SEOs Should Be More Respectful To Google Webmaster Trends Analysts
We, including myself, can often come off as giving Googlers a really hard time when it comes to certain things that happen there…
Google To Boost The Mobile Friendly Ranking Factors In May
Google announced that the mobile friendly ranking algorithm which launched on April 21, 2015 will be getting a ranking signal boost in the beginning of May…
Daily Search Forum Recap: March 16, 2016
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.
Search Engine Roundtable Stories:
A Google Update Brewing…
Google Smartphone Crawler Will Drop iPhone User-Agent For Android
Google announced yesterday that they are updating their smartphone user-agent to a new user-agent on April 18th. The new user-agent drops the iPhone bit from the string and replaces it with Android…
Google Report On HTTPS Adoption Within Google & The Top Web Sites
Google shared a new report in the Transparency Report for HTTPS both by Google properties and the top sites on the web.
It appears that Google has encrypted 77% of their traffic to date but is aiming to go to 100%…
Google: RankBrain Does Not Currently Affect Crawling
Google has deployed RankBrain for some time and we know it is confusing so there are many questions out there on it.
One question posed to Google was how does RankBrain impact crawling on your web site. Does RankBrain determine how much Google will c…
Google: No, We Don’t Understand Text In Images
A question was posed to Google’s Gary Illye’s on Twitter if Google’s crawler and indexer understands the text embedded in an image, maybe through OCR or other techniques. I am surprised to hear Gary say no…
A Google Update Brewing? Showing Some Signals.
Over the past week or so, I have been waiting day by day because I really have this feeling that an update is about to kick off soon…
Google Search Analytics Let’s You Save Dynamic Date Range URLs For Reports
Google’s Zineb Ait Bahajji shared on Google+ a change in how Google generates the URLs for the Search Analytics date range based reports in the Google Search Console. Now if you ask for the last 7 days or last X days…
New: Google Analytics 360 Suite
If you go to the Google Analytics home page you will see a new section for the enterprise clients that says Google Analytics 360 Suite. It seems Google has replace there Analytics Premium platform and is replacing it with Google Analytics 360 Suite……
Google Opens Trial Run Ads To Search Ads With App Streaming
Google announced new ad formats and targeting options yesterday. The biggest item was expanding trial run ads to search ads.
That means you can use app streaming feature for ads in search…
Google’s Gary Illyes On RankBrain Replacing Links & Other Ranking Factors
So the folks at Distilled wrote a piece “Google to Announce that Links are no Longer a Major Ranking Factor…
Google Confirms They Do Use Site Authority Signals For New Pages
Google’s John Mueller confirmed in a Google+ hangout last Tuesday that Google does use site wide or site authority to determine where new pages that have no page specific signals should rank in search…
Google Warning: Get A Free Product To Review, Nofollow That Link & Disclose
Friday, Google posted a warning on the Webmaster blog that if you get a product to review from a manufacturer or wherever, make sure that you nofollow any links back to the person/company who sent you that product…
Google: Content In aside Tag Treated Similarly To Other Content On Your Page
Google’s John Mueller confirmed on Twitter that content placed in the <aside> tag is treated similarly to other content on the page…
Google Local Guides Can Add Photos In Their Reviews
Did you know that starting a few weeks ago, the Google Local Guides unlocked a special feature in the Google Maps app that let’s them not just add reviews but also add photos to their reviews…
Coming: Google Search Console May Split Out Where Your Page Showed In The Search Results
Google’s John Mueller said in a Google+ hangout this morning at the 5:40 mark that Google may show where your page was shown in the search results page. Specifically if you were in the featured snippets box or AMP page carousel or something like that…..
Google On Why They Use DMOZ: I Have Absolutely No Clue
Sometimes Google will use DMOZ, the old old web directory, in their search results. They may use the DMOZ description of your web site for the search results snippet in Google. They use to use DMOZ as their web directory but killed it off in 2011…
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Google: Why Google Doesn’t Go Over Every Ranking Factor For Webmasters
This morning in a Google Hangout on Google+, John Mueller said he is decided to skip a bunch of questions on the topic of being more transparent…
Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: March 11, 2016
This week in search, I published the monthly Google Webmaster Report. Google has officially killed off Toolbar PageRank finally. Googleâs Paul Haahr said he doesnât fully…