Just a reminder if you have been waiting for the last minute before removing full page app interstitials from their webpages, pages will lost that mobile friendly tag in the search results and associated mobile friendly ranking boost on Sunday, November 1st. Google announced at the beginning of September that serving full page app interstitials […]
Archives for October 2015
Google Prepared for Possible Spam in App Indexing
In yesterday’s app indexing hangout, Barry Schwartz asked if Google has seen any evidence of people trying to spam app indexing. And they haven’t seen it as much of an issue, at least not yet. Mariya Moeva from Google responded that she isn’t aware of any spam problems yet, but that it is definitely something […]
Google Working on Bringing Site: Info: Cache: To App Indexed Pages
Good news for those who are getting their apps indexed in the Google search results. Google is looking to bring the site:example.com, info:example.com and cache:example.com operators specifically for app indexed results. This is one of the things many app developers have been requesting for a few reasons. First, they want to be able to see […]
Major Joomla Security Issue, Patch Required to Prevent SQL Injection
There is a major exploit on sites that are running the Joomla CMS and it appears that many sites have yet to be updated to prevent the vulnerability. The Joomla team just released a new Joomla version (3.4.5) to fix some serious security vulnerabilities. The most critical one is a remote and unauthenticated SQL injection […]
Webmasters Can Have 1000 Sites in Google Search Console
If you are under the impression that you can still only have 100 sites listed in Google Search Console, you will be happy to know they have raised that ceiling limit. The new limit is about 1000 websites or so, according to Gary Illyes from Google. @pedrodias not sure. I think it's one thousand give […]
Google Warns Webmasters Redirecting Mobile Users to Wrong Site or Page
While some webmasters have set up their mobile version of the site to redirect to a separate page, rather than the same page as desktop, usually as a m.example.com or example.com/mobile/ structure, Google is warning some webmasters that they need to ensure those redirects are actually redirecting users to the correct page and website. Google […]
Google Confirms Penguin Update By End of Year
Good news for those anxiously awaiting a Google Penguin update, Google confirms we will be seeing the update before the end of the year. Gary Illyes from Google was asked about whether we we would be seeing a Penguin update this year or not, and he surprisingly did confirm that yes, we will see it […]
Google AdWords Celebrates 15 Years of Serving Ads
As someone who remembers buying PPC penny clicks on GoTo.com (Overture’s former name) back in the day before Google AdWords even existed, it is easy for forget that AdWords has been around for 15 years. AdWords launched back in October 2000 with this press release. And it is amazing how far it has come, when […]
How to Find Your Site’s Featured Snippets in Google Search Results
Finding featured snippets in the search results for sites you own can be a challenge of trial and error for random search queries you think your site should not only rank for, but show a featured snippet for. But there is a smart way to try and find them for your own site. In yesterday’s […]
Unlinked URLs Do Not Need To Be Disavowed; Don’t Pass PageRank
SEOs have begun noticing that Google is showing links in Google Search Console that aren’t true links at all. Rather, they are text URLs that are not even linked at all. But Google is showing them in Search Console as if they are a true link, even though the actual hyperlink isn’t there. With them […]