In today’s Google webmaster office hours with John Mueller, I asked about whether we would see any AMP related reporting within Search Analytics of Search Console. Right now, traffic isn’t split between mobile and AMP, making it hard for webmasters to do any deeper dive analysis on their AMP traffic as well as for keywords […]
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Google Working on Merging www and non-www Properties in Search Console
If you are one of those struggling with the fact you have to have four different properties (or more!) for a single site in Google Search Console, Google is still working on a solution. In today’s webmaster office hours, I asked whether there were any updates on solving the issue of having multiple properties for […]
Google Prioritizes Links in Partial Sitemaps for Crawling
With so many sites autogenerating sitemaps, we don’t hear a lot about custom sitemaps or sitemaps where only a part of a site is on it. In yesterday’s keynote with Stone Temple, Gary Illyes from Google brought up an interesting aspect with sitemaps and how Google prioritizes crawling. If you use a sitemap that is […]
Google: Don’t Nofollow Your Own Internal Links
Are you nofollowing internal links on your site? If so, you might want to remove them unless you have a pretty good reason to be using it. Recently, nofollowing internal links gained traction as many webmasters who received a recent outbound link manual action decided to nofollow every link on their sites, including internal links […]
Sneaky Mobile Redirects & Manual Actions: Google Warns Webmasters Again
Are you doing something sneaky with your mobile visitors by sending them off to third party sites, either intentionally or accidentally through a site being hacked? Google is warning again about sneaky mobile redirects in a new post on Google+. Google is specifically targeting sites where the desktop version is working as intended, but for […]
Google Analytics Adds AdWords Sitelinks Reporting
If you run Google AdWords, you might have gone the custom reporting route in order to better track sitelinks performance in your AdWords ads. But Google Analytics has made a chance to now offer Sitelinks reporting as a standard offering in their reporting. To access the new Sitelinks reporting, on the left sidebar choose Acquisition […]
AMP Reporting Updated in Google Search Console: More User Friendly
If you have struggled to sort out some of the AMP errors in Google Search Console, you are in luck. John Mueller has announced that Google has updated their AMP reporting to give clearer explanations of AMP errors and to sort them together. Today, we updated the categorization used there to better group similar issues, […]
AMP Coming to Local Businesses in Google Search Results
Google has been promoting AMP pretty heavily this year, and they have been very vocal about the fact they would be expanding it into other parts of the search results, even if they haven’t announced those what sections would be AMP=ed next. But we might have a clue about an upcoming area where AMP will […]
Google Removes Pricing Rich Snippets From Travel Industry Websites
If you are in the travel industry, Google has removed rich snippets from a variety of travel websites and are no longer showing pricing information for more generic search queries. John Mueller confirmed in yesterday’s hangout that flights are no longer showing pricing rich snippets. We have also noticed hotels are no longer showing pricing […]
How Google Handles a Site When It Changes Topic Focus
Something that periodically comes up is how Google will treat a site if it goes much broader or much narrower from the topic area it started in. Some shy away from straying too far from that topic, concerned that the signals and rankings that they have built up could somehow suffer when Google sees they […]