Moving your site to a new domain can be fraught with SEO issues, even without a redesign or CMS migration. Columnist Glenn Gabe has some insights on what issues to anticipate and how to handle them.
Finally, webmasters can now unsubscribe and mute email notifications from the Google search console.
Google is updating their smartphone user-agent on April 18, 2016. Make sure to test your web site to ensure it will allow Googlebot in.
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google Agrees To Complicated Worldwide “Right To Be Forgotten” Censorship Plan Mar 4, 2016 by Danny Sullivan Google will ensure those within a country where a RTBF request was granted cannot […]
Why are the reports in the Google Search Console delayed? Google explains.
The largest Russian search engine has launched their mobile-friendly algorithm today.
Google has made significant changes to the content on their Webmaster Guidelines documentation.
Check out the new Google Webmaster resource with a new design, better organization and three new features.
Below is a summary of some of the questions, answers and additional confusion around the Google core algorithm update this weekend and the Panda news.
Seems Google has changed their language for the reconsideration requests. Is the language more specific and more helpful now?
Google tells us they are actively working on detecting and penalizing sneaky mobile traffic networks.
Bruce Clay, Inc snagged Duane Forrester, former Bing outreach specialist, to work at the SEM company in more of an SEO role.
Google starts notifying webmasters of broken SSL/TLS certificates. Will this lead to a stricter HTTPS ranking factor?
Google added a new feature to the blocked resources report in the fetch and render tool within the Google Search Console.
After warning webmasters in early 2014 about sneaky mobile redirects, Google now says it will issue manual actions, but also offers advice on how to clean up the unwanted redirects.
After being fired and then rehired from Bing within a year, Microsoft's Duane Forrester announces he is leaving the company.
There's often a lot of confusion surrounding quotes made by Google representatives, but there doesn't have to be. Columnist Jenny Halasz discusses how to effectively analyze and interpret such statements.
Google clarifies the URL removal tool through new language in the Google Search Console.
Google may automatically reverse a hacked site manual action in the Google Search Console when they determine the hack issue has been resolved.
Do you spam Google over and over again? Google may decide to serve you harsher penalties and manual actions in the future.
After Bing launched Link Explorer to replace Yahoo Site Explorer, they have now decided to shut it down in 15 days.
Google has no comment on why many webmasters have seen their Panda 4.2 gains reversed on August 14.
It's not just you, many webmasters are reporting seeing index counts fall in the Sitemaps report within the Google Search Console. Google is working on a fix.
Frustrated with the messaging from Google's Search Console? Google wants to hear your feedback on how to make it better.
Google will only notify the site owners, not property owners, for most Google Search Console notifications starting in a few weeks.
Google sent out mass notifications of hreflang issues to webmasters via the Google Search Console.
You can go against Google's guidelines for years, get caught and then have the penalty reversed in less than a week.
Google Webmaster Trends Analysts Gary Illyes speaks with Search Engine Land founding editor Danny Sullivan to close day one of SMX Advanced.
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Search In Pics: Google Carnival, Google Now Mug & The Breaker Lab In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the web, showing what people eat […]
Google aims to get more on users Google Webmaster Tools by renaming it to Google Search Console.
Google will soon kill off the emoji characters from showing up in their desktop search results.
Google said the mobile-friendly algorithm is fully rolled out, but there are still some mobile friendly pages that do not see the score since indexing still takes time.
Will Google demote highly-trusted content that's not mobile friendly, replacing it with less-trusted content that looks good on a smartphone?
Google, Bing and Kenshoo are bringing the funny today, polluting the web with gags galore.
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Bing Tests New “Favorites” Feature That Lets Users Bookmark Images Still in beta, the new feature is available only for users signed in to their accounts on a desktop. AdWords Search […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Patrick Pichette, Google’s CFO To Retire Google’s long term CFO has told the company he wants to retire over the next six months but will help the company find a replacement. […]
Despite many sites already supporting HTTPS, 80% of those URLs do not show in the Google search results because the webmaster is communicating to Google to display the HTTP version.
Are you concerned that your Google Webmaster Tools reports have not updated in a week? Don't be, everyone else has the same issue.
Google clarifies and expands on their reconsideration request documentation for those webmasters who have been hit by a Google manual action.
Google is working on a new search queries report in Google Webmaster Tools. Do you want to test it out? read on...