Tag Archives: Google

Pinterest CEO Steps Aside, as Former Google Commerce Chief Takes the Reigns on the App

This is a significant update. Pinterest has today announced that co-founder and CEO Ben Silbermann is stepping down from his role, and shifting to a new position within the organization, with online commerce expert Bill Ready set to take over as Pinterest chief, effective June 29th, 2022. Silberman posted to impassioned update on the Pinterest […]

Google Says Close to Duplicate URLs With Canonical Nonetheless Can Lead To Incorrect URL Rating

There is an interesting thread on Reddit on a topic we touched on here several times, the topic of Google ranking the wrong version of the URL in Google Search. It all stems back to the URLs you want Google to rank being near duplicate to the URL Google ends up ranking. The person said […]

Google Search Rating Algorithm Update Brewing Once more June 27-Twenty eighth

After maybe four or five days of calm, we are seeing new signs of more larger ones Google search ranking algorithm update tremors and volatility. This new one seems to just be kicking off, some of the tracking tools are already picking up on it and we have chatter from within the SEO community about […]

Google Purchasing Advertisements Retail Model Slider

Google seems to be testing a new feature for shopping ads, where as you slide through the shopping ads carousel, it shows you which stores retail brands are being displayed. I cannot currently replicate this but it does help you see which merchants are being featured in this shopping ads carousel. Here is a GIF […]

Google Updates Crawl Stats Report Help Documentation

Google also updated the crawl stats report help documentation last week. Google made a lot of support documentation changes in the past week including product rich results, Googlebot doc, job posting help doc, moving the HTTP status codes doc and also this crawl stats report help document. You can see this crawl stats help document […]

Google Stated Linking To WhatsApp Telephone Numbers Is Not A Dangerous search engine optimisation Follow

Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that it is not a bad SEO practice to link to your WhatsApp number on your site. This is despite what some SEO toolsets say, linking to a WhatsApp number, phone number or fax number is fine and Google does not judge your site differently based on the type […]

Google Says Keywords In Area Names Are Overrated

Google’s John Mueller said once again that “keywords in domain names are overrated.” He and Googlers over time have said this numerous times over the years and he said it again. Instead he said “pick something for your business, pick something for the long term.” If you want, I can license variations of Rusty[words-go-here], if […]

Google Shopping Ads Testing Including Materials In Advert Title From Question

Google is testing a dynamic keyword insertion feature for Google Shopping Ads where it may insert the material in the product if used in the searcher’s query. I don’t know if this is 100% new or not but it might be. Store Growers shared an example of this in action on Twitter saying “Google is […]

Google Experiments With YouTube Shorts For search engine optimisation Assist Content material

Back in March, Gary Illyes and friends hinted that they may try creating short form video content for the Google help documents. Well, Google’s Alan Kent produced one of the first ones on the topic of why it is important to specify image dimensions. Here is an embed of that YouTube short (proper version over […]