Barry Schwartz

Barry Schwartz is Search Engine Land's News Editor and owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on SEM topics.

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Google not indexing recent content?

It looks like another Google bug. Good luck finding new content within the...

May 22, 2019 at 7:49 am ET

Cars.com vs. CarGurus.com saga shows the importance of SEO (and the bad side of a Google update)

When an algorithm update slams one of your biggest rivals, that's when you should step on the...

May 21, 2019 at 9:15 am ET

Google says image search referrals will not get new source URL (but forgets to tell us)

The company teases publishers with more traffic data and then retracts that...

May 17, 2019 at 9:38 am ET

Google says no core update or infrastructure changes have occurred despite chatter

The company says the rumors are not legit - there was no major update to Google search...

May 14, 2019 at 12:28 pm ET

Google to add support for higher quality images in search, swipe up images & 3D images

Google Images is often overlooked, but it can be a great source of traffic. Here are some new features coming to image search you should pay...

May 9, 2019 at 4:35 pm ET

Google now rolling out podcast results in search

Can you hear me now? Yes, Google is now showing podcast results in...

May 9, 2019 at 1:19 pm ET

There’s a new Speed Report coming to Google Search Console

You can request beta access to this new speed report...

May 9, 2019 at 9:06 am ET

Google Search adds support for FAQ and How-to structured data

Google now supports more structured data and adds two new enhancement reports within Google Search...

May 8, 2019 at 11:47 am ET

Google search bug has search suggestions crawling off the page

Google, that just looks ugly. Can you fix...

May 7, 2019 at 5:52 pm ET

Google’s web crawler Googlebot now runs on the latest version of Chromium: Why that’s a good thing

Googlebot has been upgraded and should now be able to crawl more modern web sites with less of an...

May 7, 2019 at 4:00 pm ET

Google announced updates to news in search, adds 3D support to search results and more

Breaking news from Google I/O on search related topics including Google top stories, AR and 3D objects, Google Lens, Google Assistant and...

May 7, 2019 at 1:28 pm ET

Google Search experiments with showing less relevant search results when requested

Google experiments with a message in search that reads, "Hmm... the results for your search don't seem very...

May 7, 2019 at 12:31 pm ET

Google launches new video series: SEO Mythbusting

The new video series from the Google Webmaster Trends Analyst team aims to clarify common misconceptions and answer pressing questions on SEO topics....

May 2, 2019 at 12:36 pm ET