Google Now Rolling Out Carousel Based Sitelinks
It seems like Google is now rolling out the carousel based sitelinks they have been testing for over a year now…
OMG: Google Tests Auto-Playing Videos In Search Results
Yesterday, Jennifer Slegg posted on Twitter and her site that Google is auto-playing videos directly in the search results. I will be honest…
Michelle Robbins & Ginny Marvin: Search Engine Land’s New Leads
With all my focus around the negative news (which I tend to focus on a lot) with Danny leaving and Matt McGee leaving Search Engine Land as well – the amazing news around the new leaders of Search Engine Land have somewhat got brushed under the rug…
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Google Tests “See More Results” Button Instead Of “Next” Button
Google is testing a new button in the mobile search results to encourage searchers to click to the second page of the results. Instead of showing a basic grayed out “Next” button…
Google Pushes AMP Growth Internationally
The folks at RankRanger posted on Twitter two signals that Google is pushing the AMP growth internationally now.
AMP results are now showing way more often in the news box internationally…
Webmaster Lost Everything Over Google Ranking Spammy Content?
I just read a really sad message in the ongoing WebmasterWorld thread from a webmaster nicknamed browndog. This user shared that she has lost everything over Google ranking spammy, low quality content…
Google Adds A Search Box To Dictionary Results & Past Searches
Last week Google added a search box to the dictionary search results answer at the top of the page…
Is The SEO Industry Doomed With So Many Departures Recently?
In the past couple months or so, we had some significant departures of key personalities from the SEO industry. First with Danny Sullivan retiring, then with the news around Rand Fishkin leaving Moz and then Matt McGee leaving Search Engine Land…
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Marshall McLuhan, Canadian Media Theorists, Gets A Google Logo
Today on the Google home page is a special Google logo, aka Doodle, for Marshall McLuhan. Marshall McLuhan was a well-known Canadian professor, philosopher…
Gary Illyes Favorite Google Offices: Zurich, Tel Aviv & Tokyo
Gary Illyes, one of our favorite Googlers, has revealed on Twitter which are his favorite Google offices. If you know Gary, he travels a lot for both business and pleasure – both on land…
YouTube Video Editor Going Offline On September 20, 2017
So Google decided to kill off the YouTube Video Editor and also the Photo slideshows within YouTube as of September 20…
Google Search Console Adds Job Listings & Details Filters To The Search Analytics Report
Google announced on Twitter that there is a new filter available within Google Search Console’s Search Analytics report under the search appearance section for both “job listings” and “job details…
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Search Console News, Google User Interface Changes & AdWords Report Editor
This week in search, we saw a preview of the new Google Search Console that is in beta. Google also changed how they report in Search Analytics the impressions and average…
Google Design Tests Continue With Light Blue & Green Interface
Google is continuing their design tests which has been going on with many various user interface tests for about a year now.
The latest shows the colorful three dots…
Google News Feed Now With Machine Learning & Follow Buttons
Google announced updates to their Google search apps that make the news feed and cards you are presented by Google more relevant to you. Google said they are “making it easier than ever to discover…
Webmasters Have Given Up & Lost Faith In Bing Webmaster Tools
It has been a while since you heard anything at all from Bing, including their Bing Webmaster Tools. So long that it seems the tool is becoming unusable and unstable. As you click around, you get sent to pages that don’t load…
Google Adds Beta Link To Google Search Console For Some
As you know, Google has been beta testing the new Google Search Console. We shared some screen shots of that new interface.
But more people are releasing more and more screen shots of the new beta interface…
Google Search Analytics Report Updated To Better Account For Lower Position Results
The other day, I reported that many webmasters were noticing a decline in their average position metrics in the Google Search Console Search Analytics report. We thought it was a bug, but Google has now told us it is a feature change…
Google Top Voted Tag For Movies In The Search Results
Paul Shapiro spotted a new Google search tests and posted the screen shots on Twitter of the “top voted tags” section. In short, you may be able to replicate this by searching for movies…
Google AdWords Report Editor Now Lets You Compare Two Date Ranges
Google quietly announced both on Twitter and on Google+ that you can now compare two different date ranges within the AdWords Report Editor.
AdWords Report Editor launched in 2015 and wow’ed advertisers…