Gary Illyes, a Google Webmaster Trends Analyst, was speaking at Brighton SEO today, discussing the upcoming mobile friendly ranking signal that will be starting on April 21st. And he had some interesting things to say about local businesses at their pack listings. According to Illyes, if a local business is appearing in the Google Pack […]
Google Removes Thumbnail Images from In-Depth Articles
It appears that Google is testing more tweaks to their In-Depth Articles section in the Google Search results. They appear to be testing a variation of it with the thumbnail images removed. Here is how they are currently appearing for US users. Google has been showing thumbnails for in-depth articles: This is the second tweak […]
Google Looking for Feedback on Webmaster Office Hours Hangouts
Do you love or hate Google’s regular Webmaster Office Hours Hangouts, often hosted by John Mueller? John is looking for feedback! I’d love to get your feedback on the format of our Webmaster office hour hangouts! What should we change, what should we keep? In a magical world where you always get your wish, what […]
Why Google Ranking a Non-Mobile Friendly Brand Site is a Good Thing
In this week’s Google Webmaster Office Hours, Barry Schwartz asked John Mueller about brand related searches and whether Google would be demoting brand sites if they are not mobile friendly. After all, this new mobile friendly search ranking signal is supposed to give preferential treatment for sites being mobile friendly. So in general what happens […]
WP Super Cache Latest Plugin With Major XSS Exploit, Requires Immediate Update
It has been a few weeks since we have seen an exploit in a WordPress plugin popular in the SEO community, but a new one has been discovered and fixed, this time in a popular caching plugin with over 1 million active installs. The plugin in question is WP Super Cache, “A very fast caching […]
New Google Webmaster Tools Separates Search Type & Devices in Search Analytics Alpha / Beta
There are more new changes this morning for those with access to Search Analytics Alpha / Beta in Google Webmaster Tools. In addition to the URL filtering added today, Annie Cushing from Annielytics has noticed that Google Webmaster Tools has revamped their search types and devices in the new Search Analytics Alpha/Beta. What does this […]
Google Webmaster Tools Adds URL Filtering to Search Analytics Alpha / Beta
If you are in the Google Webmaster Tools alpha/beta for Search Analytics (formerly called Search Insights), they have just added a brand new feature that allows you to filter by URL when looking at the page reporting data. Annie Cushing from Annielytics was the first to notice this change, although it has been requested by […]
Press Release SEO Is Not Dead, It’s Resting!
Back on July 21, 2014, I contributed an article to The SEM Post entitled, “It Just So Happens That Press Release SEO is Only MOSTLY Dead.” Here we are – a little more than 8 months later – and it appears that my article needs to be updated. On March 11, 2015, Tom Bergin of […]
Google Begins Including Dates on Answer Boxes in Search Results to Show Timeliness
One of the criticisms about Google’s answer boxes is that it is hard to tell just how recent, or not, the information presented in the answer boxes is. Well, Google seems to be looking at a way to alleviate these concerns by now showing the date attributed to the content shown in the answer box. […]
Google Expands Event Listings With Data From Facebook Pages
Google is expanding their concert listings for artists by adding other types of events to their knowledge graph – including aquariums and even venues that don’t normally host events or sell tickets, such as Times Square in New York City. Previously, the knowledge graphs seemed to be restricted to events that one could purchase tickets […]