Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web… …
Month: April 2021
Google Webspam Report 2020: More Spam, More Blocking, More Of The Same
Google has published its annual webspam report and it is just more of the same. In short, there is more spam, Google is getting better at detecting and thus blocking that spam and of course a bit on the COVID …
Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Web & Local Ranking Update, Reporting Indexing Issues, Recognizing Authors & A Bit Of A Rant
This past weekend, maybe around the 23rd of April, we saw another Google ranking update and also there has been a lot of local fluctuations as well. Google released a new tool to report indexing issues to the company… …
Google Find Results On Other Search Providers Carousel Is Not Human Curated
Back in February 2020, Google due to EU pressure began showing a new carousel box in the EU based search results to show search results from other search providers. The box is named “find results on” and can link you …
Google: Asking What Schema To Use Is Like Asking A Dictionary Maintainer What To Say
Dan Brickley, a developer advocate at Google who managed Schema.org, had a really great line that I wanted to amplify here. He was asked by a seasoned SEO about which schema one should use in a specific case. In which …
Google Search Console Drop In Valid But No Change In Invalid Might Not Be Bad
Google’s John Mueller said that if you are seeing “seeing a drop in valid, and not a rise in invalid, that’s possibly just a matter of the sample used for testing becoming smaller for that site.” This is specific to …
The Google AdWords API Shutting Down In 362 Days
Google is giving us about a year to switch over from the old Google AdWords API to the newer Google Ads API. The Google Ads API replaced the AdWords API when Google released it as a beta I believe in …
Daily Search Forum Recap: April 29, 2021
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today… …
How To Report A Google Search Indexing Issue
Google has a new method to debug and ultimately report indexing issues with Google Search. Google opened up a new form where currently US based site owners can report issues directly to Google around Google Search indexing. This is how …
Brands Value Domain Authority Because They Mistakenly Think Google Values DA
There was an interesting thread on Twitter about DA, Moz’s domain authority metrics. In short, a blogger named Chloà …
Google Doesn’t Generally Suspend Sites From Google Discover
Google’s Paul Bakaus, he is very involved in web stories these days, said on Twitter that at Google “we don’t generally ‘suspend’ sites, and when you fix issues, you are always eligible to reappear.” Truth is, and I posted this …
Google Boosts Travel Search Tools For A Post Pandemic World
Google announced a few new features in Google Search around travel features specifically as “many people are eager to start planning vacations again,” Google said. Google is getting ready for a post pandemic world with these updates that include new …
Google Ads API Version 7.0 Now Available
Google has released version 7.0 of the Google Ads API. This is a jump from version 6.1.0 which was released on April 10, 2021. To use the v7 features, you will need to upgrade your client libraries and client code, …
Daily Search Forum Recap: April 28, 2021
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today… …