John Mueller and Mariya Moeva, Webmaster Trends Analysts with Google, did a virtual keynote with Stone Temple all about mobile search. And one of the more interesting stats shared was about the differences between typed and voice queries. Moeva said that when someone does a voice search, Google sees about 30 times more action queries […]
Archives for July 2016
Google Looking for Sites to Review for Next Site Clinic
Want to get your website reviewed by Googlers? Google is once again doing a live site clinic, a followup to one they did earlier this year. The deadline to submit your sites is today, so you will need to get your sites submitted quickly if you would like to be chosen. You can submit your […]
Google Adds “People Typically Spend” Times to Local Businesses
Google has added a new feature to the local knowledge panel, this highlighting the time a person spends at a business. Here is what it looks like: It seems to have gone live early Saturday when I did a search for a local business to check opening times, as it wasn’t showing the previous day. […]
Bing Adds Images & Ambiguity Thumbnails to Autosuggest
Bing has added thumbnails to their autosuggest dropdowns. They show for a variety of queries, but seem to show most often for the types of queries where Bing is fairly confident that it is likely the result the searcher is looking for. Frank Sandtmann spotted it in the Bing search results and sent them […]
Google Showing Shopping Product Search in Local Knowledge Panel
Google has added a new paid component to local business knowledge panels – a link to directly search for products. Nicolai Helling was the first to spot it and posted it to the Local Search Pros Google+ group. Here is an example of it: It goes to a custom product search landing page: It includes […]
No Google Ranking Advantage to Removing Older Content
There has been a trend by webmasters to remove older content because many feel that it is a signal to Google that the site might not be of high quality. Others believe older content impacts Panda and remove it as a Panda preventative. The question came up in last week’s Google Webmaster Office Hours. We […]
Why Numbers in Google Search Analytics for Keywords & Clicks Don’t Match
Have you ever wondered why Google’s numbers don’t add up in Google Search Analytics? Often the number of overall clicks from the Google search results don’t match up with the clicks combined for the exact search queries that Google shows site owners in Search Console. The question came up in last week’s Google Webmaster Office […]
Some Removed Users Being Reauthorized in Google Search Console
Last week we reported that some users were receiving many new user verification emails from Google Search Console, for users previously added to the account as a result of Google re-running verification checks. It was described as an issue on Google’s end, but it seems it could also have some unintended consequences. It seems that when some […]
Google Confirms AdWords Keyword Planner Includes Organic Traffic
There has been some confusion over the last few days over Google’s AdWords Keyword Planner and whether or not it includes organic traffic or if it just includes searches where an AdWords ad was available to be served. Glenn Gabe asked AdWords about whether these estimates were based on ads or all searches, and he […]
Google Resending Some New Site Owner Notifications in Search Console
The question came up in Google’s Webmaster Office Hours today, specifically about many “new site owner notifications” that many webmasters have been receiving. When site owners receive this, the first thing that comes to mind is that the site has somehow been hacked and a hacker has added themselves to the Google Search Console account, […]