Google AMP Hotel Listing Carousel Live In Mobile Results
The folks who track the structured data results spotted a new AMP carousel in mobile for hotel listings. Brad Brewer posted in a Google+ thread that Google is now showing AMP carousels for hotel listings…
Suggest Topics For Google Webmaster Hangouts
Google’s John Mueller posted on Twitter asking folks to post topic ideas for the webmaster hangouts he does this December. He said there was some interest in him making his hangouts more topical…
Google Expands App Indexing For Personal Content To All Android Developers
In late August, Google announced limited support for app search for person content…
Google Admits A Bug In Search Hurt Gmail’s Competitor ProtonMail?
Many of your probably read the Search Risk – How Google Almost Killed ProtonMail story from a month ago – it has been something I’ve been tracking since August. In August…
Google Promises More Mobile First Index Webmaster Recommendations
As you know, Google announced the slow roll out of their mobile-first index and I covered it in detail over here and then several questions have come up since.
Google AdWords Adds Distance & Store Visit Performance Reports
Google announced on Google+ that they are adding more reports to help you figure out the store visits driven by your AdWords ads. They are adding a distance reporting feature as well as a store visits performance report feature…
Google Popular Times For Venues Shows Real Time Data
You thought back a year and a half ago when Google released popular times for venues and stores, where it showed typically how busy a store is by day and hour, that it was really cool…
Bing Lets You Save Shopping, Images Or Video Search Results For Later
Bing now lets you save your searches for later, specifically searches done for images, videos or shopping results. This way when you want to check back later on the saved videos or shopping results…
Google Rich Cards For Local Restaurants & Online Courses
Google announced last night that they now support rich cards for local restaurants and online courses and they also mentioned some of the news we covered around the new structured data docs and using AMP for other markup…
Google LocalBusiness Schema Now Requires Image & priceRange Fields
Google is tweaking the structured data stuff like mad, just see how many articles I’ve written about it in the past week or so. The next thing they changes was to require the Image and priceRange…
Wix Challenges SEOs To Outrank Them For SEO Hero
The folks at Wix have had some hiccups with Google over the years, which made their brand known as a not so SEO friendly platform. To combat that negative branding, Wix launched a contest where if you outrank them for the term [seo hero] in Google, th…
Google: Cache Date Not Indicative Of GoogleBot Crawl Rate
John Mueller of Google said on Twitter that the date of the cache displayed in Google is not indicative of the crawl rate or how recently your page was crawled…
Google Local Pack Testing Showing Query Above Map
Over the past week or so two different people shared with me on Twitter that Google is showing the query in the local pack, above the map embed. So not only is Google showing the query in the query box but also reinforcing that above the map pack…
…
Test: Google AdWords New Promotion Extension Coupon Codes
Pete Meyers shared on Twitter a Google AdWords snippet filled with tons of goodies. But one of those goodies is the coupon code feature. I highlighted it in the photo below…
Google Update Reversed November 10th Update On November 18th
It seems we may have had a Google algorithm update yet again over the weekend. You can actually see all our confirmed and unconfirmed Google updates…
James Welch, Writer Of Fools Crow, Gets A Google Logo
Today on Google.com is a special Google logo, Doodle, for writer James Welch. Today would be his 76th birthday and Google wanted to highlight his writing contributions…
Bing Ads Expands Their Bing Partner Program
Bing announced this week that they have expanded their Bing Ads Partner program. Bing said “we are excited to announce the expanded Bing Partner Program.”
The expanded program is available to partners in the United States, and some customers in Austr…
Google Knowledge Panel Adds Like & Dislike Buttons
Now if you search for movies or TV shows, the Google knowledge panel will have thumbs up and thumbs down icons in the knowledge panel to like or dislike the movie or TV show.
Here is an example of a search for [westworld]…
Google Maps Reviews Now With Photo Or Video Uploads
Now when you leave a review using Google Maps or Google Local results, you can add a photo or video to your review on Google. This was first spotted by Garrett Sussman who posted about it as well at the Local Search Forums…
Google Revamps Article Structured Data Documentation For AMP
Google has completely revamped the documentation for article structured data in their developer section. It is really a complete rewrite…