How would you feel if someone searched for “health insurance” or “payday loans” and Bing showed a nice box for your company, essentially a free ad for your brand? Bing is doing just that for multiple high value search queries. Here is an example for “payday loans”, a very competitive search query. Along with the […]
Google Revises Blog Post About Not Asking for Links
Google released a blog post on the Portuguese Webmaster Blog earlier this week, with one statement that many found interesting – they said that webmasters should not ask for links. While Google has long held a stance that links should be earned naturally, they haven’t officially said that webmasters should not ask for links and […]
Bing Suggesting Additional Searches With Drop Down When Scrolling Up
Bing has added a new feature to make it easier to keep a Bing searcher on Bing, rather than perhaps abandoning it for another search engine when a searcher can’t find exactly what they are looking for. If you do a search on Bing and scroll down until you reach the end of the search […]
Bing Removes Emojis from Titles in Search Results Too
In a not surprising move, Bing has once again followed Google’s lead and removed emojis from the titles in their search results. When emojis were first noticed in Google’s search results, they did not display in Bing’s search results. However, a week later Bing started to display emojis too. So when Google removed the emojis […]
How to Speed Up Google Disavow File Processing Time
When it comes to Google processing disavow files, it can take quite some time – up to 6-9 months in some cases – for Google to process the entire file. This is because Google needs to recrawl each and every link you disavow before it can process it for your site’s disavow file. The question […]
Google: Sites Can Benefit From Links in Other Languages
Have you ever wondered how Google reacts to links that come from a different language website than the one your site is in? After all, some of these links can be perfectly targeted and coming from a site about the same topic, but just happen to be in two different languages. Can websites benefit from […]
Google’s Duplicate Content Filter for Images & Videos
While we have known for a very long time about the duplicate content filter for written content, it wasn’t quite as clear if the same thing applies to other types of content such as images and video. The question came up specifically about videos and if a website could benefit from uploading the identical video […]
New Panda Refresh Timeline: Expect in Next Couple of Weeks
We have all been anxiously awaiting the next Google Panda update ever since Gary Illyes from Google officially announced the upcoming refresh a month ago. And it looks like we will be waiting a little bit longer. In today’s Google webmaster hangout, John Mueller once again addressed when we might see the Panda refresh, and […]
How Google Applies the Search Algo to Different Languages
It is a question that comes up periodically about Google’s search algo – does the algorithm treat different languages differently when it comes to their core Google ranking algo or is it a one-size-fits-all approach where all languages have the identical algo applied. The latest Google Webmaster Hangout for English/Hindi webmasters tackled this topic, with […]
Viewing Multiple Sites Together in Google’s Search Console
Do you want the ability to view multiple sites at once in Google’s Search Console? Whether it is because you have multiple small and/or related sites, you have a site set up with multiple subdomains, or you are transitioning to https and have your information split across two accounts, Google is looking for feedback on […]