Google: We Tests By Redirecting A Small Percentage Of Traffic, Not Setting Up Test Sites
In a live Google hangout with John Mueller this morning on Google+, John said that Google doesn’t set up test sites for the most part to test and experiment with the search results…
Google’s John Mueller On How They Handle 301, 301, 307 & Other Redirects
Google’s John Mueller promised a couple weeks ago that he would dig deeper and document how Google handles the various types of redirects. Last night he posted those details on Google+. If you forget…
RankRanger: Google Featured Snippets Expand To More European Search Results
A month ago, Pete Meyers from Moz asked if featured snippets are on other Google search results outside of the US. Gary Illyes from Google responded on Twitter saying he believes it is only available in about 10 additional locales…
Former Googler On Why Do Some Google Manual Actions Seem Automated
Often we will see Google issue out mass manual actions for link schemes or other webmaster guideline violations. We see it often when Google slaps a big link network or something of that nature…
Google Sitar Logo For Pandit Ravi Shankar
Today on Google’s home page is another special Doodle, Google logo, for the 96th birthday of Pandit Ravi Shankar. The Doodle shows a Sitar, a plucked stringed instrument used mainly in Hindustani music and Indian classical music…
Google Sending Recommended PageSpeed Update Available Notifications
Google is sending out new Google Search Console notifications for pagespeed related topics. The notification being sent out reads “Google has detected that your site is currently running PageSpeed
Google Showing Site Owner; Your Page Is Not Mobile-Friendly In Search Results
Jennifer Slegg noticed on one of her older sites that Google is showing a notification directly in the mobile search results for the site that the site is not mobile friendly. The message Google shows in the snippet is “your page is not mobile-friendl…
Google AdWords Shopping Adds Product Status & Effective Max CPC Reports
Google announced they added two new Google AdWords reports specific to managing your shopping campaigns. The two new reports are named product status reporting and effective max CPC reporting
There is now a new product status column…
Is Google Testing The Penguin 4.0 Algorithm?
I think we are on the verge of seeing Penguin 4.0 launch soon at Google – I think we are just about there. I know, I know, it’s been a while…
Google Doodle For First Modern Olympic Games On Its 120th Anniversary
On Google’s home page today, on Google.com, is a special Google logo, aka Doodle for the 120th anniversary of the first modern olympic games. Today , a 120 years ago was the first modern Olympic games. It started in Athens…
Google: Alt Tags Should Be In The Language Of The Content Of The Page (Localized Alt Tags)
John Mueller of Google answered a question in StackExchange on localization of content. In short, he said you should probably localize all the content on the page, including the alternative text for images…
Google Employees Do Get PR Training For Webmaster Outreach
Yesterday, I did a one-on-one interview with former Google spam fighter, Murat Yatagan, on Google+. Murat hasn’t worked at Google in about a year, but he was very involved in spam fighting and webmaster outreach…
Google Posts Live Webmaster Hangouts Schedule
People ask me all the time to ask Google questions on their live hangouts. I cover a lot of the hangouts, a lot of what John Mueller and friends say but I honestly do not ask that many questions. I don’t ask the questions because I feel bad hogging t…
Google: Toolbar PageRank Won’t Flow With HTTPS Migration Because It’s Dead
We know that when you migrate from HTTP to HTTPS, Google does an extra special effort to pick up on the migration faster and pass all the signals…
Google: HTTP/2 Doesn’t Have A Direct SEO Benefit But Makes For Faster Sites
Google’s John Mueller wrote on Google+ that both browsers and crawlers support HTTP/2 web server configuration and he recommends that if you have a choice, you go with it. But he made it clear that going HTTP/2 with your server does not have a direct …
Google My Business Expands Latitude & Longitude Bulk Upload For All
In November, Google enabled select countries to upload their latitude and longitude coordinates in their data upload process. But now…
April 2016 Google Webmaster Report
This past month we still didn’t get that Penguin update but we are still crossing our fingers. We did see some signs of updates this past month but it wasn’t Penguin – some think possible Panda shuffles…
New: Google Review Snippets In Local Pack
Pete Meyers posted on Twitter a new test Google is conducting in the local pack. Google is showing review snippets on some of the local results directly under the address of the snippet…
Google Changes Local Reviews – Removes Google+ Page & Simplifies Adding Reviews
There was a lot I wanted to cover on Friday but was afraid some of that news would get looked over because it was April Fools Day. If you missed…
Google’s Paul Haahr On Patents For Learning SEO
Google’s Paul Haahr, a lead ranking engineer at Google for 14+ years, had a nice conversation with the SEO community yesterday on Twitter.