Google Featured Snippets Can Use Descriptions From YouTube
You wouldn’t think the content you find on YouTube, in the description section of a video, would be high quality enough for Google to use for featured snippets in search. But you’d be wrong. Google can and does use YouTube descriptions for featured sn…
Google Search Indexing Issues For Some Publishers
I am seeing numerous reports from publishers that Google is having issues indexing Google News publishers and other sites. Most sites don’t seem to be having an issue but there are reports of many publishers having issues. Google said they are going …
Google Figures Out What Users Want & Like Based On Comparing Your Content To Others?
One of the questions I hear a lot is how does Google know if a web site is something that a user/searcher will like if it doesn’t look directly at user behavior signals. So I asked John Mueller of Google if he was a search algorithm, what specific sig…
The Google Search Console Team Busy With New Features & Migrating Old
I asked John Mueller of Google yesterday if we can have an update on anything new coming from the Google Search Console team. He wouldn’t give specifics but he did say the team is “working on a lot of stuff” and we should see stuff happening soon. He s…
Google Tests New Tabs For Branded Local Pack & More Carousels
Google is testing more local pack designs and features in search. Sergey Alakov and Mordy Oberstein are noticing Google adding more tabs to the branded local pack. And now Mike Blumenthal is also seeing the carousel/scrollable local pack design that G…
Google: YMYL Sites Should Have An Expert To Write The Content
Google’s John Mueller talked about YMYL, specific to the health space, and mentioned that it is if you are writing about a topic on health that you are not an expert on then you are starting off already on a “shaky foundation.”
Google Local Knowledge Panel Adds Get A Quote Button
Google has now added to some business local knowledge panel a call to action to “get a quote” or “request a quote.” So when you search for the company name, in the right panel or at the top of the mobile results, you get that call to action button.
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Google Says It Has Restored Broken Reviews
Google has told Joy Hawkins that it has fixed all the reviews that disappeared over a technical issue. The statement she was given and she posted in the Local Search Forums was “All the reviews that have been removed for technical reasons have been re…
Google Scholar Or Author Knowledge Panels
I doubt these are new but hey, here is a person knowledge panel that uses Google Scholar as the profile link and also lists the citations and h-indexes. It also lists the publications and books this author produced.
Google Says Keep The Same URLs For The Long Run
If you ask any SEO, changing URLs is a scary thing. If you can avoid it, most SEOs say try to avoid it. John Mueller of Google said on Twitter the other day “I’d really recommend keeping the same URLs for the long run.”
Google Webmaster Hangouts Tests Moving Off YouTube To Hangouts Meet
Once again the Google webmaster hangouts hosted by John Mueller and other Googlers has to move to another platform. This time it is moving from YouTube Live Hangouts on Air to GSuite Hangouts Meet. I suspect that means it will be more of a manual proc…
The Google Maverick Update Slowing Down
What a wild several days with Google updates – we had fluctuations on July 11, 12 and 16th and then some massive chatter and Google search result fluctuations on July 18th or so. Google would not confirm or deny these updates, so it was named by the c…
Google Green Ad Label May Display To Limited Number Of Searchers
A few weeks ago we reported that maybe the green ad label is coming back to Google after it went live with the black ad label that the industry was not too happy with. Well, as of now, I am wrong. Danny Sullivan from Google said those seeing the old g…
Google Test Maps, Top Stories, Video, Images & More Icons In Search Results
Google is once again testing using icons for the universal search results sections. Specifically to label in web search the images box, video box, top stories box, maps box, and so on. Google tested this back in April but launched the the new icon bar …
Google Maps iOS App Now Lets Owners Edit Business Profiles
Google My Business posted on Twitter that businesses owners can use now the Google Maps iOS app to edit their business profiles. This is without using the Google My Business app or web site.
Google Maps Has Fixed Q&A Bug & Is Investigating Reviews Bug
Google seems to have fixed one of the many Google Maps bugs and has acknowledge they are working on a fix for the other. The Google Maps Q&A feature didn’t let owners properly respond to questions left about their businesses – that supposedly has been fixed. The reviews going missing is something Google is working on fixing still.
Vlog #4:: Rand Fishkin Of SparkToro On Early Days At Moz, SEO Community, VC Funds & More (Part One)
In our fourth vlog episode I was in Seattle for Mozcon and I asked Rand Fishkin (@randfish) if I can interview him for my new vlog series. He invited me to his home/office, aka ShedToro, and despite some angry bees…
Google Moon Landing Logo For 50th Anniversary
Today on Google’s home page is a special Doodle, Google logo, for the 50th anniversary of the moon landing. When you click on the Doodle it plays a video of NASA’s Apollo 11 mission with Michael Collins, one of the astronauts on Apollo 11 giving the n…
Easy Google Knowledge Panel Identity Theft?
Ari Roth from Five Blocks showed us how he was able to claim the knowledge graph profile of the American theatrical producer Ari Roth. In short, this is an issue with whomever at Google is manually reviewing this verification request of not doing thei…
Google Live Streamed The Google Webmaster Conference In Kolkata
Google live streamed the almost 5 hours of their new Webmaster Conferences. Below is a recording of the Google Webmaster Conferences in Kolkata, India.