Google Knowledge Graph Edits By Owner Happen Quickly
A couple weeks ago we mentioned at the bottom that you can edit your knowledge graph via a tip from @ChrisGDunn. Well, it has been showing up more…
Google: Crawl Rate Increases Are Not Related To Algorithm Updates
Often I’ll see webmasters and SEOs say that they see a huge spike in GoogleBot crawl activity on their web sites and thus, they are expecting to see an update in the upcoming days…
Google Spam Squad On Polish Hacker’s Trail Over Vapor URLs
Last week we covered that Google Investigating Polish Hacker Who Is Stealing Webmaster Rankings. It was a case of a hacker using iframes and hacking into other sites…
Google: We Aren’t Going To Provide SEO Certification
While most SEOs want SEO certification by a formal and trusted organization…
Google App Indexing App Install Button Engagement Very Low
Google’s Gary Illyes said in a Google hangout with Stone Template Consulting yesterday that the engagement levels on the App Install button for those app developers who integrated Google App Indexing is very low…
Google Adds 24 Hour Support For AdWords Via Social Media
Google announced they are now offering 24 hour support, Monday through Friday, via social media channels. Specifically, you can access the AdWords support on Twitter, G+, Facebook, and YouTube by using the hashtag #AskAdWords…
Google AdWords Revises Automated Bidding Workflow
Google announced on Google+ that they have “revamped” the workflow for managing and setting up automated bidding within Google AdWords…
Google: We Did Not Remove The Link Command/Operator
Last night, Bill Hartzer spotted that the link operator, i.e. [link:www.seroundtable.com] no longer returns results. Well, he is right, for some domains but for others, it does seem to work.
But for sites like [link:searchengineland.com] it does wo…
Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: February 12, 2016
This week in search, we saw some reports of mobile Google search results fluctuations. Google said a spike in crawl rate does not signify an algorithms update is coming. A polish hacker is wrecking havoc on webmasters there…
Daily Search Forum Recap: February 9, 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:
Google Mobile Algorithm Tests Underway…
Known Bug With The Google AdWords Keyword Status
Cassie from the Google AdWords team confirmed in a few Google AdWords Help threads that there is a known issue with the keyword status field in your AdWords report. In short…
Got Questions On Google App Indexing? Let Google Know For SMX
At SMX West in a few weeks I am moderating a panel named What You Need To Know About Google App Indexing. In that panel…
Google Mobile Algorithm Tests Underway?
On Friday, Dr. Pete Meyers, the man behind Mozcast said on Twitter that his tool picked up significant ranking changes in the mobile search results. He said “URLs on page one jumped from 80.9% to 88.7%.” That is very big but within 24 hours…
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)…
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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…