When you get a security warning in Google Search Console (GSC), it can be a scary experience.  You can get a warning for a variety of reasons, including your site being flagged for being hacked, or for serving malware or unwanted software.  If something like this happens, security warnings in GSC can result in some […]

During the SMX West conference, in the “Google Manual Actions” panel, Google’s Juan Felipe Rincon said that the company is taking action on 65 percent of the 35,000 user-generated spam reports submitted to Google every month. Juan said that of those 35,000 submissions, 65 percent of them are spam, so action is taken manually on these reports. […]

There is a post written on Google+ by John Mueller that explains how the Search Console reporting works and why it may seem delayed for some of the reports. Basically, it takes time for data to get to the Search Console because of two reasons: The time it takes Google to send the data from the crawling […]

One of the important aspects of any SEO service is link discovery and management, and typically, SEOs have used a special search operator from Google to find these links.  This operator used the format of [fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=”yes” overflow=”visible”][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type=”1_1″ background_position=”left top” background_color=”” border_size=”” border_color=”” border_style=”solid” spacing=”yes” background_image=”” background_repeat=”no-repeat” padding=”” margin_top=”0px” margin_bottom=”0px” class=”” id=”” animation_type=”” animation_speed=”0.3″ […]

This morning, it’s been announced by Google on their Japanese Webmaster Blog that the company targeted a link network in Japan for using practices against the Google Webmaster Guidelines. The reason for the targeting was that the link network was trying to artificially inflate the PageRank and trust factors of websites through buying, selling and trading links with […]

Recently, Google quietly updated their Webmaster Guidelines document, a place where webmasters should go to learn about SEO best practices and dos and don’ts of the industry. In the updated version of the general guidelines section of the document, there are expanded examples about how to help Google find your web pages, how to make web […]

On January 19, Google revealed the relaunch of the portal for webmasters at google.com/webmasters.  This is the place where most webmasters will go to log in to the Google Search Console.  This is a place that is full of help documentation that is related to making a better website and complying with Google’s webmaster guidelines. The relaunched site looks […]

On January 20, Google announced an addition to a new error report found within the Google Search Console for news publishers deploying accelerated mobile pages, or AMP for short. The purpose behind AMPs is to make web pages load faster for users by cutting out the fat, so to speak, on the page, such as images, and […]

There is a line in the data anomalies support page of Google that was recently posted about an “update to web search logs analysis” when showing the Search Analytics report in the Google Search Console.  This update to the support page was made on December 14 and it looks like it’s going to impact just websites.  Google […]

This morning, Google’s Webmaster Trends Analyst, Zineb Ait Bahajii announced on Google+ a new feature for app developers  that’s found within the Google Search Console.  There is a new report that can be found in the Search Analytics report for “search appearance” that displays the number of app install button clicks for an app. Occasionally, Google will […]