Google Fact Labels On Image Search Results With ClaimReview Schema
Google is now adding fact labels to the Google Image Search results. This comes over three and a half years after adding fact labels to Google News and a bit over three years of adding fact labels to web search. Now, you can see fact labels in the Goog…
Google Expanded More Hours Now In Direct Answers
Google has always showed a direct answer for when you search for a business name and hours. But here is a screen shot showing Google displaying hours by department and special pick up hours, which I suspect come from the new expanded more hours featur…
Google Movie & TV Results Slick Hover Over Feature
Satyajeet Salgar, Group Product Manager – Media and Entertainment at Google Search, shared a new feature Google launched in search. It is a small feature around movie and TV results. When you hover your mouse over the cards, they show you an animation…
Google: It Is Not Cheating Using AMP For Speed Optimization & Ranking
Let’s step back quickly and remind you that Google is releasing the Page Experience Update. Part of that are the core web vitals will become a ranking factor and you want your pages to be fast. If you use AMP, Google will use your AMP page for measur…
A Big Google Search Ranking Algorithm Update Happening Now?
I know I reported about a Google search ranking update from over the weekend and then again on June 18th and June 10th. But it seems like something is brewing in the past several hours and it seems big. No, Google has not confirmed anything but there …
Link Builder Threats In Referer – Scary One
Link builders can be pretty savvy and sometimes also, some can be pretty unscrupulous. Here is an example of a link referer threatening the site owner to link to them or else they will give that person’s mother.
Google: How To Diagnose Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) Slowness
Are you Google Core Web Vitals not showing good signs for speed? Well, how do you go about speeding things up? One webmasters asked Google about this and Google said you can use webpagetest.org to help find the assets that are slow.
Google How To Schema On Desktop, Now With Images
In May, Google began testing how to schema rich results on desktop after only showing them on mobile. That test went away on June 5th and then came back on June 16th. Well, now that it is back, Google is also showing image thumbnails next to these re…
Google: We Don’t Explicitly Measure EAT In Search
Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that Google Search does not explicitly measure E-A-T in search. John was asked about which signals does Google use to measure E-A-T and John said “that’s not something we’d explicitly measure for Search — it’s a …
Google Search & Discover Algorithm Ranking Update Over Weekend
On Thursday, June 18th, we reported about a possible Google search ranking and algorithm update. But it seems a couple of days later things began to heat up even more. The chatter in the ongoing WebmasterWorld thread has spiked a lot and the tools ar…
Google Search Console & Google Analytics New Integrated Reports Beta?
Google just sent out messages to some Google Search Console verified users of some sort of improved new experience between Google Analytics and Google Search Console. The email says that Google is “working on a new experience that combines Search Conso…
Vlog #72: Daniel Waisberg On Google Search Console & The Search Relations Team
Daniel Waisberg (@danielwaisberg) is a search advocate at Google, former Google Analytics guru and now working with the Google Search Relations team on Search Console…
Google Having Issues Indexing Disqus Comments?
Google may be having issues indexing new comments on blogs and web sites powered by Disqus, a commenting platform that we use here. Praveen Sharma complained about it on Twitter and Martin Splitt from Google said it “looks like a glitch on our end.”
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Video On Using Manual Actions In Google Search Console
Google’s Daniel Waisberg released a new Google Search Console training video, this one was on using manual actions in Search Console. While most of you, all of you, already have experience with the manual actions feature in Search Console – it may be a…
Google Search Console Data Holes
Google’s John Mueller said the time you would see missing data, or as he called it, “data holes,” in Google Search Console would be when a site is left unverified for a while.
Google Ads Now Issuing COVID-19 Credits
Google told us the company would be giving out credits to Google Ads advertisers for COVID-19. This is to help businesses face the challenges of the economic downturn over this pandemic. The ad credit is automatically applied to your promotions tab in…
Google Search Ranking Algorithm Updates Thursday, June 18th
Over the past couple of days, starting as early as Wednesday, but most on Thursday, June 18th, I am seeing some signs of a Google search ranking algorithm update. It is not a massive one but there was an increase in SEO community chatter along with som…
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google June 18th Algorithm Update, Nofollow Those Guest Posts, Nofollow Changes & More
My normal camera is still being fixed so I am still using my iPhone, if you like it better, do let me know in the comments. There was a possible unconfirmed Google search ranking update on Thursday…
Google Does Support Nofollow On HTML Link Tag
Gary Illyes from Google, after multiple days of research, has confirmed that Google indeed supports the use of the nofollow link attribute on HTML link tags. He said this is supported in “the form of rel=”alternate nofollow”, and that will prevent Goo…