Google’s Danny Sullivan has confirmed that Google will be releasing more search algorithm updates. This includes more core updates, more spam update and other search related algorithm updates. He said this on Twitter adding “we have updates all the time.”…
Month: November 2021
Google On Embedding Videos On Your Pages: Speed Vs Video Ranking
Embedding videos on your pages can slow the page down and cause your core web vital scores not to perform well. But using lazy loading methods or other tricks to get the videos to score well with core web vitals …
Daily Search Forum Recap: November 5, 2021
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today… …
Google: If CTR Drove Search Rankings, The Results Would All Be Clickbait
Google is constantly, for years and years, saying it does not use click through rate (CTR) for search ranking purposes. John Mueller of Google was asked this again and he said “if CTR were what drove search rankings, the results …
Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google November Spam Update, Desktop Page Experience, Penguin Algorithm, Google Business Profiles, Google Ads & More
It turned out to be a busy week because we have a confirmed Google search algorithm update – the November spam update that is rolling out. I posted my monthly Google webmaster report as well… …
Goodbye Google My Business & Hello Google Business Profile
Google has changed the name of its local business management product once again. I think that might be sixth time, or maybe more, Google has changed the name of this product. It is now known as Google Business Profile, no …
Official: Google Desktop Page Experience Update Coming In February 2022
We now have an official date for when Google will be bringing the page experience update factors/signals to desktop. Google said it will start the rollout in February 2022 and complete that rollout by the end of March 2022. The …
Google Hiring A Spam Fighter For Search
Google posted a new job opening to become a spam fighter at the company. The job title is a Search Quality Analyst and it seems to be an in-person job at the GooglePlex in Mountain View, California. …
Google’s Reaction To Using significantLink Schema
There is a schema property named significantLink which is a way to communicate in your markup “one of the more significant URLs on the page.” Ryan Jones asked John Mueller of Google how Google may take any hints from that …
Daily Search Forum Recap: November 4, 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 Policy Center Updated With New Design & Features
Google has relaunched the Google policy center for Ad Manager, AdMob and AdSense. This update has a new look, plus an updated account health summary, more filtering options and a more detailed issues table. …
Google Search Console Notice: Google Chrome To Help Users Automate Changing Passwords Using The Assistant
Google is emailing through Google Search Console about a new Google Assistant feature that will offer users the ability to automatically change their passwords to login to your website in Google Chrome. The Chrome feature, I think is several months …
Google Merchant Center New Ways To Calculate Shipping Speeds
Google has announced two new ways to allow calculate shipping speeds with Google Merchant Center. You can (1) specify your shipping carrier, shipping service, and ship-from location and (2) you can link to your partner to authorize them to share …
Google Search Has No Objective Metric For Adultness
Google’s John Mueller said that the search company does not have “objective metric for adultness.” He said if you need to have some sort of direction on what Google Search would consider adult content that might be filtered by SafeSearch, …
Google November 2021 Spam Update Rolling Out
Google announced last night that is has begun rolling out a new algorithm update targeting search spam. The new update is named the November spam update and should take about a week to rollout fully. …