Google Fetch As Google Submit To Index Now Requires Captcha
Google’s Fetch As Google feature within the Google Search Console now forces you to use a captcha each and every time you try to submit the page to the index. You can try it yourself…
Google Goes With Frederick Douglass Logo For Black History Month
Today on Google’s home page, on the first day of Black History month is a special Google logo, aka Doodle, with Frederick Douglass on it. Frederick Douglass was born in February, the date is not known, but in 1818…
Google: Fetch As Google Only For Web Index
Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that the Fetch As Google feature within the Google Search Console is only meant to be used for the web index.
This came up in regards to figuring out ways to speed up indexing old image URLs with new images…
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Q&A With Pedro Dias, Former Googler, On The SEO Community
As many of you know, I am fascinated with the SEO community and how it reacts to changes that Google makes. So I had the opportunity to to interview Pedro Dias…
Google: AMP Reports In Google Search Console Are Not Real Time
Despite AMP being super fast and quick, the Google Search Console reports for AMP errors and analytics are delayed…
Google Analytics Adds Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) Tracking Support
Google announced that Google Analytics now supports tracking Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) pages. Google is pushing fast with AMP and they are trying to get all their ducks lined up for its big debut at the end of this month in Google Search…
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Google: Valid HTML Not Required For Ranking But Can Hurt Structured Data & Mobile Friendliness
When Google updated their Webmaster Guidelines yesterday, one of the changed was changes was around valid HTML.
Before it read…
Google To Step Up Structured Data Support Over The Year
Google’s John Mueller said in a Google Hangout this morning at the 55 minute mark saying that Google will be stepping up their efforts around structured markup throughout the year because it benefits them in how they understand a web page…
Google AdWords iOS App Officially Launches
In December, Google began beta testing the iOS AdWords app. It is now out of beta and you can download it from the App Store for free.
Google: Write Your Reconsideration Requests In Your Web Site’s Native Language Or Else…
Gary Illyes of Google posted on Twitter tip about reconsideration requests. In short, if your web site is in Hebrew and you get a manual action notice…
Google Sending Notifications Via Search Console To Go AMP
Google has begun sending webmasters and publishers notifications via the Google Search Console that they should begin looking to make AMP (accelerated mobile pages) for their news site. The notification says “implement accelerated mobile pages (AMP) f…
What Changed In The Google Webmaster Guidelines
Patrick Sexton asked if he can publish the new changes and additions made to the Google Webmaster Guidelines update I mentioned this morning. So here is his take on that. But first, Patrick Sexton is the author of Varvy.com and the co-founder of getl…
Google: Outbound Links Are Not A Ranking Factor
In the Google Hangout from earlier this week, John Mueller filled us up with yes and nos to is this a ranking factor or not, hence all the stories here covering that hangout…
Google: Nofollow Unnecessary For Related Post Blog Links
Many blog platforms let you automatically show “related posts” based on the category, tag or content of the blog post you just published. In many cases, this is all automated but in some, you can do them manually…
The New Google Webmaster Guidelines Are Now Live
Google has just replaced the Google Webmaster Guidelines document, known as the holy-grail of SEO guidelines for most in our community. It seems a lot of the content has been revised and updated, which may be part of the new webmaster home from Google….
Google AdWords To Only Support Internet Explorer 11 Of All IEs
Google quietly announced yesterday on Google+ that they will drop support for all versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer except Internet Explorer 11.
Google said, “starting on March 7th, 2016…
Google & Fox News Team Up For Tonights Republican Debate
Google announced they have teams up with Fox News for tonight’s Republican debate, which should be missing Donald Trump.
Google added search features to let the searchers interact more with this debate…
Google AdWords Adds Custom Formulas Support To Custom Columns
Google AdWords quietly announced on Google+ that the custom columns now let you do custom formulas in those columns. This means you can add computations like addition…
Google: Title Tags Are A Ranking Factor But Is It A Critical Factor?
Last week, I upset some people by the words I used in my headline of my story which read Google: Title Tags Are Not A Critical Ranking Signal. Truth is…