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Update at 4:25pm: Danny Sullivan from Google said he believes there may be some issues and will keep us posted:Update 3:35pm: It seems Google is indexing this piece of new content fine, but I had to test this myself to be sure and my test shows Google is indexing this content fine - at least from this site. But as you can see above, Google is having issues - at least Danny from Google confirmed it. Also, I am still tracking major publications and they are still having indexing issues. This story is in Google's index:Google might be having issues with other news sites being indexed. I did recheck WSJ and NY Times and a lot of the new content is still not showing up in Google's index. So maybe this is impacting a limited number of publishers? It is hard to say... Here is the original story below - this story is obviously still in progress. Google may not be indexing new content once again. This post will act as a test to see if Google is able to index this story in a timely … [Read more...] about Confirmed: Google Not Indexing New Content Again? Testing…

Update: It seems Google is indexing new content fine - sorry for the false alarm, but I had to test this myself to be sure and my test shows Google is indexing news content fine - at least from this site.This story is in Google's index:Google may not be indexing new content once again. This post will act as a test to see if Google is able to index this story in a timely fashion. It seems the last time Google has indexed a new piece of content on the NY Times or Wall Street Journal was over an hour ago, and these sites publish content all the time.Here are screen shots of Google News sorted by most recent for these two publications (click to enlarge the images):Earlier this month, Google was unable to index new content for 24 hours or so - it was resolved the next morning. This happened again in April and also a de-indexing issue prior to that. Google did issue an explanation on April 13th about these issues but it seems we might be having another issue with indexing again.Are you … [Read more...] about Fake News: Google Not Indexing New Content Again? Testing…

Google's John Mueller said it is normal for a site to rank well for a short period of time for a specific query. He said on Twitter "It can happen that a site ranks or a short period of time for a query." It can happen a lot.Here is the tweet:Yes, Google can rank a new or old page well for a specific period of time and that can change and not rank well shortly after. This happens all the time and is not uncommon.Forum discussion at Twitter. … [Read more...] about Google: Sites Rank Well For A Short Period Of Time

I love it how the name "Google Sandbox" which originated back in 2004 or so, is still around today. So much so that Google year after year has to say there is no Google Sandbox. In short, back in 2004, SEOs noticed that new sites took a while to start to rank well - thus we called it the Google Sandbox, because you had to wait your time to rank well.That is really no longer the case and I doubt Google called it a "Sandbox" internally. So Google has for years said there is no such thing as the Google Sandbox. The thing is, Matt Cutts somewhat confirmed it existed in terms of how SEOs or webmasters may perceive sites to rank rank well as quickly as they use to. Plus most SEOs felt it did exist when I did a poll about it in 2009.But yea, just like in 2016, when Gary denied it existed and John Mueller did numerous times, we still have SEOs asking about it.To ask about the Google Sandbox today seems weird to me. But John Mueller from Google responded on Twitter saying there is no … [Read more...] about Google: There Is No Sandbox

Frédéric Dubut, who works at Bing in search quality and fighting spam - someone we have gotten to know over the years, recently got married. He shared this photo on Twitter from his wedding day. We are so happy for the both of you! Wishing you much health, happiness and success together!This post is part of our daily Search Photo of the Day column, where we find fun and interesting photos related to the search industry and share them with our readers. … [Read more...] about Congratulations! Bing Spam Fighter, Frédéric Dubut, Gets Married