Today I discovered an interesting bug in Google’s auto-suggest feature which is triggered by incomplete words in long form queries. To recreate the bug search for a long sentence but remove a few last letters of a word and then …
Query “Search Console” suddenly started returning a very specific (and for that matter very wrong) canonical URL containing the following parameter &siteUrl=ftp://geograph.org.uk/
Full URL: https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/home?hl=en&siteUrl=ftp://geograph.org.uk/
Why did Google suddenly switch away from the correct URL? Well ironically the …
We thought the 9th of January was big, then Google surprised us with the core algorithm update on the 10th, but today… today is something we’ve never seen before. Algoroo is in red again, but now at nearly 4 roos.…
Zineb Ait has confirmed this update is not related to Penguin. “It is simply one of frequent quality updates.”, she said on Twitter. John Mueller blessed her tweet with a “like”.
@RaphSEO @seof1 @korleon38 @abondance_com en effet. Il ne s’agit
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Update: The following day was even more active pushing Algoroo into red. This is now considered a major update with impact greater than Penguin 3.
Algoroo is showing a very active day in Google’s search results today. At 2.45 …
I’ll keep this one short. When placed in meta description or page content, this character ฏ๎๎๎๎๎๎๎๎๎๎๎๎๎๎๎๎๎๎๎๎๎๎๎๎๎๎๎๎ (also this one ค้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้) does really weird things with Google’s search results. We tested the character in the page title too but Google …
While alpha testing the new Search Impact feature in Google Webmaster Tools many of us noticed the impression data discrepancy. Dejan SEO website (web search only) shows 1,539,133 impressions in the Search Queries report while Search Impact shows 1,506,534 impressions …
Redditors have caught onto the fact that Google includes reddit in their news results and are currently having fun. Utilising website’s powerful traffic potential redditors are requesting upvotes to the front page with the promise of entry into Google’s results. …
Topics: Content Marketing, Experiments, SERPs
We have new data which shows that the 25th October spike wasn’t part of the gradual Penguin 3 roll-out. It appears the update had a lot to do with on-page factors and is …
Our SERP flux tracker records a first serious SERP tremble since Penguin 3.0 roll-out in Australia. Stronger than Panda 4.1. There’s a conversation on Google+ suggesting this could be a Panda refresh:
“I see huuuge increase for domains having …