Google Shares AMP Growth Rate & Expands To Recipes & iOS & Android Apps
Richard Gingras from Google in his Google I/O session named Search and the mobile content ecosystem shared two nice tidbits on AMP. The first is that they indexed 125 million AMP documents across 640…
Google To Go To Court Over Pure Spam Manual Actions
Google issues a ton of manual actions, in fact, last year they issued ~500 per hour alone. But one publisher based in Florida is suing Google over being delisted over a set of pure spam manual actions…
Google: There Is No Way To Redirect A Penalized Site Safely
In a webmaster hangout on Google+ this morning, Google’s John Mueller basically said there is no good way to redirect a web site that has a penalty to a new…
Google Doodle For Yuri Kochiyama’s 95th Birthday
Today on the Google home page is a special Google logo, aka Doodle for the 95th birthday of Yuri Kochiyama.
Yuri Kochiyama was an activist who fought for African American, Latino…
Google Testing Card Snippets On Desktop Search Results
Google is once again testing the card based user interface for the search results snippets page. Google actually launched this interface back in 2013 and shortly replaced it after much testing. But now Google is testing it again…
Fixed: Google Manual Actions Reconsideration Request Bug
Earlier this week we reported that many of those who received a manual action for sneaky mobile redirects were unable to submit a reconsideration request. Well after some time…
Google Firebase App Indexing Adds More Documentation & Analytics
As we broke first (yes, we are the best), Google renamed Google App Indexing to Firebase App Indexing. Truth is, the code base is the same…
Of Google’s 100 Billion Queries Per Month, Over 10 Billion Are Voice Queries
One of the statistics that everyone is talking about from the Google I/O keynote is that Sundar Pichai, Google’s CEO, said that 20% of mobile queries on Google are voice triggered…
Google I/O 2016: Quick Recap
As you know, Google I/O is now, the keynote was yesterday and the theme to sum it up is around talking to Google and Google giving you the answers and completing the tasks you asked for…
Google Search Console Add Rich Cards Section
The Google Search Console added a new section under the Search Appearance section named “Rich Cards.” Rich Cards seem to be a section where Google will show you data about your rich snippets, schema, AMP…
Google App Indexing Replaced By Firebase App Indexing
Today is Google I/O and I am spotting a some changes to the Google docs that have not yet been announced. It seems Google has renamed it’s Google App Indexing to Firebase App Indexing…
Google’s New BMI Calculator
If you go to Google and search for [bmi calculator] you will find a new interactive answer box at the top that let’s you enter in your weight and height…
Google Now Lets You Search Using Emojis
Back in October 2014, we reported that Google was unable to accept emojis to search, so if you searched using an Apple Emoji [Apple] Google would show no results found. Well, now Google can search using emojis…
Bing Launches Bing Ads Editor Version 11.0
Bing announced the new Bing Ads Editor, version 11.0, is now out. It brings new features such as multi-account management support…
Google Search Console Adds AMP To Search Analytics
As expected, Google has added a feature to the Search Analytics report within the Google Search Console to filter out how your AMP pages are doing.
Google AdWords Timezone Support For Conversion Imports
Google quietly announced on Google+ that you can now set your timezones for your AdWords conversion imports. Google wrote that you can “set time zones for your conversion imports with time zone IDs.”
The time zone IDs are listed over here…
Official: Google Image Search Gets Shopping Ads
It is official, after months of testing ads on Google Images, now Google announced image search will have Google Shopping Ads.
Google said they are “introducing Shopping ads on image search…
Check Out Google’s New Mobile Friendly Testing Tool
After it leaking that Google was testing a new mobile friendly testing tool a couple weeks ago, today, Google officially announced the new tool that can be found here.
The new tool is slicker, less frightening…
Google Search Console Checks For Apple Universal Links For App Association
As you know, Google Search Console will let you track your app’s analytics and crawl stats for Android apps. It also lets iOS app developers submit their iOS apps so they can do the app association to their web site…
Google’s Gary Illyes On Crawl Budget, Scheduling & Host Load
During the Stone Temple Consulting Q&A with Gary Illyes on YouTube the other week, he spoke about crawl budget and how Google doesn’t necessarily crawl based on crawl budget. He said internally…