Google Displays Stars With Reviews In Local Knowledge Panel
Google is now showing actual stars in the reviews section of the local knowledge panel reviews area. Tom Waddington showed a screen shot of this on Twitter and I can replicate it for some businesses.
Wikipedia Gatekeeping The About This Result Google Feature?
I honestly think this new “about this result” feature is not a big deal (I can be wrong) but with anything new with Google Search, SEOs tend to obsess about it. So now SEOs are concerned about the information within that feature. Specifically, why is…
Google May Suspend E-Commerce Sites That Change Prices On Checkout Page
Google announced that starting on April 6, 2021 it will begin to enforce that the price feed to Google in the Merchant Center feed is not higher than what is displayed on the checkout screen. This is in addition to price enforcement validation of the p…
Google Tests Compare Search Results
Google is testing a method to compare the set of search results it gives you after you enter a query. Google lets you select a number of search result snippets and compare them.
Google My Business Adds Guidelines For Co-Working Spaces
Google has added one line to its Google My Business guidelines around co-working spaces. In short, if your business is out of a co-working space it must have signage, accept customers and be staffed to be eligible to have a Google My Business listing w…
February 2021 Google Webmaster Report
So the first month of 2021 is now over and it has proven to be an important month. We had Google trickle out a few unconfirmed ranking algorithm updates this month, including confirming rolling out subtopics rankings last year. Google launched a new …
Chrome Data Added To Google Search Console Discover Performance Report
Google announced it added Chrome data to the Google Search Console Discover performance report. I guess previously this report only included data from the Google home page and Google Search app. Now, it will include data Chrome users see when they ope…
Google Keeps Printing Money: Up 23% YoY & Search Up 17%
Google announced impressive earnings last night showing their revenue was up 23% year-over-year. If you just look at the Google Search category, Google earned $31,903M in Q4 2020 compared to $27,185M in Q4 2019, that is a 17% increase. Overall revenue…
Google: Core Web Vitals Values Won’t Differ Based On Type Of Site
Google won’t be giving different levels or metrics of the Core Web Vitals scores based on the type of web site you have. So news sites versus e-commerce sites won’t make a difference when it comes to the Core Web Vitals score Google gives the site.
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Google Launched The About This Result Snippet Feature
Google has launched a feature for its search results snippets that show more information about a search result. We saw Google testing this back in 2019 and in 2020 and has decided to launch it in BETA mode for now.
Google’s People Also Search For Entity Overlay Feature
Google is testing another feature for “people also search for,” this one overlays entity information in a popup menu when you hover your mouse over the term. This was spotted by Valentin Pletzer who called this “refinement bubbles within entity popover…
Podcast: Google On The Search Central Site Migration
In the latest Google Search Off the Record podcast, John Mueller, Gary Illyes, Lizzi Harvey and Cherry Prommawin got together to speak about the launch and migration of the new Google Search Central site. The team migrated four different sites into on…
Bing Estimated Reading Time In Search Result Snippets
Microsoft Bing is now testing displaying the estimated reading time for some of the search results. Within some search result snippets, Bing is adding “estimated reading time” under the snippet. This can be pulling from some structured data or Bing ca…
Google On Same Link But Different Anchor Text On Same Page
What if you had the same hyperlink twice on the same page but the first hyperlink used one set of anchor text and the second hyperlink used a different set of anchor text. Is that a bad thing? Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that they would be …
Google On Removing Redacted Information From Search
Google’s John Mueller highlighted a document, which he said is not new, but it is useful, named keep redacted information out of Google Search. This document gives you tips on how to help ensure Google does not find this content in the first place and…
Google Search CLS Annoyance With People Also Search For
So you know, Google is going to slam sites that shift around and end up making you, by accident, click on the wrong spot on the page. It is part of the Page Experience Update’s core web vitals Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS) metric. Well, Google Search …
Google My Business Not Applied Changes Now Offer Send Edit Feedback
Amy Toman spotted a new feature in Google Local and Google My Business. The feature seems to allow you to send additional feedback to Google when a suggested edit you make to a Google business listing is not accepted (i.e. not applied) for some reason….
Google Ads Adult Policy Change For Sexually Suggestive Themes
Google is making changes to its adult policy for Google Ads starting on March 29, 2021. Google said it will then start the “full enforcement” of these new policies four “ramping up over approximately four weeks.” The new policies are around sexually s…
Google Shopping Black-Owned Business Label
Black-owned businesses can now get the “black-owned business” label added to their Google Shopping listings in Google Search. This looks just like the Google My Business version but now it shows up on product results within Google Shopping.
Vlog #105: Dawn Beobide On Google Page Experience Update & Unconfirmed Algorithm Updates (Part Two)
Dawn Beobide and I in part two of the video started to talk about the upcoming Google Page Experience Update. Google is going to release a new update around Core Web Vitals and page experience factors…