Google Honors Groundbreaking Heart Surgeon René Favaloro
The Google doodle today is to honor the life and contributions of René Favaloro, an Argentine cardiac surgeon best known for his pioneering work on coronary artery bypass surgery. The Doodle has an illustration of himself and a heart.
Google Launching #AskGoogleWebmasters YouTube Video Series
We knew this was coming, and now Google said it is going to launch soon, the #AskGoogleWebmasters video series by John Mueller of Google. A couple of months ago, John Mueller asked SEOs to submit questions to him using the #AskGoogleWebmasters hashtag…
Yep, Google News Officially Launches New Desktop Results Design
We saw Google testing it the other day (like two nights ago) and yesterday afternoon Google confirmed it for me on Search Engine Land and also on Twitter. Google launched a new card-layout design for Google News search results on desktop. It also inclu…
Google Really Really Uses The URL Parameter Tool Settings
The other day we reported how Google is looking for ways to move the URL parameter tool from the old Google Search Console to the new version. Well, he said it again in this mornings IRL video hangout. In fact, he said it is really used a lot and Goo…
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Drops Bing Discover, Google Plays A Joke On Joke Sites, Mega Menus, Google Ads, Vlogs & More
First off, I tried to get fancy by using two cameras but the issue is, after doing the first cut in and out, it was just taking way too much time and I stopped after that…
Google Search Recommends Google Assistant For Jokes
If you go to Google and search for [jokes] on mobile, Google will recommend you give the Google Assistant a try. At the top of the search results it will load a box that simulates the Google Assistant directly in Google search by sharing a joke with yo…
Google Autocomplete Lightens & Hides Search Results As You Type
It looks like Google has rolled out a new search user experience in the desktop search results. When you start typing your query and Google shows you search results, those search results will be lightened up, the transparency will go down and be less …
Some YouTubers Angry That Google Search Shows Videos From Non-YouTube Sources
Often you see people complaining that Google is favoring their own properties over third-party properties. Like showing Google My Business Listings over Yelp or Google Job listings over results from Indeed or showing YouTube videos over videos from oth…
Rumors That Shortnames Causing Google My Business Suspensions
There are a lot of rumors and suspicions that Google My Business suspensions are due to the release of the new shortnames feature. I am not sure if that is true, we covered the suspension issues well before the launch of the shortnames release and we e…
Google On Mega-Menus: Nothing To Be Concerned About, Yet…
John Mueller of Google posted on Twitter asking “How do you feel about “mega-menus” on ecommerce sites?” He then followed up saying there is “no secret announcement lined up” around Google penalizing e-commerce sites with mega-menus.
Daily Search Forum Recap: July 10, 2019
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:
Google On Mega-Menus: Nothing To Be Concerned About…
Google Search Lets You Play Tennis In The Search Results For Wimbledon
Go to Google on desktop or mobile and search for [Wimbledon] then take that live scores box and scroll the carousel where it shows women’s scores, men’s scores, etc to the left and you will see a tennis ball. Click the tennis ball and presto, you go in…
Google Showing More Related Search Boxes In Image Search
Google is now showing more related search boxes in the image search results. Google has for some time shown the related search box but now more people are seeing it come up more often and several times as you scroll through the image results in Google…
Google News Search Results Tests Card Layout Again
I am personally seeing the new card layout when I do searches in Google News on some browsers. On Chrome Mac, I get the card layout but on Safari Mac I get the old bundled list layout.
Google: Be Consistent. Use Either Slash Or No Slash After URL, Not Both.
Google’s John Mueller said it is best to be consistent with your URL structure and either choose to use slashes after the URL or not to use slashes after the URL. Try not to use both formats if possible.
Most SEOs Say Site UX Can Impact Your Google Rankings
Dejan posted a Twitter poll the other day and it received almost 600 responses from within the SEO community. The question was “Good UX impacts rankings.” The responses available were “directly,” “indirectly,” or “neither.”
Google Dropped Bing Discover Pages From Index But Was There Traffic Drop?
The SEO community is buzzing about how Google seems to have removed Bing’s Discover section from the Google search results index. Edd Wilson tweeted about it on July 4th and then several sites picked it up. Bing Discover is a portal on Bing.com that …
Google Tests “Some Popular Queries” Feature
Some searchers in India are noticing that when you enter a query into Google that has no matches and Google has no idea what you are looking for, Google will show you a section called “some popular queries.”
Google Search Console Your Site Switched To Mobile-First Indexing Notifications Causing Confusion?
If you open Google Search Console and go to a property that has been switched to mobile-first indexing, you will get an alert slide up from the bottom right of the screen notifying you of the switch. Even if the switch happened several months ago and …
Google Ads In People Also View Carousel – A Test Or Bug?
Valentin Pletzer posted a screen shot on Twitter of Google testing a Google Ad in the people also view carousel. We’ve seen a “people also considered” ad carousel feature that Google was testing but now in the “people also view” box mixed with organi…