Airdate: April 4, 2019 Google continues to have issues with search console data Googlebot renders pages differently than browsers like Google’s Chrome do. This is a problem for webmasters because we only have Chrome and other browsers to use to examine websites. Martin Splitt from Google confirmed at SMX Munich the rendering engine Google uses […]
Think Big. Think Big Blue – Try to imagine practicing SEO in an almost infinite working environment, one that has its own positronic brain. We had a special guest, Keith Goode, one of the SEO team at IBM on the show. Keith talks about SEO as a harbour pilot talks about bringing massive cargo ships […]
Facebook was forced to acknowledge it had, for years, stored hundreds of millions of user names and passwords in a simple, unencrypted text file. The admission came after cybersecurity writer Brian Krebs reported on it. Facebook’s Pedro Canahuati said the discovery was made in January as part of a routine security review. While the logs […]
Google released a significant algorithm update on March 12, a week after the recent Pubcon conference in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The last time Google made a major update directly after a Pubcon conference was held in Florida was November 2003 and the update was aptly named Florida by Brett Tabke and the WebmasterWorld community. Naturally, […]
Does Google use Click Through Rates (CTR) as a ranking signal? It’s a good question requiring a completely indirect answer. Goodbye property sets and hello domain properties much more A busy week in search brings another news round-up on Webcology.
Happy Valentine’s Day. In this episode we discuss a Reddit AMA Google’s Gary Illes conducted covering, Robots.txt Rank brain Behavioural signals Image and video search more… Also, Google now consolidates data under canonical URL in Search Console, and changes a number of metrics while it’s at it.
Another news update show in another busy week in search and tech. A court has essentially outlawed the buying and selling of Facebook likes or other social media recommendations in a judgement against American firm, Devumi. The chief executive of cryptocurrency company Quadriga CX has died. He was the only person with the password to a […]
Google offers fairly simple albeit roundabout instruction on removing pesky old sitemaps. Google adds vocal search results and metrics for vocal search
Yet another heavy newsweek in tech Google allows mobile businesses entry into Google My Business program by allowing them to specify service areas. Previously businesses required a solid street address for inclusion Google testing a video lightbox to display video in mobile search results Google asks National Labor Board to nullify an Obama era rule […]
Today was a special show. We were joined by Canadian advertising legend, Terry O’Reilly, host of CBC’s Under the Influence and Age of Persuasion. Terry talked about the recent Gillette and Nike social action commercials.