Category: Other Google Topics

Five years ago, yes, that long ago, Google first began seeking applications for small business experts to become official Google Advisors. Well, after five-years, Google has launched its official Google Small Business Advisors program.

First it was known as Google Sitemaps, then Google Webmaster Central and now it is Google Search Central. Why? Well, the team and tools are not just focused on webmasters – the same reason Google Webmaster Tools changed its name to Google Search Cons…

Mihai Aperghis, an SEO we reference here from time to time, is also a Google Product Expert and attended the Google Product Expert Virtual Summit the other week. He has written this blog post and I am posting it here as a super rare guest post on this …

The next Google Webmaster virtual conference is already being worked on by Martin Splitt and Google friends. Martin said it is expected to happen in about four months from now, in February 2021.

You have to be living under a rock to not know what has occurred in the United States over the past week and actually years. We have many many protests going on in the United States now in support of Black and African American communities. Google and…

Yesterday we saw Google Search Console replace the speed report with a core web vitals report. Now, the PageSpeed Insights report also was updated to show the core web vitals report and data. Any core web vitals metrics show a blue label or badge next…

It sounds like the Google Search Relations team, aka John Mueller, Gary Illyes, Martin Splitt and others have started a podcast, in addition to the YouTube channel. The podcast was probably Gary’s idea, since he is camera shy.

It has been a rough few months for a lot of us, so here is a corny SEO and Google joke I found on Twitter. Rob Delory asked John Mueller of Google “how many SEO’s does it take to screw in a light bulb?” John responded, “it depends.”

We reported last week that Googlers are being encouraged to work from home and many cancelled speaking events. It seems like Google has grounded international travel for its employees. John Mueller from the Google Search Relations team (formerly Searc…

The Google AMP team has increased the AMP custom CSS limit from 50KB to 75KB, that is a 50% increase. This should be fully live by the end of February said Weston Ruter, a Developer Programs Engineer at Google.

Google is hiring an SEO or multiple SEOs again. Former Google SEO, Sean O’Keefe, posted that his old job at Google as an SEO is now open. Sean is now working with the Google AI team – so his role needs to be filled. So if you are an SEO and looking f…

John Mueller from Google said that he once messed with web site hacker who hacked content onto one of his sites. He said the content started to rank, so he locked out the hacker and replaced the hacker’s affiliate links with his own.

Just like on every Christmas, John Mueller from Google dials up to the internet and logs on to the support channels on New Years and helps out folks in the Google Webmaster support and social media channels. He has done it year after year on New Year…

Every single Christmas since John Mueller joined Google, he has been helping webmasters with issues on Christmas eve and Christmas day. He sets aside time from his family on this super important holiday to see if anyone is in distress about their Goog…

John Mueller from Google responded to someone citing a third-party data tool in reference to the NY Times hit, that he wouldn’t use third-party data in this way because “they’re always skewed in unexpected ways.” “Use your actual traffic data instead,…

Most people who write anything on the web complain that others who write, do not give credit where credit is due. So if you write something and I take your content without citing you or linking to you, that is not a good thing. But it happens all the …

Google is bringing its Webmaster Conference to Zurich on December 11th. I definitely cannot make this one, although, if timing was better, I’d fly out for it. But it looks like a great line up of talks throughout the afternoon.

Urs Holzle, the senior vice president of technical infrastructure and Google Fellow at Google and Google’s eighth employee, announced Google is not using MapReduce anymore. But don’t you worry, this has zero impact on Google Search and your rankings im…

Tomorrow is Google’s 21st birthday and Google has already released its very own birthday Doodle to celebrate. The Doodle depicts a desktop computer from 1998 and the old Google home page and old Google logo. There is some confusion as to when Google c…

If you search for some of the character names from the show Friends on Google you may see some easter eggs. The list of queries include Chandler Bing, Phoebe Buffay, Rachel Green, Ross Geller, Monica Geller, Joey Tribbiani, and Friends glossary.
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