook
If you want to use the Google AdWords editor, currently, it is only available for Windows computers or Apple computers. They also have iOS and Android apps but nothing for Google’s own OS, Chromebooks…
Google Maps Drops Outlining Local City Boundaries
The folks in the Google Maps Help forums and Local Search Forums are not happy that Google is no longer showing local boundaries in Google maps.
Starting about a week ago, the boundaries lines from Google Maps disappeared…
Google AdWords Customer Match With Easier Email Address List Maintenance
Google announced that you can now easily add new emails…
The META NOINDEX Tag Doesn’t Save Your Google Crawl Budget
This is a pretty obvious SEO question for most of you – but hey – Google’s John Mueller confirmed that using the meta noindex tag on your site will not help you save your crawl budget.
Why…
Mazal Tov – 13 Years Covering The Search Industry
It’s like I am celebrating my bar mitzvah again, well, I kind of am because this site is now 13-years old! I personally have been covering the search marketing industry on this site for 13 years now. And I say this every year…
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Sentence Compression, Top Stories Fake News Algorithm & Search Console Updates
Today is the 13th year anniversary of this site and me covering the search industry. Today I talk about Google using machine learning for feature snippets with sentence compression algorithms. I also cover how Google appears to have tweaked their top…
Google: Canonical Tags Don’t Save *Much* Crawl Budget
So we just covered that meta noindex doesn’t save crawl budget with Google and that question and answer was fairly obvious to most of you. But how about the canonical tag, does it save crawl budget…
Google Docs Explore: Search Engine Optimization Is Related To Weasels
This is a fun one, maybe… If you go to Google Docs, type “search engine optimization” and click on the “Explore” feature – you will see that Google thinks the term “search engine optimization” is related to the animal, weasel…
Google Machine Learning Sentence Compression Algorithms Powers Features Snippets
The other day, I covered at Search Engine Land a Wired article named Google’s hand-fed AI now gives answers…
Google My Business Support Telling Businesses To Submit Reconsideration Requests?
This is a weird one – according to Tim Capper in the Local Business Forums, official support representatives from the Google My Business team are telling those who had their businesses suspended on Google My Business to submit reconsideration requests …
Google Site Move Recommendations Updated: Big Vs. Small Sites
It has been a few years since we covered Google updating their site move recommendations document but they have. They basically now give different advice when moving a site based on if the site is a big/large site or small site…
Google Mobile Friendly Test Tool Allows You To Submit Pages To Google’s Index
Google has added the ability to submit a page to Google’s index directly from the new version of their mobile-friendly testing tool, which is at search.google.com/search-console/mobile-friendly…
Google Search Console Removed Feature Phone URL Error Report
Google has dropped the “featured phone” filter in the URL error report section within Google Search Console. You can access the URL error reports under Current Status > Crawl Errors > Site Errors > URL Errors when you login to the Google Search Console…
Now Google Search Console’s Update Indicator Line Is Clickable
Yay, I just checked and the Google Search Console “update” line indicator found in many of the reports within Google Search Console can now be clicked on. In the past, you had to view the page source…
Google Knowledge Panel With Video Carousel
Google is now showing videos in the knowledge graph panel on mobile. Here is a picture from Sergey Alakov, who spots so many Google features…
Google Search Console Removes The Content Keywords Report
After months at hinting at removing the content keywords report from the Google Search Console, Google has officially done it.
As we said in May, one of the reasons Google removed it was due to user confusion…