If you have an app, Google is adding additional support for app developers within Google Search Console (formerly Google Webmaster Tools). The most significant is they have created an alpha version of their Fetch as Google designed specifically for apps. To use the tool, you do need to have your app added as a property […]
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Google Webmaster Tools Renamed Google Search Console
Google Webmaster Tools is being renamed Google Search Console according to a post made on the Google Webmaster Central blog. It turns out that the traditional idea of the “webmaster” reflects only some of you. We have all kinds of Webmaster Tools fans: hobbyists, small business owners, SEO experts, marketers, programmers, designers, app developers, and, […]
Analyzing “How Google Search Works” Changes from Google
Google has made some new substantial changes to their “How Google Search Works” search documents for website owners. And as always when Google makes changes to important documents with impact on SEO, such as How Search Works and the Quality Rater Guidelines, there are some key insights SEOs can gleam from the new changes Google […]
Google: Length of Time to Remove URLs from Search Results
Google tends to remove specific results from their search results fairly quickly when a site owner uses the page removal tool via Google Search Console, but just how fast is it? The question came up on Twitter, with Google responding that it generally takes less than a day for Google to remove URLs. This generally […]
Google Reduces Description Length in Desktop & Mobile Search Results
Two years after Google initially increased the length of descriptions in the search results, and six months after increasing it for most results, Google is reverting back to the old shorter length. For some SEOs, this means a lot of work is required to change over description meta tags from the longer version to the […]
Google’s Algo Removes Some Site’s Search Results Pages from Index
Gary Illyes from Google revealed some interesting insights into site’s search results pages and the Google search results – Google’s algos can automatically detect some search result pages from a site’s own internal search engine and automatically remove them from Google’s search results. Getting a site’s internal search results pages indexed into Google’s search results […]
Google AMP Recipe Carousels Live in Search Results
If you have a recipe site and aren’t already testing out AMP, you might want to consider testing it sooner rather than later. Google is displaying AMP recipes in the mobile search results both in regular card style formats as well as the much talked about AMP carousel style too. Google first announced AMP recipes […]
Google Search Switching to Mobile First Index from Desktop Index
Gary Illyes at Pubcon announced today that Google is switching to a mobile first index. This means that Google will be indexing the mobile versions of pages and not the desktop as its primary index. This is a huge change. Google has always used the desktop version of a page for ranking, even when serving […]
Why Numbers in Google Search Analytics for Keywords & Clicks Don’t Match
Have you ever wondered why Google’s numbers don’t add up in Google Search Analytics? Often the number of overall clicks from the Google search results don’t match up with the clicks combined for the exact search queries that Google shows site owners in Search Console. The question came up in last week’s Google Webmaster Office […]
Featured Snippets Reporting in Search Analytics Pipeline
Many site owners got excited with Google I/O when screenshots from Search Analytics showed featured snippet reporting in Search Console. Richard Gingras showed off the AMP reporting in Search Console which showed the addition of a few other reports, including featured snippets. At Big Digital Adelaide, I did a fireside chat with Gary Illyes from […]