Google Local Panel Listing With Two Phone Numbers
Francastro notified me on Twitter of a local panel he spotted in the Google search results that lists not one, but two different phone numbers. I am not sure if I’ve seen this before so I figured I share his screen shot here.
Google Brings Back The Twitter Carousel
Google has brought back the Twitter carousel in the Google search results last night. It was removed after Twitter had an embarrassing hack back on July 15th or so. Four days later, Google brought back the feature after doing a security review on its …
Google Ads To Ban Coronavirus (COVID-19) Dangerous & Derogatory Ads
Google announced late on Friday a new Google Ads policy around the coronavirus and COVID-19 as it related to its dangerous or derogatory content. Google will specifically ban ads that promote conspiracy theories around the virus. Google said it has up…
Google Showing Large Image Packs For Queries
This looks like a bug, but might be a test, where Google is showing some searchers for almost all queries, a large box or pack of image results that match the query. This image box is not new, but to show so many images, for so many variations of quer…
Google Partners Rewards Is Back Email Notification
Dave Davies posted a screen shot of an email he received from Google with the subject line “Goals are back. Google Partners Rewards for Q3 is now live.” The email starts off by saying “Google Partners Rewards is back.” This comes a month or so after G…
Vlog #76: Mary & Dave Davies on User Experience vs Technical SEO
Mary & Dave Davies is like the SEO sweetheart couple and they co-run Beanstalk Internet Marketing. They started the company together in 2004 and survived working together for over 15-years…
Google Celebrates Dr. Dilhan Eryurt On Moon Day
Today on Google’s home page is a special out of this world Google Doodle, aka, special Google logo, for Dr. Dilhan Eryurt. It is not Dr. Dilhan Eryurt birthday but it is Moon Day. To honor the day, Google is celebrating the life of Dr. Dilhan Eryurt.
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Google Local Algorithm Weighs Business Names Too Highly; Google To Fix This.
There has been a number of complaints about Google’s local search ranking algorithm giving way too much weight to the name of the business. But have no fear, Google is working on addressing this according to Danny Sullivan.
Google Tests Blue Shaded Related Search Buttons
Google has been busy testing different variations of related searches interfaces at the bottom of the Google search results. Now Google is testing them with the magnifying glass icon but in a shaded blue background.
Google Pruning The Rich Results & FAQ/How To Schema Results?
There has been chatter recently, with some data backing it up from the data tool provider RankRanger, that Google has stopped showing a nice percentage of rich results and how-to / FAQ schema rich results in the search results.
Google: Our Algorithm Reviewers Are Different From User Reports Reviewers
Google’s John Mueller said that Google has very different people in the corporation who are responsible for reviewing search algorithms from those who review user reports of spam and feedback. Both are humans but those humans do not impact the search …
Google: Don’t Blame GoogleBot For Your Slow Database Queries
GoogleBot is pretty good, actually, very good, at not crawling most sites too much where it actually ends up slowing down the site from loading. GoogleBot is designed to detect that and back off. But if you have a specific set of pages or a page that…
Google Local Panel Displays When Hours Were Last Updated
Casey Bryan shared a screen shot with me on Twitter showing what I think is a new, nifty feature by Google My Business. Google is now showing for some business local panels when the last time that business updated its business hours with Google.
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Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Drops Twitter Carousel After Hack, Google Updates Discover Document & New Google Ads Policies
It was a bit of a slower week, with the big news this week being that Google dropped, for now…
Google Maps: Wear A Mask Alert
Yesterday, like many others, when using Google Maps, Google showed a notification box at the top right, warning people to wear a mask. The notice said “wear a mask, help slow the spread of COVID-19.” The notice was also on Google.com’s home page. Bot…
Google My Business Products Section Design Updated
Google has updated the products section within the Google My Business Console. It now has a cleaner interface, with “see it on Google” and a nice layout for “All products” and a way to filter your products.
Google Discover AMP Articles Going To Main Canonical URL?
Valentin Pletzer has noticed that Google Discover is showing some AMP labels for stories but when you click on the story, Google is not taking the user to the AMP version, the AMP URL, but rather the canonical URL, the main URL of the story.
Google: Do Not Block GoogleBot From Crawling 404s
John Mueller of Google said it would be “a really bad idea which will cause all sorts of problems” if you block Google or other search engines from crawling pages that return a 404 server status code. He said “billions of 404 pages are crawled every d…
Google Video On Crawl Budget & SEO
Alexis Sanders of Merkle sat down with Martin Splitt of Google last year (before COVID) and spoke about crawl budget. It may be one of the more informative videos in the SEO mythbusting series to-date.
Google: It Is Safe To Keep 302 Redirects Up
Here is a new question I don’t think I’ve seen before. Someone asked Google if it is safe to keep a 302 redirect up for a long time. The question was “how long is it safe to use a 302 redirect?” The answer is, it is safe to keep them up for a long ti…