Google Image Search Knowledge Panels Now Live
A few weeks ago we reported Google was testing knowledge panel expandable elements within Google Image Search preview results. Well, now it is live and Google announced it on its blog.
Two Google Search Boxes – Seeing Double…
In the past week, I had two different people notify me that when they did a Google search on their mobile devices, Google returned two search boxes on the same page. Yes, it is like they are seeing double.
Google: To Say All Link Building Is Bad Would Be Wrong
There you have it, Google’s John Mueller said not all link building is bad. He said on Twitter “there are lots of ways to work on getting links that are fine, and useful for both the site and the rest of the web.” “To say all link building is bad woul…
Who Would Win An SEO Contest: John Mueller, Gary Illyes Or Martin Splitt
There was an AMA on Reddit with Martin Splitt of Google and one of the wise-crack questions Ryan Jones asked Martin was “Who would win out of you, Gary and John in an SEO contest?” Martin said Gary Illyes would win, he said “Gary, probably” would win …
Google Structured Data Testing Tool Going Away; SEOs Are Not Happy
Google announced yesterday that the Rich Results Test Tool is out of beta – yay! Google announced with that news that the Structured Data Testing Tool will be deprecated at some point. Google said “the Rich Results Test fully supports all Google Searc…
Manager Accounts Now On Google Ads Mobile App
The mobile app for iOS and Android for Google Ads now supports manager accounts. Google said “today, we’re launching manager accounts in the mobile app so you can easily view and manage all of your Google Ads accounts in one place.”
Google Ads Overview Page Adds Recommendations, Optimization Score & Add New Campaign
Google has added three new features to the Google Ads overview page. This includes (1) the ability to view and apply recommendations, (2) you can view your optimization score, and (3) you can create a new campaign directly from this overview page.
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How To Remove “Order Online” Button From Google Local Panel
Did you know that you can remove the “online order” buttons on your local business knowledge panel in the Google search and Google Map results? I do not believe this applies to the ads, which is frustrating, but it does apply to other providers.
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Signs Of A Small Google Search Ranking Algorithm Update Around July 6th
Over the past couple of days, maybe starting around July 6th but continuing on through today, July 8th – I am seeing some signs of a Google search ranking algorithm update. The chatter is there but it is more limited, maybe only impacting a smaller gr…
Google: Scoring 100 In SEO In Lighthouse Doesn’t Make You A Good SEO
Gary Illyes of Google said on Twitter “achieving a SEO score 100 in Lighthouse just means that you can follow a handful of directions, not that you’re great at SEO.” He did say “but good job!” Those that do score 100 he said are good at following dir…
The Google Indexing Issue From A Month Ago Was A Crawling Issue
On June 2, 2020, Google yet again confirmed it was having issues displaying new content in its search results. Google said it was an “indexing issue.” Well, it was actually a crawling issue that led to Google not being able to show the new pages in th…
Google Tests Video List View
Google is testing replacing the carousel interface in the Google search results for videos with a list view. Here is a screen shot from Mordy Oberstein where he spotted this when he was looking for new jeans :).
Web Stories Image Thumbnails In Google Mobile Search Results
In 2018, Google launched AMP Stories and then they got more visual, with visual stories in 2019. Now, Google renamed them from AMP Stories to Web Stories. Did you know that if you publish a web story, Google’s mobile search results will show you a fa…
Bing Advice On Optimizing For Intelligent Answers & Questions?
I will be honest, the blog post Bing posted yesterday confused me. The title is “How to Optimize Your Content for Search Questions using Deep Learning.” The author of the blog post, which is unknown, said “I think one approach to do this is to evaluat…
Regular Expression Filter Coming To Google Search Console Performance Report
People either love or hate regular expressions, so if you love them – you are going to love what is coming to Google Search Console’s Performance report. Google is adding the ability to use regular expressions in that report according to an updated hel…
Google Tests Boxed In Related Searches User Interface
Google is yet again testing another user interface for the related searches. We saw magnifying glass icons, we saw too many related searches and much more. Now we are seeing these boxed in as a test.
Google: Spam Reports Not Used For Manual Actions
Gary Illyes from Google posted on the Google blog that spam reports are not used for manual actions. That spam reports are used for improving Google’s spam detection algorithms. Was it ever used for manual actions? Gary would not say.
Gary Illyes From Google Quizzes SEOs
Google’s Gary Illyes posted a pop quiz for SEOs the other day on Twitter. The responses of the poll showed that SEOs are split on the answer of how Google would handle a contradictory robots.txt file directive.
Vlog #74: Christi Olson On Audience Targeting & Digital Commerce Strategy
Christi Olson (@ChristiJOlson), is the head of Evangelism for Search and Advertising at Microsoft. She speaks around the world and is super smart and an amazing communicator…
Google Testing People Also Search For & Top Trends On Right Panel
Stephen Watts is in a Google test where Google is testing placing the people also search for and top trends feature on the right hand panel. Normally this is in the main search results on the left but here Google is testing it on the right.