Fili Wiese – The Search Community Honors You
This is part of the say something nice about an SEO/SEM series – feel free to nominate someone over here.
Fili Wiese lives in Berlin, Germany, although native to Dutch…
Google Rolling Out Featured Snippet Refinement Bubbles?
Over the past few days, I’ve been getting messages about people seeing the featured snippets query refinements which we covered as a test back in September of last year. Google also announced these in January.
Well…
Google My Business Adds Service Menus
You no longer need to sell food to get menus on your Google Maps or Google Local panel, now you just need to add your menu of services to your Google My Business “info” section and presto…
Bing Drops Sidebar Text Ads But I Still See Them
Bing announced a couple weeks ago that they have removed the search text ads from the side bar of their search results. Bing wrote “we have decided to remove sidebar text ads on our Bing inventory in the United States on March 26th…
Google: Content From APIs Are Copied Content
This may be super obvious, but sometimes the most obvious stuff is not as obvious as you’d like. Content pulled from an API or data feed is technically copied content…
Anthony Randall – The Search Community Honors You
This is part of the say something nice about an SEO/SEM series – feel free to nominate someone over here.
Anthony Randall is 26 years old and lives in Boise, Idaho. He has a really supportive girlfriend named Hailey who is very supportive of his SEO …
Google Search Console Job Posting Report Now With More Specific Errors
Google posted on their data anomalies page an update about their Jobs Postings Report saying after April 10…
Google Removes ccTLDs Part Of Generic TLDs From Help Doc
In 2013, Google listed the 20 ccTLDs they treat as generic TLDs. So for example, a .co TLD would not be geotargetted towards Colombia by default, because so many people use .co TLDs not within the region of Colombia…
Google “Interesting Finds” Shows AMP Pages & More
Google is testing a feature called “Interesting finds” which shows AMP pages in a two by two grid around a query. For example, if you search on Google mobile for [when is mothers day]…
Google Tests Mini Local Packs In Search
Andrew Hagemann posted a screen shot on Twitter of Google showing a miniature or minimized version of a local pack. So instead of showing three local results, it shows a box that says you can click here to see three local results…
Google Expands “More Results” Button To Remove Paginated Search Results
As I covered last night at Search Engine Land, Google has officially expanded the more results button test, which lets a searcher click on “more results” to dynamically load more results in the search results…
Google goo.gl URL Shortener Shutting Down On March 30, 2019
Google announced that they are shutting down, closing, their URL shortener service on March 30, 2019. Google first launched it in December 2009, and less than ten years later Google is going to shut it down…
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Structured Data, A/B Testing, Bing Ads, Ben Gomes & April Fools
This week, I posted the monthly Google webmaster report, it was a busy month…
Marc Poirer – The Search Community Honors You
This is part of the say something nice about an SEO/SEM series – feel free to nominate someone over here.
Marc Poirer is 48 years old, lives in the Montreal…
Meet Gary Illyes Of Google In Australia Next Week
Gary Illyes, one of our favorite Googlers, will be in be in both Sydney and Melbourne, Australia next week and you can meet up with him. Here is where you can meet him on April 11th in Sydney and April 13th in Melbourne…
Google Is Able To Index CSS Grid Layouts
Google said even though Chrome 41, how GoogleBot sees the web, doesn’t support CSS Grid Layouts, Google is still able to index the content on those pages…
Daniel Richardson – The Search Community Honors You
This is part of the say something nice about an SEO/SEM series – feel free to nominate someone over here.
Daniel Richardson is 30 years old, lives in Liverpool…
Programming Note: Offline Tomorrow, April 6th For Passover 5778
This is a programming note that I will be 100% offline tomorrow, Friday April 5th…
Bing Ads Price Extensions
Bing announced they launched new ad extensions named Price Extensions. Bing Ads Price Extensions are a pay-per-click extension that display your products or services, along with their corresponding prices…
Google Uses Many Signals To Know What & If To Show Dates In Search Snippets
We’ve have our issues with Google showing the wrong date or false dates in the search results snippets…