If the fact some sites have been getting their mobile friendly tags in the search results along with the associated ranking boost, despite still serving what is essentially an app interstitial, it appears that Google is looking into taking action….manual action. I covered the issue at the beginning of January, showing how Yelp is serving […]
Archives for March 2016
Google’s Tips for Troubleshooting AMP Errors
If you have been seeing some AMP errors show up for some of your WordPress posts, compliments of the wildly popular AMP WordPress plugin, Tomo Taylor, the AMP Community Manager at Google has posted some great troubleshooting tips for publishers yesterday. It was in response to a publisher who was still seeing hundreds of AMP […]
Google Transitioning All Official Blogs to Googleblog.com from Blogspot
Being able to spot official Google blogs just got a bit easier. Google is now transitioning all of their official blogs away from Blogspot URLs to new blogs on the Googleblog.com domain. There has been confusion over the years about whether some blogs are truly official blogs or not, and there are also many non-official […]
Google Removing PageRank From Google Toolbar
If you are still one of the Google PageRank devotees, you may have noticed that your Google PageRank is suddenly showing as not available…. or it will be shortly. Google is removing the publicly shown Google PageRank from being displayed. For some Google toolbar users, the visible PageRank has already been removed, although it may […]
How SEO and PPC Can Work Together to Maximize ROI
SEO and PPC have always been very conflicting ideologies. On one hand, you have a precise profession where every cent counts (PPC), and, on the flip side (SEO), more is better with no regard to logic. Who cares about conversion rates when you get 10x the traffic as a PPC campaign? Am I right, my […]
New WordPress Plugin to Create Facebook Instant Articles
Facebook has announced that Instant Articles will be available to all publishers next month, on April 12, 2016. And to increase the number of publishers getting on board with Instant Articles, they have announced their own WordPress plugin to make articles Instant Articles friendly. Instant Articles is similar to AMP in that it creates an […]
Google Home Service Ads Now Show “Send Request” in Search Results
Google has once again made changes to their Home Service Ads that appear for some services and trades in the Google search results. Most noticeably, they have now added a new “Send Request” link right in the home service ad box that appears at the top of the search results. Clicking on the send request […]
WordPress Plugin Update Sent Admin Credentials & Installed Backdoor
Do you use a semi-popular WordPress plugin called Custom Content Type Manager (CCTM)? If so, you will want to stop everything and change ALL your user passwords, roll back (or use the latest release) of CCTM, as well as patch a list of files compromised thanks to the new plugin user who installed a backdoor and […]
Google Analytics Now Removes Referral Spam from Reports Automatically
Google Analytics referral spam has long been a pain point for Google Analytics users. While Google had previously promised a solution last year, until now, users had to resort to many workarounds in an attempt to sanitize Analytics from showing all the spam. But as of this weekend, many people were reporting that Google Analytics […]
Google Adds Featured Snippets in Multiple Languages
Featured snippets have been a staple in the English search results for quite some time. But now they seem to have been rolled out across additional languages as well. Dr. Pete Meyerswas the first to notice them rolling out on non-English languages, and many others followed up with screenshots for various languages. Gary Illyes from […]