Google is sending out error messages to users for incorrect implementation on Hreflang through Google Search Console, warning webmasters if they have made mistakes while implementing it on a site. Dan Sharp, the Founder & Director of Screaming Frog tweeted one of the warning emails. The warning is fairly standard about possible hreflang issues that […]
Archives for July 13, 2015
Google Adds New Options When Closing Mobile Ads
Google announced had they were making changes to mobile ads to reduce the liklihood that people would accidentily “fat finger” an ad while trying to close it. And now we have seen how they are putting this into action. Here is an ad how it normally appears, with the X to close. But after it […]
Google Testing 4 Line Description Snippets in Search Results
Google is testing out longer snippets in the descrption for some Google search results, giving some results 4 lines of description over the standard two lines that you see in the majority of results. While Wikipedia triggered the first 4 lines of description as information sites, as you can see with the Hobbycraft result, commercial […]
How to Properly Format Last Modified (lastmod) for XML Sitemaps
If you have a burning desire to properly format last modified (lastmod) time for xml sitemaps, you are in luck because Gary Illyes from Google has posted everything you need to know in order to format it properly. Illyes commented on StackOverflow how to do it properly, also mentioning that it is mostly ignored by […]