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Month: August 2021
Possible Google Indexing Issues With Pages Dropping In & Out Of The Index
For the past few weeks or so, I have been hearing complaints from SEOs, mostly in private forums, about Google having weird indexing issues. The issues are not persistent, in that a new page is indexed, then drops out of …
Google Adds Author Markup To Article Structured Data Recommended Properties
Google said it has recently added the author.url property to the Article structured data documentation. Google said this “url property helps Google disambiguate the correct author of the article.” But it seems Google added a number of author based properties …
Google Structured Data Testing Tool Directs You To Rich Results Test Or Schema.org
Google has updated the structured data testing tool page to a page that instructs the user to either go to the rich results testing tool on Google or the schema markup validator on Schema.org. …
Google Ads Editor 1.7 Gains Hotel Ads Lead, Extension Forms & More
Google, after a false start, announced the release of version 1.7 of Google Ads Editor. Google Ads Editor 1.7 brings Hotel ads, easier downloads, YouTube audio ads, lead form extensions, additional recommendation types and the deprecation of Showcase ads. …
Daily Search Forum Recap: August 9, 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 Ads Login Down – Advertisers Can’t Login To Their Ads Accounts (Now Fixed)
If you try to login to your Google Ads account right now, you will be out of luck. I suspect this will be fixed any minute now, but for now, just know, you are not alone. …
Google: Alt Text Is Important For SEO
Newsflash, Google’s Martin Splitt said that “alt text is important for SEO too.” I did ask him how important, but he would not disclose that information. Here is more of the context around this on Twitter. …
Each Google Core Updates Can Affect Search Rankings Differently
Google’s John Mueller clarified on Friday that when Google pushes out new core updates that each one can be unique and impact Google’s core rankings differently. So if your site is impacted by one, it might not be impact by …
Google Search Console Doesn’t Filter Out All Bot Traffic
Google’s John Mueller confirmed that Google Search Console does not filter out all bot traffic. John said on Twitter in response to someone suspecting seeing bot traffic in the Performance report, “sometimes it can be from bots – we don’t …
Google Investigating Cases Where Big Brand News Sites Ranking Above Small Specialized Publishers
Over the past couple of weeks or so, I have been hearing complaints from the SEO and publishing worlds that since some of the more recent core updates, Google has been ranking big publisher brands well above smaller, more specialized …
Google Search Ranking Algorithm Update August 6th Through The Weekend?
Ever since Friday morning, August 6th, I’ve been seeing signals of a possible Google Search ranking algorithm update. This looks like a typical unconfirmed Google search update with both chatter from the SEO community and the automated tracking tools picking …
Vlog #132: Brett Bodofsky On His Passion For Paid Search & Sharing With Others
Brett Bodofsky is the senior paid media specialist at Elumynt, he explained how he got into doing paid search. He actually went from being a web developer to a paid search specialist… …
Daily Search Forum Recap: August 6, 2021
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today… …
Official Google Crawling Exam
Google has posted an exam to test your SEO knowledge on crawling. Google said this is to test your knowledge on how Google crawls and indexes websites. This is a true and false test, with explanations on why the answer …
Google Search Tests Discussions Carousel
Looks like Google is testing another design and layout for displaying forums in the search results. Now Google is labeling this “discussions” and showing it in this two column and multiple rows carousel interface. …