Does your webpage use Flash? If so, Google will now show a warning to all mobile users, warning them that the site “may not work on your device” with the option to “try anyway”. Even more significant is the fact this warning will replace the entire description for the search result, meaning if your site […]
Google Webmaster Tools Adds Hreflang Troubleshooting
For SEOs who are dealing with international issues for a website, there is some great news from Google. Google Webmaster Tools has announced that International Targeting is now available to all users. International Targeting, which was previously in beta, enables advertisers to debug errors with hreflang implementation. The markup hreflang, sometimes referred to as href-lang, […]
Google AdWords Advertisers Can Merge Google My Business Location Information
Google has announced new feature that will allow AdWords advertisers to link their AdWords account to their Google My Business account, which will allow advertisers the ability to easily set up location extensions at the account level. This feature will make it much easier for businesses to manage location extensions for the advertisements both on […]
The Role of Reputation in the Google Quality Rating Guidelines
In the brand new version of the Google Quality Rater’s Guidelines, they stress the importance of the rater’s judging the reputation of an author and a website. So it definitely raises the question of how Google might be looking at reputation on a larger scale and how they might be planning to incorporate parts of […]
Google Indexes Far Fewer Tweets Than Previously Believed
With marketers paying so much attention to the social media power of Twitter, there hasn’t been a close look at how well tweets by users on Twitter get indexed nor how much of an impact those tweets have on Google. Google does not currently have data directly from Twitter (aka “the firehose”) to index tweets. […]
All About Supplementary Content in the Google Quality Rater’s Guidelines
There’s been a lot of speculation about the Supplementary Content that Google refers to extensively in their new Google Quality Rater’s Guidelines that the company recently rewrote. One of the things they want raters to check for is whether or not there’s helpful Supplementary Content that enhances a webpage, and ensuring there’s no Supplementary Content […]
Google Rewrites Quality Rating Guide – What SEOs Need to Know
Google has completely rewritten the Quality Ratings Guideline, the resource that their team of quality raters uses to rate websites for Google. This one is a brand new version, rewritten from the ground up, so it isn’t just a refresh of the old one (and most doesn’t even resemble any of the old Guidelines that […]
New Google Car Pricing Knowledge Graph is Massive
Do you want to know how much that vehicle costs that you have your eye on? Well, Google definitely wants you to know, and has made it so there is no way to miss it – or click on any other result on the page to discover that fact for yourself. Google is testing a […]
Google AdWords changing “Delete” to “Remove” in AdWords interface
Google AdWords is making some changes to their user experience when it comes to deleting campaigns from an AdWords account. In a Google+ post made this morning, they announced that AdWords is changing the wording so that campaigns will now me “Removed” and not “Deleted”. There has always been a bit of confusion- especially for […]
Join the Google My Business Feedback Program
Google My Business, (the name of the new dashboard for local businesses for Search, Maps and Google+), is soliciting feedback from businesses and local SEOs, and if chosen, it could even include a trip to Google for in-person interviews. The new program, called the “Google My Business Feedback Program” wants feedback to help shape the […]