Why do you want to see more than the standard 90 days in Search Analytics within Google Search Console? Zineb, a Google Webmaster Trends Analyst wants to know what webmasters would use the increased data for. While the common answer is seeing either seasonality or year over year data, here are many more reasons webmasters […]
Archives for February 2016
Google Launches AMP Demo – Accelerated Mobile Pages
If you have been working to get your pages ready for AMP – Accelerated Mobile Pages, but are unsure how your content will actually appear in live AMP results, you will love this new testing tool. Google has launched a new AMO demo tool that allows you to view the search results with AMP specific […]
Google Testing New Product Listing Ads Style in Yahoo Search Results
Yahoo has been showing Google search results to some searchers recently. And it seems that with the partnership comes a new testing ground for Google’s product listing ads. Here is how Google is displaying the product listing ads that are being shown on the Yahoo search results. They have a very distinctive shaded border around […]
No Rich Snippets? Quality of Other Sites in Same Search Results Plays Role
Zineb Ait Bahajji shared some pretty important information on Twitter this week for those who want rich snippets for their site – or who are struggling to get rich snippets to show up. She said that Google doesn’t want to clutter up the search results too much but that another factor comes into play when […]
Raven Tools Happy With Balance of Remote Office and In-House Work Environment
Jon Henshaw, Co-Founder & President of Raven Internet Marketing Tools, struck a nerve when he wrote an article on working remotely which he shared on LinkedIn. “We had six months to find a new office,” wrote Henshaw in his popular piece, The incredible thing that happened after we lost our office. What happens when an […]
Google Still Considering Adding More Days to Search Analytics
One of the biggest requests that many SEOs have is to have more days worth of data in Search Analytics. While there are tools designed to download the data every X number of weeks, having the data within Search Console would be much more optimal for many SEOs. @Jonny_J_ we are thinking about it, but […]
Google Adds Crawl Status Reports to Data Anomalies Page
Google has renamed the former “Crawl Error Report” to “Crawl Errors/Crawl Status Report” on their Data Anomalies page. Google uses this page to alert users to updates, changes or issues with various Search Console features and reports. Here is how it appears now: Nothing has been added to the newly renamed section. So it could […]
Google Now Including App Indexing Results for Current News Stories
Google seems to be stepping up their app indexing game. They are now app indexing content that is less than an hour old and is giving searchers the option of either opening it in the app, or continuing to the regular website instead. Here is one showing a news example from 35 minutes before. You […]
Google Testing New Separators in AdWords Sitelinks
Google is testing a new display format for separating AdWords sitelinks in the search results. Instead of the usual “-“, they have replaced it with a dot instead. Serptests spotted the test, and although it is a pretty minor one, it does make the sitelinks pop out as individual links a bit more. Here is […]
Personalization & Universal Search Can Skew Search Analytics in Google Search Console
If you have looked in your Search Analytics in Google’s Search Console and see a really high position for a keyword or keyword phrase that doesn’t match up with actual traffic, there are two reasons why – either personalization or universal search results are skewing those positioning numbers. The question was brought up in the […]