There are more new changes this morning for those with access to Search Analytics Alpha / Beta in Google Webmaster Tools. In addition to the URL filtering added today, Annie Cushing from Annielytics has noticed that Google Webmaster Tools has revamped their search types and devices in the new Search Analytics Alpha/Beta. What does this […]
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Google Webmaster Tools Adds URL Filtering to Search Analytics Alpha / Beta
If you are in the Google Webmaster Tools alpha/beta for Search Analytics (formerly called Search Insights), they have just added a brand new feature that allows you to filter by URL when looking at the page reporting data. Annie Cushing from Annielytics was the first to notice this change, although it has been requested by […]
Press Release SEO Is Not Dead, It’s Resting!
Back on July 21, 2014, I contributed an article to The SEM Post entitled, “It Just So Happens That Press Release SEO is Only MOSTLY Dead.” Here we are – a little more than 8 months later – and it appears that my article needs to be updated. On March 11, 2015, Tom Bergin of […]
Google Adds New Book Carousel Feature to Search Results
Google made some changes to knowledge graphs for book titles in January that when you clicked on the “people also searched for” within the knowledge graph, it would show a book carousel. Google is now expanding on that and is now showing the carousel directly in the search results for book related searches. I was […]
Massive Google Analytics Outage Affects All Users
If you are have been trying to access Google Analytics for the past few hours, you have either been greeted with an endless loading screen or this: While initially many people expected the outage to be fixed within a few minutes, it has now been hours since the first problems were noticed. It is unknown […]
Google Begins Including Dates on Answer Boxes in Search Results to Show Timeliness
One of the criticisms about Google’s answer boxes is that it is hard to tell just how recent, or not, the information presented in the answer boxes is. Well, Google seems to be looking at a way to alleviate these concerns by now showing the date attributed to the content shown in the answer box. […]
Google Expands Event Listings With Data From Facebook Pages
Google is expanding their concert listings for artists by adding other types of events to their knowledge graph – including aquariums and even venues that don’t normally host events or sell tickets, such as Times Square in New York City. Previously, the knowledge graphs seemed to be restricted to events that one could purchase tickets […]
Google Confirms New Mobile Ranking Signal Does Not Affect Tablets
Although it has been said before, Google confirmed on Twitter that the new mobile ranking signal, which is scheduled to launch on April 21st, does not affect rankings on tablets. @Jumzle The upcoming mobile-friendly change is for mobile users, not tablet users. — Google Webmasters (@googlewmc) April 1, 2015 There have been concerns from those […]
Don’t Get Suckered into Sucky SEO
There is a sucker born every minute! I have no doubt that this is true, but I don’t have a problem with that. Heck, we’ve all been duped at one time or another. The real tragedy is that there is a liar born every minute preying on the ignorance of well-intentioned people, otherwise known as […]
Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox Will No Longer Trust Secure Certificates from CNNIC
Both Google Chrome and Mozilla’s Firefox will stop trusting new digital certificates that of the issued by China Internet Information Center (CNNIC) following last week’s breach that saw unauthorized security certificates for various Google URLs. In simple terms, CNNIC issued certificates to Egypt –based MCS Holdings in the name of various Google domains, which is […]