From Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Disavowing Bad Links May Help Google Algorithmically Trust Your Links
Google’s John Mueller said in a webmaster hangout on Tuesday at the 16:44 mark that in some cases, disavowing or cleaning up bad links to your site may help Google’s algorithm trust other links to your site. Read more
Google May Drop The Old Search Console In March
Last night in the Google NYC event John Mueller said Google is currently aiming to deprecate most, if not all, of the old Search Console by March of this year. Read more
Google: Last 50% Of Mobile-First Indexing Migration Will Be Harder
As you know, Google said over 50% of the search results they deliver were processed through the mobile-first indexing mechanism. Read more
Google Image Search Changes Coming This Year: Think Different
Google’s John Mueller said last night that bigger changes are coming to Google Image search this coming year. Read more
Google Officially To End Some Old Search Console Features
I reported on Friday that Google will be deprecating some or all of the old Search Console features so they can focus more on the new Google Search Console. Read more
Google Investigating AMP Errors & AMP Pages Not Showing In Search
Over the past few days or so, Google has been having issues showing AMP pages in the search results. Read more
Google My Business Photo Bug Prevents Photos From Showing On Google Maps
Joy Hawkins posted in the Local Search Forums that a bug with Google My Business is causing photos that were recently uploaded via Google My Business by the owner not to be able to be seen in Google Maps by searchers. Read more
Google Recommends To Disavow Links That Can Trigger Manual Actions
Google’s John Mueller said in a hangout last week that he would recommend that you not just disavow links that have already resulted in manual actions but you can also disavow links that you think would lead or result in a manual action. Read more
Google: Sitemap Files Don’t Need To Be Indexed To Work
This is a bit heartwarming – to see John Mueller back up Joost de Valk and Yoost when someone incorrectly claimed their was a bug with the Yoast SEO plugin causing major Google issues. Read more
Myth Busting: HTTPS Not Required For Google Indexing & Ranking
Google’s John Mueller did some myth busting this morning around HTTPS. Read more
Google Fixing AMP Errors; Nothing To Fix On Your End Now
Yesterday we reported on widespread AMP errors with Google Search Console and Google mobile search. Read more
Social Media Icons Return To Google Knowledge Panels
Some SEOs are noticing that Google has brought back the social media icons in the knowledge panels for both personalities and local businesses. Read more
Google Ads Bug Shows Too Many Ads; It Is Resolved
We’ve seen it numerous times, where a bug leads Google to either show too many Google Ads in the search results or the organic listings do not load and Google only shows ads. Read more
Google+ APIs Shut Down Concerns Google My Business Developers
Yesterday, I and many developers received an email from Google Developers that had the subject line “[Action Required] Google+ APIs and OAuth requests are being shutdown on March 7, 2019.” Read more
Now Google My Business Bulk Users Can Download/Upload Spreadsheets
Kara from Google announced a small update in the Google My Business Help forums saying “Now, bulk users can download and upload their locations to and from spreadsheets.” Read more
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