Did you know that you can reach the maximum number of allowed appeals for your Google Ads? Eric Heiken posted about it on Twitter and asked “Google Ads has a maximum limit of appeals. It’s unclear if this is a …
Year: 2021
Survey Says Most SEOs Negatively Impacted By A Google Core Update
Marie Haynes posted another Twitter poll asking has your site ever been negatively affected by a Google core update? With 266 votes in, which is not a huge number, it shows that most SEOs have been negatively affected by a …
Daily Search Forum Recap: November 1, 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 Merchant Center Adds Reporting For Google Shopping Deals Badges
Google announced that it is not only showing more flavors of deal badges and showcases but also has added more reporting to the performance report in the Google Merchant Center to report on these deal badges. …
Google: We Use Many Signals To Detect Guest Posts, It’s Not Just Link Anchor Text
Google’s John Mueller was asked how Google detects and determines if a piece of content is written as a guest post? John said “we use lots of different signals to try to figure out what might be a guest post.” …
Google Kills Ranking For Google Doodles With Behind The Doodle Box
Google has now killed off getting traffic for ranking for Google Doodles. Back in the old days, if you wrote a news post about a Google Doodle, and if you could rank in the top stories carousel or news box, …
New Google My Business Messaging Read Receipts Setting
Google has added a read receipts setting to the Google My Business messaging platform. Now you can decide to show your customers who are messaging you via Google Maps and Search if you read their message or not through read …
Google Search App Recent Queries Card
Google is showing a new card in the Google Search app for “recent queries.” The recent queries are pulled from your Google Search history and can show up with your Google Discover personalized stories. …
Vlog #144: Bryan Cush On Using Health Data For Content & Search Marketing
Bryan Cush, the co-founder of Tidal Health Group, a healthcare marketing company, stopped by my office to chat SEO and healthcare marketing… …
Google Said The Penguin Algorithm May Not Just Ignore Links, It May Target Whole Site
When Google released Penguin 4.0, Google said that update was about devaluing links, not demoting links. Meaning, Google would simply ignore the spammy and bad links and your website would not be demoted because of those links. Well, Google said …
Google Logo Wishes You An imPECKable Halloween
Google has a special Doodle, Google logo, on its home page today and last night for Halloween. The theme of this Halloween Doodle is around wishing Google searchers an “imPECKable Halloween.” …
Daily Search Forum Recap: October 29, 2021
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today… …
Pitch Your New Music to Amazon Music’s Playlists
Have you ever been listening to a playlist on Amazon Music and wondered how you can place your own music alongside your favorite artists? Now you can with Amazon Music for Artists’ New Release Pitch Tool! This new feature …
Google Search Handled Facebook Name Change To Meta
The big news yesterday was that Facebook announced its new company name – Meta. Yes, Facebook’s company name is Meta. Like meta data, meta tag, and all the other metas that Google Search might have ranked prior. But when Facebook’s …
Survey Says: Links The Most Challenging Area Of SEO
A Twitter poll by Brodie Clark has SEOs voting that link acquisition is the most challenging area of SEO. The poll had over 750 votes, and almost 60% of those who voted said link acquisition is the “most challenging” area …
Google Removes Some HowTo, QAPage & SpecialAnnouncement From Help Documents
Google has removed the following structured data fields from its Google Search help documentation. Google said these were removed “since they are unused by Google Search and Rich Result Test doesn’t flag warnings for them.” …