Do you own a recipe site and received a spammy rich snippet manual action on your site in the past week? If so, it is likely a specific recipe plugin that is at fault for spammily marking up recipe pages. The Google Help Forums have multiple recipe site owners asking for help after receiving this […]
Archives for April 2016
How Google Processes Different Algos to Determine Site’s Ranking
This was an interesting question in today’s hangout, specifically dealing with how Google processed algos to determine ranking. Lets say that I improve quality of my site overall and users do notice that. How often does Google recalculate the overall score for my website? Every week, 2 weeks, monthly or does it take more time […]
RankBrain & It’s Potential Impact on All Parts of Organic Search
In today’s hangout, someone asked an inevitable Google RankBrain question, this time about whether Google’s RankBrain impacts other parts of the organic search, such as news and image results. Is Rankbrain’s query processing used by organic results only, or are any parts shared with other widgets, e.g. images, Shopping/PLAs, etc? While John’s answer isn’t exact […]
How Page Speed as a Google Ranking Factor Works
There is always this push by SEOs to get the highest possible page speed score to get the most benefit from the ranking boost related to speed. But webmasters might be looking at it the wrong way in how Google applies it – or not. The question was how big of a ranking factor page […]
Google Testing “You Recently Search For” Yet Again
Google is once again testing adding a line with “you recently searched for <keyword>” beneath some search results. Here is how it shows in the search results: Jewelry was the keyword used on the search immediately preceding the search that showed this result. Only one result had this added notation. We last spotted it a […]
Google AdWords Testing Jump Scroll Product Listing Ads
Google is testing yet another variant of Product Listings ads. While the idea is similar to the mobile shopping carousel where you swipe scroll through the shopping ads, this desktop test has different functionality. Frederik Hyldig from s360 A/S spotted the test in the search results and sent them to The SEM Post. Here is […]
Common SEO Problems With E-Commerce Site Launches
You just launched your new e-commerce website and things are going great … for a week. Soon website traffic is suddenly down and sales are subsequently are down. What gives? What happened? Here are some of the reasons that the majority of sites have when their site launch or re-launch isn’t ranking as well as […]
Google Search Console Sending Update Alerts for PageSpeed
Are you using the Google PageSpeed module on your site? If you haven’t updated it recently, you will probably receive an alert from Google reminding you to update it. Here is a copy of the letter that Glen Gabe shared. It seems that many were sent because there are a lot of reports from others […]
Google Adds Alerts in Search Results for Site Owner’s Non-Mobile-Friendly
If you still haven’t updated your site to be mobile friendly yet, Google has added yet another level of alerts to site owners whose sites aren’t mobile friendly. In addition to notices sent previously in Google Search Console, Google is now showing an alert right on your search result, when you do a vanity search […]
Bing Ads Testing New Social Media Extensions
Bing Ads is currently testing a brand new extension that allows searchers to add their most important social media profiles into their Bing Ads ad, via a new social media extension. Here is what it looks like. The social media icons within the ad copy are definitely eye catching. The new extension – simply called […]