Google’s John Mueller was asked at the 1:20 mark in Friday’s Google hangout about serving two or more HTTP result status codes. If you serve two more more, which does Google Search decide to use? The answer is generally the first, the first HTTP result code would be used. The question was “It is theoretically […]
Google Ads has been around for over 20 years already, and it’s still firmly holding onto its spot as the most popular digital advertising platform of them all. There is a good reason for that: the platform allows advertisers to appear on the world’s most used search engine, as well as Youtube, Gmail, and hundreds […]
Google has announced this morning at 3:44am ET that the May 2022 broad core update is now done rolling out. Google said “The May 2022 core update rollout is now complete.” This comes a day after noticing a lot of volatilityso maybe today we will see much less volatility and things to start calming down. […]
A month ago, we reported how the trend Google is headed is going away from web stories / visual stories and headed towards showing more short videos. Well, now we are seeing Google show the short videos very prominently in the search results, and then also showing visual stories lower down in an accordion to […]
Today is officially day 14 since the May 2022 Google core update first started rolling out and it does not seem to be done rolling out yet – it is not complete. Google’s Danny Sullivan said last night “We’re not there yet.” I asked Google’s John Mueller this morning and he didn’t say it was […]
Most sites I know do not fill in their image alt text for many images. I know a lot of SEOs work on this task but sometimes it is a lot of work. One SEO said his client wants to take a shortcut and autofill any blank alt text with his company name. John Mueller […]
Google’s May 2022 core update is now just about 13 days in, we expect Google to say the update is now rolling out sometime in the next 72 hours or so. But till then, it does seem like the tremors have continued, with big spikes on Sunday, June 5, 2022. I was offline the from […]
Some how, I forgot to post the Google webmaster report last month, so this one will be a bit longer than I am combining the June and May Google webmaster report into one big report. Sorry for missing that report, but here is the catch up. The big items for the past two months are […]
Google’s John Mueller said when it comes to reindexing and resubmitting your web pages to Google Search – Google does it on its own. You do not need to resubmit your pages each time you update the content, Google will figure it out. Of course, if you want to, you can, using the URL inspection […]
At Google I/O the company announced a new Shopping Ad feature to showcase your loyalty programs directly into Google Search. Well, that feature might be out in the wild now, for Target and other retailers. Brian Freiesleben noticed this last night and posted about it on Twitter for a query on [iphone xr] where it […]