Google tests multiple contextual links in featured snippets
Google confirms Google-generated web stories as featured snippets are not a great experience for...
Barry Schwartz
Barry Schwartz a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics. Barry's personal blog is named Cartoon Barry and he can be followed on Twitter here.
Google puts some contextual search features in context
Google is using newish language understanding models specific to leveraging conversational context for these search...
Google launches new crawl stats report in Search Console
Google has revamped the crawl stats report to provide actionable and useful data to your crawling...
Video: Elie Orgel on using data to create pages that get links
Create content that easily gets links and ranks well in...
Google manual actions bug is now resolved
Google's Daniel Waisberg confirmed this bug is resolved and said it only "affected only a tiny number of...
Google investigating missing manual actions
Over the past 24-hours or so there have been reports of manual actions disappearing from Google Search...
Google migrates the disavow link tool to new Search Console
Google also added the ability to download the file and see new errors related to your...
Video: Michael Lewittes on growing a site after an algorithm update
He built his own entertainment news site, went through numerous Google algorithm updates and sold it to a private equity firm at the...
301 redirect: Google Webmasters Central to Google Search Central
Five years in the making, the Webmasters Central brand gets...
Google Page Experience Update to launch May 2021 with new labels in search results
Google will highlight search results that have a great page...
Google launched DeepRank in October 2019: DeepRank is BERT
DeepRank goes back to 2017 at Google, it is the internal code name for the BERT...
Video: Mike Blumenthal on how to rank in Google Local
We also talked about the local SEO community and COVID's impact on local...
Video: Mike Blumenthal on review attribution in local search
Reviews can be used for a way to speak to your customers and as a competitive intelligence...
Google confirms it doesn’t index passages separately
Google now "consider passages from pages as an additional ranking...
99% of Google’s indexing issues fully resolved
There are some edge cases left with the indexing bug but those should be resolved within a couple of...
Video: Mike Blumenthal on Google Maps spam resource issues
Google invests a lot in Google Maps but maybe in the wrong...
How Google indexes passages of a page and what it means for SEO
Google will begin passage based indexing later this year for English languages. It is a ranking change, not an indexing...
Google: BERT now used on almost every English query
Google announced numerous improvements made to search over the year and some new features coming...
Bing revamps Site Explorer in new Bing Webmaster Tools
This tool gives SEOs information on how Microsoft Bing does just that and then gives you more data on clicks, impressions, links, errors, warnings,...
Google search quality guidelines update breaks down dictionary and encyclopedia results and more
Google added a new section for rating dictionary and encyclopedia results for different queries, emphasizes the importance of understanding the user...