A couple of weeks ago we reported that Google Search Console said “issue validation is temporarily disabled due to upcoming changes in the report.” Well, it might be working for some folks, even back when I first reported it. Note – the message is still posted in the coverage report section but submitting the “validate

Google’s Danny Sullivan has said that using the nosnippet tag won’t prevent your pages or passages from your pages from being ranked in Google Search. Danny Sullivan said on Twitter “you can’t use it to block parts of a page from being indexed for ranking.” It is not a bad question because you can use

Since Google announced passage indexing (ranking) many assumed they would look different in the search results. But no, they won’t look any different according to Danny Sullivan of Google. Danny told me on Twitter that passage indexing “doesn’t change the look of results.” Why did some of us, including me at some point, think the

Here is the smiliest Googler, Peter the Greeter, who has for a couple of years camped outside Google welcoming/greeting folks to the GooglePlex, Google’s Mountain View office. Here he is with an old photo wishing everyone a happy holidays. This was recently posted on Instagram but the photo is from a while back, obviously. This

GUESTS & RESOURCES Episode Overview: Join host Ben as he speaks with Frase.io’s Director of Marketing Bill King about how to launch a successful question and answer-driven SEO campaign. Together they discuss how to combine mental models of SEO and Poker align in surprising ways. King shares his experience as a Poker player, which helped

Google’s John Mueller again, I think since 2007, year-after-year, has jumped into the Google support forums and on social media to answer webmaster questions on Google Search. It is a tradition for him, now 13 years and going. He carves out time to help those on Christmas day with their Google search and SEO issues.

Back in April, Google began testing a new feature to show short videos in a carousel in the mobile search results. That carousel seemed to first only show YouTube videos, but now it is showing videos from TikTok and Instagram.

Here is a funny post during a slow news week from Gary Illyes of Google saying thank you for the late Christmas present on Reddit. The Reddit post contained a list of “expired domains for 301, new blog or PBNs” as it was titled. Gary from Google responded “aww thanks! great xmess present even if

It is not uncommon to see signals of a Google search ranking algorithm update on or around Christmas. But it is highly doubtful Google would release any algorithm update from Christmas day through New Years. And the signals we are seeing this weekend of a Google update are doubtful. Last year we saw similar speculation

In part one, Joe Beccalori and I spoke about what has changed in SEO over the years and here we talk more about what to do. Joe said the value of organic by itself has diminished so now you need to blend your organic with other forms of digital marketing. SEO is now much more