Barry Schwartz a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics. Barry can be followed on Twitter here.
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Bing votes ‘no’ on political candidate and ballot measure adsOct 5, 2018 by Amy Gesenhues The policy will not likely impact Bing’s ad revenue as the search engine reports political ads […]
Can't access your Google Search Console properties? Do not worry, you are not alone.
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google Search Console snapshot arrives in search resultsOct 4, 2018 by Barry Schwartz Google may be testing a way to get more site owners to look at their Google Search Console […]
Is Google testing a new recipe box feature in the search results?
Google may be testing a way to get more site owners to look at their Google Search Console data.
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google redesigns the Assistant for touch and digital transactionsOct 3, 2018 by Greg Sterling The new capabilities help developers and further Google’s cross-platform Assistant strategy. Here’s how to copy old AdWords […]
Do you manage a high intensity JavaScript based site that is having issues in Google? Dynamic rendering may be your workaround solution.
Did you notice any changes to your web sites traffic or ranking in Google?
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: A basic SEO audit for small businessesSep 28, 2018 by Marcus Miller Most small businesses can perform a simple audit and improve their SEO considerably without involving an agency. Ten steps […]
Joining the women-led and veteran-led icons is a new family-led icon for your Google local listings.
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: New Google Image Search desktop design is now rolling outSep 27, 2018 by Barry Schwartz In addition, Google has added Creator and Credit metadata support to image search. Google adds event […]
In addition, Google has added Creator and Credit metadata support to image search.
Google has begun sending notices to those with bad event markup on their site that they need to make fixes.
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: How Google’s March, April and August updates might fit togetherSep 26, 2018 by Eric Enge In Google’s mind, does brand authority trump breadth and depth of content? Here’s a new perspective […]
So far, these stories only seem to work consistently in the Google search app, and not in mobile Chrome or Safari mobile browsers.
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Augmented reality artist creates sculptures using Bing searchSep 21, 2018 by Chris Sherman At the Annual Bing Agency Awards in New York City on Thursday, guests were asked to input random […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google floods webmasters with ‘mobile-first indexing enabled’ notificationsSep 20, 2018 by Barry Schwartz Did you get a notice from Google that your site is now enabled for mobile-first indexing? You’re not […]
The Bing AMP viewer and Bing AMP Cache make AMP-enabled web pages accessible from Bing mobile search results.
Did you get a notice from Google that your site is now enabled for mobile-first indexing? You're not alone.
The moment many Apple fans have been waiting for - Google Maps on CarPlay devices is now here.
This decision may help Bing reduce spam shown in the search results and focus on more trustworthy content.
Microsoft's search engine adds a robust image search feature and educational results just in time for the school year.
Outside of a searcher's location or immediate context from a prior search, Google doesn't personalize the search results.
SEOs and webmasters may want to look into how to optimize for images that Google may use for sitelinks in mobile search with this new test.
Google can let searchers know when a new business will be opening its doors.
Google returns "Server Error" for a query for the past 6+ hours.
Google admits it is a bad user experience for a European user to see content in web search, click on it and get a blocked page because of GDPR.
After testing zero-search results back in March, Google may be testing showing no results again.
Google has confirmed again that manual actions, human-driven search penalties, can expire over time.
The only exception here: Make sure not to mark up those copied reviews with review structured data and schema. That would be against Google's guidelines.
Using dataset schema, you can mark up your data to get it included in the new Google Dataset Search engine.
Chrome 69, Google's latest browser version, also removes the green label for HTTPS URLs.
Google has added a manual actions section to the new Google Search Console, and the URL inspection tool now works in real time.
Google's pursuit of speed has led it to use Service Workers to make some repeated searches twice as fast.
New features in the Google My Business API include verification options, new location end points, expanded search, chain membership and product posts.
Google is testing a new design with rounded corners, a smaller logo and a sticky search bar header.
Google has rolled out a bunch of travel search features around finding the best hotel and flight based on price and location for your Thanksgiving weekend.
Google is making some important changes to the user permissions and roles, please review these changes so you know how you may be affected.
After much confusion, Google has issued a statement clarifying the changes made to the query reports in Google Search Console.
Bing is tackling news with a new feature that showcases a timeline of how a story has evolved, different perspectives from news sources and related social media posts on a topic.