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Google: There is No Duplicate Content Penalty

Posted on February 13, 2017 Written by Bill Hartzer

google duplicate content penalty

According to Gary Illyes, a Webmaster Trends Analyst at Google, the Google search engine has no duplicate content penalty. In a Tweet on February 13, 2017, Gary said the following: [Read more…]

Filed Under: Google, Search Engines

Did Chinese Hackers Steal Google’s Organic Search Algorithm?

Posted on January 3, 2017 Written by Bill Hartzer

War and Peace in the Information Age

Have Chinese hackers stolen Google’s search engine secrets? Have they infiltrated the super-secret Google algorithm, allowing them to manipulate Google’s search results? According to a new book by Bill Gertz titled War and Peace in the Information Age, “Chinese cyber-intelligence services had developed technology and network penetration skills allowing them to control the results of Internet searches conducted on Google’s world-famous search engine. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Google, Search Engines

Google Answer Boxes Can Appear in Results for Site Search Queries

Posted on December 19, 2016 Written by Bill Hartzer

Apparently, Google Answer boxes can appear in the search results when performing a site:domain.com type of search in Google. I find this kind of odd, as typically someone isn’t looking for an answer per se when they use the site: search operator at Google.

What is a Google Answer Box?
A Google Answer box is Google’s attempt to give you information in their search results about search query (keyword) so you don’t have to click through to a website to get the answer. Google predicts the answer to your question, scrapes the data from a website, and makes it show up at the top of the search results. This is often referred to ranking 0 (zero) position, before the first result. In most cases, Google will show Google AdWords ads before the answer box.

Here is an example: [Read more…]

Filed Under: Google, Search Engines

How to Disavow Links in Bing Using Automation

Posted on December 8, 2016 Written by Bill Hartzer

If you are an SEO (or an SEO Consultant like me), then you should be familiar with Google’s Disavow Tool. Essentially you can upload a text file list of URLs or domain names that are linking to your website, telling them to disavow or ignore those links or all links from a certain domain name. But most of the time, we’ll disavow those links in Google but totally forget about uploading the same disavow file to Bing, as well. You’ve done all the work finding the links to disavow, identifying bad and toxic links, so why not upload the list to Bing as well? [Read more…]

Filed Under: Bing Search Engine, Search Engines

How to Stop Lifehacker.com and Reddit.com Fake Google Analytics Referral Traffic

Posted on December 2, 2016 Written by Bill Hartzer

In the past week, you probably have noticed that there is referral traffic from Lifehacker.com that is showing up in Google Analytics. You could also be seeing traffic from one particular Reddit.com URL. This is, in fact, fake, spam, or “ghost” traffic that you should ignore. The only purpose of it is to get you to visit one of those sites, typically trying to get you to copy/paste the URL and visit the website. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Google, Search Engines

Google Bug Causes False Date To Show in Search Results

Posted on November 14, 2016 Written by Bill Hartzer

A bug in the Google’s search engine is causing false, old dates to appear in front of websites listed in their search results. This, in turn, is causing drops in traffic. Some are also reporting ranking drops, as well. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Google, Search Engines

Should You Implement Google AMP?

Posted on October 17, 2016 Written by Bill Hartzer

Should you implement google amp

Back in February 2016, I wrote about Google’s new project, called Accelerated Mobile Pages, and how you can install a WordPress Plugin called the Google AMP plugin. The whole idea is to provide a new web format so that mobile users can view content that loads really quickly, even with a slow internet (mobile) connection. Initially targeted towards news publishers like Practical Ecommerce, we’re seeing a lot more public adoption of this new web standard. Google AMP is not just for news publishers anymore. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Google, Search Engines

Google Launches Allo App – Tough to Find in The App Store

Posted on September 21, 2016 Written by Bill Hartzer

smartreply

Google just launched a new smart messaging app called Allo. This app is certainly interesting–but do we really need yet another messaging app? After all, Apple just introduced a whole lot of new features of their built-in iOS messaging (imessage) when they launched iOS 10 just last week. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Google, Search Engines

Google Launches Google Analytics Demo Account, Includes Referral Spam

Posted on August 3, 2016 Written by Bill Hartzer

I applaud Google for launching a Google Analytics demo account, which anyone (with a Google Account) can access. Now we can use a real, live, Google Analytics account to play around with and look at the data. Quite often, it’s difficult to learn all of the Google Analytics features because some websites (in your Google Analytics account) may not have that feature. So this is all good. But there’s only one problem: even Google’s own demo account includes referral spam. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Google, Search Engines

Google’s Request for Rehearing Denied in Case Vs. Mississippi

Posted on May 19, 2016 Written by Bill Hartzer

In a long dispute between Google and the State of Mississippi’s Attorney General Jim Hood, Google’s most recent request for a rehearing has been denied. The Times Standard reported back in April that the appeals court had overturned a ruling against the Stage of Mississippi. Google has appealed that ruling, which has now been denied. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Google, Search Engines

Google Search Console Search Analytics: Last Updated May 3, 2016

Posted on May 8, 2016 Written by Bill Hartzer

google search analytics

Google Search Console’s Search Analytics feature, the feature that allows you to see the keywords, impressions, clicks, and average position of your website’s pages, has not been updated since May 3, 2016. Usually, Google allows verified website owners to see their search query data up to the past two days (the data is delayed two days). However, this week, the Google Search Console Search Analytics data has not been updated since May 3, 2016. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Google, Search Engines

Google Showing Multiple Domains in SERPS for Site: Command

Posted on April 15, 2016 Written by Bill Hartzer

Google is showing multiple domain names in its search results when the site: command is used if domains pointing to the main domain include the canonical tag. Let me explain by giving you an example. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Google, Search Engines

Google Continuing to Allow Alternative Characters in Title Tags

Posted on April 5, 2016 Written by Bill Hartzer

google search results characters - example

In the Google search results, I’m still seeing some alternative characters show up at the beginning of the title tags in some results. Looks like the cases I have come across are all search engine spam results, but the fact that these characters are even being allowed is a mystery to me. Let’s look at an example: [Read more…]

Filed Under: Google, Search Engines

New Search Engine Launched: Only Searches New gTLD Domain Names

Posted on March 30, 2016 Written by Bill Hartzer

newgle new tld search engine

There’s a new search engine out there that apparently has ditched the legacy .COM, .NET and .ORG TLDs (Top Level Domains) and only show New gTLDs in its search results. Using Google’s Custom Search Engine, Newgle has done what no other search engine has ever done before: only show search results from websites on New gTLD domain names. Newgle is a new search engine using Google Custom Search that takes the legacy TLDs out of the search results. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Search Engines

Google Wants Us to Share Links to Their Search Results Pages

Posted on March 30, 2016 Written by Bill Hartzer

Google has added a share button to knowledge graph entries to encourage us to search more at Google. Whenever you search using a desktop (not mobile) device, and you see a knowledge graph entry on the right side of the search results, Google is displaying a share button, like this: [Read more…]

Filed Under: Google, Search Engines

All Ranking Factors of Google Search Algorithm Not Applied to All Search Queries

Posted on March 24, 2016 Written by Bill Hartzer

google search algo puzzle

Google’s organic search engine algorithm is made up of a lot of different search engine ranking factors. When it comes to certain search queries, not all of those search engine ranking factors are applied. In other words, Google may apply certain parts of their algorithm to certain keyword queries and might disregard other parts for other keywords. In a recent post at the SEM Post, one Google employee indirectly verified that this is the case. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Google, Search Engines

Google Change of Address Tool Still Broken After 3 Months

Posted on March 23, 2016 Written by Bill Hartzer

A while back I wrote about my utter frustration with Google and their Change of Address Tool. I wrote about how their Change of Address Tool is broken. Well, honestly, I’m still frustrated. After 3 months, it’s still broken. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Google, Search Engines

Dallas SEO: Google Gets It All Wrong on Google Maps

Posted on March 22, 2016 Written by Bill Hartzer

I don’t recall anytime recently when Google showed such a horrible, misguided, completely wrong search result lately. I am stunned that Google would even possibly show a result such as this. Or, perhaps this is a sign of yet another change to Google’s search engine algorithm? [Read more…]

Filed Under: Google, Search Engines

Mobilegeddon II is Coming: Are you Prepared?

Posted on March 16, 2016 Written by Bill Hartzer

mobilegeddon II

Uh oh, Google just announced that a new mobile-friendly update is coming in May 2016. And, as such, I’m going to personally be the first one to call this Mobilegeddon II. Not because of the fact that the first mobile friendly update back in April 2015 was catastrophic–just because this is the second mobile friendly update for Google that they’ve announced ahead of time, and, well, the first one was called Mobilegeddon. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Google, Search Engines

Using Google AdSense Hurts Mobile User Experience, Violates Google’s Own Guidelines

Posted on March 7, 2016 Written by Bill Hartzer

Google Pagespeed Insights

Adding Google AdSense to your website hurts the mobile user experience on your website and violates Google’s own suggested guidelines.

I have been working on my own site, this site, to optimize it for page load speed. Using Google’s own Pagespeed Insights tool, I found that there is one particular section of the results, under User Experience, that gave me a score of 99 out of 100. That problem is Google AdSense. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Google, Search Engines

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