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Google’s John Mueller said a couple of weeks ago that he has internal tools to look at sites or pages and see if a site is low quality. He said this in the August 20th video hangout. He said “I also took a quick look at your site in our internal tools, just to double […]

For the past couple of weeks, people have been showing me a feature in Google search that shows expandable snippets in a carousel format. Kind of like expandable sitelinks of some sorts. I thought I saw this before, but it was actually something Bing launched a few months ago, not something Google was testing. Here

Last week, we reported that the performance report in Google Search Console for the dates of August 23rd and 24th had missing data. We were hoping Google would be able to retrieve and backfill the data, but it seems the data is lost forever and will not be backfilled. John Mueller from Google seemed to

Ben Fisher received a very limited Google My Business mentorship award. Well, it looks like a trophy. He said it is given out by the Google Product Expert group to very few people. He posted this photo on Twitter. He said “I think they gave out like 5 or 6 this year.. pretty cool to

Most SEOs do not login to Bing Webmaster Tools, a recent Twitter poll determined. The poll asked “SEO’s do you ever log in to Bing Webmaster Tools?” 49.5% said No, they do not login to Bing Webmaster Tools 36.2% said Yes, they do login to Bing Webmaster Tools 14.3% said “does that even

There are a lot of people asking if the title/header change Google made on August 17th has any impact on rankings. Like, is Google uses the new title it itself generated for ranking purposes. The answer is no, there was no ranking change with this – as I wrote originally. I did cover this last

This Google title change has been causing a lot of stir in the SEO community. Personally, I think it will eventually blow over, like so many other things. But ultimately most SEOs by far want an opt out feature to force Google to use your HTML title tag over something else it finds on your

Google’s John Mueller, with a tad of annoyance, posted on Twitter that “lighthouse scores do not affect Google Search.” He then shares a tweet about people cloaking and cheating their lighthouse scores as a scam to trick Google. Here is John’s tweet: Lighthouse scores do not affect Google Search. Doing this kind of user-agent cloaking

Mordy Oberstein, Head of Communications at Semrush, shared some really early data on the Google title change we’ve all been obsessed with. In short, the number of Google search results showing with the HTML title tag on the SERP dropped 77% on average and when that happened, roughly 75% are utilizing the H1 instead of

In part one we mostly spoke about core updates and in part two we go into a quicker paced conversation on a boat load of SEO topics; they include: Search Ranking Factors Domain Authority Authorship in 2021 Knowledge Graphs for Authors Does Google Use Knowledge Graphs To Determine Some E-A-T Signals