Google Offers Help On The Apple iOS 14 ATT Policy Changes
Google has published a document explaining what developers need to know about the upcoming App Tracking Transparency (ATT) policy changes.The changes will require developers to ask for permission when they use certain information from other companies’ …
Google Search Now Displays Sports Player Statistics
Google Search is now showing the statistics for individual sport player stats. Mordy Oberstein, who admits he is not a 12 year old, noticed this new Google feature because he said he checks these queries often enough.
Google Search Critic Ratings Scale Visualization
Here is another variation of product attribute sliders within Google Search. In the screen shot from Brian Freiesleben you will see a “critic ratings” box that shows a scale that says “lower than most” from Bat Digest.
Google Search Found 25 Billion Spammy Pages Each Day
Google released a video talking about search spam and what Google does to protect searches from “spam sites, phishing scams, and other bad actors” trying to get into Google search. One metric that stood out was that Google detected “25 billion spammy p…
Smaller Google Search Ranking Algorithm Update On January 27th
There may have been a smaller and unconfirmed Google search ranking algorithm update that touched down around January 26th but mostly felt on January 27th. I was going to report on it yesterday but more important information came out, so I held this u…
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Mobile Search Redesign, Ranking Update, Web Stories Teasers, Google On Links & More
This week, on January 27th, there was an unconfirmed and somewhat smaller Google search ranking update. Google launched a new redesign for its mobile search results pages…
Google Australia Adds Notice To Search Results About News Links Law
So you probably have heard the news that Australia wants Google and other platforms to pay to list search results to news outlets. Well, now, Google has added a large noticeable banner to the top of the search results in Google Australia for any query…
The Industry Mourns The Loss Of Hamlet Batista: A Special & Talented SEO Soul
We lost a special and talented SEO soul yesterday, Hamlet Batista. Hamlet Batista was not just insanely talented in his profession, in our industry, but he was also one of the most giving, caring and loving people that our industry ever knew. And now…
Google Tests Red & White Hotel Pricing Pins
Normally when you do a search for hotels in a specific location, Google will show you a hotel search box with pricing pins in a blue background color. Google is testing variations of the colors for those pins both in red and white background colors, a…
Google Ranks Pages But Overall Site Greatly Influences The Ranking Pages
There is an interesting debate going on in the SEO industry over the past couple of days on if Google ranks pages as individual web pages or if Google ranks websites as a whole. The answer is really both and I’ll explain why.
Entity vs. Query Rank In Google Search
Mark Williams-Cook posted a super interesting example of Google Search showing a different set of ranked results for the same query. The only difference was how the search was conducted. One search was done as a query, typing in the words into the sea…
Google Will Stop Showing Teaser Web Stories In Search & Discover
Google posted on the Google blog that it will try to no longer show “teaser” based web stories in Google Search and Google Discover. Paul Bakaus from Google wrote “A critical ranking signal at Google is the quality of your content. And a one- or two-pa…
Google To Stop Supporting Data-Vocabulary.org In Search This Weekend
Google on Sunday, January 31, 2021, will stop supporting markup in the format from data-vocabulary.org. Google gave us over a years notice of this change, so this change should not come as a surprise to anyone here.
Logos Disappearing From Google Local Listings
There are a number of reports in the Local Search Forum that businesses are seeing their logos disappear from their Google local listings in search. I currently see mine so maybe it was a temporary glitch and it is now fixed.
Microsoft Advertising Filter Link Extensions: More Links In Ads On Bing
Microsoft announced a new Microsoft Advertising search ad extension named Filter Link extensions. These Filter Link extensions enable advertisers to show many different link extensions in their ad snippet, as opposed to one.
Google Ads Tests “Site” Label In Search Ads
Here is a small and subtle test that probably will irritate some advertiers. Google Ads is testing placing a label named “Site” between the Ad label and the URL of the search ad in the mobile results. Patrick Garde shared a screen shot of this with m…
Google Can Penalize A Network Of Sites For The Same Manual Action
Let’s say you run a legit network of sites under one umbrella company. Those sites have different content but the content is in the same framework and structure because I assume they use the same content management system and overall site structure. G…
New Google My Business Insights Platform & Device Breakdown
Google My Business seems to be adding to the Insights section new metrics that businesses can use for analytical purposes. The new metrics is called platform and device breakdown that show you the devices people used to find your business in Google Sea…
Google Drops Review Snippets For Lawyers
It looks like Google has stopped displaying the rich results review snippets for attorneys and lawyers in the Google search results. Joy Hawkins showed a screen shot from January 10, 2021 with ratings showing in the Google search results and then on J…
Google Mistakenly Sending Emails To Verify Sites In Search Console
Google is emailing users to verify their sites in Google Search Console. The issue is that this is going to people who do not have any way of verifying those sites because they are not the site owner.