Google Local Tests Purple Heart Label For Women Led Businesses
Google initially launched the “women-led” label in the local search results in 2018 with a women icon. Google seems to be testing replacing that icon with a purple heart. Saad AK and Colan Nielsen spotted this change and posted screen shots of it on …
Google Survey Asks You If You Want Ad Free Search Results For Paid Subscription
Can you imagine Google offering a monthly fee for using Google Search? Can you even imagine an option to remove the search ads in exchange for a monthly fee? I cannot and I’d be shocked if Google would ever launch a subscription model for Google Searc…
Frederic Dubut Leaves Microsoft After 8 Years Working On Bing
Frederic Dubut, the PM Lead for the Microsoft Bing Core Ranking team, has announced that after 13 years with Microsoft and over 8 years with the Bing team, he is leaving the company. He said “earlier this month, I closed the chapter on 13+ years at Mic…
Google My Business Attributes Replaced Led With Owned
Previously Google My Business had labeled the business attributes for women owned businesses as “women-led” and veteran owned businesses and “veteran-led.” Google now put them all in sync by labeling them as as “owned.” So now we have them as Black-ow…
Google Centerpiece Annotation: Primary Content Of Page & Site
Martin Splitt from Google explained the concept of centerpiece annotation, a term used in Google to define the primary content of a page or site. Martin said they are able to understand that a page’s primary topic is on A and the rest of the content o…
Should Google Debug Indexing Issues With Site That Have AI Driven Content?
Over the weekend a webmaster asked John Mueller of Google for assistance around why Google was not indexing his site. John looked at it quickly and noticed the site had AI driven content and then responded that Google shouldn’t be spending time on tes…
New: Google Review Snippets Author Name Must Be Less Than 100 Characters
Google has updated its review snippet structured data guidelines to say the author name of the reviewer must be less than a 100 characters. If it is longer than 100 characters your page won’t be eligible for an author-based review snippet, Google said….
New Google Policy Prohibits False Claims That Undermine Democratic Process
Google has posted a new policy in the merchant center help area that is “prohibiting offers that make claims that are demonstrably false and could significantly undermine participation or trust in an electoral or democratic process.”
Google May Be Rolling Out Things To Consider, Refine This Search & Broaden This Search
Some SEOs are now seeing the Things To Consider, Refine This Search and Broaden This Search features live in the Google search results. I do not see them yet but they were announced at the Search On event a few weeks ago and they should be going live …
Possible Google Search Algorithm Ranking Update October 15th – October 18th
I lead with I am sorry for yet reporting on another Google search ranking algorithm update – another unconfirmed one. But like I said on Friday, there seemed to be one ticking up and it seems Google did have some fluctuations from October 15th through…
Vlog #142: Miriam Schwab: From SEO Agency World To Start Up World
Miriam Schwab is the co-founder and CEO of Strattic, a static hosting and publishing platform for WordPress. I’ve known Miriam for many many years, maybe as far back as 2004 or 2005…
Daily Search Forum Recap: October 15, 2021
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.
Google launched what they are calling continuous scrolling in the mobile search results…
Google Rolling Out Continuous Scroll On Mobile Search Results
Google announced yesterday that it is rolling out what they are calling “continuous scrolling” on the mobile search results. Google is not calling it infinite scroll, because the scroll does not infinitely scroll, it should stop after page four or so …
Microsoft Advertising Smart Pages Website Builder
Microsoft announced back in February a website builder tool named Smart Pages and it recently also added support for “standalone mode” and analytics and Bing Place integration.
Was There A Google Search Update This Week? Mixed Signals Maybe Triggered From UI Changes?
Over the past few days the Google search tracking tools, some of them, showed huge spikes in changes in the Google search results. Some did not, many did. The chatter didn’t really match the spikes. So many are asking me if there was an update? I am …
Google: Links From Reporting Tools Do Not Impact Rankings
Do links from reporting tools, like similar sites checker and SEO report generation sites, impact your site in Google Search? The answer is no, according to John Mueller of Google.
Peter Norvig Scales Back From Google To Join Stanford’s Human-Centered AI Institute
Peter Norvig, a 20-year Google vet, Google R&D director and former director of search quality at Google, is scaling back from his Google work to join Stanford’s Human-Centered AI Institute as a Distinguished Education Fellow.
Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Search Algo Updates, Title Link Doc, Continuous Scroll, Knowledge Panel Updates & More
This week, we covered yet another Google search ranking algorithm update this past weekend. Some of the tracking tools went nuts this week, but I think it might be related to the UI changes Google rolled out, I am not sure…
Daily Search Forum Recap: October 14, 2021
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.
Google Search seems to be rolling out the new knowledge panel design on desktop…
Google My Business App Gains Edit Welcome Message & Shows Messages Response Time
Google My Business seems to have added to messaging features to the mobile app. The first is the ability to edit your welcome message and the second is that the app can show you your response time to messages with your customers.