If you have taken great pride in attending all or nearly all of the Google Dances, you will probably be disappointed to learn you will likely be missing the next one. Google is hosting a Google Dance later this month in Tokyo, Japan. Takeaki Kanaya and Nagayama Ichiseki from Google in Japan are sharing hosting […]
Google Bans AdWords Ads for Payday Loans
If you are in the pay per click space for payday loans, the market place just got a major shakeup. Google has now banned AdWords ads for payday loans in the search results and on partner sites. From the Google announcement: we’re banning ads for payday loans and some related products from our ads systems. […]
Google Increases Width of Main Search Results Column
Google has made a major change to the search results column. In a major redesign of the search results appearance, Google has significantly increased the width of the column in the main search results column, impacting everything Google displays in that column. Google has increased the column for organic search results to about 600 pixels […]
Google: Normal For AMP Traffic to Fluctuate
If you have been watching your analytics for traffic to AMPlified pages, you have probably seen some wild fluctuations in the amount of traffic received. Google commented in the Webmaster Help forums about why traffic can very so much. Tomo Taylor from Google responded that because the factors used to determine the stories that appear […]
Google Testing Product Listing Ads With 3, 4 or 6 Products at Top of Search Results
Google seems to be testing Product Listing Ads in sizes other than the usual lines of 5 products at the top of the search results. Now, they are running PLA units with 3, 4 or 6 individual products instead of the usual 5. Normally if Google is has fewer than 5 products to display, it […]
Local Businesses: How Google Displays Search Analytics Data in Search Console
There is a great deal of data within Google Search Console for local businesses. But because a local intent query can often result in one business URL being displayed multiple times on the same result page and in various Google features, there has been some confusion about how Google displays this kind of information in […]
Google Search Analytics Updates Clicks & Impressions; Sites With Apps Affected Most
Google has made another change to their Search Analytics in Google Search Console, specifically with how Google is accounting for clicks and impressions. The date of the change was actually April 27, 2016. John Mueller posted about it on Google+: As a result, you may see a change in the click, impression, and CTR values […]
Voice Search: Google Considering Search Analytics But Length of Queries Problematic
Many site owners would love to see more data being separated in Google Search Console. One of the requested ones is splitting out AMP and splitting out voice search queries is another. The question came up in last week’s Google Webmaster Office Hours and John Mueller said that is something they are discussing possibly doing. […]
Crawl Frequency on NoIndex & Unavailable Pages Decline Over Time
During Gary Illyes keynote with Stone Temple one of the questions was regarding how Google handles a long term noindex on a page in regards to Googlebot crawling that page, if the crawl frequency would decline over time. Gary Illyes said that yes, they do drop the crawl frequency, not only for noindex, but for […]
Can a Noindexed Page Regain Its Former Google Rankings?
If you have a page that has ranked well for a while, that you noindexed for whatever reason, would it be able to regain its previous rankings if you then removed the noindex from the page? We have sometimes seen cases where some businesses (falsely) believe that noindexing a page is the best solution when […]