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…
Google Ads Insights Tab Rolling Out To More Advertisers
Google has been dripping out the insights page and section to Google Ads advertisers since November 2020. Now more and more advertisers are seeing it over the past couple of weeks.
Google Search Removes Job Training Rich Results
I believe this is a temporary change but Google has updated the job training rich results structured data documentation to say “this appearance isn’t available on Google Search right now.” The job training experience on Google Search is designed to he…
Google Diversity With Indexing Languages For Search
Gary Illyes from Google said in the Search Off the Record podcast that the search company makes efforts to ensure it indexes a diverse set of languages. Gary said that Google is “paying quite a bit of attention into ensuring that every language has th…
Google Search Indexing Tiers
In addition to the language indexing diversity, Gary Illyes from Google said in the Search Off the Record podcast that Google uses different indexing tiers. He said the search company “might use different kinds of storages to build the index.” Some o…
Google Search Custom Date Range Is Now Fixed
If you go to Google.com and do a search and then try to restrict your search by custom date, you were out of luck over the past few days. The calendar dialog box would not let you click or select any dates. This has been a bug for the past few days a…
Google Expandable Knowledge Panels More Visible
Google seems to be expanding showing its expandable knowledge panels user interface. What is meant by expandable knowledge panel is that the right hand side knowledge panel you see in the search results sometimes can show expandable and collapsable me…
Google Continues Injecting Links Into Featured Snippets
Last November, I reported that Google was testing showing links in a featured snippet that links not to the featured snippet site but to a third-party web site. Well, Google has continued that test and here is another example.
Dealing With “This Is The Way Our Old SEO Did It”
They say in business, one way to ensure your long-term failure, is to use the line “we’ve always done it this way.” Maybe the same is true for SEO? Esben Rasmussen, an SEO, posted on Twitter “I am just in an uphill struggle with a global IT departmen…
Google On Mobile-First Indexing For Separate Mobile URLs
To be clear, none of this is exactly new, but John Mueller of Google took the time to explain how mobile-first indexing works with mobile-first indexing. Most sites have been switched over to mobile-first indexing but if you have not, then here is wha…
Google Tests Movie Carousel Film Ratings Label
We have seen movie results in Google for a long time, but now the movie carousel is testing showing the Motion Picture Association film rating system labels on those movie image covers. Here is a screen shot of this in action from Mordy Oberstein as p…
Google Crawl Stats Report Can Handle Additional Types Of Crawls
Google has noted that it has updated the already updated Crawl Stats report to handle “additional types of crawls.” Google wrote “the crawl stats report has increased its reporting coverage for additional types of crawls.”
Google: Best To Put Structured Data On The Page, Not Using Google Tag Manager
Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that it is best to implement your structured data on the page itself and not use Google Tag Manager to implement your structured data. He said the reason is because it makes it “straight-forward & usually easier to monitor/maintain.”
Google: There’s No Timeframe For Out Of Stock Product Pages Soft 404ing
Google’s John Mueller said that there is no specific timeframe for when an out of stock product page on your e-commerce site will end up resulting in a soft 404 in Google Search. A soft 404 is when Google thinks a page should return a 404 server status…
Martin Luther King Jr. Day Google Logo
Today is Martin Luther King Jr. Day and to celebrate the day, Google and other search engines like Bing, have special memorials on their home pages. Google has this special Doodle designed by Pittsburgh-based guest artist Noa Denmon and Bing has the st…
Google Search Tests Expandable Accordion Carousels
Google seems to be testing a new feature in its search results. A way to expand a specific news section in the main web results to show a carousel of news stories related to that section. You can click on the diagonal arrows to trigger the action, her…