For many aspects of SEO, Google treats subdomains as individual sites, rather than as merely sections as a whole.  While subdomains are often part of the main site, subdomains can also represent individual users or businesses, such as how Blogger/Blogspot uses subdomains. The question was whether manual actions or algorithmic penalties on subdomains could impact […]

Google has added a new feature to the local Google My Business knowledge panels in the Google search results.  Searchers are now presented with a “Send to your phone” option, that is displayed within the local knowledge panel that displays in the right sidebar of the search results. When you click the “Send” button in […]

If you aren’t a fan of Google reducing the organic result footprint within their search results, you probably won’t be happy to see this test.  Google is testing running two “people also search for” in the search results. The user michel221 shared the following screenshot on Reddit. As you can see, there are two different […]

Marie Haynes spotted a new change on a recent alert from Google Search Console – instead of the usual Pure Spam related messages, it was renamed as Major Spam Warning. Here is how it looks: This change seems to be a name change only, and not anything different about what the manual action is specifically […]

Wondering where your review stars have gone in the search results?  Google continues to further reduce the number of search results showing review stars in the organic search results. On February 22, Google began to drop the number of review stars in the search results significantly.  The first day we saw a drop by 14.5%, […]

Google is considering a new service in Chrome that would recommend articles based on browsing history.  There articles would be served when a new tab is opened in Chrome. It sounds as if it would offer articles similar to how Google Now recommends articles to users based on browser history, such as searches and sites […]

Do you use Google’s Fetch as Googlebot in Google Search Console, then submit it to the index?  Google has changed the limits on submissions via the “submit this URL and it’s direct-linked pages”. But most significantly, this is applying to all sites on a Google Search Console account, so this change isn’t on a per […]

If you use hreflang on any of your pages, you might want to double check Google Search Console for errors.  Many webmasters received “Errors in hreflang” emails from Google yesterday, even for sites/pages that previously passed. You can check for messages from Google, or you can also check the “International Targeting” section in Google Search […]

Over the last day or so, Google began issuing manual actions for “social engineering content detected.”  These new warnings have a pretty confusing name that are causing people to question what exactly “social engineered content” is. Here is the new warning: It seems to be related to Google’s new change to the Safe Browsing program.  […]