From Search Engine Roundtable
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Mobile First Index, GDPR, TLS PCI, Speed & Honoring
This week was a tad slower in the search and SEO news front. We had a fourth batch of notices about the Google mobile first indexing. Read more
Google Search Supports TLS 1.1 & 1.2 With Upcoming PCI Compliance Requirements
On June 30, 2018, the PCI Council is suggesting that all web sites migrate from TLS 1.0 to TLS 1.1 or higher. Read more
Upcoming Google Speed Update Will Look More Closely At Page Speed Variations
So John Mueller of Google spoke a bit about page speed in this mornings Google webmaster video hangout at the 1:58 mark. Read more
Google Tests Gray Review Stars In Search Results
Google is once again testing gray colored stars in the search results, where you would typically see orange stars for the rich results review snippets. Read more
Google Search Console Crawl Stats Stopped Updating On May 23rd
If you try to check your Google Search Console report for crawl stats. Read more
The Yoast Plugin To Blame For Google Large Scale Ranking Drop? Probably Not.
Remember the Google update I reported in early March? One thing I left out of that story, intentionally, was some chatter that the those noticing a ranking decline around then may have had a bug with the popular Yoast plugin. Read more
Google Search Shows “Get Latest” Results Refresh Button
Imagine you do a search in Google, get pulled away from it because of more important matters. Read more
April 2018 Google Webmaster Report
The past month in the Google webmaster and SEO sphere, relatively, was a slow month in terms of big changes. Read more
New Google AdWords Add-On For Google Sheets
Google quietly announced on Twitter a new tool for AdWords that lets you quickly import your Google AdWords data into Google Sheets. Read more
Google: Regular Crawling Not Required For Ranking In Google
There is this SEO myth that more GoogleBot crawler activity translates to more Google organic traffic. Read more
Google: Algorithm Updates Impact Sites Quickly, Technical Changes Take A While To Impact A Site
Google’s John Mueller said in a hangout with webmasters at the 47:47 minute mark that if a site sees a big drop in a day or so in their Google rankings and others are complaining about a Google update then that is probably related to a change on Google’s end to their search ranking algorithm. Read more
Google Local Edits May Ask If You Are An Employee Or Customer
Sergey Alakov spotted something, I honestly thought I’ve seen before but I can’t find that I covered it, that when you make an edit as a normal user to a local panel on Google, Google is asking if you are a customer or employee of that business that you are editing. Read more
Google Search Console Meta Descriptions HTML Improvements May Go Away
With all the debate around the changes to how Google displays snippets in the search results in May. Read more
Google My Business Agency Dashboard Now Live
As I reported at Search Engine Land, the expected new Google My Business Agency Dashboard is now live for those marketing agencies that need to manage their client’s local listings. Read more
Google: Sometimes We Pick Up Wrong Dates & Display Them Wrong In The Snippets
Google’s John Mueller addressed the ongoing issues and complaints about how Google displays dates in the search results snippets and how sometimes, maybe more often than anyone wants, the dates in the snippets are wrong. Read more
Google Tests Video Carousels In Desktop Search Results Again
Once again, Google is testing video carousels in desktop search – we saw it a bit over a year ago. Read more
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