New Form Of Google Knowledge Panel Spam Or Is This A Simple Google Bug?
If you do a search on [seo services india] you will see a knowledge panel show up for a “musical artist” named “SEO Services in India.” The question is, is this a bug with Google misinterpreting entities or is this specific manipulation by an SEO as a…
Google Search Scroll To Highlight Now Can Share Highlighted Text Via Social, Email, etc
The Google Search and Chrome feature where you click on a snippet and you are taken to a position on that publisher’s page and it highlights the appropriate text now also lets you share that text. Well, at least Google is testing that feature for some …
Google Shows Video Thumbnail In SERPs Without Embedding Video On Page?
Crystal Carter posted an example on Twitter of Google showing a video thumbnail for a snippet of her page but that page did not actually embed a video on the page. So if you visit the specific page, there is no video for a user to click on to play.
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Bing Autocomplete Search Bar With Trending, Related & People Also Ask
Microsoft Bing is testing showing more information in the autocomplete search suggestions search bar drop down menu. Bing is showing trending now searches, related searches and also people also ask searches in that menu.
Google Search News Box News Link Now Clickable
The Google Search news box has a header named “News” for some queries. That header was never clickable until just recently. Now, you can click on the header and it will take you into the Google News search engine.
Google Search Console Performance Reports Now Shows Education Q&A Rich Results
Last week, we covered how Google now supports Education Q&A structured data as Google rich results in Google Search. Well now some folks who have implemented it are seeing Education Q&A show up in the search performance reports in Google Search Console.
Google Hotel Results Using Reviews For Things To Do & Review Summaries
Google for years has been doing super fancy search features based on reviews left in Google Maps. Here are some more features that may or may not be new, but you should be aware of in any event. Specifically, Google using hotel reviews to build lists …
John Mueller Of Google Can See Search Spam In Languages He Does Not Speak
Google’s John Mueller is able to see and identify content search related spam without even speaking the language. Supposedly this is not a magical power or even that hard to do by someone who was trained to catch spam, but nevertheless, he is able to …
Google Ads Scripts New Campaign Bid Strategies Support & Performance Improvements
Google announced updates and improvements to the Google Ads Scripts last week. Google wrote it is “rolling out a new scripts experience featuring improved performance, support for campaign bid strategies, and more.” With this, Google also added suppor…
Google Search Snippet “View Full List” Link
Google has all sorts of search result snippets and features including sitelinks. Here is an interesting that may not be new, but Google shows a normal snippet with horizontal sitelinks that anchor down to portions of the page it links to plus an added…
Google Search Recipe Results Segmented By Type
Google seems to be showing the recipe grid format not just by showing popular recipes but also showing recipe carousels broken down by recipe type. Honestly, I don’t know if that makes sense, what do chefs call this, segmentation of recipe categories?…
Google May Replace FID With INP (Interaction to Next Paint) For Core Web Vitals
At Google I/O last week, Google’s Annie Sullivan and Michal Mocny introduced a new metric named INP or Interaction to Next Paint. INP measures overall responsiveness to user interactions on the page and it may or may not replace FID, First Input Delay,…
Google Search Ranking Update Monday On May 16th (Unconfirmed)
At least we had a quiet weekend for the first time in a while, but that didn’t last long. Monday, May 16th, we once again saw multiple signals of a possible Google search ranking algorithm update that has not been confirmed by Google.
Google: Cross Linking Language/Country Versions Won’t Lead To A Negative Ranking Impact
Google’s John Mueller was asked if there can be some sort of negative impact when it comes to cross linking your language or country versions of your pages. In which John said “I can’t think of any reason why cross-linking your language/country version…
Spammers Ruined Bing’s Anonymous Sitemap Submissions, Microsoft Deprecated It
On Friday, Fabrice Canel from Microsoft announced Bing has deprecated the anonymous sitemap submission method. Bing will no longer accept Sitemap submissions through HTTP requests.
Bing Moves Explore More On Left Side
Microsoft Bing has moved the “explore more” feature from under the image carousel snippet to the left hand side of that snippet. We first noticed this explore more feature in March, but I guess the placement took up too much space then. I do like this …
Google Asks For More Search Terms When The Query Is Too Short & Generic
Did you know that sometimes Google will ask you to provide more search terms in your query when the search conducted was super short and generic? Here is a screenshot from Punit showing he searched for [news] and Google asked for the searcher to add m…
75% Of SEOs Say Your Own Website Should Have Good SEO To Sell SEO Services
Brodie Clark posted an interesting poll on Twitter asking if the SEO community agreed or not. The poll asked do you agree or disagree that “if you’re selling SEO as a service, it is important that your own website has good SEO.” The results showed th…
Vlog #173: Lior Krolewicz On What It Takes To Be A Good Search Marketers
In part one with Lior Krolewicz is the founder and CEO of Yael Consulting, a marketing consulting company, we spoke about the IDF and how paid search has changed. In part two we spoke about PPC software, Google Ads automation and bugs with ad platform…
New: Google Search Console Performance Reports Logs Additional Desktop Features
Google Search Console’s performance report starting on May 13, 2022 now logs impressions for additional desktop features. One example Google gave was “top stories.” Google said you may see an increase in your desktop impressions when you filter by Go…