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Google Site Reputation Abuse: Treating Some Sites Within A Site
Jonathan Jones attended the Google Search Central Live event in Zurich last week and posted excellent and detailed notes about the event, including a bit more on the more often core updates. But he also covered how Danny Sullivan, Google’s Search Liai…
Google: Disavowing Toxic Links Is A Billable Waste Of Time
Google’s John Mueller reiterated in a big way that SEOs and site owners should not spend time disavowing “toxic” links. He said it is a “billable waste of time” to disavow toxic links, as provided in some of these SEO toolsets.
Google Adds Faceted Navigation To Help Documentation
Google has repurposed its 2014 blog post on faceted navigation best practices (which we covered a decade ago) and created a new help document page named Managing crawling of faceted navigation URLs.
New Google Merchant Center Promotion For First Order Discount
Google Merchant Center added a new field in the “Promotion conditions” section for “first order” discount. This seems to be for shopping ads set up in Merchant Center.
OpenAI Opens ChatGPT Search To All Logged In Users
When OpenAI launched ChatGPT Search several weeks ago, it was just available to paid users. Now, anyone who logs into ChatGPT should have access to the Search the Web button on ChatGPT.com.
Crawling December: Faceted navigation
Faceted navigation is a great way to help users find what they need on your site, but it can
create an SEO nightmare if not implemented carefully. Why? Because it can generate a near-infinite
number of URLs, which causes…
Daily Search Forum Recap: December 16, 2024
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.
The Google December 2024 core update landed hard over the weekend…
Google: Search Console API Does Not Support New 24-Hour View
Google’s Daniel Waisberg confirmed that the new 24-hour date filter that is in the Google Search Console web interface is not yet supported by the Google Search Console API. Of course, you can query the API for any date range and it will bring back dat…
Google Search Tests New Favicon Design With Backgrounds
Google is testing yet another design for favicons in the search result snippets. This one has these backgrounds, grayish backgrounds added behind the favicons in the search results.
Google Search Research More Articles Section
Google is testing a “Research more” section in its search results that shows articles on the topic you queried. This looks like the list articles section we covered in October, but renamed to research more…
Google Business Profile Emails Asking To Add Social Profiles
Google is sending out emails asking business owners to add their social profiles to their Google Business Profiles. The email says, “Link your social profiles so customers can see your posts from Instagram, X, Facebook, and more when they search for y…
Google Search Tests Attach File To Ask About A File
Google Search is testing adding a paper clip icon to the search bar, next to the voice search icon, next to the lens icon and the search button. This seems to also you to search a file you upload and says, “ask anything about a file.”
2025 SEO Predictions: Alternative Search Journeys
What We’re Seeing Platforms like TikTok and Instagram are emerging as alternatives for visual and experiential searches, allowing users to discover content organically through videos, tutorials and community-driven recommendations. Short-form vid…
The Top Moz Creators of 2024
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Google December 2024 Core Update Landed & It’s Big
As you know, the December 2024 core update was announced on December 12, 2024 at around 10:46 am ET and Google said it would take about two weeks to complete. Well, this update seemed to have touched down, landed, over this weekend. There is a lot of …
Google Hanukkah Decorations Are Live For 2024
Hanukkah (aka Chanukah) starts pretty late this year, compared to other years. The holiday starts Wednesday, December 25th. And Google has already added its Hanukkah decorations for his year, while Christmas starts the day before and Kwanzaa the day a…
Daily Search Forum Recap: December 13, 2024
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.
Google surprised us with the rollout of the December 2024 core update. Google said core updates will now…
Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google December Core Update, AI Overviews Gemini 2.0, Apple Visual Intelligence, Search Console Updates, Indexing Bugs & More
Google began rolling out the December 2024 core update yesterday. Google said more core updates will come more often in the future. We are still seeing Google search ranking volatility all week long, starting over the weekend. Google confirmed it had a…
Google December 2024 Core Update Is Live – What Are We Seeing
Google surprised most of us with a new core update being announced yesterday, only a week after the November 2024 core update finished rolling out. This new December 2024 core update will take about two weeks to roll out and seems to be a normal core …