Google’s Monkeys Logo Is For The Lunar New Year
Today on Google.com is a special Google logo, aka Doodle, for the Lunar New Year. The Lunar New Year is also known as the Chinese New Year, celebrated in countries like China, Korea, Mongolia, and Vietnam…
Google’s “May Treat” Added To Medical Knowledge Graph Queries
Dr. Pete Meyers shared on Twitter that Google may have recently added a “may treat” section to some medical queries. The example he shared was a search for [dulcolax]…
Webmasters Claiming More AppleBot Activity From Apple
As you know, Apple confirmed the existence of AppleBot, their web crawler, last year. The main purpose of it is to help index content not just in apps but also the app content that references the web (like Google App Indexing but in the iOS world)…
…
Google Spammy Structured Markup Manual Actions Spike Due To WordPress Recipe Plugins
In the past month or so, there has been an uptick in the number of manual actions seen around “Spammy Structured Markup” or rich snippet manual actions.
The reason might not be
Google Investigating Polish Hacker Who Is Stealing Webmaster Rankings
There is a thread in the Polish Google Webmaster Help forums that I’ve been tracking for a while. I don’t speak Polish, but I’ve been given help on the translation from both Google Translate and webmasters…
Google AdWords Android App Added Universal App Campaigns & Conversion Columns
The Google AdWords app for Android has been upgraded to add support for universal app campaigns and new conversion columns.
The Google Play Store says that the two new features are universal app campaigns and new conversion stats…
Google Launches Troubleshooting Tool In News Publisher Center
Google’s Stacie Chan announced in the Google News Help forums that they launched a new feature in the Google News Publisher center to test your URLs with the Troubleshooting Tool.
You can access it in the left menu after logging in…
Google Now Blocks Sites With Deceptive Download Buttons
Google announced this week that they are blocking access to sites via big warnings for sites that contain deception download buttons and forms of deceptive embedded content, like social engineering ads…
Google Japan Issues Link Network Penalties
The Google Japan Webmaster Blog announced that they have penalized a link network there for trying to manipulate Google search results rankings…
Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: February 5, 2016
This week in search, Amit Singhal, the head of Google search, has announced he is retiring this month from Google after 15+ years. Google Japan issued link penalties to…
Live: Google Tests AMP Label & News Carousel
I was tipped off that this was a live test by Google but unfortunately it was not…
Google Showing “Including Results For” Feature For Navigational Queries
Google has forever shown “including results for” at the top of the search results for misspellings but now it seems to be trying to be even more smarter. It is taking queries and thinking you are looking for a brand and suggests the navigational query…
Should Facebook Be A Source For Featured Snippets?
Glenn Gabe shared a screen shot of a featured snippet in Google on Twitter the other day. In short…
Google Officially Adds JSON-LD Support For Reviews & Products Structured Data Markup
As we expected, Google confirmed last night that they now support using JSON-LD for some structured data markup including reviews and product rich snippets.
Amit Singhal, The Head Of Google Search To Retire But Why?
I am sure you’ve heard the news that Google’s head of search, Amit Singhal, has announced on Google+ that after 15 years he is leaving the company. He is retiring. Why…
Google Trusted Verifier Program For In Person Business Verification
Google added a new help page describing a new program called “Trusted Verifier.” It seems a Trusted Verifier is a volunteer vetted by Google as someone they trust to validate and verify, in person, if a business really exists…
Google Adds Letter Pointers To Local Pack Results
Google has added letters, i.e. A, B & C to the local pack in the Google search results. This way you can quickly identify on the map…
Google: Keywords In URLs A Very Small Ranking Factor
In the Google hangout from last week on Google+ at the 17:50 minute mark John Mueller of Google said that keywords in the URL is a “very small ranking factor.”
The question: “Keyword in the URL…
Google: Local Reviews Are Not A Web Search Ranking Factor
In the hangout from last week on Google+ at the 17:27 minute mark Google’s John Mueller said he doesn’t think reviews left on your local business has a direct impact on your web search organic rankings. He said “With regards to web search, as far as I…
February 2016 Google Webmaster Report
Well, January was a super busy month probably because of the code freeze as Matt Cutts explained. We had tons of Google updates earlier this month but all were part of the core algorithm. Google told us Panda is part of the core ranking algorithm now b…