Craig Hordlow

Back in 2004 John Mueller started his personal blog while he was the owner of a small marketing and development company – like many of you. In 2007 he joined Google and has been with the company since. But also, …

This past Friday, I asked John Mueller of Google a bit more on if and how Google may use machine learning for adjusting the weights of various ranking signals. The short answer is, Google may or may not do this, …

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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…

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Lily Ray shared on Twitter some examples of Google making up artificial author names to attach to some of its search results snippets. She showed some named such as ALP Dull, R Wine, W Wine, and other names that are …

Google is now showing emojis in the search result snippets jumplinks (sometimes sitelinks although these are not sitelinks) section of the search result snippet. This was spotted by Brian Freiesleben and posted on Twitter and I can replicate it both …

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To kick things off, I discussed my monthly Google webmaster report is out and that you can catch up on all the important Google news there. Also, Google seemed to have another unconfirmed update last weekend…

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Microsoft announced last night that the Bing Content Submission API is now in beta and open to be used by site owners, publishers, webmasters or whatever you cool kids are calling yourselves these days. Microsoft announced this over two years …

Let’s say you have multiple international sites, ccTLDs, with your business registered with a .com for the US, .fr for France, .de for Germany and so on. But you have not translated all of those sites into its local language, …

Google is testing a incredibly wide image results box in its web search results interface. So instead of the image results box fitting tightly underneath the search box, it expands out to the extent of your browser window.

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Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…

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Google added a business selection drop down feature to the Google My Business contact us form. So now when you go to the contact us form in the Google My Business help section, it will ask you to select which …

Google has a bug with its Local Service Ads program where it may change your bid mode from “Maximize Leads” to “Max Per Lead.” Ginny Marvin from Google confirmed the issue yesterday afternoon and said “this is a bug that …

Technically, if you change your content based on the IPs or user agents visiting that piece of content, specifically giving GoogleBot different content than your users, that would be against Google’s cloaking policy and warrant a Google penalty. But based …

Google’s John Mueller confirmed something most of us know, that your site and/or pages can be indexed by Google Search but that not all data centers may have that URL in that specific index at the same time. John said …

Google’s John Mueller, Gary Illyes and Martin Splitt released their latests “search off the record” podcast where they pretend to create a search engine named Steve and discuss how they would build it out. One topic they spent a lot …