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Month: May 2021
Practice Problems Search Appearance Filters Now Available In Search Console Performance Report
Google launched a new search appearance filter in the performance report within Search Console for the practice problem rich results. Google officially launched these in March, after testing them last December. With the launch Google added structured data and debugging …
Google Mobile First Indexing Still Not 100% Yet
In March we reported that Google was going to migrate over the last batch of sites to mobile first indexing soon. This was after moving the mobile first indexing deadline from September 2020 to March 2021. Well, Google is still …
Daily Search Forum Recap: May 24, 2021
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today… …
The Acronyms That Protect Your Music Rights
If you’re digging into all the ways you can collect money from the use of your music, you might’ve noticed that the music industry seems to love acronyms and initialisms (did you know there’s a difference? Neither did I …
Google: Complaining On Twitter About Content Not Being Indexed Won’t Help
Googlers are often being asked about why content on specific websites do not rank or are not indexed. In this last case, John Mueller of Google responded to one request saying “We just don’t index all content – complaining about …
Google Tests Trending Searches On Google Mobile Home Page
Last week I saw a bunch of people notice Google showing a trending searches box on the Google Search home page. We saw this in the auto-complete results and in Google Discover results, but I don’t think I’ve seen it …
Google: Creating Unrelated Content To Build Links Is A “Wasted Opportunity”
Google’s John Mueller was asked if it is against Google’s webmaster guidelines to create a blog and build content that is unrelated to your business, with the sole intent of building links. John said no, it is not against Google’s …
Punctuation After A Link Bad For Google Ranking? Nope.
Here is a new question I have never heard before in the SEO space. Someone asked if “adding punctuation after a link is somehow bad for SEO.” He said he heard this as a rumor and didn’t know if there …
Vlog #121: Mike McPeak On SEO In A Low Tech Space & Markets With Low Volume Keywords
In part one we spoke about learning SEO on the job and then here spoke about about the topic of doing marketing and SEO for a company that is in a low tech space. He said a lot of it …
May 22nd Google Algorithm Update Is Off The Charts
There is yet another Google search algorithm ranking update that seems to be going on – it touched down yesterday, Saturday May 22nd. The tracking tools are off the charts, all of them, showing changes in the Google Search results …
Daily Search Forum Recap: May 21, 2021
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… …
Google: You Don’t Need All Three Good Web Vital Scores For Ranking Boost
Google at an AMA at I/O this week on the top of web vitals was asked about how the core web vitals impact your rankings in Google Search. In short, Google said that it is not the case where you …
Google Maps Showed Distances For Service Area Businesses
Earlier this week, several searchers noticed that Google, within Google Maps, was showing the distance from the searcher to the service area business in the local listing. Service area businesses do not have specific distances because they do not list …
Google Ads Has New Smart Bidding Features
Google Ads announced several new smart bidding features the other day. These include top signals in the bid strategy report, seasonality adjustments at the manager account level, Maximize conversion value bidding with recommendations, and new Target Impression Share simulations. …