Google: A Change In Structured Data Formats Won’t Result In Drop In Indexed Pages
Google’s John Mueller said in a video hangout on Friday that changing your structured data format from microdata to JSON-LD would not lead to many of your pages being removed from the Google index. He said this in response to a complaint about this.
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Over 150 Stories At How Matt Cutts Has Helped You – Thank You
I wanted to personally thank everyone who helped contribute to the How Has Matt Cutts Helped You site over the past several months. It has curated over 150 stories from all sorts of backgrounds, all around the world – about how Matt Cutts made a diffe…
Google: There Is No Meta Tag Limit Per Page
Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter he doesn’t believe there is a limit to the number of meta tags Google has on a per page basis. He said, as far as he knows, there is “no limit to the number of meta tags we pick up.”
Google Knowledge Panel Answers Nicely Lineup
Valentin Pletzer shared a cool user interface in Google search that shows a onbox knowledge panel answer that lets you scroll and it lines up nicely. I am not sure if I’ve seen this format before, but Valentin noted this may be coming from the structu…
SearchCap: Common SEO mistakes, Facebook outage impacts news site traffic & remarketing lists
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
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SearchCap: Common SEO mistakes, Facebook outage impacts news site traffic & remarketing lists
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
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Are you guilty of these common SEO mistakes?
Mistakes happen. When they do, the best response is to learn from your errors, and those made by others, so you can turn them into opportunities.
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Baidu: Can the search giant hold firm in China’s increasingly competitive mobile market?
A look at China’s search giant Baidu. Against mobile-first Shenma, and potential for Google to enter the gray, can they stay competitive?
How Your Audits and Backlink Research Fail
If there is a single “staple” function or service offered by the search engine optimization industry, it has to be the Website audit. Everything begins there. When a company takes on a new SEO provider, the first thing the provider…
Annelieke’s Analytics: Check your image search traffic in Google Analytics
I’m a visual thinker; I love looking at images. If I think about my search behavior, I catch myself looking at images quite often, for instance when I want to know what city X looks like. Or if I’m looking for a product I’ve seen somewhere, without knowing the brand or where I can buy […]
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Google Analytics 360: A Buyer’s Guide
Live Webinar: Thursday, September 27, at 1:00 PM ET (10:00 AM PT)
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When users log into Gmail or YouTube, they’re now also logged into Chrome
The concern raised by some is that users will unknowingly be sending their browsing data to Google.
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When Facebook went down, direct traffic to news sites went up
Facebook users turned to Google search or went directly to publishers.
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We’re hiring: Help digital marketers advance their thought leadership
Third Door Media is currently looking for a Community Editor to lead contributed content efforts for its industry-leading editorial brands Search Engine Land, Marketing Land and MarTech Today.
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Google Celebrates Mister Rogers On 51st Anniversary
Today on Google’s home page is a video Doodle for the 51st anniversary of Fred Rogers show, Mister Rogers. Pretty much every kid I know in the 60s through the 90s grew up watching this show in the United States.
Bing Finally Adds AMP To Search Results
Bing has finally added AMP to the news section of the search results. So now, if you site comes up in Bing search news and if it is AMP and if you are in the United States searching, you may see the AMP lightening bolt next to those stories and when y…
Google Mobile First Indexing Migrations Not Done – Will Takes Years
I know there were tons of sites that got notifications that their sites migrated to the mobile-first indexing process this week. But Google is far from done. Google said currently sites being migrated are pretty equivalent on the desktop compared to m…
Google Tests Auto-Expanding People Also Ask Box
Google may be testing auto-expanding, auto-loading, the people also ask box so that it opens by default, without having to click on anything to expand it. Normally, the people also ask box is closed and to see the contents within it, you need to click…
Google Search Algorithm Shifts Around September 19th?
I am seeing some chatter, nothing too insane, around a Google search algorithm update around September 19th or so. There is 100% some chatter in the SEO communities and some of the automated tracking tools are showing fluctuations as well. I don’t thi…
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Algorithm Update, Mobile-First Indexing Notices, Bing AMP & More
We reported this morning that Google may be doing an algorithmic update, so check in on your rankings. Google said they launched close to 2…