Earlier this week, we reported on an unconfirmed Google search ranking update on May 1st and 2nd. Well, throughout the week, things have heated up a lot more, and we are seeing more volatility reported by the tools and more SEO chatter within the community. Again, Google has not confirmed any update is going on […]
In the latest Google SEO office hours, Google said that Google does not trust outbound links from a site they think is spammy. Duy Nguyen from the Google Search Quality team said this at the 35-second mark into the video. The question was, “If a domain gets penalized does it affect the links that are […]
This week, I posted the monthly Google webmaster report for May 2023. Google may have pushed out an unconfirmed search algorithm update on May 1st and 2nd, and that update seems to have heated up in a big way later on in the week. Microsoft opened Bing Chat to all and updated some features. Google […]
Microsoft had an event yesterday in NYC showing off some new features for Bing Chat, touting some growth figures and announcing it removed the waitlist for the co-pilot feature. I covered this in more detail on Search Engine Land but honestly, I covered many of these feature announcements on this site already, so you are […]
Remember those old Nokia mobile phones? Do you remember Google web search being tested on those devices? Jon Erlichman from Bloomberg shared an old video of this in action on Twitter the other day. Here it is: Early days of web search on a phone: pic.twitter.com/Ndkx2JvfU0 — Jon Erlichman (@JonErlichman) April 21, 2023 This post […]
Google has updated its help documentation for canonicalization. It removed a line about syndicated content and also updated a line about noindex to prevent selection of a canonical page within a single site. But Google added a whole section around not using a canonical tag for syndicated content anymore; more on that below. If you […]
Over the past couple of days, I have been seeing signs of a possible Google search ranking algorithm update. It may have started on May 1st, with the chatter within the SEO community growing throughout yesterday, May 2nd. I don’t think this is the residue from the April 2023 review update that officially completed on […]
Google’s John Mueller said he would “try very hard to avoid having a “coming back soon” page during a revamp.” He said if you must have the “coming back soon” page then do so for a day or so but serve a 503 server status code. John wrote this on Twitter, “I’d try very hard […]
While last month’s Google webmaster report was filled with the Google March core update, the product reviews update, Bard, AI, sitenames and more; this month was just as packed. We had the reviews update, a local look at the core update, big updates to the Google ranking system’s document, a new search engine for Google […]
Google seems to be testing a new section on the local knowledge panels named “often searched together.” Mordy Oberstein found this and said on Twitter that it is a “great way to see who your local competitors really are.” Here is the screenshot he shared on Twitter: We recently saw the often searched together as […]