John Mueller recently posted a Q&A for moving a site from HTTP to HTTPS. He has answered several questions readers had, and one of them was noteworthy for those who are making the switch to a secure site. When Google recognizes that a site is switching to HTTPS, Google will sometimes recrawl the site faster […]
Google Penalizes Japanese Link Network
On the Japanese Webmaster blog today, Google announced that they have penalized a Japanese link network for violating webmaster guidelines. They haven’t detailed which link network was penalized but I expect that information will be publicly available soon after penalized SEOs start talking about being hit with manual actions from this link network removal. この一環として、Google […]
Google’s Safe Browsing Will Now Block Deceptive Ads
Have you ever needed to download a file from a download site, only to play a virtual game of hide and seek of “which is the real download button and not the one that will install shady malware if I click the wrong one?” Or those “your flash player requires an update” ads? Google has […]
Check Google Search Console for New Structured Data Errors
Google has made some changed to how they are processing structured data markup, meaning you could have some new structured data errors pop up in your Structured Data section in Google Search Console. John Mueller made the comment on Google+ that along with the new support for JSON-LD in products and snippets, they have “cleaned […]
Google Using JSON-LD for Products & Reviews
We reported earlier this week that Google is now using JSON-LD for ratings and reviews in the search results. Google has officially confirmed JSON-LD for not just ratings and reviews, but also for products. Google has now updated their support page for ratings and reviews to reflect that JSON-LD is now available, which had not […]
John Giannandrea New Google Head of Search; Amit Singhal Leaving Google
Google has a brand new head of search. Many were surprised to see that Amit Singhal, the head of Google Search, is leaving Google on February 26th. Singhal has been a familiar figure for those who follow Google Search. His replacement has already been announced as John Giannandrea, who was the Google executive behind their […]
Google Testing Recipe-Type Thumbnails Without Markup in Search Results
When we see recipe related thumbnails in the search results, we are used to seeing Google displaying a recipe related thumbnail when displaying recipe results with the schema markup. But Google appears to be testing showing thumbnails for food related articles which don’t have any recipe schema markup on the page. Ross Hudgens was the […]
Update WordPress Immediately; Major Vulnerability Fixes
If you haven’t already updated WordPress with yesterday’s update, you will want to update immediately. It fixes several vulnerabilities, including critical ones that are out in the wild. Shortly before the update was released, Sucuri released information regarding a major exploit they were seeing across many WordPress sites that resulted in many WordPress sites infected […]
Google Displaying JSON-LD Ratings & Reviews in Search Results
Google is now supporting ratings and reviews in JSON-LD format in the Google search results. It is supporting JSON-LD for both the search results and review listings shown in the knowledge panel. Ramesh Singh sent me these screenshots where they were testing JSON-LD implementation on their site to test when Google would begin picking up […]
Don’t Have to Move All Pages to HTTPS; Can Move Partial Sites
Many people are a bit wary of switching to HTTPS, especially with the potential loss of rankings while Google recrawls and matches up HTTP URLs with the new HTTPS ones. While Google has said this shouldn’t take more than a couple of weeks, many site owners are still a bit concerned over the potential for […]