While many SEOs who are familiar with Google’s Remove URL tool within Google Search Console know that it is only a temporary removal, it is easy to see how more novice webmasters might not realize that using the tool doesn’t remove it permanently from Google’s search index. Google has made a few changes to the […]
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Google Beta Testing Automated Removal of Hacked Manual Actions After Cleanup
Google is beta testing a new feature within Google search console that will automatically remove a manual action on the site, once it has detected the hacked content has been removed from the site. In a new blog post today Google has said that in 2015 so far they have noticed a 180% increase in […]
Google Taking Further Action for Abusing Reconsideration Requests
Google has a new blog post today, announcing that webmasters that repeatedly violate the Google webmaster guidelines could see their sites on the receiving end of “further action” being taken on the site. It isn’t uncommon for many SEOs to see sites pop up and down in the search results, and often the reason is […]
Pages With App Interstitials Won’t Get Mobile Friendly Ranking Boost
Google is officially adding app interstitials to the mobile friendly test, a month after I spotted Google’s plans to add the change. This means that webpages that serve users an interstitial when they click through from the Google search results will be impacted by this change. App interstitials will begin showing as an error in […]
Google Launches Brand New Logo & Branding
Hot on the heels of Google creating parent company Alphabet, Google has now released a new logo they feel better reflects the many facets and areas of Google. The Google still uses the same familiar color scheme that users know and love, but with a brand new typeface to go with it. Here is the […]
Google Reaching Out to Larger Third Party Sites to Get Embedded CSS & JS Unblocked
Ever since Google sent out the alerts asking webmasters to unblock all Javascript and CSS on their webpages, it has been a struggle with all the third party resources – including some from Google itself – that show up as an error in Google Search Console. While Google has said that webmasters don’t need to […]
Googlebot Has New iPhone User-Agent for Crawling
It looks like Google has given its Googlebot crawler a brand new iPhone. If you track Googlebot visits to your site, or emulate one to “view as Googlebot” for testing purposes, you should be aware that Googlebot has a new iPhone user-agent to reflect the iOS 8 from iOS 6 difference. The new iPhone Googlebot […]
Going HTTPS: Negative Impact No Longer than 1-2 Weeks
Twitter has been full of comments the last couple of weeks about the issue related to switching a site from HTTP to HTTPS and the resulting traffic loss from Google. Gary Illyes from Google made a comment on Twitter today saying that SEOs who recommend against going HTTPS are wrong. If you're an SEO and […]
Google Confirms Third Party Blocked Resources Not Problematic
Ever since Google sent out the notice to many webmasters that they are blocking javascript and CSS from being crawled, it has been a priority for many to unblock these resources. But one thing keeps coming up – the alerts for third party resources in Google Search Console. While Gary Illyes from Google commented about […]
404 Error Pages Do Not Cause a Google Penalty
Google has come out multiple times to state that Google does not penalize a site for having multiple 404s on a website. But the myth that there is some sort of penalty associated with having many 404 pages on a site still persists. And Gary Illyes from Google took to Twitter to address the rumors. […]