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Year: 2021
Bing Search Santa Hat Video Play Button Easter Egg
If you go to Microsoft Bing and conduct a search that triggers a video preview box to show up, there may be a little holiday easter egg for you. A Santa hat on the play button of the video that …
Google Product Reviews Update Likely Will Expand To Other Languages
Google’s April 2021 and December 2021 product reviews update only targeted English language content. But John Mueller of Google said he suspects it will roll out to other languages in the future. He actually thought it did already but no, …
Google Business Profile Products “Mark As Special” For Top Placement
Google Business Profiles (formerly Google My Business) seems to have added or is testing adding a new check box for products. There is an option named “mark as special” that will show that product at the top of the page …
Google Ads Past Violations Can Limit Your Ads
Shaun Elley posted a screenshot of one of his ads in Google Ads showing a status of “eligible (limited) policy (past violation).” This seems to mean that an ad you once had was disapproved because of a past violation but …
Google Keeps Track Of Algorithm Changes But It’s Hard To Use Even Internally
Alan Bleiweiss, a smart and fun SEO, asked John Mueller of Google if Google has a “Google Book of Secrets” where it stores all the algorithmic changes it makes in a single location. The short answer is, yes, Google does …
Daily Search Forum Recap: December 27, 2021
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today… …
Google: Most Of Google’s Search Algorithms Work For All Languages But Not All
Did you know that most of the search algorithms Google launches work across all languages? There are exceptions, like when Panda first launched and the product reviews update and some others. Some launch first in some languages, like the English …
Vlog #152: Colt Sliva On Entities, Python For SEO & Winning Over Developers
In part one, we spoke about how Colt Sliva became an SEO engineer and some topics around visualizing search graphs. In part two we spoke more about entities, python for SEO and winning over developers… …
Google Search Console’s Link Report Not A Priority For Google
Google’s John Mueller was asked on Twitter why the pipeline to get data into the link report within Google Search Console seems slower than most the other reports. In short, John said that links is not an area they think …
John Mueller Of Google Providing Webmaster Support on Christmas Again
Google’s John Mueller again, actually since 2007, year-after-year, has jumped into the Google support forums and on social media to answer webmaster questions on Google Search. It is a tradition for him… …
Google Search Won’t Rank Sex Toy Companies For G-Rated Brand Names But Google Ads Will For The Money
If you do a search in Google or Bing for [adam and eve] or [jack and jill], both very G rated phrases that also have very X rated companies behind it, you will get mixed results. On the Google Search …
Google Image Search Section For “Top Categorized Results” – Confused?
Google Image search on mobile has these labels for sections of the images it sometimes shows in the search results. A new label I have not seen before is showing “top categorized results.” I have no clue what that means …
Google Ads Serving Issue For Ads On Desktop Gmail
Google has a new serving issue with Google Ads that is impacting ad serving on the desktop version of Gmail. So if you are serving Google Ads on Gmail, your ads may not show to a “significant subset of users,” …
SEO Holiday Gift: Waking Up To $80,000 In New Traffic This Week
There is a Reddit thread I found via John Mueller that claims a site owner woke up to an additional $80,000 in monthly traffic. The person said that over the past several days his traffic skyrocketed 6,000 percent because his …
The John Mueller Meme Report 2021
Like last year, Google’s John Mueller put together a year end meme report of SEO for 2021. John said on Twitter “It’s time for the dreaded end-of-year reports. Here’s a compilation from the monthly internal reports that I put together. …