Google Search Tests Sans Serif Font
The same day Google began rolling out its new mobile search design, Google also began testing a new font for its search results. Gemma Fontané notified me of this last Friday and provided side by side comparison screen shots on Twitter.
Google Search Video Carousel Autoplaying Videos Previews
Back in 2017 we saw Google testing autoplaying video previews in the knowledge panel. Now it seems Google is autoplaying video thumbnails on overlay in the video carousel box in the search results.
Google Search Gains AR Photorealistic 3D Car Models
In December Google began adding streamed 3D content with AR features for cars. Now, according to Rajan Patel, the VP of Engineering at Google, said “today, AR just got a lot more real in Search.” He added Google now has “photorealistic 3D models” of s…
Flagging Reviews In Google My Business Has Changes
Late last week, Google has updated the workflow to flag reviews within Google My Business. The new flow gives you a bit more detail and probably makes it easier for Google to route the reviews in the right priority to the right team for review.
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Google Reveals Cookie Alternative – FLoC
Yesterday, Google has took the cover off its alternative to cookies named FLoC or Federated Learning of Cohorts. FLoC basically clusters “large groups of people with similar interests”,” this is data gathered in the browser, not stored anywhere, and i…
Possible Issues With Google Search Console Canonicals & AMP Reporting
There may be some possible bugs or issues with Google Search Console reporting around some canonical URLs being reported in some URL Inspection reports and for the AMP enhancement report.
Google: Digital Public Relations Is Not Spammy Link Building
Google’s John Mueller has said something positive about one strategy SEOs use to attract attention and thus, hopefully, natural links. He said on Twitter “I love some of the things I see from digital pr, it’s a shame it often gets bucketed with the spa…
Vlog #104: Dawn Beobide On Educating Your Developers On SEO (Part One)
I met up with Dawn Beobide, the Director of Marketing at Consumer Labs and she started doing SEO and marketing back in 1999 – Dawn goes way back to the super early days of the SEO industry. She calls herself an SEO Geek and she is, to the core…
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Google: Paying For Content Review Or Time With Links Is Paid Links
What if you do not charge for do-follow links but you do charge for the time for link outreach or the time to review and publish that piece of content, that happens to have a do-follow link. Is that type of link an unnatural link and against Google’s w…
Annoying Call To Action Overlays Can Hurt Your Google Rankings
John Mueller of Google was asked by Michael Lewittes if those news websites you see overlay those call to actions asking you to sign up for their newsletter before seeing the content see harm in their Google rankings because of those actions. And yes, …
Google Adds Price Drop Enhancement Documentation
Google has added updated its product structured data documentation document to include details around price drop enhancements. There is a new section named “price drop” that explains that Google “automatically calculates the price drop.”
Google New Mobile Search Design Side By Side Comparison
On Friday afternoon, Google announced the beginning of the rollout of its new mobile search results design. I now see this new design and I wanted to share some side by side comparisons of the old versus the new design for queries.
Old Google Posts Showing On Local Panels In Search
Google is now showing old, older than a week, Google Posts in the local panel on Google Search. Brodie Clark first spotted this but most people are able to replicate it. Here is his screen shot showing Google Posts from August 25, 2020, which was almos…
Google Search Pushing More Local News
William Vambenepe, the head of the Product Management team of Google News, said Google is not just pushing local news in the Google News Showcase feature but also directly in Google Search. He showed an example for a query on [inauguration] where there…
Chrome 88 Performance Recordings Adds Core Web Vitals Lane
With the release of Chrome 88, you can now see Core Web Vitals data in the developer tools performance recording section. The lane currently displays Web Vitals information such as First Contentful Paint (FCP), Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) and Layou…
Google My Business Insights Breaks Photos Uploads By Owner vs Customer
Google My Business has updated the photo views Insights report to let you filter the images based on if the owner uploaded the photo or a customer uploaded the photo. There is a new drop down to filter by (a) all photos, (b) owner photos and (c) custom…
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Search Indexing Storage Tiers, Language Diversity & Paying Bloggers
This week was a bit slower than a normal week but don’t you worry, it won’t last. Gary Illyes from Google spoke about how Google uses more expensive and faster storage for more important content. Google updated its crawl…
Google Local Review Summaries Now Grouped By Place Topics & Displays 3rd Party Reviews
Mike Blumenthal posted about two changes to review summaries within the Google local listings. Review summaries are “three abbreviated sentences that attempt to capture a snapshot of your business,” Mike said. What is new is that Google is now testing…
New Google Ads Editor Downloads Raise Your Budget Recommendation
Greg Finn posted a screen shot on Twitter of what happened after he downloaded and ran the latest version of Google Ads Editor. He showed how it was downloading the recommendation to raise your budgets. He said on Twitter “Shame. Shame. Shame.”
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Health & Medical Sites Ranking Too Well For Non-Medical Queries?
There are some interesting complaints that Google is ranking medical and health related sites well for non-medical queries. The theory here is that since the Medic Update Google has given some sites more authority to not just rank for the site’s expert…