Google confirms it doesn’t index passages separately
Google now "consider passages from pages as an additional ranking...
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.
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...
Google Search Console temporarily drops request indexing feature
This feature should be back in the upcoming weeks while Google makes infrastructure...
Google Podcasts Manager shows you search impressions and clicks from Google Search
You can see impressions and clicks for Google Podcasts results that appear in Search, as well as top discovered episodes and search terms that led to...
Video: Ed Bernstein on in-house SEO challenges and mapping SEO competition
Not only does he love SEO, he is also a musician....
Status update on the Google indexing bugs
99% of the mobile-indexing URLs are restored and 55% of the canonical URLs are...
Web Stories are coming to Google Discover
Web Stories is being expanded to show in more Google...
Video: Drew Madore believes Google’s ranking algorithm uses user experience signals
Many SEOs do not believe Google when they say they do not use Google Analytics or Chrome data for ranking purposes....
Google confirms indexing issues with both canonicalization and mobile-indexing
Google said it is fixing the issue and there is no action you need to...
Google Shopping now free globally
Initially launched in the U.S. in April, now available worldwide in...
Video: Drew Madore on how “black hat SEO” has changed over the years
What was considered "white hat" SEO in the old days may now be considered "black hat"...
Google now supports shipping details schema for product results
Sellers are no longer limited to Google Merchant Center for sharing shopping details with Google...
GoogleBot to soon crawl over HTTP/2
While HTTP/2 should result in efficiency improvements, there is no ranking benefit to this...
More Google Search bugs: Top stories indexing snag, coverage report delays
Google had yet another indexing issue and the search coverage report in Search Console is very...
Google now uses BERT to match stories with fact checks
Google has made numerous changes to auto-complete, News, fact-checking, knowledge panels, breaking news detection and...