Many site owners would love to see more data being separated in Google Search Console. One of the requested ones is splitting out AMP and splitting out voice search queries is another. The question came up in last week’s Google Webmaster Office Hours and John Mueller said that is something they are discussing possibly doing. […]
Crawl Frequency on NoIndex & Unavailable Pages Decline Over Time
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
Will We See AMP Analytics Reporting in Google Search Console?
In today’s Google webmaster office hours with John Mueller, I asked about whether we would see any AMP related reporting within Search Analytics of Search Console. Right now, traffic isn’t split between mobile and AMP, making it hard for webmasters to do any deeper dive analysis on their AMP traffic as well as for keywords […]
Google Working on Merging www and non-www Properties in Search Console
If you are one of those struggling with the fact you have to have four different properties (or more!) for a single site in Google Search Console, Google is still working on a solution. In today’s webmaster office hours, I asked whether there were any updates on solving the issue of having multiple properties for […]
Google Prioritizes Links in Partial Sitemaps for Crawling
With so many sites autogenerating sitemaps, we don’t hear a lot about custom sitemaps or sitemaps where only a part of a site is on it. In yesterday’s keynote with Stone Temple, Gary Illyes from Google brought up an interesting aspect with sitemaps and how Google prioritizes crawling. If you use a sitemap that is […]
Google: Don’t Nofollow Your Own Internal Links
Are you nofollowing internal links on your site? If so, you might want to remove them unless you have a pretty good reason to be using it. Recently, nofollowing internal links gained traction as many webmasters who received a recent outbound link manual action decided to nofollow every link on their sites, including internal links […]
Sneaky Mobile Redirects & Manual Actions: Google Warns Webmasters Again
Are you doing something sneaky with your mobile visitors by sending them off to third party sites, either intentionally or accidentally through a site being hacked? Google is warning again about sneaky mobile redirects in a new post on Google+. Google is specifically targeting sites where the desktop version is working as intended, but for […]