Facebook appears to be testing a feature that allows Facebook Pages to promote and link to their app. It shows up for users on both Android and iOS. This feature seems to be in a very limited test. Despite checking many Facebook Pages, we couldn’t find any other examples of sites promoting it. Here it […]
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Google Expands Holiday Hours to All Google My Business Listings
Google is launching a brand new feature to all local businesses, a feature we first saw being tested back at the beginning of September. Back in September we saw that Google was displaying alerts in the local knowledge panel showing that the business could have different hours due to the holiday – in this case, […]
Google Testing New Store Hours AdWords Extension for Local Businesses
Google is testing a brand new AdWords ad extension, this one an expandable extension that displays open hours for a business. In the same line as a local business address in the AdWords ad, it displays the open hours of the business for that day. When you click on the hours, it expands to show […]
Google Testing Huge 7-Line Snippets in Search Results
Google appears to be testing some search results showing up to 7 lines of description text in the Google search results. Ross Hudgens was the first to spot the very long snippet: I also was able to see 7 lines in the mobile search results for the same search query. A couple of things that […]
Update on Image Search Reporting Issues in Google Search Console
A week and a half ago, we reported that Google had added an issue to their Google Search Console Data Anomalies page. The issue was specifically for image search results and caused lower than expected impression and click data. Google has now updated this issue to include an end date and states that the reporting […]
A New Source For Featured Snippets: YouTube
If you have been unsuccessful getting a featured snippet for some of the how/why queries in your website’s market area, there is a new source popping up in featured snippets – YouTube. What is especially unusual is this featured snippet is taken from result #7 on the page, with there being 5 text based search […]
Pages with App Interstitials Will Lose Mobile Friendly Boost Sunday
Just a reminder if you have been waiting for the last minute before removing full page app interstitials from their webpages, pages will lost that mobile friendly tag in the search results and associated mobile friendly ranking boost on Sunday, November 1st. Google announced at the beginning of September that serving full page app interstitials […]
Google Prepared for Possible Spam in App Indexing
In yesterday’s app indexing hangout, Barry Schwartz asked if Google has seen any evidence of people trying to spam app indexing. And they haven’t seen it as much of an issue, at least not yet. Mariya Moeva from Google responded that she isn’t aware of any spam problems yet, but that it is definitely something […]
Google Working on Bringing Site: Info: Cache: To App Indexed Pages
Good news for those who are getting their apps indexed in the Google search results. Google is looking to bring the site:example.com, info:example.com and cache:example.com operators specifically for app indexed results. This is one of the things many app developers have been requesting for a few reasons. First, they want to be able to see […]
Major Joomla Security Issue, Patch Required to Prevent SQL Injection
There is a major exploit on sites that are running the Joomla CMS and it appears that many sites have yet to be updated to prevent the vulnerability. The Joomla team just released a new Joomla version (3.4.5) to fix some serious security vulnerabilities. The most critical one is a remote and unauthenticated SQL injection […]