Google Test Local Reviews By Traveler Type
This may be one of the largest Google local reviews tests I’ve seen from Google in a long long time. Of course, this was spotted by Sergey Alakov and not just posted on Twitter but also on his blog, which is rare for Sergey…
Google Tests 3 Ads In The Local Pack With A Carousel Interface
August 2016, Google introduced ads in the local pack. That was one single ad at the top of the local results when you do a search that has local intent…
Ashley Madison Now Ranking Again In Google
About a month ago, we reported that Ashley Madison may have been penalized by Google in search. We showed how their rankings and traffic plummeted for months…
Google AdSense Now Allows 300×250 Mobile Ads Above The Fold
Just the other day, I wrote about how the organic and paid Google policies often do not align, making the company look hypocritical and two-faced…
Buy A Domain With A Google Penalty Manual Action? Give It Up.
Everyone knows that you should check the history of a domain name before you buy it. But what if you did, you looked at the domain name history, the wayback machine, and other metrics but didn’t have access to the Google Search Console messages…
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Google: Validation Pretty Much Doesn’t Matter For Ranking
John Mueller of Google said on Twitter that HTML validation “pretty much doesn’t matter” for ranking in Google. This not new news, in fact…
Google AdWords Similar Audiences For Search & Shopping Ads Live
Google announced they are now rolling out to all advertisers the similar audiences features to search and shopping ads…
Webmasters Upset Over Google Featured Snippet Sourcing Different Images
few weeks ago, Google began upping how many images they show in the featured snippets box and we saw more feature snippets…
Google: We Ignore & Drop Special Characters From Title Tags
Over the years, SEOs and webmasters have tried to drive more attention to their listings in the search results by placing special characters in their title tags, URLs or meta descriptions…
Live: Send Recipe To Google Home
Last week, Google announced that you can now send recipes to your Google Home device and ask Google Home to walk you through making…
Google Tests Reviews Tab On Local Knowledge Panel
Our friend Sergey Alakov spotted yet another Google local test, this one is Google testing a tab approach to showing reviews on local knowledge…
Google Testing Jobs Portal In Web Search
Dan Shure spotted late on Friday a Google search tests where Google was showing jobs…
Google Black Search Results User Interface Test
A year ago, we covered how Google is testing a black UI test in the search results. We’ve seen the test reported to us several times over the year…
Google Slashes Quality Raters Hours; Will It Impact Search Quality?
The SEO industry is in a buzz around a story named The secret lives of Google raters from arstechnica.com but not because of their “secret lives” – because most of us know how they work – we’ve covered them like crazy here.
The big news is that their …
Google Quickly Fixed The AMP Analytics Bug
Yesterday, those publishers and webmasters who deployed AMP on their sites were freaking out that Google stopped sending traffic to AMP pages…
Google Mobile Results Tests Dropping AMP Results Completely?
Earlier this week, we reported that Google was potentially testing dropping the AMP logo from AMP powered mobile pages in the mobile Google search results…
Google: 1,653 Search Launches With 9,800 Live Experiments & 130,336 Search Quality Tests
We all know Google does a lot of testing, in fact, I probably only cover less than 5% of the tests people email or send me that Google is running. I see tons and tons of UI tests, feature tests, color changes…
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Owl & Updates, AMP Bugs & How Search Works
This week in search, Google documented their fake news efforts code named Project Owl. We covered a potential Google algorithm update, but it is unclear if there really was a big update. Google told publishers to noindex content from the AP…
Google Cheese Logo Shows How Marie Harel Makes A Camembert
Today on Google’s home page is a special Google logo, a Doodle, for the 256th birthday of Marie Harel. Marie Harel was the first to make a camembert, which was in 1791…
Google: Building A Better Website Indirectly Helps Google Rankings
Google has said time and time again, they want to rank the best and most relevant content and web site for the query…