In WordPress, buried deep in the settings menu, is a tiny option that will literally
remove your site from Google.
People mistakenly leave it turned on more often than you'd think.
And now Google's adjusting the subsequent messages that show up when someone searches
for your site.
Before we get into that, though, I'm Mickey Mellen, and this is a A Brighter Web, episode
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Today we'll talk more about mistakenly blocking Google, sites ranking with just their IP address,
sites ranking without link building, how Google treats folder structures and much more.
Let's dig in.
As I mentioned at the top of the show, thousands of sites out there are mistakenly blocking
Google from indexing their site, thus killing their ability to rank for anything out there.
You can find the setting in your WordPress under the settings, reading, and the "discourage
search engines from indexing this site" option.
Now, there's good reasons to use that.
If you have a site under development, you'll want to have that box checked so Google's
not indexing the development site and your live site.
The problem is, if you have that set while you're developing your site, and then you
push that development site live, you need to make sure to go in and uncheck that box.
We have that on our checklist a few times when we're going through to launch a site
just to make sure, because it can be devastating for your traffic if you leave it on there.
Now Google used to say, if you search for that site, it would still have the site show
up, but just not show anything other than the homepage.
And for the homepage it would say, "A description of this site is not available because of this
site's robots.txt."
And now it simply says, "No information is available for this page."
In both cases, there's a link to learn more, and they get into some of the technical details
of why.
But if you have a WordPress site, it's that settings - reading checkbox that you've probably
left checked.
So when you're launching a site, whether for yourself or for a client, be sure to double
check that you haven't left that box checked.
Another indexing issue that could come up is sometimes in development if you make a
small mistake, Google might start indexing your site based on its IP address instead
of domain name.
So a user asked Google, "A few months ago, I made mistake switching servers, and Google
accidentally indexed my URLs with the IP address.
It has been five months since I corrected the redirection, but the IP version still
is indexed.
Can that hurt my rankings?
How can I de-index these duplicated URLs?"
So Google's John Mueller replied, "If you're checking the site with a site: query, you're
probably seeing URLs that are already switched back.
Either way, this doesn't hurt rankings."
So in the end, it doesn't matter.
If you happen to have made that mistake, it won't affect your rankings, and Google will
eventually get it squared away.
Certainly, try to be careful of things like that, but not a big deal if somehow it happens
to you.
We've talked on this podcast before about link building, and how important it is to
get links back to your site, but it's possible to rank well without ever doing any link building.
A user named Saroj Kumar asked, "Can a website rank in top search results without building
a single backlink?"
John Mueller of Google replied, "Sure.
Most do."
While many of you that listen to this podcast have probably done some intentional link building
at some point, the vast majority of websites haven't.
They simply don't know to do it.
And yet, still many of them rank well for various phrases.
So don't stop building links, but it is indeed possible to rank well without them.
Google has said that URL folder structure doesn't need to match your content folder
structure.
So a user named Adam asked Google, "What are the consequences for URL folder structure
not matching content folder structure?
For example, the content is linked vegetable page to recipe page, while the URL structure
is vegetable, recipes, recipe1.
Standalone recipe pages at veg/recipes will not exist."
John Mueller replied, "For Google, it doesn't really matter.
URLs are primarily identifiers.
Clean URL structure is generally a good practice regardless."
So Google's just saying URLs mainly just so Google can match the content to a page based
on URL, and they don't really look that much at how the folder structure's set up.
In the end, just keep your URLs short and specific to each page, and you should be fine.
Google's added a short "watch movie" tab to the knowledge card for movies.
So if you search for a movie in Google, you'll often get their knowledge card that shows
info about the movie, such as rating, date release, duration, etc.
Now they've added an option to, "Watch movie" with links and prices to watch it now, for
sites including YouTube, Google Play, and Vudu, whatever that one is.
I suspect they'll add others over time, but just another nice little update to that Google
movie tab.
Another little section Google's just updated is the flight search.
So if you go to Google.com/flights, you'll see a big overhaul to the look and feel of
that section.
And Google says they're trying to do a lot more on there to offer more ways for you to
find cheaper flights and find your information more quickly.
So if you have a flight coming up, go to Google.com/flights, and see if you can use some of the tools there
to help you find a better price on your upcoming trip.
Google Home has finally added support for multiple calendars.
It took them way too long to support this, and actually, Alexa has supported it for a
while.
But Google Home now supports multiple calendars.
Before, if you told it, "Tell me about my day," it would only select for your one main
calendar, and that's all you had.
Now you can choose multiple calendars be included.
More than just two, you check as many as you want.
However, with one strange caveat that any G Suite calendars, those of you that use Google
Apps, the G Suite, like we do at GreenMellen, those calendars still cannot be included,
which is amazing that they still can't.
However, I found a workaround for it, that could work.
Hopefully they'll fix it properly soon.
But in my case, I made a new calendar on my personal account called "Work Copy", added
that to have access to Google Home.
Then set up a tool in Zapier to copy any new events from G Suite calendar over to that
Work Copy Calendar.
So anytime I add one to my work calendar, or anyone adds something to my work calendar,
Zapier will make a copy of that event on the Work Copy calendar.
Totally an unnecessary hack, and I'm frustrated that Google has it doing that.
But it does make life much better.
I haven't used Google Home a lot for the tell me about my day or what's coming up stuff,
because it would omit all of my work stuff.
And now at least I can get it in there, so.
It's certainly a step in the right direction, and they're doing a lot to make it better.
I suspect they'll fix that shortcoming fairly soon.
Related to that too is the Google Home Mini is now on sale for 29 bucks, which is an insane
price.
You can get that from Google's online store, Best Buy, or Target, or pretty much anywhere
that you can buy Google products.
They've got that for 29 bucks.
So you should look into that if you've been thinking about getting one.
Private blog networks are a great way to get your site penalized.
So if you're not familiar with the term, a private blog network is a network of sites
used to build links to a single website for the purpose of manipulating search engines.
Kevin Rowe wrote a great article in Search Engine Land to explain why they're so dangerous,
and what some of the issues could be.
But in the end, just follow best practices, and private blog networks are certainly not
a best practice.
And really be careful of outsourcing your link building, because sometimes people that
build links for you will use private blog networks to do that.
And certainly never agree to trade links with someone.
If someone says, "Hey, let's trade links with each other," which was super popular like
a decade ago, that's not good these days, and I strongly discourage you from doing that.
Google's pushing their ads a bit more.
They now have a "create ad" from the Google My Business website dashboard.
So if you search for your business, and you get that little dashboard that pops up in
the search results, you'll now see a small little change in there where it encourages
you to create an ad, and clicking that will take you to the Google AdWords Express local
ad system.
I haven't seen it come up myself, but you can see some screen shots from the link in
our show notes.
Waze and the city of Toronto are going to begin sharing traffic data.
Toronto's going to start sharing traffic data with Waze and be able to push updates to users
for planned closures and events.
And Waze will be sharing their realtime traffic info and road conditions back to the city.
So it'll make it better for both entities and ultimately better for all of us.
Some other Canadian cities, such as Winnipeg and Montreal are already doing similar things
with Waze.
Now Waze is Google-owned, but none of the reports I read said that any of this would
be shared with Google Maps as well.
And really, the kind of things they're sharing, the planned closures and events and those
sorts of things feel more Waze-ish than Google Maps anyhow, so perhaps it won't make sense.
But I'm sure Google will do all they can to get that data between them shared just to
make life better for all of us.
And lastly, for our tip of the week, look at optimizing the images on your website to
help with speed.
We've often discussed speed on here, because it's very important, both for users and for
how Google sees your site and how well you rank.
And there's really two big pieces to optimizing images for speed.
The first one is to make sure they're sized properly.
If an area of your site is looking for an image that's 200 by 200, make sure it's only
loading a 200 by 200 image.
You can cram a much bigger image in there, and it'll work just fine.
But it'll be a whole lot slower loading.
And that can be a little tricky to get optimized, depending on your theme and what plugins and
if you have WooCommerce and stuff.
So that can take some work, but it's worth the effort to try to get those tightened up.
But them also make sure the image themselves are optimized.
So a 200 by 200 image could be very different depending how compressed you have it.
Tools as Ewww, E-W-W-W, and WP Smush can help them get compressed pretty well without looking
too bad.
We use Ewww on a lot of sites just to, it compresses them maybe 10 to 15% more, which
over the course of a page is a couple hundred K, and can make a difference in speed.
And it certainly helps.
Really, before you do any of that, if you think your stuff's in bad shape, go over to
tools.pingdom.com, and run a test on your site.
They'll give you a score, which I don't take too much weight in.
But it'll tell you how big your page is in megabytes.
So take a look at that.
If it says 3.3 megs, then work on your images for a while.
Get them tightened up.
Run Ewww or WP Smush or whatever.
And then run Pingdom again and see what happens.
See what kind of difference it made for you.
It may be worth taking your time to do that on some of the other sites you manage as well.
So that's all I have this week.
You can find me on Twitter at MickMel, M-I-C-K-M-E-L, or learn lots more at greenmellenmedia.com.
You can find out more about the podcast, including showing up some links as well as video tutorials
and many other resources over at abrighterweb.com.
If you're in the Atlanta area, come check out our Meetup held three times each month.
And if you're not in the Atlanta area, we post recaps on the site soon after each Meetup.
Either way, you can learn more about that at abrighterweb.com/meetup.
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Consolidate data with conditions in Google Sheet How-To - Duration: 2:25.
Hello I'm Dennis from Sheetgo and today, I'm going to show you how to consolidate filtered data from multiple Google sheets.
For this you need Sheetgo so if you don't have Sheetgo yet, please click on the link in the description.
So here I have a Spreadsheet. It's called Sales-North. I also got Sales East, South and West.
All those multiple sheets I want to
Consolidate them together filtered
So how are we going to do that? First we go into the empty sheet with all regions. We are starting Sheetgo.
Then we are going to import data.
Consolidate, then you have to select the sheets
So you go to sales
North
Sales-south
East
And West
If you've done that
You connect your consolidate into sheet one. Then you go to options and you can filter it so you'd go to filter by
You can select a column, I'll select column D new customers.
And i want a number greater than or equal to 100.
And I'll press ok and the sheets get connected together.
It will show the customers value between 100 less or more or equal to
So it's updated and here it is
This is very easy to use and I hope I've learned you something. If you have any questions leave them in the comments below.
This video is based on a blog post that you can read in the description below.
Thank you for your time, and if you liked the video give it a thumb up, bye!
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Import filtered data with Google Sheets - Duration: 1:52.
Hello, I'm Dennis from Sheetgo
And today I am going to show you how to import filtered data in Google Sheets using a variable date.
For this you need Sheetgo, so if you don't have Sheetgo yet click on the link in the description.
So, here I have a spreadsheet with subscribed user information
And I want to filter it on the date of today
So, weare going to the empty spreadsheet
You will start Sheetgo
Than you will go to import data
press connect
You select the sheet you want to share
"Subscriber information"
You select the sheet that you want to import
Then you go to filter by
You select the column F: Subscribed on
Than you press: Date is
So we select today, and if you now press connect
it will be added to the spreadsheet after updating
It's alomst done
Here it is
So now I have the date filtered of the other spreadsheet
This is very easy to use, and I hope I've helped you out
If you have any questions leave them in the commenst below!
This video is based on a blog post, so if you want to read more about it, please click on the link in the description
Thank you for your time, and if you liked the video please put a thumb up!
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How to Install Google Tag Manager in Wordpress - Duration: 2:45.
okay folks this is a quick video to show you how to install the Google tag
manager right now we are going to Google Google tag manager just in case the link
changed you can always come to Google and find out what the correct linked is
and we're gonna click here now of course you already have a Google account so you
can just go ahead and sign in with all your credentials so here we're just
going to put our account name for this that I'm doing this to my site which I
should have been done but I'm doing it right now thought I would record it and
we're gonna hit continue and your container is gonna be the website that
you're actually going to install the code or app but for this case we're
doing a website so I'm putting the website address here clicking web hit
create now we have the terms and service agreement which of course you will read
and then we'll go ahead and accept yes
now we've got to take this Google code that you see here and we need to place
this in our website since we're doing this on WordPress we are going to copy
this first and then we're going to use a fun little plugin that I'm going to show
you it to stick it in there so we're gonna go for add a plug-in and then
you're gonna go to your search and put insert header and footer and this is the
plug-in you can use I already have it on my website that's why it says activate
but if you don't you'll click the activate button and then you'll come
over here to settings and then insert a footer and header and you're gonna put
right here I have a Facebook pixel called because that's initially where I
put it but now that I'm installing the tag manager I'm going to put that
information in a tag manager anyway so here is the location where you're going
to put the top part of this ripped pasted that in like such and now
we need to go and get the footer part which we're going to copy here and now
we're just going to paste that there and that's it guys is that simple you're
going to hit okay and then in the next series of videos I'll show you how to
use this
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Doughlings Video Blog - Part 4 - Duration: 7:02.
Hey everyone.
Welcome to the new video blog of Hero Concept.
I'm Eray and today I'm with Serkan, creative director of Hero Concept.
As you know Doughlings has been released lately on iOS and Android.
We will talk about the release and the future plans of Doughlings with Serkan. Welcome.
Hey.
First i want to ask you this.
How does it feel to release a game that you were working for a long time?
You were also part of the team.
Yea but you are at the creating part so...
To be honest it is worrying.
It is like raising your own child since birth.
New problems occur.
You receive tons of feedback from players and you have to fix those issues.
Is your vision working right? How much did it change or should i change it?
We are facing these questions and issues now.
We are doing our best to solve them one by one.
Lets talk about the feedback from players because
it has been couple of weeks and we started to get lots of comments from them.
What can you tell about these comments?
Doughlings is not a casual game.
It is a fact.
In fact there is a common saying lately, called Midcore.
We can almost say that it is not a Midcore neither because
it is an old school arcade game.
That's why it is hard.
It requires good reflexes and caution
which we talked about it before at previous blogs.
That's why not everyone liked Doughlings but
many loved it so much.
If you love playing Doughlings, it means that you know how to play and you are a patient one.
We also have plans as well.
We will try to reduce the learning curve of the game.
Of course the gameplay experience will be better as we gather more data and feedback.
But beware that this feedback will be denied forever.
Doughlings will not be as portrait.
It will always be landscape.
You will feel like you are playing with a gamepad.
Apart from the feedback from players, you are also working on new contents
and generating new ideas.
Lets talk about the things you are planning.
There are 90 different levels
and it hasn't been a month since the release.
Some players have already cleared all levels.
It is possible to finish the all game in 1-2 weeks if you are dedicated player.
That's why like other successful games, we will bring new event and level types.
There will be daily events.
They will face various difficulties.
We are thinking different dynamics based on longer levels, new rewards and time.
These new events will help us to maintain 90 levels longer
and create a new way to play for hardcore players on daily basis.
It will be a really good content especially for players who upgraded their characters,
played lots of missions and ready for new challenges.
Hope so.
Any news about the release date?
Lets say early January.
So get ready for January.
We keep working on feedback from players.
We have just released an update.
It is much easier to download and login into the game.
There are fixes and changes in the game as well and more are on the way.
New contents are in progress.
But 2018 is almost here.
It will be an important year for Doughlings.
Actually it is important for Hero Concept
because we started working on the 2nd project Intercept Course along with Doughlings.
We are finalizing the documentation and ideas with brainstorm sessions.
Anyone can find Intercept Course from Google now.
We own .com so no worries.
Beside getting bigger on mobile, 2018 Doughlings plans
include releases on Xbox One, PS4 and PC platforms.
Of course players are not the same.
Some players might just pass our game by saying "it is too easy".
But some can see a real arcade game to play with their gamepad or keyboard.
For those players, we believe that this port will be really good on consoles or PC.
Gameplay dynamics will be much easier without the touch screen.
And of course bigger screen with 4k or Full HD support. We will see.
As Serkan mention, PC version will be released on Steam.
Also as an important note, it won't be a free to play game anymore.
But you will only buy once.
Classic mobile game mechanics like spending your money in the game
or in game events and gaining gems will be deleted while replacing it with the arcade logic
as "play this level, you have 3 lives" or similar mechanics to create a total arcade experience
on PC and consoles.
We will give additional information at the upcoming months during 2018.
Also with the 2nd quarter of 2018, we will be ready to show you first details of Intercept Course.
Its logo will be revealed on the website soon.
As every video belog, we are at the end again.
It may be a little short but we wanted to give you a quick update after release period.
We will be here again with the new update and content news.
Do you wish to add anything before we leave?
Always #healthemall
We are leaving here by saying #healthemall again.
If you have any questions, don't forget to write comments below.
We will do our best to answer.
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