ADVERTISEMENT YouTube has officially backtracked on controversial plans to take away ‘verified’ badges from some creators. The original plan was to introduce new criteria for earning verification status, and removing existing badges from channels that no longer meet the new criteria. YouTube announced these plans on Thursday and went back on its decision roughly 24…
Google has added another new structured data report, allowing site owners to quickly check whether breadcrumb markup has been implemented correctly. The ‘Breadcrumbs’ report appears under the Enhancements section in Search Console along with other reports related to the implementation of structured data. Just like other structured data reports, this one shows users which sets…
Google Chrome on Android will soon receive an update that provides answers to search results without having to actually submit a query. As users type queries into Chrome’s address bar, answers will show up in the section underneath along with other recommended queries. “Now on both desktop and Android, answers will show up inside the…
Google announced an algorithm update intended to rank original news higher. Despite Google’s update, apparently an authority site like Yahoo News can syndicate content and outrank the original. Google’s Top Stories Ranks Syndicated Content Syndicated content is original content that is licensed to be republished by another publisher, in this case Yahoo News. In a…
In the latest instalment of the #AskGoogleWebmasters video series, John Mueller addresses a question about AJAX crawling. Here is the question that was submitted: “What is the current status of #! AJAX crawling? How do I set up redirects?” Mueller addresses both parts of this question. His responses for each are summarized in the sections…
Google has added one more type of structured data to its growing list of structured data reports in Search Console. A dedicated report on ‘datasets’ structured data is now available in Search Console. Those who are using dataset structured data on their website will find the new report in under the Enhancements sections. Google introduced…
ADVERTISEMENT Online trolls have been the bane of rational, civil internet users since the beginning of the web. It turns out, when you give certain people the shield of anonymity to hide behind in the form of a computer screen, things get ugly. Internet trolls started popping out of the woodwork as early as the…
In the latest instalment of the #AskGoogleWebmasters video series, Google’s John Mueller answers a common question about JSON-LD structured data. Here is the question that was submitted: “Is it possible to insert JSON structured data at the bottom of theinstead of the? It seems to work fine for many websites.” In response, Mueller says “yes.”…
Google has updated the Google Ads app with support for campaign optimization scores. Optimization score is a metric that was introduced last year – it’s designed to evaluate how well a Google Ads campaign is optimized. The score ranges from 0% to 100%, with 100% meaning that your account is set up to perform at…
Crawl budget is a vital SEO concept that often gets overlooked. There are so many tasks and issues an SEO expert has to keep in mind that it’s often put on the back burner. In short, crawl budget can, and should, be optimized. In this article, you will learn: How to improve your crawl budget…