January 1 New Year’s Day Google Logo / Doodle
New Year’s Day is here for some folks and with that the January 1 New Year’s Day Google logo or Doodle is also live on those who access Google.com when it is January 1, 2021 at their location. Google has changed the New Year’s Eve Doodle cuckoo clock 2…
Bing Image Search Tests Related Content Feature & Icon
Microsoft Bing it testing a new feature on images it displays within its search results. This test shows a “related content” icon and results with an icon when you hover over images displayed in the Microsoft Bing search results.
Google Tests Displaying Services In Local Pack
Colan Nielsen reported that Google is now testing showing service “justifications,” which according to him Google defines as the additional labels in the local pack result. Before we saw web site mentions here, as well as other items, but now Google i…
What Is The Value To Google My Business Followers?
Back in 2018, Google added the ability to allow Google Maps users to follow businesses – hence Google My Business followers. But is there any value to it? Google said back then that the value is that you can “post offers to your followers to keep them…
Google’s John Mueller 2021 Google SEO Advice
At SMX Virtual earlier this month, John Mueller of Google graciously accepted to speak at the event and he shared a lot of amazing tips and changes in search in his presentation. But he also shared some outlook ideas looking forward to 2021 in search …
Elizabeth Peratrovich Google Raven Doodle Logo
Today on Google’s home page is a special raven Doodle, special Google log, for Elizabeth Peratrovich. Elizabeth Peratrovich American civil rights activist and member of the Tlingit nation who worked on behalf of equality for Alaska Natives.
Google: Passage Indexing & Page Experience Updates Unrelated
Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that passage indexing/rankings and the page experience update are “very different things.” This came about when Michel Fortin asked if the two might launch together.
Google Ads Setting Lets You See Fewer Alcohol & Gambling Ads
A couple of weeks ago Google announced it is launching a new ad setting, first on YouTube and then on Google Ads to let users see fewer alcohol ads and gambling ads. You can access this setting now in your Google Ads settings panel.
Google Search Results Show Practice Problems For Studying
Google seems to be testing displaying “practice problems” in the search results so that you can study directly in the search results. Shalom Goodman shared a screen shot with me on Twitter showing a search for [optics] not only brings up a new categor…
Google People Also Ask Tests Question Mark Icons
Google is testing displaying question mark icons in the people also ask results. I think someone else shared this with me recently but I thought it was a bug, but now that a second person notified me of this, maybe it is not a bug but a real Google te…
Google Doodle For New Year’s Eve 2020 & Confetti Surprise
New Years Eve is just around the corner and Google’s special Doodle for New Year’s Eve 2020 is available for viewing. It is the holiday Doodle with an old fashioned bird-house clock with 2020 on it. There is also a little easter egg surprise in the se…
Google Search Console Team Breaks Down Structure & Development
In the last Google Search Console training video series of the year, Daniel Waisberg of Google brought in a special guest, the Engineering lead for Search Console – Hillel Maoz. In this video they discuss a bit of what happens behind the scenes.
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Google Knowledge Panel Types Option Leads To Featured Snippets
Mordy Oberstein spotted a feature, that may or may not be new, where Google is showing a “types” filter in the knowledge panel that ultimately loads featured snippets below it. I can replicate it but here is a video cast of it in action from Mordy on …
Google Search Console Issue Validation May Be Working
A couple of weeks ago we reported that Google Search Console said “issue validation is temporarily disabled due to upcoming changes in the report.” Well, it might be working for some folks, even back when I first reported it. Note – the message is sti…
Google: Nosnippet Tag Won’t Prevent Passage Indexing From Ranking
Google’s Danny Sullivan has said that using the nosnippet tag won’t prevent your pages or passages from your pages from being ranked in Google Search. Danny Sullivan said on Twitter “you can’t use it to block parts of a page from being indexed for ran…
Google: Passage Indexing Won’t Look Different From Normal Search Result Snippets
Since Google announced passage indexing (ranking) many assumed they would look different in the search results. But no, they won’t look any different according to Danny Sullivan of Google. Danny told me on Twitter that passage indexing “doesn’t chang…
John Mueller Of Google Providing Webmaster Support on Christmas Day Again
Google’s John Mueller again, I think since 2007, year-after-year, has jumped into the Google support forums and on social media to answer webmaster questions on Google Search. It is a tradition for him, now 13 years and going. He carves out time to hel…
Google Short Videos Carousel Displays TikTok & Instagram Videos
Back in April, Google began testing a new feature to show short videos in a carousel in the mobile search results. That carousel seemed to first only show YouTube videos, but now it is showing videos from TikTok and Instagram.
Google’s Gary Illyes Thankfully For Late Christmas Present Of Search Spam
Here is a funny post during a slow news week from Gary Illyes of Google saying thank you for the late Christmas present on Reddit. The Reddit post contained a list of “expired domains for 301, new blog or PBNs” as it was titled. Gary from Google respo…
Christmas Weekend Google Algorithm Update? Doubtful.
It is not uncommon to see signals of a Google search ranking algorithm update on or around Christmas. But it is highly doubtful Google would release any algorithm update from Christmas day through New Years. And the signals we are seeing this weekend…