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 […]
How Google Sees Links from Other Languages & Countries
Google has talked a bit previously about the value (or lack thereof) of links when they are coming from other countries or languages, even for links that are coming from countries or languages the website doesn’t target or service. The question came up again in yesterday’s Google webmaster office hours with John Mueller. Here is […]
More than 4.3 Million Manual Action Messages Sent by Google in 2015
Google has released a new “How we fought webspam” report for 2015, and it has some interesting insights similar to the ones shared by Juan Felipe Rincón at SMX West earlier this year. Hacked Sites They say hacked sites continue to be a major issue…. a 180% increase in the number of sites being hacked […]
AdBlock Plus Releasing New Micropayment for Content Product Flattr Plus
It looks like AdBlock Plus has figured out a better way to monetize off all those people who use their ad blocking technology to block ads. They are teaming up with Flattr to offer a program for micropayments for content, as a way for publishers to monetize off those who are blocking ads, and their […]
New Mobile Friendly Test from Google Search Console
Google is testing a brand new mobile friendly testing tool. Dan Shure from EvolvingSEO was the first to spot the test, which seems to be added as part of a transition to new /search-console/ URLs in the search.google.com subdomain. He shared these screenshots with TheSEMPost, showing the new design and features. Here is what the […]
Google Search Console Transitioning to New /Search-Console/ URLs
Google might finally be transitioning Google Search Console away from the /webmasters/ directory to /search-console/, to match their name change from Google Webmaster Tools last year. Dan Shure, while running some mobile friendly tests, came across a link to the new mobile friendly tester, which was under search.google.com/search-console/ rather than google.com/webmasters/ Here is his screenshot […]