Google Search Live Coverage Carousel Pilot; Is This The Real Time Index?
Aaron Bradley spotted and posted on Google+ that Google has opened up a pilot for the search live coverage carousel…
Google Tests Bringing Back Old Yellow AdWord Label?
Ruban notified me on Twitter that he is now seeing the yellow ad label back in the Google search results near the AdWords ads. Google has done away with the yellow color for the ad label back June 2016 after switching to the green ad label…
Google’s John Mueller: Requiring A Followed Link For API Access Is A Paid Link
John Mueller of Google was asked if requiring API users to give the API source a followed link is okay or not. John Mueller said that it is essentially the same thing as a paid link.
He said this on Twitter:
@jsilton That’s essentially a paid link…
The Deceased Leaving Negative Google Reviews?
William Rock posted in the Google My Business Help forums evidence that shows that deceased people are coming back to life to post negative reviews of businesses in their Google business listings…
Should Google’s Interstitial Mobile Penalty Hit AdSense’s Vignette Ads
Google announced their mobile interstitial penalty and a lot of discussion has been brewing about that penalty.
One person asked Google’s John Mueller on Twitter if the AdSense Page Level Ads will be hit by this penalty…
Google Intrusive Interstitials Mobile Penalty Is At The Page Level Only
The big news from last week was the new Google penalty coming January 10…
New Google Local Pack Design Now Live
A couple weeks ago we reported that Google was testing a new local pack design. Well, it seems like that design is now the new way forward for Google…
Google Updates Reviews Markup Guidelines Disallowing Marking Up 3rd Party Reviews
Mike Blumenthal posted on Twitter that Google has updated the local reviews guidelines for marking up reviews.
The new guidelines specifically disallows you from using 3rd party reviews, found on other sites…
Google Testing Roboto Fonts In Search Again
Over a year ago, Google was caught testing roboto font in the search results snippets. Well…
Google: Panda Roll Outs Continue But Not All Take 10 Months To Cycle
It has been some time since we mentioned anything related to Google Panda and John Mueller answered two questions on the topic in the last Google Hangout on Google+ from this past Friday morning.
Question One: It took 10 months for Google to launch th…
Why Did Google Add Solitaire & Tic-Tac-Toe To Search Results?
Yesterday Google announced they added two popular games directly to the search results. You can now play solitaire and tic-tac-toe directly in the Google search results.
Try it by simply going to Google on desktop or mobile and search for [tic-tac-t…
Google My Business Enables Accept OR Discard Updates For Individual Fields
Google quietly posted on the release notes for Google My Business that you can now accept or discard Google updates for individual fields in bulk for your Google My Business listing.
The updated help document details the steps for doing this on deskto…
Google AdWords Doesn’t Rank Expanded Text Ads Better Than Standard Text Ads
As you know, Google AdWords started rolling out expanded text ads last month. But Google said the AdWords ranking algorithm will not treat expanded text ads any better than standard text ads.
Cassie from Google said so in a Google AdWords Help thread…
Google: No Plans To Build A Mobile Interstitials Testing Tool
As you know, Google announced a new penalty coming at the beginning of the 2017 year for downgrading intrusive mobile interstitials. Yesterday we asked…
Google Search Console Index Status Report Coming Back To Life
Earlier this week, we reported that the Google index status report was broken and not updating for many in the Google Search Console set of tools. Supposedly it was an issue for weeks before I even reported it…
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Mobile Interstitial Penalty, AdSense Ad Limit, Bing Expanded Ads & Games
This week I cover the new upcoming Google intrusive mobile interstitial penalty that is coming January 10th. Google wonât be building a testing tool for this penalty…
US National Parks Google Logo Celebrates 100 Years
Today on the Google home page is a video Google Doodle, aka logo…
Poll: Should Google Build A Pass/Fail Mobile Interstitials Testing Tool?
Google announced they will be penalizing sites that have intrusive interstitials on mobile. But Google said there are types of interstitials that do not trigger the penalty and types that do…
Google Titles In Snippets Gone Awry
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been hearing rumblings across the community about the Google search results not working as expected. Specifically how the titles are showing wrong, invalid or weird information…
Yelp’s Stoppelman Really Not Happy About Google’s Interstitials Penalty
Pretty much everyone who does a search in Google on their mobile device and clicks on a Yelp listing and does not have the Yelp mobile app, is a frustrated user. Why…