Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Algorithm Update, Snippets Bug, AI, AMP, AdSense & AdWords
This week in search I covered the November 10th Google update that Google has not fully confirmed yet but there is a heck of a lot of chatter around it in the SEO community. Google had a bug with their snippets showing the wrong dates…
New: Google Search Analytics Report Filter Between Rich Result & Normal Results
The Google Search Console team added a new feature to the Search Analytics report, under the Search Appearance tab to filter your AMP results by rich results versus normal results. Previously, that filter only showed the rich results data, i.e. the to…
New Google AdSense Interface Now The Default Interface
About a month ago, we reported that the new Google Adsense interface was rolling out but back then, you had to opt in to it…
Google Local Restaurant Lists Rich Cards Markup
Aaron Bradley posted on Google+ a new beta feature around structured markup Google is now testing in the search results. In short…
Google Recipes Markup Guidelines Now Says Use AMP HTML
Another one spotted by Aaron Bradley and posted on Google+ was that Google updated the guidelines around recipes markup to say you should use AMP HTML…
Google: AMP & Desktop But No Mobile, Mobile-First Index Picks Desktop Version
Google’s Maile Ohye and then confirmed by Gary Illyes of Google said that if you have a desktop site but no mobile version, but you do have AMP versions – in the mobile-first index world, Google will include the desktop version in their mobile-first in…
PSA: Don’t Email Matt Cutts About Paid Links; He Knows Googlers
Just a heads up, pretty obvious one, do not email Matt Cutts, the man who pretty much set up search quality at Google, asking to buy links or do sponsored content for links. It is a bad idea…
Google: Machine Learning Can Be Used To Make New Ranking Signals Out Of Old Ones
A month ago, I interview Gary Illyes at Marketing Land and covered this bit at Search Engine Land but it got lost. In short…
Google: You Can Use Different Markup Formats For Structured Data
When implementing schema and structured markup, there are multiple formats you can use, such as microdata, RDFa, or JSON-LD…
Google: Hummingbird Is Not Specifically For Spam
In September 2013, Google announced Hummingbird the new revised engine that powers Google’s search algorithm. It made search faster and more efficient – but it isn’t a spam algorithm. Spam algorithms may plug into the overall algorithm…
Google: Nothing To Announce For November 10th Search Algorithm Update
On Monday, we reported about the ongoing chatter around a potential Google search algorithm update that touched down on November 10th of last week. Some of the…
Google: Make Sure Your AMP Pages Have Your Primary Content If…
In a mobile-first index, Google has warned us that our primary content should be on the mobile version of our site, if we still want to retain our rankings when Google flips to the mobile-first index. I go way into detail on this over here…
Google AdSense Spam Spoofing Impressions & Earnings Reports?
There is a thread at the Google AdSense Help forums have recent complaints about third-party sites drastically inflating their earnings reports…
Official: Google AdWords Carousel Swipable Price Extensions
We saw this coming months ago – Google is bringing the swipable carousel cards to the AdWords snippets…
Google: We’re Moving Search To An Artificial Intellegence First World
Maile Ohye, a Developer Programs Tech Lead at âGoogle who is very involved with the search community, presented at State Of Search last night. In her keynote presentation…
Google Now Showing Upcoming TV Shows In Search
Back in April, Google announced they are bringing TV show search to the search results but then the Google blog post went missing. It is unclear why but the blog post is completely gone and not even on the new blog, as far as I can see…
Google Insulin Logo For Frederick Banting Birthday
On Google’s home page today, pretty much globally around the world, is a Doodle, special Google logo…
Google Adds 100 Trillion Pages To Their Index; Now At 130 Trillion Pages
Google has updated their How Search Works page changing the number of pages Google has indexed from 30 trillion back in March 2013 to 130 trillion today.
Yes…
Google Snippet Date Wrong In Search Results For Many
Over the past few days, a bug has creeped into the Google search results where the date shown in the snippets in the search results is wrong. There are many many threads about this including at Google Webmaster Help, Moz…
Google Search Tests New User Interface
As you all know, Google is constantly testing new user interfaces but this one is a bit more extreme that some of you may notice yourself if you land on it.
Here, the top bar, where it has search tools and settings has changed…