Here is a photo from the new Google internship program, the Google Intern Cohort. It seems Google brought on a bunch of interns in December. I embedded more photos from Instagram below. This post is part of our daily Search Photo of the Day column, where we find fun and interesting photos related to the […]
As you all know, I source a lot of forums and Twitter threads (now Mastodon as well) here for the stories that I write. Without the amazing individuals that make up the search industry, this site would not exist. In fact, when I started this site over 19 years agoits purpose was to cover what […]
In November, yes, a month ago, there was a lot of criticism across the web that Google Search and the results were declining. We touched on the topic when I covered a poll about SEOs being split on if Google is getting worse or is the web getting worse. Now that it is a slower […]
Google seems to be testing a “price history” chart or graph in the Google Shopping search product listings interface. I personally cannot replicate this yet, outside of seeing the “typical pricing across the web” section, but I do not see the price chart. This was spotted the other day by Saad AK on Twitter who […]
Google Search can now tell you if your query is using proper grammar. Google will show you a green checkmark under the title “Grammar Check” when you get the grammar right. I think this is new, as the help document on this feature was only spotted by the Wayback Machine a couple of weeks ago. […]
This is the last video of the year, and we have more Google search ranking fluctuations and volatility to talk about. Google said the December 2022 helpful content and link spam updates are delayed in being completed because of the holidays. Christmas weekend was much calmer for the Google search results. Google said using “here” […]
Google has confirmed it is testing a non-DSA (dynamic search ads) option when creating new search campaigns within Google Ads. Ginny Marvin, the Ads Liaison, said on Twitter“We’re running an experiment in the campaign construction flow.” Collin Schmelebeck posted about this a couple of weeks ago and asked, “is Google testing a non-DSA option when […]
Lizzi Sassman from Google said in this morning’s Google SEO office hours that using the anchor text “here,” the text for your hyperlink, is simply “bad link text.” Instead, you should use more descriptive text for the page you are linking to. She said this at the 20:14 mark in the video transcription here: The […]
While it has been calm for the past several days, today is a new day and I am seeing some signs of more volatility and ranking fluctuations as of the past 24 hours or less. Some of the automated tracking tools are picking it up, and I am seeing some renewed chatter in the SEO […]
An SEO asked if links on YouTube videos will help with your Google SEO. Then someone said that it would help get your content indexed faster. Both are false and myths because YouTube links have nofollow attributes on them, so Google does not count them. John Mueller from Google even replied that links on YouTube […]