If you are under the impression that you can still only have 100 sites listed in Google Search Console, you will be happy to know they have raised that ceiling limit. The new limit is about 1000 websites or so, according to Gary Illyes from Google. @pedrodias not sure. I think it's one thousand give […]
Archives for 2015
Google Warns Webmasters Redirecting Mobile Users to Wrong Site or Page
While some webmasters have set up their mobile version of the site to redirect to a separate page, rather than the same page as desktop, usually as a m.example.com or example.com/mobile/ structure, Google is warning some webmasters that they need to ensure those redirects are actually redirecting users to the correct page and website. Google […]
Google Confirms Penguin Update By End of Year
Good news for those anxiously awaiting a Google Penguin update, Google confirms we will be seeing the update before the end of the year. Gary Illyes from Google was asked about whether we we would be seeing a Penguin update this year or not, and he surprisingly did confirm that yes, we will see it […]
Google AdWords Celebrates 15 Years of Serving Ads
As someone who remembers buying PPC penny clicks on GoTo.com (Overture’s former name) back in the day before Google AdWords even existed, it is easy for forget that AdWords has been around for 15 years. AdWords launched back in October 2000 with this press release. And it is amazing how far it has come, when […]
How to Find Your Site’s Featured Snippets in Google Search Results
Finding featured snippets in the search results for sites you own can be a challenge of trial and error for random search queries you think your site should not only rank for, but show a featured snippet for. But there is a smart way to try and find them for your own site. In yesterday’s […]
Unlinked URLs Do Not Need To Be Disavowed; Don’t Pass PageRank
SEOs have begun noticing that Google is showing links in Google Search Console that aren’t true links at all. Rather, they are text URLs that are not even linked at all. But Google is showing them in Search Console as if they are a true link, even though the actual hyperlink isn’t there. With them […]
Not Too Late to Disavow for Google Penguin
Whenever it comes close a Penguin update or refresh, there is always the mad rush to get a link audit completed and a disavow file submitted before Penguin is run again. We know we will be seeing Penguin sometime soon, so there is the usual question about the cut off for submitting that disavow. Sha […]
Google’s RankBrain: 9 Industry Experts Weigh In
Google’s new artificial intelligence algo, RankBrain is definitely interesting (all the details about RankBrain can be found here). We have reached out to 9 industry experts to get their reactions about RankBrain and what it means. Here is what they had to say. Glenn Gabe, G-Squared Interactive There’s been a lot of talk in the […]
RankBrain: Everything We Know About Google’s AI Algorithm
We have a new piece of the SEO puzzle from Google. They have introduced a new ranking signal in the form of machine learning and artificial intelligence called RankBrain. Bloomberg broke the story that not only has Google introduced RankBrain, but that it has already been using it for some time in the search results. […]
Google Search Console 404 Errors When Viewing Reports
Google Search Console is having some issues this morning with 404s. I noticed this earlier this morning and tweeted about it, but haven’t heard a response. So @googlewmc is throwing a ton of 404 errors this morning. cc @methode @johnmu — Jennifer Slegg (@jenstar) October 26, 2015 The 404 errors are not happening on every […]