Programming Note: Offline For Simchat Torah
I will be offline completely for the holiday of Simchas Torah on October 1st and October 2nd, Monday and Tuesday. Any stories published here will be scheduled and written beforehand and not posted live…
Google My Business Adds Family Led Attribute Icon
Google My Business has just added a new attribute that Google My Businesses can add to the list of attributes. The new attribute is for “family led” businesses, and this adds on to the women led and veteran led attributes that are already available.
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Google Image Search Desktop Redesign Officially Rolls Out
After some testing, Google yesterday officially rolled out the new design for the image search results on desktop. The new design adds titles/captions and the URL to the image thumbnails, adds images to the top filter options and more.
Google Images Search Adds Creator & Credit Metadata For Image Credits
Google announced yesterday they have added support for Creator and Credit metadata and will be adding Copyright Notice metadata. This meta data will be used by Google to display Image Credits information on the image within Google Image Search.
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Here Is Google My Business Video Verification Feature
A couple years ago we reported Google was testing a way for you to verify your local business in Google My Business over a video call. Well, here is a screen shot of a business seeing that option when they are trying to verify their business in Google …
Google Search Algorithm Update On September 27th
I am hearing some chatter around a possible Google search algorithm update that took place yesterday, September 27th. To be honest, not all of my indicators, i.e. the community chatter and the tracking tools, are 100% convincing that there was a big u…
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Algorithm Update, 20th Birthday, Image Search Updates & More
This week, we covered a new Google algorithm update that touched down Thursday. Google celebrated their 20th birthday on September 27th. Google Image Searchâs algorithm was updated to factor in page authority…
Google Image Search For Hot Only Returns Images Of Sensual Women
For some reason, when you go to Google Image Search and search for the term [hot] – the only images that come up are pictures of women in underwear, lingerie, swimsuits and other sexual situations. There are no photos of hot coffee, desserts, fire pla…
Report: Google Extends Titles In Snippets From 55 to 67.5 Characters
According to RankRanger, Google has extended the number of characters they show for the title in the search results snippets from an average of 55 characters to 67.5 characters. That is a 20% increase in the length of the average number of characters …
Google Posts Now Allows 1,500 Character Posts
Previously, Google Posts had a 100 to 300 word limit in your Google Posts. Now Google has a 1,500 character limit for Google Posts. It is a more precise number and lets those writing Google Posts know exactly when Google will cut them off.
Google Search Console Adds Event Markup Report & Sends Notices
Google has recently added to the Google Search Console an event markup report and also recently started sending out notices to those with issues with their event markup to check out the report. Aaron Bradley, the guru on schema, said the report was ne…
Is The Google Search Console Page Filter Throwing Off Accuracy?
There are some savvy SEOs and webmasters that are noticing a possible bug with the Search Analytics reports in Google Search Console. This is specifically when you use the page filter option, the numbers significantly drop both in the Google Search Co…
Google Double URL In A Single Snippet
I’ve never seen this before, Google showing a double URL in a single search result snippet. In fact, I was able to reproduce this by turning off safe search and trying the query multiple ways. This was spotted by @dudesweet on Twitter.
Google Stops Showing Sexual Assault Attorney Local Listings
Google may have stopped showing listings for searches for Sexual Assault Attorney in Google, both Google Maps and web search. The local panel does not seem to come up very often anymore and/or some listings have been recently removed.
Google Related Activity & Collections In Search
Earlier this month we saw Google testing what we called relevant history, but now Google is calling it related activity cards. In short, Google announced Monday a new card that shows past searches related to your current search.
Google Topic Layer To Knowledge Graph, Enabling Dynamic Categorization & More
As part of the blitz of new announcements from Google this past Monday, Google also introduced what they call the Topic Layer in the Knowledge Graph. With that, they can also dynamically categorize knowledge panels based on sub-categories and topics t…
Google Images Algorithm Now Uses Page Authority & Image Placement On A Page
Google said on Monday that they have updated their image search algorithm to use the authority of a web page as a more important factor. They also said they are looking at prioritizing images from fresher content and Google looks at the placement of th…
Google’s 20th Birthday Logo Remembers Popular Searches
Tomorrow, September 27th is Google’s official 20th birthday or anniversary. To celebrate the day, Google has a special Google logo, Doodle, remembering the day they launched with a video of someone searching on the original Google.com. It also takes y…
Google Tests Like & Dislike Buttons On Hotel Search Result Photos
Google is testing showing like and dislike thumbs up and down buttons in the hotel search results specifically on photos. You can like or dislike a photo within a specific hotel search result.
Seems Not Much Has Changes At Google’s Internal Search Quality Meetings
About six years ago, Google published a behind the scenes video of what goes on in an internal search quality meeting. Now, CNBC published an article after being invited to sit in on one of these meetings this past month. It seems to me, outside of s…