Google Posts With Special COVID-19 Updates
If you login to Google My Business, click on Posts, you have a new option to write a post specific with COVID-19 information about your business. Google said on Twitter “COVID-19 update posts will appear at the top of your business profile in local se…
Google Featured Snippets Not In Position One
Brian Freiesleben shared a screen shot of a featured snippet showing up not in the first position of the Google Search results page but lower down on the page. Back in the old days, I thought featured snippets can show in multiple locations but I can b…
Google: Spammers Would Love To Know Which Links It Labels As Spam
Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter “spammers would love to know which links aren’t recognized as spam.” That is why Google does not label which links they know are spam in Google Search Console. Google has said this before but sometimes it needs t…
Daily Search Forum Recap: April 2, 2020
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.
Search Engine Roundtable Stories:
April 2020 Google Webmaster Report
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People Search Visually In Google Images But The Image Is Not What They Are Looking For
Google’s John Mueller said that many people use Google Images to search visually but what they are looking for is not the image but rather something else. He said on Twitter “Lots of people search visually in Google Images, and the image is just a snip…
April 2020 Google Webmaster Report
Well, it has been an interesting month to say the least. I mean, tons of COVID-19 related changes have been made to Google search and local – tons…
Google Doodle For Dame Jean Macnamara – Polio Vaccine
Instead of the April Fools jokes today, we have a serious Google Doodle for the 121st birthday of Dame Jean Macnamara, an Australian medical doctor and scientist, best known for her contributions to children’s health and welfare – specifically her work…
Google Ads New Policy Disallows Profiting Off Sensitive Events, Like COVID-19
Google posted a new Google Ads policy yesterday that does not allow ads for with “content that potentially capitalizes on or lacks reasonable sensitivity towards a natural disaster, conflict, death, public health emergency, or other tragic event.”
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Google Structured Data For COVID-19 Announcements
Google has added new help documentation around using structured data specific to COVID-19 announcements. Google said on Twitter “We’ve released new docs on how to add structured data for COVID-19 announcements to your web pages. This isn’t yet visibl…
Google Initiative To Help Health Organizations Become More Visible In Search
Google has launched a new initiative to help official health organizations, such as national health ministries and US state level agencies, to become more visible in search. Google is doing this by sharing a new document on important best practices fo…
Google My Business Support During Uncertain Times
Google posted a microsite with tools and resources to help small businesses during these uncertain times. Google wrote “We know this is a difficult time for people everywhere, including small business owners. We want to help. We’ve gathered some usefu…
Vlog #59: Dawn Anderson On Google BERT & What It Really Means
Dawn Anderson runs an agency in the UK named Bertey, and it was named that before Google BERT came out. Her agency is actually named for her dog, which she named Bertey several years ago. So really…
Google Releases The Webmaster Conference Product Summit Videos
Last November Google held an SEO and webmaster conference at their Mountain View offices, the GooglePlex. I was there and posted my takeaways over here. But today, Google has released all the video recordings from the event. Now you all can watch the …
Google: We Can Look Up Internal PageRank But Toolbar PageRank Is Gone
Gary Illyes from Google said technically he and his colleagues are able to lookup the PageRank values of a page but there “rarely” is ever a reason to do so he said. He said the toolbar PageRank score, the pretty one, which is 0 through 10, is long go…
Google Temporary Closed Status Now Doesn’t Hurt Your Search Rankings
Google has posted an update on Twitter that now when you mark you business as temporarily closed, it will not impact your search rankings. Google said “keep customers updated on your status without affecting search rankings.”
Google Posts In Google My Business Now Back After Being Disabled
Google has said it has reenabled the ability to use Google Posts after it was temporarily disabled. Google wrote on Twitter “business posts were temporarily disabled and have now resumed.”
Hide Search Performance For This Query In Google
Yesterday I reported about new preferences with Google Search Console but focused on the email preferences. You can also communicate to Google that you want to hide the search performance for this query report snapshot you sometimes see in the Google s…
Google Search Takeout & Delivery Discover More Places Cards
If you search for some restaurant related keywords, such as [steakhouse nyc], Google will show you the typical “discover more places” carousel of images. But now Google is showing “takeout” and “delivery” cards as the first two options.
Google Ads Testing Carousel In Search Again?
Almost a year ago, Google was spotted testing a Google Ads format that shows the Google Ads in a carousel format. Well, Google might be testing it again, or it might be some sort of malware causing this.
Google Search Console New Email Preferences – Screen Shots
Valentin Pletzer posted screen shots on Twitter of a new email preferences feature in Google Search Console. This is something we knew Google has been working on but now we can see some of it in these screen shots that Valentin shared. It looks like mo…