Daily Search Forum Recap: June 17, 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.
Gary Illyes from Google basically said that there is not much you can do to trick Google Search these day…
Google Tests Arrow Up In Footer Of Mobile Search Results
The other day we saw Google testing a magnifying glass in the bottom right footer of the mobile search results. Now I am seeing Google test an arrow up, that when clicked on, jumps the searcher to the top of the page to conduct another search as well.
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Now Live: Google My Business Performance Report Direction Requests & Website Visits
Last month we reported that Google updated its documentation to say the new Google My Business performance report will soon have driving direction requests and website visits. Well now, according to Colan Nielsen, Google is rolling out those metrics s…
How Do Google Algorithmic Slow Rollout Work?
Google often says that is algorithmic updates, be it core updates, page experience updates, and other search related updates can take several days to several weeks or even several months to fully roll out. What does that mean, how does that work? I w…
Google Tests Article Carousel For Author Knowledge Panels
Google is now testing showing article carousel sliders within the knowledge panel for some journalists or authors. It would show in the knowledge panel section for when you search for their name.
2021 SEO Periodic Table Now Available
10 years ago, the folks at Search Engine Land (that includes me) released the first edition of the SEO Periodic Table. Since then, we’ve updated the table a few times as SEO has changed over the years. We did it again for the 10th anniversary of the t…
Google: There Isn’t All That Much Trick In Search
Google has published its most recent Search Off The Record podcast, and it is filled with a lot of good nuggets like always, but I wanted to highlight one part of it where Gary Illyes from Google said that “there isn’t all that much trick in search.” M…
Google Video: Changes With Top Stories With The Page Experience Update
Google has released a really nice and clear video on what top stories changes are happening now with the release of the page experience update. As you know, top stories no longer require AMP and signed exchanges support will allow Google to prefetch t…
Google: Quality Is A Site Level Signal
I am not sure why there are such extreme divisions in the SEO industry around site level vs page level signals. Some say Google only uses page level signals for rankings and some say Google uses both, page and site level signals. The reality is there …
Google Browse More Ideas Search Feature
Google on mobile search has a new box for “browse more ideas” for some queries. This box shows is a fancy query refinement to get you to do more searches to refine your query to something more specific.
Google Tests Refinement Bubbles In People Also Ask
Google is testing search refinement bubbles and selectors in the people also ask area of the search results. So the people also ask box comes up and then you can refine those options by clicking on the search refinement bubbles.
Google June 2021 Core Update Finished Rolling Out On Saturday, June 12th
Well, the June 2021 core update that was announced on June 2nd, began rolling out at 6:30pm ET on June 2nd, but was not really felt much until a few days later is officially done rolling out. It actually took about ten-days to fully roll out and ended …
Google Page Experience Update Rolling Out Between June 15 & End Of August
So yesterday, Google not only said the June 2021 core update finished rolling out on June 12th, but also said that on June 15th it began to start the slow process of rolling out the page experience update. Reminder, this was suppose to roll out in May…
Google: Removing People Also Ask Results Takes Longer Than Removing Normal Search Results
Google’s John Mueller said in this past Friday’s SEO video hangout that requesting removal of people also ask results in Google takes longer than would the removal of normal search results. He said this is because the people also ask results are from …
Google: No Sudden Ranking Drop When The Page Experience Update Goes Live
Google’s John Mueller was asked again if “there be a sudden drop in rankings of websites that have poor Core Web Vitals score?” John said no, there won’t be a sudden drop in rankings for these sites. He said “no, we’re rolling this out slowly over th…
Google’s John Mueller Drops Tweet On Premature Optimization
John Mueller of Google dropped a fun tweet yesterday where he wrote “thinking about premature optimization, but for SEO…” Premature SEO… Of course, the responses are somewhat interesting and I thought I’d share some of the early responses, but cli…
Google Launches Search Console Insights After A Year Of Testing
After over 11 months of testing, probably a lot more, Google is taking the Search Console Insights feature out of BETA and officially launching it. Search Console Insights “joins data from both Search Console and Google Analytics with a goal of making…
Google: Site Command Rankings Can Be Impacted By Core Updates
I do a ton of site command searches, I do this to find content on specific sites, and I’ve noticed over the years is that the results I get from Google before and after a core update can be impacted for those site commands. So I asked Google if I am c…
Google Dataset Structured Data Adds Funder Property Type
Google has added a new optional property type to the dataset structured data to document who the funders, if any, are for this data. You can define the person or organization that provides financial support for this dataset with this datatype.
Google Deprecates Critic Review Structured Data Support
Google announced on June 10th that it has deprecated support for critic review markup schema and structured data. Google said “we initially tested critic review markup with a group of site owners, and ultimately found that it wasn’t useful for the ecos…