Google Ads Stats In Search Results
Google Ads will soon start showing you how your Google Ads campaigns are performing directly in the search results. All you would need to do is search for [my ads] or [google ads] and you will see this little stats box at the top of the search results….
Google Square Promoted Map Pins
Google has launched new square-shaped map pins named promoted pins. It is aimed to help you make your listing stand out from the normal shaped pin like pins in Google Maps.
Google Search Fireworks Show Is Back
If you go to Google Search and search for [fireworks] you will see the search results explode with a fireworks show. This is exactly the same thing Google did last year a few weeks before July fourth but now, it is live a bit earlier.
Google Search Suggestions On Scroll
Here is an interesting test from Google Search. You type in a query, go to the search results and as you scroll through the search results, the search box shows search suggestions. As you can see from the example by Yvo Schaap on Twitter, Google shows…
Google: One Million Sites Using Rel=Sponsored
An interesting tidbit from the podcast from the Google folks was that Gary Illyes from Google said a heck of a lot of sites are already using the rel=sponsored link attribute. He said one million sites are already using the rel=sponsored link attribute…
Google Online Care Icon Added To Local Pack
We have seen Google add the “get online care” details to a local panel, when you click on a medical and health related local result in Google. But now Google has added the “online care” icons to the higher level, local pack.
Google Fixing Bug Where Dealership Service Shops Show Over Main Dealership Local Panel
In early March, Google added a feature to Google My Business that allow car dealerships to have multiple Google My Business listings within Google Local and Google Maps. But now it seems that for some dealerships, the service listing is showing above t…
Google Images Tests Query Expander Drop Down On Image Previews
Brian Freiesleben spotted a new feature Google is testing in Google Image search. When you click on an image preview on mobile, he saw Google showing related or query expander drop downs under the image. When you click on it, it shows more information…
The Google Page Experience Scores Will Use AMP Version
I already said this when I wrote about the Google Page Experience Update but it is important to say again. If you have an AMP version and your site is on mobile-first indexing, which all sites should be by the end of this year, then Google’s Page Expe…
Should You Break Up Your CSS & JavaScript Files Into Smaller Chunks? Here Is What Google Said.
Bartosz Goralewicz asked Martin Splitt of Google an interesting question. He asked if we should break out CSS and JavaScript files into smaller chunks of files or not. The answer from Martin is a long one but in short, it depends. :-)
Google Nofollow Change Might Be About Fixing Webmaster Mistakes
Google published its first podcast named Search Off the Record and in that podcast, Gary Illyes from Google talked a bit more about all the nofollow link changes coming. He said again that he is working on something but it seems like these changes won’…
A Clever Google Query Modifier
Omar Ortiz shared a search result query modifier feature from Google search with me on Twitter that is pretty clever. It shows that when you search on Google for [how much do you need to retire] Google is smart enough to ask you different ages that yo…
Google My Business Pulling Data From Facebook
It looks like Google My Business is able to pull data from Facebook to show in the Google Maps and Google Search local panels. Here is an example from Tom Waddington of a plumber listing that shows the owner’s name and the source of that information s…
Google Ads New Clickbait Ads Policy
Google announced yesterday that in July 2020, next month, Google will introduce a new clickbait ads policy under the Google Ads Misrepresentation policy. Google wrote “this policy covers advertisement which uses sensationalist or clickbait text or imag…
Google Merchant Center Rendering & Product Data Specification Updates
Did you know that the Google Merchant side of things crawls a bit differently than the rest of Google. Google’s Martin Splitt said on that podcast this morning that the Google Merchant team will first try the HTML only and if it cannot find what it nee…
Google Again: We Don’t Look At Analytics Bounce Rates For Ranking
Again, Google has said that it does not look at [Google] Analytics bounce rate data for ranking web sites. John Mueller of Google said in a webmaster hangout video at the 25 minute mark, “I think there’s a bit of misconception here that we’re looking a…
Bing Site Scan Feature Supports BASE HTML Tag
Earlier this month, Bing launched the Site Scan feature in Bing Webmaster tools. But there was an issue with it, where it thought pages with the Base HTML tag were pages that 404ed. Bing has resolved the issue and should now properly scan and audit th…
Google Doubles Down On Guest Blog Links: Nofollow Them
Last week we covered that Google said again, nofollow links in guest blog posts, even if they are not paid guest blog posts. This is not new, Google said this many times over the years. But whenever I cover these statements, some SEOs are a bit shocke…
Google: Sites Noticing Indexing Issues Is Not New; Better Search Console Reporting
Over the past several weeks and months it seems more and more site owners and SEOs are complaining about Google not indexing their web sites as it once did. I asked Google’s John Mueller if anything was new here and he said no, Google has not changed …
Google: We Don’t Use Links On YouTube For Search
Google’s John Mueller confirmed, despite the nofollow attribute slapped all over links on YouTube pages, that Google does not use links on YouTube for search.