I love finding photos from construction workers on site of the various Google offices. Here is one working on the rooftop area of the Google Seattle, Kirkland office. He seems to be enjoying the view. He posted another photo as well on Instagram. At least it wasn’t raining that day. This post is part of […]

Google will now report inline data URLs that are used as video URLs as “Invalid video URL” in the video indexing report within Google Search Console. This may lead to a reassignment of the “Invalid video URL” issue to the new issue but the total number of affected videos should not change. Google posted this

Gary Illyes from Google spoke about the topic of a website dropping in rankings for a single keyword or single keyword phrase while ranking fine for others. Can it happen? And if it does happen, what should you look out for? This question came up in the latest Google SEO office hours at the 10:23

The New York Times reported yesterday that Google is working on an “all-new search engine” while also working on Project Magi, aimed to add AI-based features to the existing search engine. In fact, according to this report, Google is working on these two projects and several other AI-based search projects to be incorporated into Google

On April 12th at noon, while I was offline, Google released the April 2023 reviews update that expanded the product reviews update to go beyond just products and also impacted services and things. It has been just under a week since it launched, and so far, while the sites that did see an impact saw

In part one, we learned about who is Igal Stolpner and now in part two we dive into the topic of international SEO. He said while hreflang is important for international SEO, it is just a tag and there is more to international SEO than just hreflang. He said hreflang may be more complex than

Google seems to be showing fewer FAQ snippets for many sites starting on April 5th. Over the holidays, I received several questions about this but didn’t have time to write it up until now. But while the tracking tools show no decline in FAQ snippets, many SEOs report drops in FAQ snippets for some sites

As the new Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) go live this month, a new light is being shined on website accessibility. But in honesty, this is something almost no SEOs think about! Ensuring your website is accessible to everyone may not be a direct ranking factor. Still, if you’re driving traffic to a website and the