Vlog #41: Lisa Barone About Writing About SEO & Implementing Strategies To Help Clients Win
Lisa Barone (@lisabarone) invited me, well, I invited myself, to her office, Overit, up in Albany, New York. It was my first time in a Church, although her office is no longer a church. In any event, Lisa and I go way back…
Tons Of Google My Business Suspensions
Google My Business has performed more and more business suspensions recently according to local SEO experts. In fact, the appeal form seems to have a notice that says there is a high volume of questions around suspension notices.
Choosing a marketing automation platform
Who are the major vendors? What should I be looking for? What are the costs?
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What is the Value of a Lifetime Customer?
Acquiring new customers is the most important marketing goal you can have. But is that the correct approach? Is your time (and money) well spent if you focus on attracting new customers? You’ll get the biggest bang for your marketing buck if you make retaining existing customers a priority. Read the full details on State of Digital.
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Google has stopped deduplicating right-sidebar featured snippets
Google still plans to remove featured snippets from the right rail on desktop and move the feature into the main listings.
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Video: Lisa Barone on the early days of SEO blogging
Hope you have fun watching two bloggers joke around with each other.
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Beyond Google and Facebook advertising: 17 ad platforms you should try
Expanding your use of advertising platforms can help your campaigns reach target audiences not on traditional platforms through text, video and audio ads.
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Google: Do Not Translate Image File Names To Local Language
Let’s say you have a large multilingual site and all your pages are translated into the localized language. So page A in the US has the same content as page X in France, but the content is translated into French on page X. The image however is generic…
Google May Have Issues Correctly Indexing Ikea’s International Pages
It seems like Google may be having issues indexing and ranking Ikea’s international and localized web pages properly…
Pop-ups, Overlays, Modals & Interstitials Best Practices
Pop-ups, overlays, modals and interstitials are similar website elements that can be used to engage users, increase conversions, and prompt other website actions. However, Google understands that these elements impact the user’s experience on a landing page and has implemented ranking penalties to deter websites from using these in a way that is bad for users.…
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Google: Not Worth Signing Up For Dofollow Profile Links
Google’s John Mueller said “no” it is not worth signing up for dofollow profile links. He said that in a Reddit thread where the user asked “Are dofollow profile sign ups worth it?” John responded with “no” and then walked away.
Did Google Just Say Links In PDFs Treated As Nofollow Links?
Google’s John Mueller said at the 9:43 mark into a Google hangout that for SEO purposes, links in PDF files are treated like links that have the nofollow attribute on them. But the weird thing is, Gary Illyes from Google in 2011 documented on the Goog…
New: Google Search Console Removals Tool
Google has just launched a new tool within the new Google Search Console named the removals tool. This tool lets you temporarily block search results from your site, it shows reported via other Google public removal tools (i.e. Outdated content) and yo…
Word of advice on exactly what to expect from SEO in 2020
As always, Google is likely to throw a couple of curveballs – However, the SEO industry is coming of age. E-A-T, page quality, on-page SEO audits, and more.
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DuckDuckGo has other ideas for Google’s EU search choice screen
The changes include more search engine options and an introductory screen aimed at reducing bias.
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How to Start Getting Organic Traffic to Your Blog
Writing a blog that no one ever reads is the internet equivalent of throwing a party, where half the people who’ve marked themselves as attending on Facebook don’t turn up.
The Wolfgang Digital 2020 Benchmark KPI Study: The Most Valuable Online Consumer Trends of 2019 Are Revealed
The Wolfgang Digital 2020 Benchmark KPI Study: The Most Valuable Online Consumer Trends of 2019 Are Revealed
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New Removals report in Search Console
We’re happy to announce that we’re launching a new version of the Removals report in Search Console, which enables site owners to temporarily hide a page from appearing in Google Search results. The new report also provides info on pages on your site that have been reported via other Google public tools.
There are different tools available for you to report and remove information from Google, in this post we’ll focus on three areas that will be part of the new Search Console report: temporary removals, outdated content and SafeSearch filtering requests.
Temporary removals
A temporary removal request is a way to remove specific content on your site from Google Search results. For example, if you have a URL that you need to take off Google Search quickly, you should use this tool. A successful request lasts about six months, which should be enough for you to find a permanent solution. You have two types of requests available:
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Temporary remove URL will hide the URL from Google Search results for about six months and clear the cached copy of the page.
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Clear cache URL clears the cached page and wipes out the page description snippet in Search results until the page is crawled again.
Outdated content
The outdated content section provides information on removal requests made through the public Remove Outdated Content tool, which can be used by anyone (not just site owners) to update search results showing information that is no longer present on a page.
SafeSearch filtering
The SafeSearch filtering section in Search Console shows a history of pages on your site that were reported by Google users as adult content using the SafeSearch Suggestion tool. URLs submitted using this tool are reviewed, and if Google feels that this content should be filtered from SafeSearch results, these URLs are tagged as adult content.
We hope you will find the new report clearer and useful. As always, please let us know if you have any comments, questions or feedback either through the Webmasters help community or Twitter.
Posted by Tali Pruss, Search Console Software Engineer
Free Search Marketing Expo passes are here!
Join hundreds of like-minded marketers February 19-20 for a rewarding training and networking experience!
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Google Search Console launches new removals tool
The new tool temporarily block URLs from showing in Google, it shows outdated content and content filtered by SafeSearch.
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