Category: Search Engine Roundtable

Google’s John Mueller said in a Google+ hangout the other day that Google is working on some “fun stuff” around the search query reporting tool in Google Webmaster Tools.

John said this at 25 minutes and 55 seconds into the video…

Excuse the horrible job photoshopping the Santa hat onto John Mueller but he was up at 1:30am his local time, last night, Christmas eve, responding to Webmasters in the Google Help forums…

I asked Google’s John Mueller yesterday, based on an argument I had with a group of SEOs the previous Friday, if Google will also look at the mobile template to determine if content hidden…

A Google Webmaster Help thread has one webmaster asking why GoogleBot seems to be maxed out at crawling his site at 10 requests per second. The webmaster even documented the behavior over time and plotted it in this graph below…

Google App indexing is taking on and as more and more app developers start to integrate their app content within Google search, more and more questions arise.

App Indexing lets you send your mobile searchers directly to your content within your app……

Google revamped their local search algorithm, we named Google Pigeon, in July of this year. It was a significant change to how Google ranked and ordered the local search results both for local queries in Google search, and within Google Maps…
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This actually dates back at least a couple months, but no one really talked about it in our community until now. That is, the Google Knowledge Graph “Notable Alumni” carousel.

A WebmasterWorld thread has one user saying “it’s not inaccurate…
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Google News will be publishing a newsletter for publishers every now and then. The first one should be coming soon.

Stacy Chan from the Google News team posted in the Google News Help forum about it…