Google updated their Data Anomalies page within Google Search Console to include information about a reporting issue for image search. On October 6, Google is reporting lower impressions and click data for image search results, and they note this is particularly apparent for sites with a lot of traffic coming from image search. October 6 […]
Google Adds Safe Browsing Site Status to Transparency Report
Google is now offering additional information on websites that Google has added the malware warning too. The warnings themselves aren’t new, but now users can look up and find out exactly what is triggering the warning that displays “The site ahead contains malware” on the red interstitial. Google has a new site status section in […]
Yahoo Reaches Agreement to Serve Google Search Results & AdSense Ads
Yahoo has announced a new search partnership with Google that will see Google serve the ads and search results for Yahoo on up to 49% of search queries, replacing Bing’s own search results and ads that currently run on Yahoo. This doesn’t come as too big of a surprise, as it has been known that […]
How & Why Google Rewrites Page Titles in the Search Results
SEOs who have spent time carefully crafting the perfect page title get understandably upset when Google decides to rewrite the titles they display for those pages in the search results. And there doesn’t seem to be much rhyme or reason to when or why they will replace the titles. But thanks to an English/Hindi webmaster […]
5 Practical Examples of Structured Data for Rich Snippets in Search Results
Once you familiarize yourself with what structured data markup is and why it’s important for SEO success, your brain should quickly shift into action-mode. How can you leverage structured data markup to in order to help the search engines help you? Well, the key is to avoid getting overwhelmed. When viewed as one massive entity, […]
Sign Up For Google Android Search App Beta
Interested in another Google beta test? Google is accepting people into the Android search app beta. The test is for a version of the search app that appears to be a cross between the regular Google search app and Google Now. You will get access to new features Google is testing prior to them being […]
Google Adds Song Covers to Music Related Searches
Google has added a new feature to music related search results. Now when you search for a song, in addition to the “main” or best known version of a song, Google is now also listing other cover versions of the song. Here is an example for the song “Sweet Caroline” with the best known version […]
Google Link Value Loss When Switching to HTTPS from HTTP
Someone raised an interesting question in today’s Google Webmaster Office Hours today. The question was about how links lose a bit of their value when they go through a redirect. When switching a site from HTTP to HTTPS, it means an entire site will have to go through a redirect, so will the link loss […]
How Many 301 Redirect Hops Will Googlebot Follow?
John Mueller had a bit of an update on how Googlebot handles 301 redirects when they are in a redirect chain – where you might get redirected multiple times through 301s until you land on the end destination page. In today’s Google Webmaster Office Hours, he said that the maximum number of hops Googlebot will […]
Sites Can Be Impacted by Both Penguin and Manual Action Link Penalties
If you are dealing with a manual action link penalty, that doesn’t mean that you are not impacted by the Google Penguin algo. A website can be impacted by both Penguin and a manual action for links at the same time. The question was brought up on Twitter: can a site be affected by Manual […]