Most SEOs Want Fetch As Google Even With URL Inspection Tool
Google told us the Fetch as Google tool is going away and being replaced by the URL Inspection Tool. But some SEOs, well, seems like the majority of SEOs, want Google to port over the Fetch as Google tool as well. A Twitter poll with 88 results shows…
404 Sitemaps To Remove Them In The New Google Search Console
Google’s John Mueller was asked if there is a way in the new Google Search Console to remove old Sitemaps files. He said you can 404 them to remove them. Maybe Google will add a button to delete old Sitemap files there but for now, 404ing them will e…
Getting started with Google Search Console
In this first part of our in-depth exploration of the new Google Search Console, we’ll explain the overview section, Performance report and URL inspector.
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Google Fixing AMP Errors; Nothing To Fix On Your End Now
Yesterday we reported on widespread AMP errors with Google Search Console and Google mobile search. As we suspected, it was an issue on Google’s end – not an issue with the the configuration on the webmasters/developers end. At least, in this particul…
Myth Busting: HTTPS Not Required For Google Indexing & Ranking
Google’s John Mueller did some myth busting this morning around HTTPS. There are always some SSL providers trying to use Google’s HTTPS ranking signal in their marketing efforts. One said that “Without an SSL Certificate Google is likely to drop your …
Google: Sitemap Files Don’t Need To Be Indexed To Work
This is a bit heartwarming – to see John Mueller back up Joost de Valk and Yoost when someone incorrectly claimed their was a bug with the Yoast SEO plugin causing major Google issues. John from Google came in and backed up Joost, confirming Joost and …
Google Recommends To Disavow Links That Can Trigger Manual Actions
Google’s John Mueller said in a hangout last week that he would recommend that you not just disavow links that have already resulted in manual actions but you can also disavow links that you think would lead or result in a manual action. This is in add…
Identifying dead links for more effective link analysis
Link analysis projects can be difficult and time-consuming, especially for websites with larger link profiles, which is why optimising your workflow and improving the integrity of your data is so important. In the last couple of years, I’ve been lucky enough to work with websites that have tens of thousands of domains pointing at them, […]
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What Is More Important For SEOs To Understand; Guidelines Or Algorithm Updates?
Tomorrow at SMX West I am moderating a panel called Machine vs. Man: What Really Matters For SEO Success. One of the panelists is Frédéric Dubut from Bing and he posted a poll asking what is more important for SEOs, understanding the search quality raters guidelines or the ranking algorithm updates?
New Google Search Console adds a security issues section
In anticipation of the old Google Search Console going away, Google has moved the security issues into the new version.
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Now Google My Business Bulk Users Can Download/Upload Spreadsheets
Kara from Google announced a small update in the Google My Business Help forums saying “Now, bulk users can download and upload their locations to and from spreadsheets.” “This feature enables bulk users to easily manage and organize their multiple loc…
Google AMP Crawl Error Bug Fix Is Here
We’ve been tracking the big AMP crawl error and AMP issues in search over the past week. Yesterday Google confirmed it was a bug on their end and said they would fix it. Today they documented the issue on their data anomalies page and RankRanger is s…
Google Ads Bug Shows Too Many Ads; It Is Resolved
We’ve seen it numerous times, where a bug leads Google to either show too many Google Ads in the search results or the organic listings do not load and Google only shows ads. It is rare, but we see it every now and then. Google recently confirmed a b…
Social Media Icons Return To Google Knowledge Panels
Some SEOs are noticing that Google has brought back the social media icons in the knowledge panels for both personalities and local businesses. I personally didn’t notice they ever were gone but I guess they were.
Google+ APIs Shut Down Concerns Google My Business Developers
Yesterday, I and many developers received an email from Google Developers that had the subject line “[Action Required] Google+ APIs and OAuth requests are being shutdown on March 7, 2019.” The issue is not specific with Google+ but some of those APIs …
SearchCap: Bing Maps API, Google and YouTube ads and targeted SEO
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
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How to Get New Pages or Site Updates Indexed by Google Quickly
Back in 2010, I appeared on a Whiteboard Friday with Rand Fishkin talking about ways to get your site content indexed quickly. When I originally wrote the first version of the article you’re reading (first in 2010, 2nd update in 2015) Pubsubhubbub (now referred to as Websub) was the technology du jour. At the time, […]
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Now your Google text ads can show on YouTube search results, too
Google says early tests have shown similar performance results for text ads on YouTube and Google Search.
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Agencies say search, social spend will rise, but increases target 5 platforms
While Amazon and LinkedIn cracked the top five, our survey finds second-tier platforms are much less likely to see spending increases in the coming year.
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What is a keyword strategy?
To get traffic, you need people willing to visit your site. To get them to visit your site, you need to know what they are looking for, which words they use and what type of content would fit their intent best. In short, you need a keyword strategy. In this SEO Basics article, we’ll take […]
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