Google is still working on getting the timestamps accurate in the search results and news search results. Several publishers, including the Director of SEO at USA Today and the SEO Editor for Wall Street Journal, complained about the inaccurate timestamps in Google Search the other day. In which, Danny Sullivan from Google replied that he […]
This week, I posted the monthly Google webmaster report, an excellent place to catch up on the past month in SEO. Glenn Gabe shared some wild charts showing how Google’s various search algorithms can’t make up its mind about on-site quality. Google Search Console’s queries report in Google Analytics UA3 is not passing query data. […]
Google has confirmed that some data may be missing in the Google Search Console Search Performance report on September 21, 2022. If you log in and view that report, you should see an annotation on that day, that explained more. Google wrote that on September 21, 2022, “Due to a logging error, sites may see […]
Google’s John Mueller said that your site or page would not be removed from the Google Search results over page speed issues. He was asked about this on Twitter and said no, page speed wouldn’t lead to your site on the basis of page speed. Here are those tweets: No — 🌽〈link href=//johnmu.com rel=canonical 〉🌽 […]
Google is testing a new feature that places a large and smaller star next to the search result snippet. When you click on the star icons, you are presented with a box beneath that search result snippet that shows a “more like this” section. This was spotted by Daniela Cano from Amsive Digital and posted […]
Google has finished rolling out both the September 2022 core update and product reviews update on Monday, September 26th – yes, there is a lot of confusion. Google fixed a bug with the local search rankings and service area businesses. Google had its big search on event, I recap most of it. Google product review […]
We had another Google Search On event yesterday and in case you missed it or you simply do not want to read through a lot of fluff, here is the short version. Note, I’m pretty sure we covered tests of all of these announcements in the past at this site, so everything should look familiar. […]
We have seen plenty of neat features from Google Search around recipes. But now it seems Google is testing a Google Search Cookbook feature. It is a place to consolidate the recipes you find using Google Search in one place for later. Glenn Gabe spotted this and posted about it on Twitter saying “Focus on […]
Before there was Google Search Console there was Google Webmaster Tools, before there was Google Webmaster Tools there was Google Sitemaps. To tell you that story, John Mueller and Lizzi Sassman interviewed the original creator of this tool, Vanessa Fox. It brings back such great memories for me of the early days of Google Search […]
A year ago, last November, Google started to show this GIF of a fishing bot of some sort when Google returned no results. Well, sometime in the past weeks or so, Google stopped showing this fishing man. Here is what it looked like: Here is what I see today: Yep, no fishing man. I am […]