Google Knowledge Panel With Interesting Finds
We have seen the interesting finds section for AMP pages and other types of blocks in the Google mobile search results. But Google seems to be testing the interesting finds section in some knowledge panels on mobile search.
Daily Search Forum Recap: July 5, 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:
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Robots…
Google: Both Old Or New Domains Do Not Benefit You In Google
Google’s John Mueller had to come on Twitter and once again dispel the myth that the age of a domain name does not matter in terms of Google’s ranking algorithms. New or old domains can rank well and it doesn’t help your site rank to register your dom…
Google AMP Visual Stories Now Live
Back in February 2018 Google announced a new form of AMP Stories named “visual stories.” Well, it looks like they are now live. Truth is, they may have been live for some time but I have not seen them until now. Valentin Pletzer shared he spotted it…
Dual Google Business Related Carousel
Here is a screen shot from Ellen Edmands of Google showing a double or dual listing for a business “related” carousel on desktop. I cannot replicate this and I don’t think I’ve ever seen this happen before but I am told it does happen and it is rare.
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Google Maps Bug With Business Reviews Disappearing
In the past week or so, many local SEOs have been complaining that reviews on local listings in Google are disappearing. Some are saying it is tied to the launch of short names and removing your short name will bring back the reviews but I am not sure …
Sites Prepared For Google Mobile First Indexing May Have Not Moved Yet?
I am highlighting this twitter exchange because it down right confuses me. Kenichi Suzuki, a well seasoned SEO, asked John Mueller if a site that was well prepared for mobile-first indexing has not moved over yet, should you be concerned? John said t…
Vlog #2: Lily Ray of Path Interactive How To Fix Your Site After A Google Core Update
In our second ever vlog series at the Search Engine Roundtable I interviewed Lily Ray (@lilyraynyc) of Path Interactive. Lily Ray is the SEO Director at Path Interactive, a leading search marketing agency in New York City. Lily leads a team of over 1…
Google Probably Won’t Be Turning Off Any Other Search Console Features
Google’s John Mueller hinted this morning that no additional legacy Google Search Console features will be turned off. He said “If we thought it wasn’t important, we would have turned it off already.” That kind of implies that the remaining features …
SEO Mythbusting Video On The Future Of The Web (Web Evolution)
Martin Splitt had a chat with his colleague at Google Dion Almaer the Director of Web Development Ecosystem about SEO and the future of the web. It was an interesting high level chat that talked about PWA/desktop site/AMP, tools, web components and vir…
Google My Business Tests New Design For Console
Some folks when they login to their Google My Business account and click on a business to manage will see a more visual and image friendly interface. I am not seeing it myself but I am seeing numerous reports of the new design.
Google Maps Launches Place Topics
Google has launched what they are calling place topics. Place topics use data based on reviews to provide concise information on what customers highlight about your business. In short, it summarizes the reviews left by your customers into tags.
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July 2019 Google Webmaster Report
Here is that big recap where I go over the past month of changes related to Google search and webmaster topics and sum up the more important bits. This month we had the June 2019 core update and the diversity update roll out earlier this month. We had…
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Robots.txt Changes, Leasing Subdomains For SEO, Search Console Updates & Google Maps
This week, Google made big news by announcing they are working on making the Robots Exclusion Protocol a real standard. With that they announced they will no longer support unsupported features including the noindex…
Fourth Of July 2019 Google Baseball Game Doodle
I got to say, the Fourth of July Google Doodle is fun for the first 30 seconds but after that, it just feels like you are wasting time. I mean, it is simply hard to strike out and not score runs. Don’t get me wrong, it is a super cool Doodle for July …
Happy Fourth Of July From Google, Bing & The Search Community
Today is the Fourth of July, Independence Day in the United States and to celebrate some of the search engines have special logos and themes. We saw Google’s baseball Doodle yesterday, that one is still up today. Bing has a fireworks theme from Lake …
Bing: We Never Supported Noindex In Robots.txt
Frédéric Dubut from Bing said that its search engine never supported the noindex in a robots.txt file before. So nothing is going to be changing with Bing on that front. While we heard Google did unofficially support it and will stop supporting it on September 1st.
Google Featured Snippets More Images Section
Google seems to be testing or launching (or maybe it is a bug) showing a more images section within the featured snippets. I had a couple of reports of people seeing this over the past 24-hours, I personally cannot replicate it.
Something New Is Coming From Google…Gary Has A New Idea…
John Mueller from Google posted on Twitter just a couple of minutes ago “Uh oh, Gary has a new idea…” So maybe something new is coming from Google that SEOs might not like or maybe John is just messing with the SEO community or maybe it is both?
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Google Ads API Goes Back Into Beta
Back in March, Google launched the Google Ads API into a production environment. But yesterday, Google decided to pull it back and move it back into a beta state. Why? Google said because of the performance issues.