During Gary Illyes keynote with Stone Temple one of the questions was regarding how Google handles a long term noindex on a page in regards to Googlebot crawling that page, if the crawl frequency would decline over time. Gary Illyes said that yes, they do drop the crawl frequency, not only for noindex, but for […]
Archives for May 9, 2016
Can a Noindexed Page Regain Its Former Google Rankings?
If you have a page that has ranked well for a while, that you noindexed for whatever reason, would it be able to regain its previous rankings if you then removed the noindex from the page? We have sometimes seen cases where some businesses (falsely) believe that noindexing a page is the best solution when […]
Why did Taylor vs Treadmill become a Viral Video Hit?
Most marketers would look at “TAYLOR vs. TREADMILL,” which was published to the Beats 1 Radio channel on YouTube back on April 1, 2016, and ask, “Was this just an April Fools’ Day joke or hoax?” All the video’s description says, “Distractingly good. Apple Music.” So, it’s hard to tell. But, after I saw the […]
Google Adds Comment Carousel to Popular Reddit Posts in Search Results
While we have seen carousels where Google shows multiple results from one site, they are also testing carousels displaying individual comments from a specific page. Paul Shapiro spotted the test in the mobile search results with a carousel of comments showing for Reddit. Here is what it looked like: Clicking on the “view more” simply […]
Google Testing Black Titles in Search Results
Google is going pretty bold in their latest test of colors in the search results… this time changing the titles from the usual blue to black. But there are many confused searchers as a result of this test, with many thinking they might have malware installed on their computer because the results are so different. […]