February 7th, 2020 Tech Erica Perry The days of third-party data tracking within the world’s most popular browser are over. After months of speculation, Google has finally confirmed that it will join Safari and Firefox in withdrawing support for third-party cookies by 2022. The growth of the ad tech ecosystem as we know it was […]
Google may be cracking down on sites that publish guest posts. There are several reports of unnatural outbound link penalties. Outbound Link Penalty An outbound link penalty is a manual action against a website. In this case the publisher relates that Google may have stopped PageRank from flowing from his website. Related: 10 Bad Links
Google is sending out notices via Google Search Console with “mobile-first indexing issues detected” alerts. In those emails it communicates the issues Google has when it comes to moving that site over to mobile-first indexing. It also says “Google expects to apply mobile-first indexing to all websites in the next six to twelve months.” Mobile-first
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At Google I/O last year, Google announced 3D images with augmented reality in search. Google even posted live examples of this last year. But now it is showing up for some e-commerce sites. Burberry bags in 3D. Glenn Gabe of G-Squared Interactive shared an example on Twitter based on this article of a Burberry bag
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Welcome back to the Google News Digest. Once again, we are going to break down the latest news for Google Search, Google Ads, and Google Tools that have taken place in the last two weeks. Key updates include the release of SEO guidelines for AMP stories, changes to the performance requirements for the Google Partner Program, and
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Google is upgrading Search Console giving users the ability to download complete sets of data from reports. Previously, Search Console only allowed users to download specific table views. In addition to exporting more and better data, Search Console reports will be easier to read once they’re downloaded. This change is being made in response to
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Search Console users can now download complete information (instead of just specific table views) from almost all reports, Google announced Wednesday. Data can be exported as a Google Sheet, Excel or .CSV file. Source: Google. Why we care Being able to export your Google Search Console reports makes it easier to analyze and manipulate the
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Google Images will soon replace the dimensions information you see in the image search results, as you overlay your mouse cursor over a specific image thumbnail. Google will replace the dimensions information with product, recipe, video, and soon, licensable labels based on the query. What is changing? Here is a screenshot highlighting the dimensions section
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In a Webmaster Hangout Google’s John Mueller answered why a site might be gradually losing traffic. Once you know the reasons you’ll be better positioned to take action to reverse a traffic decline. Links and Content Not Always to Blame The publisher asked if their backlinks (50% from a single subdomain) and content (auto-generated) were
Google is updating its image search results pages with icons indicating what type of content the images lead to. If an image surfaced in search results comes from a product page, a recipe, or a video, Google will highlight it with a special icon. Danny Sullivan, Google’s Search Liaison, shared the following example on Twitter:
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