700+ Brands Put On Notice About Misleading Endorsements and Reviews
The United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) sent notices to over 700 companies about fake reviews and misleading endorsements. The notice states that receiving the letter does not suggest that…
The Search Console Training lives on | Google Search Central Blog
Friday, October 02, 2020 In November 2019 we announced the Search Console Training YouTube series and started publishing videos regularly. The goal of the series was to create updated video…
How to Create & Optimize Content for Higher Google Rankings
Are you consistently creating content that performs well on Google? Do you want to know if you stand a chance to rank? On September 29, I moderated a sponsored Search…
Best practices for Black Friday and Cyber Monday pages
Tuesday, October 26, 2020 The end of the year holiday season is a peak time for many merchants with special sales events such as Black Friday and Cyber Monday. As…
Should the Product Name be in the Heading?
In a Google’s Office Hours hangout, John Mueller answered a question about how to use heading tags for pages about products. It’s a good question because Google’s own SEO Starter…
Google’s first virtual summit for Product Experts
Thursday, November 05, 2020 More than ever, users are relying on Google products to do their jobs, educate their kids, and stay in touch with loved ones. Our Google Product…
The ROI of SEO
Search marketers can’t get our important work implemented if we can’t prove that it’s worth the investment to our higher-ups. With that in mind, Moz’s own SEO Manager, Kavi Kardos,…
Big Sites and Website Authority
Google’s John Mueller in an Office-hours hangout answered a question about whether a big a site with thousands of indexed pages influences Google’s perception of site quality. John Mueller answered…
Timing for bringing page experience to Google Search
Tuesday, November 10, 2020 Update on August 4, 2021: Clarified that Safe Browsing isn’t used as a ranking signal. Safe Browsing systems continue to play an important role to keep…
The Paid Social Approach That Works for You
Are your paid social campaigns generating the results you want? B2B (and specifically SaaS) brands may not be able to depend on demand alone. So, you have to help generate…
Goodbye Google Webmasters, hello Google Search Central
Wednesday, November 11, 2020 The history behind Google Webmasters Merriam-Webster claims the first known use of the word “webmaster” was in 1993, years before Google even existed. However, the term…
How Google Responds to a Site Move
Google’s John Mueller answered a question about how Google processes a site move, in particular if the site move might trigger a so-called “sandbox effect.” Mueller responded by providing a…
We moved! Introducing the new home for the Google Webmaster Blogs
Thursday, November 19, 2020 Last week we changed our name to Google Search Central and published our new central site. As part of this site migration, we’re also consolidating the…
3 Scripts for Automating Google Ads Reports in Spreadsheets
As PPC account managers, we’ve always had to do a lot of reporting to keep our stakeholders informed. Now with the continued rise in automation, reporting has taken on new…
New and improved crawl stats for your site
Tuesday, November 24, 2020 To help website owners better understand how Googlebot crawls their sites, we’re launching a brand new version of the Crawl stats report in Search Console. The…
How to Find & Optimize Your MVPs (Most Valuable Pages)
With every website, there is always a greater opportunity to optimize than there is time or resources to implement. Businesses of all sizes must be able to effectively prioritize focus,…
Updates to Search Console’s API | Google Search Central Blog
Wednesday, December 9, 2020 A few months ago we announced an API infrastructure upgrade to improve the performance of the Search Console API as demand grows. Today we’re happy to…
The Top 10 Digital Marketing Certificate Programs to Enroll In
For anyone planning on having a long-term career in the marketing field (or seeking a pay raise or promotion at their current job), taking the initiative to get a digital…
An update on the Structured Data Testing Tool
Tuesday, December 15, 2020 Test your structured data with the Rich Results Test and Schema Markup Validator. In July, we announced that the Rich Results Test is out of beta.…
Top 14 Benefits of Social Media for Your Business
Remember when people said social media was just a fad? Its power has become clear – and it continues to grow, with no end in sight. Once a communication experiment…
Google Says Improve Content to Recover From Core Update
Google’s John Mueller says work on improving your website’s content, rather than implementing technical fixes, when recovering from a broad core algorithm update. A ranking drop following a core update…
A weird year in review | Google Search Central Blog
Wednesday, December 16, 2020 2020, what a year this was! We found new ways to work and collaborate, to learn and have fun, and also to stay safe. Working from…
7 Ways to Hold Off Upstart Competitors in Google Ads
So you’ve brought a new, innovative product to market. Or maybe you found a way to put a new twist on an existing service, and it’s taken off in popularity.…
Index Coverage Data Improvements | Google Search Central Blog
Monday, January 11, 2021 Helping people understand how Google crawls and indexes their sites has been one of the main objectives of Search Console since its early days. When we…
10 Uniquely Enterprise SEO Keyword Research Tips
When it comes to SEO, all things are not created equal. What defines your business as “enterprise” typically comes down to the size of your organization, your total annual revenue,…
Introducing Google News performance report
Tuesday, January 12, 2021 Today we are launching Google News performance reporting to help news publishers better understand user behavior on Google News on our Android and iOS apps, as…
Google on Separating Content By User Intent
Google explains what it means when it suggests separating content by user intent, such as one place for information-based content and another for transaction-based content. Separating content by user intent…
Search Console Discover report now includes Chrome data
Tuesday, February 02, 2021 Discover is a popular way for users to stay up-to-date on all their favorite topics, even when they’re not searching for something specific. Publishers and site…
10 Best Job Boards for Marketers (+ Bonus Suggestions)
Marketing job boards are aplenty, but which ones are worth your time? To answer this question, we asked Twitter for some recommendations, added those we’ve personally used into the mix,…
Google Mobile Search Updated With Continuous Scrolling
Google Search on mobile is getting updated with continuous scrolling, which will automatically populate more results when users scroll to the bottom of the page. In an announcement, Google states:…