Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: April 1, 2016
This week in search, we saw a lot of fluctuations in Googleâs search results again. Google said the AMP carousel is only live in 12 countries. John Mueller…
I’m Done With SEO Coverage – I Had Enough Of You
I am just done with it all. I am sick of it. I spent 12.5 years of my life writing about the changes happening in the search industry, ranking changes, Google updates, etc…
Watch Google’s Top Ranking Engineer, Paul Haahr, Talk On How Google Works
I am not sure if you remember but at SMX West, we covered tons of tidbits coming out of a talk Google’s Paul Haahr gave named How Google Works.
Well…
New: Google AdWords OEM Automotive Ads
Google announced a new search ads, AdWords, format for automative ads for OEMs such as Toyota, Honda, etc.
Now, if the OEM is buying ads, they have the option to have a richer experience with their ads. The ads come up for searches around their bran…
Google Testing Removing Reviews From Local Map Results?
Typically when you do a search that brings up local results in the web search results, the local box or whatever Google is calling it these days – you see 3 listings now and if those listings have reviews…
WhatsApp Uses Globe Unicode In URL Structure & Google Ranks It
Gerk Mulder shared an interesting screen shot on Twitter of Google indexing, ranking and displaying in the search results snippet a globe unicode URL. It looks like this…
Google: AMP Powered News Carousel Only Live In 12 Countries
Google’s Elena L. said in a Google Webmaster Help thread that the new news carousel that is powered by AMP content that went live on February 23rd is only live in 12 countries. Google will be expanding them to more countries but here is the full list …
Yahoo Ad Reps Jumping Ship, Leaving Advertisers With No Alternatives?
Yesterday we covered how Yahoo is looking to sell itself, which means, Yahoo employees don’t feel so secure at the company.
Yesterday…
Google On Image Title Attributes For Ranking
We know Google uses alternative text, alt tags, in images for helping them understand what is an image is about. Google uses it for ranking images…
Google Knowledge Graph Panel Adds Share Feature & More
Aaron Friedman of Five Blocks captured and posted on Twitter that Google has modified the knowledge graph to add a share feature and it also looks like the company URL with the globe next to it is new also…
Google Image Search Save Image Feature
Google announced they are expanding the save image feature in Google Image search from mobile search to desktop search. It is pretty simple, you search for images, click on the image…
Google Analytics Tests Lifetime Value Report
Google Analytics has added a new report to some analytics users reports named the Lifetime Value report. The Lifetime Value report shows the value of your different users acquired through different channels…
Yahoo Taking Bids To Sell All Or Parts Of Company
Wall Street Journal reports Yahoo has set a deadline for when all bids need to be submitted to Yahoo for selling all or parts of the company. The deadline is April 11th…
Google: isSimilarTo Not Similar To Canonicals
All of you know what a canonical does, right? It basically is a 301 redirect designed for spiders only – more on that over here. But many of you do not know…
Signs Of A Google Update; Not Sure If It Is Penguin…
I am seeing some early signals within the community that there is a potential Google update being pushed out. It is really early. It might be some limited Google test, which they are constantly doing or really early signs of a Penguin update…
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High Bounce Rates On Web Sites Don’t Necessarily Impact Google Rankings
A Cre8asite Forum thread has a discussion about is it bad to have a really high bounce rate on your site…
Google: Multiple Title Tags Doesn’t Cause Problems For Us
Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that if you have multiple title tags on the same page, it wouldn’t make sense but it wouldn’t cause problems for Google.
John wrote, “that wouldn’t make sense for Google, probably wouldn’t make sense for others ei…
Google: Don’t Worry About Duplicate Content With PDFs & Web Pages
I struggled with the title of this post, so please read through it so it all makes sense. In short, a person asked Gary Illyes from Google some time ago about duplicate content…
Google To Complete Major Redesign For AdWords Over Next 12 Months
Google announced this morning they are going to be redesigning the AdWords platform over the next 12-18 months. Of course…
Google Easter Logo? Nope, But Bing & Ask.com Go With Easter Themes
The last time Google has a special Google logo, aka Doodle, for Easter was in 2000, yes, 16 years ago. But every year, searchers are surprised not to see a Google Easter logo. Here is the logo from Google in 2000:
The thing is, if you go to the co…