Now Live: The Google 2017 Holiday Decorations For Hanukkah, Christmas & Kwanzaa
Today, Google has launched their annual holiday decorations on their search results page. Like always, you can trigger them by searching for the holiday name and sometimes variations of the holiday name…
New Google Best Answer Carousel In Search Results Snippets
Several folks on Twitter are notifying me of a new Google search feature where Google is showing a box for “best answer” with other answers following directly below search results snippets…
Google Will Render AJAX & Stop Using Old AJAX Crawling Scheme
A couple months ago, Google hinted they would stop crawling and indexing content from the old AJAX crawling scheme, which was technically deprecated two years ago.
Well…
Google Tests Related To Knowledge Answers
Google is testing a new knowledge answer, above the knowledge cards, that show you who is related to who when you search for a famous person’s name in search…
December 2017 Google Webmaster Report
This month, the big items are around two possible Google updates that went unconfirmed. Google did confirm they extended the snippets all the way to a max of 320 characters. Google also warned about two penalties…
Google Scratch: Kids Coding Languages With Coding For Carrots
Today on the Google home page is a special interactive Google Doodle that helps kids learn how to code. It is to celebrate 50 years since kids programming languages during the Computer Science Education Week…
Lisa Barone – 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.
Lisa Barone, 35 years old, lives in upstate New York with her husband and toddler, is a super awesome individual…
Google Notable Moments In Knowledge Graph Cards
Google has a new feature they are testing in some knowledge cards called “notable moments.” In short, these notable moments give you a timeline of specific events that occurred in a carousel format…
Official: Google Local Questions & Answers Now On Desktop
After months of testing the local question and answer feature on desktop…
Google Extends Search Results Snippets To Max 320 Characters
Google has officially extended the search results snippets to a maximum character length of 320 characters…
14 Years Covering The Search Industry
Today is the 14th year anniversary of this site, the Search Engine Roundtable. This site, started as a way to keep my notes on the changes happening in the SEO/SEM space, has been consistently around and documenting those changes for 14 years straight…
Jim Hedger – 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.
Jim Hedger, 49 years old, has worked as a SEO for about 20 years now. Jim to me symbolizes kindness, he is simply a kind and generous man…
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Google Shows Personal Search Filter Tab To Some Users
Eoghan O’Sullivan posted on Twitter that he is seeing the “personal” tab back in the Google search results, at least in his mobile Google search app…
Google Assistant Helps You Find Local Service Providers: Electrician, Plumber, Cleaner, etc.
Google Assistant can now give you local results for service providers like electricians, plumbers, house cleaners and other local services you might need in your home or business. Google said this is rolling out to the Google Assistant, Google Home……
Matt Cutts Wanted Google To Treat URL Underscores As Separators
Last night, former Google executive said on Twitter that he tried to get the Google engineers to treat underscores in the URLs as separators, just like how they used hyphens as separators in the URLs. He said it never happened…
Matt Cutts Dislikes How Google Links To Search Results
Matt Cutts, former Google executive and star amongst the SEO community, posted on Google+ how he is not happy with how Google is linking to the “10 blue links,” the core Google search results.
Matt showed how Google is not directly linking from the c…
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Event Penalty, Speed & SEO, Audiobooks & New Google Finance
This week in search, I covered a Google warning about using incorrect event markup on your pages…
Alan Bleiweiss – 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.
Alan Bleiweiss, who has been in the internet marketing space since the mid-90s, is the next individual we would like to take the time to honor……
New Audiobooks In The Google Book Knowledge Cards
Now if you search on your mobile device for a book, if there is an audio version of that book, let’s say on Audible, Google will let you click on that as an option to get the book…
View All Google Posts On Desktop
Previously, the only way to see a company’s Google Posts, all of them…