Google Knowledge Panel Explore Collections
I am not sure if this is new, it may be from the late 2018 Google change but Google can now let you see all the products within a collection when Google shows a products carousel in the knowledge panel.
Google Says All Separate Mobile URL Sites Should Move To Responsive
Google’s John Mueller said on Reddit this morning that he believes that all sites running a separate mobile URL for their mobile site solution should work on moving those implementations to a responsive site design instead. He said that mostly because…
International Women’s Day Google, Bing, Yahoo & More
Today is International Women’s Day and the search engines have special logos and themes on their home pages for the day. We have logos from Google, Yahoo, Baidu, Sogou, and Bing. Here they are below:
Google In-Depth Articles Go Missing
Google has these in-depth articles for their snippets, they launched it in 2013 but now they are gone. According to Moz data they no longer show up. Also FiveBlocks who tracks data on this said they are all gone as well.
Forrester: Wikipedia Lost 21% Of Their Traffic After Google Featured Snippets Launched
Duane Forrester, a former Bing representative and experience SEO who is very well respected, supposedly said at PubCon that Wikipedia’s traffic dropped by 21% after Google launched their featured snippets.
Weird Google Loan Knowledge Panel Has Chelsea Players On Loan
This is a weird Google knowledge panel for the query [loan]. It shows at the bottom right of the knowledge panel a listing of soccer players that reads Chelsea players on loan. It lists names such as Tammy Abraham, Tomáš Kalas, Lewis Baker, Mario PaÅ¡aliÄ, and Kenneth Omeruo.
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Updates & Reports, Moz Updates DA, Shoppable Ads, Bing & More
This week in search we posted our monthly Google webmaster report, it is a good way to catch up on the past month of Google stuff. Google may have done search ranking…
Olga Ladyzhenskaya Google Logo Partial Differential Equations
Today on Google’s home page is a special Doodle, Google logo, to remember the life of the Russian mathematician Olga Ladyzhenskaya. She was most well known for her work on partial differential equations and fluid dynamics. The Doodle was posted on her…
Google Video Describes What Sites Need Help With SEO When Using JavaScript
As you know, Google’s Martin Splitt has been producing a series of videos around JavaScript and SEO. So far we saw an introduction video and how Google indexes JavaScript. The next video is also basic and describes what type of sites with JavaScript G…
Google Assistant Can Book A Restaurant Reservation In Most US States
No wonder Google kept turning on the Google Assistant call feature in your Google My Business account – Google just announced that they are rolling out the ability for the Google Assistant to book tables at restaurants in 43 US States.
Google’s Gary Illyes PubCon Presentation Was Image Search Focused
I was not at PubCon yesterday for Gary Illyes of Google’s keynote but I was watching the Twitter stream and to me, it seems his presentation was mostly focused around image search. This was not a surprise based on Google’s recent communication efforts …
Google Automobile Knowledge Panel
Steve Seeley notified me that Google is now showing a new knowledge panel and search result interface for car related keywords. So if you search for a a make and brand and year, you get this neat packed up search result with all the details on that sp…
Google: No SEO Benefit To Having Images On Your Own Domain Name
Google’s John Mueller said again that there is no specific SEO benefit for hosting your images on your own domain name. You can host them on your domain name or host them on another domain name, it shouldn’t image how well that image ranks. But John d…
March 5th Google Search Ranking Algorithm Update?
I sound like a broken record but I am once again seeing chatter and signals of yet another Google search ranking algorithm update. This one starting around March 5th and continuing through today. There is chatter in the WebmasterWorld forums and also…
Google Shoppable Ads In Image Search
Google has launched a new ad format on image search named shoppable ads. It is a test right now where Google will highlight multiple products available for sale within your sponsored ad among Google Images results. Below is a GIF of it in action:
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Moz Updated Domain Authority (DA) & Some SEOs Are Freaking Out About Their Google Rankings
I am not surprised, as you probably could tell when I wrote about my issues with Moz’s domain authority a month ago. Moz updated their DA (domain authority) scores and some SEOs are freaking out that their Google rankings will drop. DA and Google ra…
BingBot Both Crawls Your Site & Is Used For Webmaster Tools Verification
Did you know that Bing has tasked BingBot, their crawler, to not just crawl the web but also to be used to verify your web site in Bing Webmaster Tools? Yea, if you use the meta tag verification method, BingBot will be the one who goes and checks for …
Google Ad Grant Terms & Conditions Posts Fix?
The other week we posted about a bug with Google Ad Grants advertisers not being able to accept the terms and conditions. This has been going on for weeks and finally Google posted a possible solution or workaround for the bug. The steps are as follo…
Google My Business Guidelines Prohibits Irrelevant Content In Business Description
Google has added a line to the business description guidelines within the Google My Business guidelines basically making it clear that they do not allow the description to contain irrelevant content.
Google: Multilingual Sites Using Same Image URLs Should Localize Alt Attributes
Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that it is fine for multilingual sites to use the same image and image source URLs for translated pages but the alt attributes for those images should be localized and translated into the local language.