Google’s John Mueller reminds site owners that the most technically well-optimized site won’t always have high rankings without great content. The post Google: A Technically Well-Optimized Site Won’t Rank Without Good Content by @MattGSouthern appeared first on Search Engine Journal .
Google’s John Mueller cautions site owners that a change to image URLs will affect how they rank in Google Images. The post Google: Changing Image URLs Will Affect Rankings in Image Search by @MattGSouthern appeared first on Search Engine Journal .
Google is now consolidating the notifications they send around sites being switched into Google’s mobile first indexing process. Instead of sending a single email notification per site that moved over, Google is now sending a single email with all the URLs that moved over within a specific time period.
Gary Illyes from Google announced on the Google Webmaster Blog that they disabled the ability to post or view comments on that blog. He said most of the comments ended up being off-topic or even outright spammy
Back in September we spotted Google testing a feature to show searchers a card of past searches and site visits based on those searches. Then Google later that month shared it would be coming
Last night, Google’s Sean O’Keefe shared some data on the Think With Google blog about how their SEO strategy leads to good results for the 7,000+ websites they manage. But then Google’s search team had to come out and clarify that Google’s SEO team doesn’t get any preferential treatment because they work at Google.
Although Google supports emojis in search results, it may choose to filter them out in certain circumstances. The post Google May Filter Emojis Out of Meta Titles & Descriptions in Search Results by @MattGSouthern appeared first on Search Engine Journal .
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web…
This week we covered not just one but two different unconfirmed Google search algorithm updates…
YouTube is removing the ability to automatically share videos on Twitter after they’ve been published. The post YouTube to Remove Automatic Sharing to Twitter on January 31st by @MattGSouthern appeared first on Search Engine Journal .