Google: Space Separated Attributes In Nofollow Still Nofollows The Link
Google’s John Mueller confirmed on Twitter that having space separated attributes in the nofollow attribute will still work as a nofollow.
He said rel=’external nofollow’ is the same as rel=’nofollow’ for the purpose of ensuring Google doesn’t follow…
Google: SEOs Are Wrong, 302 Redirects Pass PageRank
On Twitter @dhinckley said that according to Moz over here, 302 redirects pass zero “link juice,” also known as PageRank. John Mueller said that is not true…
Google Crawler Now Sends English In Accept-Language Request Header
Former Googler, Pierre Far, spotted and posted on Google+ that the Google crawler (GoogleBot) now sends HTTP requests with English setting Accept-Language in the request header.
Google: Reviews In Original Language On Internationalized Pages Are Acceptable
One of the more complicated topics in SEO is internationalization, geo, languages…
Google Testing Images In Search Results Snippets
Google seems to be stepping up showing more and more images in the search results, inline with the snippets. Over the past few weeks…
Former Googler: Google’s Early March Update Gone Unnoticed Long Enough
Last week, we reported on a Google update that we suspected started a week or so before. There was some chatter in the SEO communities around an update, as well as some of the automated tracking tools noticed some changes – but overall…
Google Announces Doodle 4 Google Winner
Google has announced the winner of the Doodle 4 Google competition for 2016. The winner is 10th grader Akilah Johnson from Washington, D.C.
The logo, aka Doodle, which you can see above…
Moz: Google Displaying “People Also Ask” Box More Often To Searchers
Google seems to be showing more and more of the “people also ask” feature in the search results. Pete Meyers from Moz said on Twitter that there was a jump in how often Google is showing them in the search results…
466453.com Now 404s; Google’s Old SMS Search Feature
Back, a hundred internet years ago, Google bought 466453.com and then after using it for years as their SMS search feature, Google pulled the feature offline in March 2013.
Well, now, 466453.com no longer goes anywhere, it 404s…
Google Doodles Version Of Somewhere Over The Rainbow
This is pretty amazing, the samuraiguitarist used various Google Doodles (the ones that make sounds) to orchestrate the song…
Google AdSense Matched Content Ads Rolling Out
Google announced they are rolling out Matched Content ads units, which they began testing last year.
Google said:
Starting today…
Google Revamps Search Advertising Exam For Google Partners
Google has quietly updated, or as they put it, “revamped” the Search Advertising exam for Google Partners.
They posted this on the AdWords features change log but I have not seen anywhere else mention it…
Google’s Vernal Equinox Doodle
Today is the first day of spring and like every year, Google and the other search engines make a big deal out of it with a special logo or theme.
Google’s Vernal Equinox logo is an animated GIF of flowers blooming and the rocks enjoying…
Google: RankBrain May Adjust Weights Of Existing Search Ranking Signals
As you know, we’ve been living in a RankBrain world for some time in Google. Recently there has been some coverage on it around Google not fully understanding it…
Google Image Search Launches Colorized Filter Buttons
Google has been testing different color filter button icons in the image search results for some time now and it seems it is fully launched now on both desktop and mobile…
Opt Out Of Google Feature Snippets With nosnippet Tag
Did you know you can opt out of showing up in the featured snippets box…
Google Can Drill Into Search Quality Raters Results To Learn More
At SMX West a few weeks ago, during Paul Haahr’s awesome presentation and Q&A…
Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: March 18, 2016
This week in search at the Search Engine Roundtable, we covered a possible Google update earlier in the week. We also reported that Google will be boosting…
The Jumping Shamrock On The Google St. Patrick’s Day Logo & More
Today is St. Patrick’s Day and like every year, the search engine get into their green spirit. Today…
New? Google Displaying Domain In Some AdWords Ad Titles?
Google seems to now show the domain name in the AdWords ad title in the Google search results. I am not sure if this is new or not…