Have you notice an uptick in the number of URLs that Google is reporting as indexed in Google Search Console? Well, there is a good reason for that. Google is now indexing more URLs. Glenn Gabe was the first to notice the huge increase in URLs, which seemed to start on July 26th. One site […]
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How to Disavow All Blogspot Links Including TLDs
Chances are if you have ever done a disavow file, you have come across multiple blogspot.com links, as well as links coming from the various international versions of Blogspot, each of which is hosted on its own country-specific TLD. And it can be a chore to disavow them all. Marie Haynes shared an incredibly useful […]
More From Google on Blocked CSS & JavaScript Warnings
We have some more information about all those email alerts that Google Search Console sent to webmasters yesterday. How Many Messages Sent? If you were paying attention on Twitter, it seemed like everyone was getting these alerts. Google sent a lot fewer of them than they sent of those mobile friendly warnings a few months […]
How to Unblock All CSS & Javascript for Googlebot Using Robots.txt
If you have received one of the many warnings Google sent out about “Googlebot cannot access CSS and JS files” in your Google Search Console, there has been much confusion about how to ensure you are allowing Googlebot to crawl these blocked resources without potentially opening yourself up to security issues, as the commonly blocked […]
Google Manual Actions Issued for Image Mismatch Including Hotlink Prevention
If you have suddenly noticed many of your images suddenly being dropped from the Google Image Search results, Google has been issuing manual action penalties for the little known “image mismatch” manual action. While the manual action targets those who are displaying different images on the site to users when compared to the images shown […]
Google: Do Not Ask For Links
Google published a blog post on the Portuguese Webmaster Blog reminding webmasters of quality links, what they should do if they were penalized for links and how to request reinclusion. However, one thing definitely sticks out in this blog post – and that is Google stating that webmasters should not ask for links: não compre, […]
Google Adds Photos & YouTube Notifications to Google+ Notifications
We now know why we have seen the Google+ icon added to the Google notifications drop down, an addition that seemed pretty redundant when it started showing up a couple of weeks ago. You can now add notifications for both YouTube and Google Photos now too, that will show up in the notifications. Ana Hoffman […]
Google’s Knowledge Graphs are Actually Called Knowledge Panels
Google’s Gary Illyes is continuing to teach webmasters about what some of the “official names” are for various parts of the Google search results, rather than the name we all use for it. This time we learned that what we all commonly call knowledge graphs are called knowledge panels by Google. After I tweeted about […]
Google Planning to Devalue Content Behind Interstitials
We have known for a couple of months that Google was planning to add interstitials as a negative ranking factor in an upcoming mobile friendly algo, but it appears that the same will be coming to the regular search results too. Maile Ohye from Google warned webmasters at SMX Advanced that they will also be […]
Google Answer Boxes Officially Called Featured Snippets
Those Google answer boxes at the top of the search results have an official name. According to Gary Illyes, they are officially called “Featured Snippets”. The name makes a lot of sense, since they are snippets of text taken from the linked page and they are featured at the top of the search results. So […]