Google Confirms: Google AMP Results Now Rolling Out
Monday night, we did a late night story, which is rare, sharing that Google AMP is now in the core mobile results. Well, Google officially confirmed this news yesterday, Tuesday at 1pm ET…
Google AdWords Certification Bug Says Valid Through December 31, 1969
Many Google AdWords professionals who are taking the AdWords exam to become certified as a Google AdWords partner are getting confirmations that their certificate expired over 46 years ago, specifically on December 31, 1969…
Google Search Console AMP Error Report Update After Scanning Change
Google posted in the data anomalies page for Search Console under the Accelerated Mobile Pages Report that they updated the report based on updating their “scanning process” for errors. It reads:
You might see a fluctuation in your AMP data…
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Google’s New Preview Book To Book Knowledge Cards
Google has added a new feature to the books knowledge card, the option to preview the book in Google Books. Now, this may come up when you search for a book title in the Google web search box, it also may not depending on the licensing rights…
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Google Trips Feels Like The Perfect Travel Companion
Yesterday, Google announced Google Trips, a new iOS and Android app that lets you plan your trip before or during your travels. It honestly looks to me like the perfect travel companion…
The Google Interstitials Mobile Penalty May Impact Popups On Scroll
About a month ago, Google announced the new mobile interstitial penalty, which will be coming to a Google penalty box on January 10…
Google Chrome: Make Page Mobile Friendly Button
Joy Hawkins posted a screen shot on Twitter of mobile Chrome giving her the option of making a web page mobile friendly when it is not. She when to an article and at the bottom of the Chrome browser on her Android device it said “make page mobile-fri…
Are You Seeing Huge Traffic Surges From Google AMP Since Thursday?
I’ve been hearing some chatter here and there around some sites that have deployed AMP, accelerated mobile pages, are seeing huge surges in traffic from the In The News box.
The thing is, I am personally seeing this as well…
Google AMP In Core Mobile Results Fully Live?
In early August we reported Google is bringing AMP pages to the core mobile search results. Google never told us when this would happen exactly but it seems to have gone live today/tonight.
Many folks are now seeing it for ordinary searches in Google…
Google AdWords Extends Null Quality Scores To October 10th
Last month we reported Google AdWords would begin showing null values for the AdWords quality scores in some cases starting last week. Well, that didn’t happen…
Google Maps: Circle Pin Instead Of Marker Pin
I am not sure if this is new or happens on some queries but Besian Sopa posted on Twitter a screen shot of a Google Maps Local knowledge panel showing a circle in the map versus showing the typical marker pin icon…
Google On Penguin 4.0: We Don’t Have Any Dates To Announce
Google’s Gary Illyes did say they do have launch a date for Penguin 4.0 but John Mueller said this weekend on Twitter that they don’t have any dates to announce around this Penguin update.
John said, “we don’t have any dates to announce for that…
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Poll: Should Google Comment About More Google Algorithm Updates & Changes?
As you all know, we’ve been busy covering many of the Google ranking shifts over the past few weeks – all of which have gone unconfirmed…
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Algorithm Shifts, Penguin, Schema, AdWords, Maps & More
This week in search, we saw even more signals of a massive Google update, both seem not to be related to Penguin. Although…
Google Warns Shopify Users: AdWords Conversions May Be Double Counted
Cassie from Google posted in the Google AdWords Help forums that those that use Shopify for their e-commerce sites and AdWords conversion tracking need to consider updating their conversion count to avoid unexpected duplicate conversion metrics…
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Google Mobile Showing Image Thumbnails In Some Search Result Snippets
In August, we caught Google testing showing image thumbnails in mobile search results. Well…
Google Tests A Whiter Desktop Search Experience
Google is constantly testing user interfaces, we cover some but not all of them. This one was brought to my attention by AbhisheK Kasaudhan on Twitter.
This tests gives you a whiter, what looks to be more spacious, desktop search experience…
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Google To Update Their JavaScript Recommendations & Guidelines
Google’s John Mueller said in a Webmaster Hangout ten days ago (yea, I’ve been saving this one) on YouTube at the 37:40 mark that Google is working…
Google’s First Set Of Webmaster Hangouts Using YouTube Live
We knew this was coming, Google is transitioning their webmaster hangouts from Google+ Hangouts to YouTube Live Hangouts. I am just happy that…
Google Search Algorithm Update Chatter On Fire
Something is going on and it is getting bigger and bigger as time goes on. On September 2nd we reported significant changes in the Google search results…