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Why Google Shows Featured Snippets With Images from Another Site

August 29, 2018 at 5:23 am PST By Jennifer Slegg

Why Google Shows Featured Snippets With Images from Another Site

For a few years now, Google has sometimes shown featured snippets where the text is from one site, but the image shown within the featured snippet itself is actually from a second site. Last year, Google confirmed that it would continue doing this, and it wouldn’t change how it sometimes selects a more optimal image […]

How to Download Links Report in New Google Search Console

August 27, 2018 at 7:21 am PST By Jennifer Slegg

How to Download Links Report in New Google Search Console

Google has released a brand-new link report within the new version of Google Search Console. The important thing to know about this linking report is that it contains different data than what was included in the old link report. To export your links, you need to go to your linking reports within the new Google […]

Google: Avoid Including Redirected URLs in Sitemaps

August 27, 2018 at 5:02 am PST By Jennifer Slegg

Google: Avoid Including Redirected URLs in Sitemaps

Google is reminding site owners that they shouldn’t add URLs that are being redirected in the sitemap they submit to Google.  The question came up on Twitter about whether it should be avoided or if there was no detrimental effect to having them in a sitemap. John Mueller answered on Twitter and said that sitemaps […]

Google’s Featured Snippet Videos Now Overlay in Search Results

August 27, 2018 at 3:59 am PST By Jennifer Slegg

Google’s Featured Snippet Videos Now Overlay in Search Results

Google has made a major change with how featured snippets with a video are done in the search results.  Instead of clicking through to the YouTube video landing page, Google is overlaying the video directly into the search results instead.  The overlay does not feature any of the YouTube features and is instead a very […]

Expect Googlebot Crawl Increase With Changes to CDNs

August 24, 2018 at 5:01 am PST By Jennifer Slegg

Expect Googlebot Crawl Increase With Changes to CDNs

Whenever you make major changes to something about the website, it is natural you see significant changes in the amount of crawling the Google but does on the site. This is completely normal and expected. The same is also true when you switch over your site to CDN. But if you remove the CDN or […]

Google Search Console Links & Disavow Files

August 23, 2018 at 4:36 am PST By Jennifer Slegg

Google Search Console Links & Disavow Files

If you are doing a disavowal for a site, Google is recommending that you start looking at the URLs that Google is showing in the links section of Google Search Console. While we do know that the list of links showing Google Search Console isn’t a full list of links, it often can show links […]

Google Sending Out Notifications for HTTPS Site Migration Issues

August 21, 2018 at 7:02 am PST By Jennifer Slegg

Google Sending Out Notifications for HTTPS Site Migration Issues

Google is now sending out a new notice to search console users detailing issues that Google has discovered when a site has migrated to HTTPS. The email notice states what percentage of the site is no longer indexed after the HTTPS migrations, with example URLs that were on the HTTP version and not the HTTPS […]

Google’s New Creator Reputation: Guide For Site Owners & Creators

August 8, 2018 at 3:28 am PST By Jennifer Slegg

Google’s New Creator Reputation: Guide For Site Owners & Creators

Google has released a new version of the Google quality rater guidelines, and one of the most significant additions was creator reputation. Instead of just focusing on the reputation of the website itself, Google wants the raters to now look and see what the reputation is of the creator of the content.  Does this person […]

Google: When Asking for Links Isn’t a Link Scheme

August 7, 2018 at 4:47 am PST By Jennifer Slegg

Google: When Asking for Links Isn’t a Link Scheme

For SEOs, links are very important part of any SEO strategy for all websites.   However it can be a pretty geay area for site owners to request links, especially when those links are in exchange for something else, such as content or money. And for the most part, those are pretty clearly a violation of […]

Google Does Not Use Quality Raters for Machine Learning Algos

August 6, 2018 at 3:00 am PST By Jennifer Slegg

Google Does Not Use Quality Raters for Machine Learning Algos

Whenever there is a new quality raters guidelines released by Google, there is always lots of speculation about what Google does with the data from those ratings.  And does that include machine learning? Google confirmed that they use quality raters to evaluate potential changes to the search algos. They push out a change and then […]

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