Google Local Adds Messaging Button To Google Posts
Looks like Google is adding a message button on the Google Posts for local business profiles. Previously we saw a message button on the “updates” section, but now we are seeing then on the larger Google Posts section.
Google: Private Whois Domain Name Data Does Not Impact Rankings
Google’s John Mueller said that having a private whois domain name registration status does not change how Google trusts the site. It really does not impact the site’s rankings in Google Search.
Google Deletes Its Autogenerated Web Stories & They Now 404
The other day I reported how Google was showing featured snippets with overlays but some of those featured snippets were autogenerated web stories generated by Google’s own AI techniques. Well, after I covered it last night again at Search Engine Land…
Google Maps Displaying Hotel Review Rating Averages & Other Attributes On Map Pins
Lluc Berrio Penycate posted on Twitter some screen shots of Google testing in Google Maps overlaying hotel attributes over the map pins for hotel listings. These can show average review ratings of hotels, category, pricing, and other attributes.
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Was There A Google Update Earlier This Week?
Starting around Monday, November 23rd, there has been some signals that Google was pushing out another Google search algorithm ranking update. But the chatter is almost non-existent while some of the tools show big changes. Here is what I see, but aga…
Google Guaranteed Badge Displays On Google Local & Maps Results
Last week Google began testing showing the Google Guaranteed badge in the Google Local pack and Google Maps listings for some businesses. Joy Hawkins first reported this on November 18th and others do seem to have seen it after.
NY Times & Other Publishers Dislike Google’s Quotes In The News Box
There are a number of publishers, including Anna Dubenko, the Deputy Audience Director at The New York Times, who are not happy how Google shows that “Quotes In The News Box.” The issue is, she said, the quotes can be taken out of context because Goog…
Google: Others Copying Your Content Wouldn’t Results In Your Pages Rank Lower
Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that just because someone is copying your content, that doesn’t mean your pages will rank lower in Google Search. He said “others copying your content wouldn’t be reason for your pages to rank lower.”
Google Featured Snippets With Data Overlay Links To Other Sites
Google is testing a new feature in featured snippet results that overlay data elements from other web sites, not the site in the featured snippet. The featured snippet shows a dotted underline, that when you scroll your mouse cursor over, it overlays…
Google: You Can’t Force GoogleBot To Crawl You Over HTTP/2
As you know, Google began crawling some sites over HTTP/2 this month. While you can opt out of this, i.e. GoogleBot crawling your site over HTTP/2, you cannot opt in to it, at least not now. John Mueller of Google said on Twitter “we don’t manually pick sites for trials like that, it’s more about whether it’s possible & makes sense for crawling.”
Google Local Packs May Roll Out X Years In Business Label
Over the past couple of days, I have been getting a lot of notifications from folks that they are now seeing Google show the number of years a business has been in operation directly in the local pack. We’ve covered this a month or so ago, but it might…
Large Spike Google My Business Suspensions
There has been a large number of recent complaints that Google is suspending tons of Google My Business listings. It seems these are account wide suspensions, where if you have multiple business listings in your account, all those listings would be su…
Google Ads Editor v1.5 Adds Improved Filtering, Image Extensions, Detailed Recommendations & More
Google released a new Google Ads Editor release the other day, it is version 1.5 and with it comes a bunch of goodies. The big changes are improved filtering options, support for image extensions, more detailed recommendations, and so much more. Here …
Microsoft Bing Search: Shopping The Look
Microsoft Bing has added a new feature to its search results page before the holiday shopping season named “shopping the look.” It basically will show you outfits of items that go together, and not just clothing items one at a time. This reminds me o…
Google Tests Highlighting Snippets To Refine Your Search
Here is a weird Google Search feature that the company may be testing. Jackson Lo first notified me of it, where if you do a search in Google and then highlight text on the search results page, Google will overlay a box to let you search for the text y…
Google Knows When You Upgrade Your Server & Will Relearn How Fast & Frequent To Crawl
When you move your web site from one host to another, Google generally knows about it. When Google detects the change, it can and likely does attempt to relearn how fast and frequent it should crawl your site. Gary Illyes from Google said this on Twi…
Manual Actions Back In Google Search Console
Last week starting around Wednesday November 18th manual actions began disappearing from Google Search Console. Well, it seems those manual actions are now reappearing in the manual action viewer.
Vlog #95: Elie Orgel On Data For Creating Link Bait Pages (Part One)
Elie Orgel has been doing SEO for about ten years and I actually have some connections that go way back. He currently works at the Rosenblum Law firm as the director of marketing there. He got into SEO by making web sites for local businesses and then…
Google My Business Dashboard Tests New Location Manager Interface
Looks like Google is testing a new dashboard for the location list view in Google My Business. Claire Carlile shared a screen shot of the new design, which basically adds a pencil icon, photo icon and comment icon, with a new verified icon and a see yo…
Short Google Search Video On Rendering & Crawling
How do you sum up how Google renders and crawls web sites in about two minutes? Well, John Mueller of Google was tasked to do just that and he managed to do it in this video.