If you have ever tried to bookmark reports in Google Search Analytics with a date range, you have probably discovered when you go back to that URL that instead of seeing the date range relative to the current date, such as “last 7 days”, the bookmarked link actually saved the date range based on the […]
Archives for 2016
Google Reconsideration Requests Processed in Order Received
If you have ever submitted a reconsideration request, you have probably wondered how Google processes them. Are they batched together by manual action type, so that hacked sites could get their reconsideration requests processed quicker? Or simply first come, first served? It turns out it is the latter. At SMX West earlier this month, Juan […]
Google Working on Making AMP Compatible With Older Devices
If you have one of the latest mobile phones, you likely have seen AMP results when news results are displayed. But for those with older smart phones, AMP results might not be displayed… and arguably, it is those older – and often slower – phones could benefit from AMP even more than those with the […]
Google Adds Disambiguation Box to Medical Knowledge Panels
Many people are familiar with the custom style of Google’s medical knowledge panels. But Google has added something new – a disambiguation box. Disambiguation boxes appear for some Google search results where Google isn’t sure which meaning of a popular keyword the searcher intends to look for, such as Apple the company or apple the […]
Google AdWords Testing Mobile “Available At” Local Third Party Stores
AdWords is testing a pretty unique style of local inventory ads. While normally local inventory ads highlight inventory available at the same store as the listed advertiser, these new ads are highlighting inventory at third party stores that are not directly connected to the advertiser, other than they happen to sell the products. For example, […]
All Google Manual Actions Send Warnings to Site Owners
If you have ever wondered if Google hands out manual actions in secret, without ever sending a manual action notice to the site owner, the answer is no. Google will always send a notice to a site owner when manual action is taken. Juan Felipe Rincón, part of the Google manual actions team at Google, […]
Sites Impacted by Penguin Cannot Request Manual Penguin Refresh
Some site owners who have been impacted by Penguin have been waiting for quite some time for a Penguin update to happen. While we know that the next Penguin will bring a new real-time Penguin, playing the waiting game in the meantime has been tough. In last week’s Google Webmaster Hangout with John Mueller, he […]
Google Showing AMP Results Outside of AMP Carousel in Search Results
At SMX earlier this month, Dave Besbris, Vice President of Engineering said that they would be bringing AMP results to other parts of the search results, and it appears they have already started this push. Google is now displaying AMP results beyond the usual carousel. Over the past few weeks, many have become familiar with […]
App Install Cards Get Ranking Boost for App-Seeking Queries
At SMX West last week, Mariya Moeva from Google talked a great deal about app indexing in the Google search results. But she also touched on the area of app install cards/buttons that sometimes appear in the search results for mobile users… and more specifically, why we don’t see them as much anymore. The app […]
Sites With Linking Manual Actions Will Lose Rankings After Action Lifted
At SMX last week, Juan Felipe Rincón talked about many aspects of manual actions that impact webmasters. One of the things he mentioned is something many advanced SEOs would be familiar with, but it is also something I know still surprises some website owners who are recovering from a link related manual actions who might […]