Google Shopping Carousel Adds Category Filters
Google seems to be rolling out a new carousel feature set for shopping ads. This was covered by Ginny Marvin back 3 weeks ago, but now it seems more and more people are seeing it…
Google AdWords Adds Audience Lists At Campaign Level
Google announced you can now apply audience lists to the campaign level now. Previously, you were only able to add these audience lists on the ad group level…
Google Home & Assistant Now Allow Developers To Build Voice Commands
Take note SEOs, with Google going more and more towards voice queries, i.e. Google Assistant on your mobile phone, Google Home in your kitchen…
Google AdWords Location Extensions Bringing Back Stars In Ads
Joy Hawkins posted on Twitter that she saw stars in the location extensions part of a Google AdWords ad. Honestly, I have not seen one of these in years and I personally cannot replicate it…
Google Presentation On Internationalization & Search
Google’s John Mueller had an early hangout this morning on the topic of internationalization and Google search. I find the topic to be fascinating…
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Trust, New Design, News, Charity Links & Holidays
This week, I posted the mostly Google webmaster report. Google launched a new desktop search user interface. Google said you can trust them when it comes to webmaster communication. Yes…
Google Maps Blue Pins Are For Locations You Searched Near; For Example…
For a while, we’ve been wondering what the different colors for the map pins represent. We have seen red, blue, purple, brown and other colors over the years…
Google Replaces “In The News” With “Top Stories”
Back in 2014, Google’s in the news box started showing non-Google News sites. But over time, I thought the In The News box was renamed to Top Stories, but I was wrong.
According to a post on Twitter by RankRanger, the In The News box showed in add…
Upcoming & Recent Google Webmaster Topical Hangouts
A couple weeks ago, Google asked about topics for their upcoming Google hangouts. Google’s John Mueller has now published the schedule of those hangouts…
Search Google By Tweeting Emojis To @google
Google announced on Twitter that you can tweet to it at @google with emojis and get back local search results.
For example…
Google: Crawl Budget Works Differently Than You Think
Google’s John Mueller in a hangout from earlier this week said that one of the myths he hears a lot is around crawling…
Live: Google 2016 Holiday Decorations For Hanukkah, Christmas & Kwanzaa
Yesterday, as first reported by Alex Chitu, Google has posted their annual holiday decorations in the search results. I have an animated GIF of them sliding through above but you can see them live by searching for [christmas], [hanukkah] and [kwanzaa]…
Google Working On Enabling Searchers To Disable AMP
Update: This is not about webmasters disabling AMP but rather searchers disabling viewing AMP. Sorry for the confusion – this is all about how searchers see AMP stories and giving them an alternative from AMP to view the canonical version…
Google AdWords Editor V11.7 Adds Location Extensions, Bumper Ads & More
Google has quietly updated their AdWords Editor to version 11.7. There was no announcement yet but there was a release note posted over here documenting the change on December 5th as “Download AdWords Editor 11.7 for location extensions, bumper ads……
Google Adds New Books Schema Markup With Buy E-Book Links
Google has added a new schema markup type for books in their developer center. Aaron Bradley posted about it on Google+ explaining that this was just added on December 3, 2016.
It is currently a closed beta…
Google: You Can Trust Our Webmaster Communication
Back in early 2014, we published a poll showing only 10% of webmasters think Google doesn’t like to them. But the truth is, that probably gets under the skin of those in the Google webmaster trends analysts team, where their primary responsibility is …
Google Updates Us On YouTube’s Trending Algorithm
Yesterday, Marissa from the YouTube community team posted in the YouTube Help forums an “update on trending” at YouTube. She said that “we’ve heard questions from…
Google Returns Porn For Sexy Black Mom But Not For Sexy White Mom
There is a massive thread in the Google Web Search Help forums that started about a week ago with complaints about how Google’s search results are biased and racist.
This specifically compares a search in Google Image search for [sexy white mom] vs …
Google Does Try To Reach Out Directly To Webmasters In Trouble
Google’s John Mueller posted on Twitter A PSA that you should make sure your website contact forms work. He wrote “if you have a contact form on your website, not receiving any submissions isn’t a good sign…
Google: Giving Charity & Donations In Exchange For A Link, Is A Paid Link
Google’s John Mueller replied on Twitter about a story on Medium named Making Charity Donations in Exchange for Backlinks: Good SEO or Risky Strategy…