Is your site using fake download buttons or attempts to install fake versions of popular software updates? If so, Google will now completely block searchers from accessing your site via their “red screen of death” that prevents access to the site and also details the issues Google found. Here is how a site will now […]
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Updated Google Quality Rater Guidelines: No More Supplementary Content, Emphasis on E-A-T
Here we go again! A brand new version of the Google Quality Rater Guidelines has been released. With this version we see some interesting changes. Most noticeably is the de-emphasis of supplementary content, surprising since previous versions have stressed the importance of the additional supplementary content there is on the page – or the negative […]
Google Adds “About This Result” to Featured Snippets
Google has made a slight update to the appearance of featured snippets in the search results. They have added a new “About this result” directly below the featured snippet, next to the link that says “Feedback.” Here is how it appears in the search results. This seems to be a widespread change, as it isn’t […]
All Google Manual Actions Send Warnings to Site Owners
If you have ever wondered if Google hands out manual actions in secret, without ever sending a manual action notice to the site owner, the answer is no. Google will always send a notice to a site owner when manual action is taken. Juan Felipe Rincón, part of the Google manual actions team at Google, […]
Sites Impacted by Penguin Cannot Request Manual Penguin Refresh
Some site owners who have been impacted by Penguin have been waiting for quite some time for a Penguin update to happen. While we know that the next Penguin will bring a new real-time Penguin, playing the waiting game in the meantime has been tough. In last week’s Google Webmaster Hangout with John Mueller, he […]
Google’s Tips for Troubleshooting AMP Errors
If you have been seeing some AMP errors show up for some of your WordPress posts, compliments of the wildly popular AMP WordPress plugin, Tomo Taylor, the AMP Community Manager at Google has posted some great troubleshooting tips for publishers yesterday. It was in response to a publisher who was still seeing hundreds of AMP […]
Google Removing PageRank From Google Toolbar
If you are still one of the Google PageRank devotees, you may have noticed that your Google PageRank is suddenly showing as not available…. or it will be shortly. Google is removing the publicly shown Google PageRank from being displayed. For some Google toolbar users, the visible PageRank has already been removed, although it may […]
Google Dance 2016: Amazing Event for Webmasters
After a many years long hiatus, Google has rocked it out once again with a brand new Google Dance, hosted at the Googleplex for webmasters attending the SMX West conference. Googlers, including Gary Illyes and Nathan Johns who were the official event hosts, welcoming everyone as they arrived, handing out the latest edition of the […]
People Submitting Good Spam Reports Get Higher Priority With Future Ones
Juan Felipe Rincon, Webmaster Outreach at Google, talked about spam reports and manual actions at SMX West. And one thing he revealed is about how Google prioritizes received spam reports. When you submit a spam report, you can do it within your Search Console account or without one. If you do it within Search Console, […]
Google Treats Some Subdomains as Single Site, Not Multiple Sites
There has been a pretty fierce debate in the SEO industry on the issue of subdomains versus directories, and in what kind of situation websites should use each kind. But John Mueller made another interesting comment in the most recent Google Webmaster Office Hours. The question was a longer complicated question about the use of […]