2017-11-30 03:40
Okay, this is weird… Here is a photo I found on Instagram of orange juice being served out of light bulbs. This is from the Google Italy office in Milan, and one of the cafes there… Read More
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2017-11-30 01:30
Today on the Google home page is a special Google logo, Doodle, for Gertrude Jekyll, a British horticulturist, garden designer, artist, and writer. She has designed over 400 gardens through… Read More
2017-11-29 23:30
This is part of the say something nice about an SEO/SEM series – feel free to nominate someone over here.
Marie Haynes, born in 1973 who joined the industry in 2008, lives with her hu… Read More
2017-11-29 19:20
John Mueller confirmed today on Twitter that Google’s advice around hreflang implementing when it comes to when the mobile first index has been rolled out is to configure it as a &ldq&helli…Read More
2017-11-29 17:20
Google announced yesterday, and it is finally now rolled out to searchers, that the new Google Finance is live.
We knew it was coming because Google warned us that the portfolio feature is… Read More
2017-11-29 15:20
The other day, Google announced that they are adding more sources of data to Google Trends. So now instead of just web search data, Google will pull in data from News, Shopping, Images and… Read More
2017-11-29 13:20
For years Google has sometimes, for very obscure and restrictive queries, has potentially shown more AdWords ads than organic results in the search results page. This has come up from site:… Read More
2017-11-29 03:10
Parisa Tabriz, Google’s “security princess” information security manager posted on Twitter a picture of her in the front seat of that subway train car at the Google Chicag… Read More
2017-11-29 01:00
This is part of the say something nice about an SEO/SEM series – feel free to nominate someone over here.
Ross Dunn, 41 years old, and has been in the industry since 1997 – well… Read More
2017-11-28 20:40
Google seems to be testing a new search feature that shows a “research” search carousel box in the search results for content around your query. I cannot replicate this by Geoff… Read More
2017-11-28 18:40
Brodie Clark from optimising.com.au has been tracking the local Q&A feature in depth and noticed the other day that many of his answers have gone missing. He was upset because he spent… Read More
2017-11-28 16:40
We recently reported about the changes in the featured snippets being shown in Google. Yesterday, Pete Meyers from Moz posted more details about the loss in featured snippets on his blog.
I… Read More
2017-11-28 14:40
Google has had enough of people using the event markup in a misleading way and is now sending out a strict warning that if you use this markup in any other way then its intended purpose, Go… Read More
2017-11-28 12:40
Over the past few days or so, since around Thanksgiving time, I’ve been getting emails, tweets, etc from people telling me they are seeing Google showing longer snippets from the typi… Read More
2017-11-27 20:40
Well, it seems Google had a crazy hat day on some Fridays. Here is a picture from Elaine Jones showing her coworker in the Dublin office where some crazy Googlely hat. I posted the video fr… Read More
2017-11-27 18:40
There are a lot of tools out there that measure your page speed, numerous tools from Google and many tools from third party developers. But not all of them measure the same thing. Some meas… Read More
2017-11-27 16:40
Google’s John Mueller said that if you implement structured data on a page, that structured data should match the content visible on your page. The most obvious example is if you add… Read More
2017-11-27 14:40
Google has been saying for a year or so that they are moving from a mobile first world to an artificial intelligence first world but we’ve been told, at least in search, machine learn… Read More
2017-11-27 12:40
Jill Whalen, currently 56 years old, was literally one of the pioneers in the SEO industry, starting in 1995 and championing the “white hat” following for about 20 years. Jill o… Read More
2017-11-25 01:30
Nicole Pruner, an American stationed in the Google Dublin office, showed off her special Thanksgiving day cupcakes her Google family gave her to cheer her up on the holiday. She wrote &ldqu&helli…Read More
2017-11-24 23:30
Sergey Alakov spotted that the Google My Business web search dashboard that launched a couple months ago, now is asking businesses to create ads using AdWords Express.
Here is a screen shot… Read More
2017-11-24 19:30
Did you know that most websites listed and ranking on Google rank without building a single backlink? John Mueller of Google said on Twitter that “most” websites rank without bu… Read More
2017-11-24 17:30
Some asked Google’s John Mueller if the anchor text you use for your internal links matter for Google. Of course, John Mueller responding suggesting it does. He said “Most links… Read More
2017-11-24 13:20
Google seems to be testing merging the local pack with knowledge panel data into tabs across the top of the local pack. Sergey Alakov caught this test, although I cannot current replicate i… Read More
2017-11-23 13:00
Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Today is the day I work on my year end recap for this site, so I won’t be posting much today in terms of SEO banter. Instead, enjoy the day off, the famil… Read More
2017-11-23 01:00
Here is a photo of a Bing advertising company showing off their new Bing Select Partner plaque. It looks substantial, don’t you think? The company must sell search ads and sold enough… Read More
2017-11-22 22:50
The content at the Search Engine Roundtable are the sole opinion of the authors and in no way reflect views of RustyBrick ®, IncCopyright © 1994-2017 RustyBrick ®, Inc. Web Deve… Read More
2017-11-22 20:50
Pete Meyers from Moz was tweeting yesterday about how the featured snippets at the end of October have significantly changed. He said “it looks like a lot of the SERPs that lost Featu… Read More
2017-11-22 18:50
Pixel 2 users will soon get the new version of Google Lens, similar to the old Google Goggles but with more real-time and AI based improvements. Google Lens with Google Assistant will conve… Read More
2017-11-22 16:50
Let’s say you have a recipe site and you have recipes by vegetables. If you let people click from the tomatoes and then into a tomato soup recipe, should the URL structure be domain.c… Read More
2017-11-22 14:50
I am telling you, my Google and SEO world is literally upside down right now. So yesterday, at Search Engine Land, I reported how Google had a bug where they showed recent searches pop up a… Read More
2017-11-22 12:50
Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that most sites on the internet do not use the parameter handling feature in Google Search Console.
John said “most sites, even large ones… Read More
2017-11-22 00:50
Google AdWords quietly released an update to the AdWords Editor, they are now at version 12.2 which brings Gmail asset-based ads, full support for promotion and video extensions, and a new… Read More
2017-11-21 20:50
Google has updated the text they use to communicate to a searcher when the search result snippet has no information. It use to say “A description for this result is not available beca… Read More
2017-11-21 18:40
Earlier this month, we showed how Google was testing a new look for the PDF label in the search results. Well, it seems to be rolling out for more content or file types.
Will O’Hara p… Read More
2017-11-21 16:40
Google announced on Twitter they are previewing a new design and feature set for the Google Flights search. You can access Google Flight Search at google.com/flights and from there, you sho… Read More
2017-11-21 14:40
Just a heads up, if you are migrating your site from HTTP to HTTPS and you have parameter handling set up in Google Search Console, make sure that when you do migrate to HTTPS, you transfer… Read More
2017-11-21 12:40
I am surprised we have not seen one yet, a custom Google branded Judo Kimono shirt. I actually am not sure the proper name for this but this is what you wear during various martial arts and… Read More
2017-11-21 00:10
Danny Sullivan posted a photo on Twitter last week of something called the Lightbulb Award, where his team won that award by making an Android drone dispense candy. It is called the Android… Read More
2017-11-20 20:10
Google has added a new tab to the movie knowledge panel/card for how to watch the movie. The tab says “watch movie” and will show you where you can watch the movie. In the examp… Read More
2017-11-20 18:10
Imagine instead of seeing your web site address, i.e. domain.com listed in the Google search results for your brand name, instead you see an IP address listed. I am sure some of you have st… Read More
2017-11-20 16:10
In an effort to help with weed out fake news stories and make sure their news results, and core search results, are correct – they announced they are working with the Trust Project to… Read More
2017-11-20 14:10
Google’s John Mueller said he is not aware of Google working on or having any plans on working on an API for the structured data testing tool.
He asked the webmaster why and what woul… Read More
2017-11-19 20:00
Caesar Sengupta posted on Twitter a picture of one of the terraces at the Google Singapore office. Ain’t it pretty? He said the “office is beautiful.” ‘We’re s… Read More
2017-11-19 15:50
Sometimes I look at John Mueller’s responses on Twitter and think, no no that is too obvious. A recent one the Google Webmaster Trends Analyst posted on Twitter said “when a sit… Read More
2017-11-19 13:40
Google announced they will start taking punitive action against AMP pages that show teaser or partial content, with a link to see the full content on the main non-AMP page.
Starting on Febr… Read More
2017-11-19 11:40
One thing that Gary Illyes of Google said at SMX East a few weeks ago that did not drive much attention, but a note I wrote down while on the stage with him was that the co-founder of Googl… Read More
2017-11-19 09:40
Google has said time and time again that structured data, markup, schema, etc does not help you rank better in Google, all it does it help Google markup the search results with richer detai… Read More
2017-11-19 08:07
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2017-11-18 15:54
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2017-11-16 19:50
Google seems to be testing a small variation of the “people also search for” box in the Google search results. This one is a box below the search result snippets that lists out… Read More
2017-11-16 17:50
Google announced they have redesigned Google Maps and will be rolling it out to users over the upcoming weeks across “all Google products that incorporate Google Maps, including the A… Read More
2017-11-16 15:50
When Google My Business first launched messaging within the platform, they said they would measure the response time and then show a notification to your customers who are about to message… Read More
2017-11-16 13:40
Three years ago, Mozilla dropped Google as the default search provider in their popular web browser, Firefox. Well, now that Yahoo is no longer Yahoo, Mozilla got out of that search deal an… Read More
2017-11-15 19:20
Elena from Google posted in the Google News Help forums that they have made an adjustment to their system and thus to properly track all your Google News referral sources you must add news… Read More
2017-11-15 17:20
Yesterday, Google’s John Mueller answered a question around Google’s Gary Illyes saying you don’t need to disavow for algorithms. John basically confirmed what Gary said… Read More
2017-11-15 15:10
Google this morning announced some improvements for job search including the ability to see estimated salary ranges, a better location filter, the ability to save individual jobs and much m… Read More
2017-11-15 13:10
Yesterday I saw signs of a spike in webmaster and SEO chatter about ranking changes in Google. That chatter has built up over the past 24 hours and the monitoring tools, most of them, have… Read More
2017-11-14 20:50
Google spends countless money on their Android statues at their various offices. Here is one inside the Google New York City office that is all dressed for winter. In those sleek shiny wint… Read More
2017-11-14 18:50
Today on the Google home page worldwide is a special Google Doodle, logo, for the 131st anniversary of the hole puncher. The hole punch dates back to the German inventor Friedrich Soennecke… Read More
2017-11-14 16:50
Vlad Rappoport shared a screen shot on Twitter of Google now showing a spot in the product knowledge graph cards for “editorial reviews.” I can replicate it on my iPhone for a s… Read More
2017-11-14 14:40
Eric Kuan from Google on stage with Gary Illyes and Nathan Johns from Google at PubCon said that Google is still making changes to both the Panda and Penguin algorithms. Just a month ago we… Read More
2017-11-14 12:40
SEMrush, the popular SEO toolset company, have released their 2017 study on Google ranking factors, which they believe matter most to rank well in Google. This is the second year this compa… Read More
2017-11-13 20:20
Technically, Google does not follow or pass any signals from a link on a page that has a nofollow attribute on them. If you are super paranoid about that link ever dropping the nofollow, th… Read More
2017-11-13 18:20
This is just one of those reminders that Google’s spider, GoogleBot, mostly crawls from the U.S., Mountain View, California region but it is possible that GoogleBot can also crawl loc… Read More
2017-11-13 16:20
There is an interesting thread just getting its legs in the WebmasterWorld forums around the topic of SEO and how hard it is to do SEO these days and see results, espesially with Google. So… Read More
2017-11-13 14:20
I have a company name that people often spell with an incorrect space because it is two different words, that we put together as one. My company name is RustyBrick, one word, but capital R… Read More
2017-11-11 03:36
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2017-11-11 03:00
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.
Search Engine Roundtable Stories:
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2017-11-10 14:40
This week in search, Google said stop worrying about the mobile first index, you won’t be moved to it if you are not ready. Google should really build us tools to prepare for the mobil… Read More
2017-11-10 12:40
There is a lot of rumbling going through the SEO community around a statement Gary Illyes of Google said while on stage at PubCon this week. Reports are saying he said “If you do not… Read More
2017-11-10 02:30
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.
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2017-11-09 20:30
Earlier this year, Google AdSense launched the Ad Balance tool which let publishers use controls, a slider, to help you reduce the number of ads you show to users, specifically the ads that… Read More
2017-11-09 18:30
Google quietly announced on the new features page that they now support what they call “selection attributes.” Selection attributes require selection of exactly one of several p… Read More
2017-11-09 16:30
There isn’t much new yet with the mobile first index at Google outside of what I reported out of SMX East but at PubCon yesterday, Google said they will not be moving sites to the mob… Read More
2017-11-09 14:30
Google seems to be testing a file type label in the search results snippets. Sergio Redondo posted a screen shot on Twitter of him being shown a PDF label icon in the Google search results… Read More
2017-11-08 20:10
You can now compare your favorite stocks directly in Google’s web search interface. Just search for the stock symbol and then click on the new “compare” tab. It will bring… Read More
2017-11-08 18:10
Google has added wait times for some local venues they show in web search and Google Maps. The wait times tells you how long the wait time is right now or the expected wait time in the futu… Read More
2017-11-08 16:10
I have a real data anomaly for you! The Google Search Console data anomalies page has updated the rich cards section to change the date on where they posted the change to the job rich cards… Read More
2017-11-08 14:10
Google announced a new knowledge graph card named news publishers knowledge graph. At least that is what Danny Sullivan at Google called them on Twitter.
Danny said they are “new Know… Read More
2017-11-08 12:10
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.
Search Engine Roundtable Stories:
Google Sug… Read More
2017-11-07 19:20
John Mueller, a Google Webmaster Trends Analysts, said on Twitter that he will be at the Google offices in Mountain View, California (for the Top Contributor summit) and because of that, he… Read More
2017-11-07 17:20
An SEO asked Google’s John Mueller if links to a specific image file will help the page that image is embedded on rank better. So for example, if you link to the image URL above, but… Read More
2017-11-07 15:10
It is well known that when SEOs work with developers and when developers work with SEOs, sometimes often they don’t see eye to eye. An SEO might tell the developer to code it one way… Read More
2017-11-07 13:10
Google’s John Mueller replied to a question around links found in JavaScript saying that once the link is rendered, Google will treat the link like how they treat any other link. John… Read More
2017-11-06 20:50
I am sure I’ve seen flavors of these product comparison search results in Google but the one Grant Oster shared on Twitter seems really new to me. It seems to compare not just pricing… Read More
2017-11-06 18:40
Last night, if you were looking for more information on the person behind the horrendous Texas Church shootings and you went to Google and searched for [devin patrick kelley] you may have b… Read More
2017-11-06 16:40
Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that fewer strong pages is often better than having many weak pages. John wrote “You can do a lot of things, but that doesn’t make it… Read More
2017-11-06 14:40
I saw an interesting tweet from Google’s John Mueller the other day, where he said that GoogleBot “renders with a very tall viewport, which skews some CSS (often images).”… Read More
2017-11-06 12:40
Here is one of those old fashion libraries with books in them. And this one appears to be at the Google Austin office. The picture was taken by Tiffany and posted on Instagram. Looks like a… Read More
2017-11-05 02:35
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2017-11-03 21:30
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.
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2017-11-03 11:20
What did John Mueller of Google dress up as for Halloween you ask? Simple! He was half-human and half-Vulcan as Mr. Spock in Star Trek. Here he is in his last video hangout on Halloween day… Read More
2017-11-02 21:00
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.
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2017-11-02 19:00
Did you know Google holds internal search conferences for Google employees? Danny Sullivan told us about the ranking fair events where Googlers demo future search features. Now Danny Sulliv… Read More
2017-11-02 17:00
For the past couple years Google has been testing different user interfaces around rounded corners and edges for the mobile search results.
Well, Google has kept up on testing them. I often… Read More
2017-11-02 15:00
Google AdWords has policies against using emojis in your ad copy, in fact, it has been a struggle for them to block it. But now Dan Perach shared a screen shot of Google AdWords allowing hi… Read More
2017-11-02 13:00
The content at the Search Engine Roundtable are the sole opinion of the authors and in no way reflect views of RustyBrick ®, IncCopyright © 1994-2017 RustyBrick ®, Inc. Web Deve… Read More
2017-11-01 18:50
Google has sent out a survey to the Google Search Console beta testers asking them complete a detailed survey for the Index coverage report. The email says:
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