Bing has begun showing the most recent Facebook post made by a company when displaying the company’s knowledge graph. Here is an example where Bing is displaying Target’s most recent Facebook post in their knowledge graph. And here are a few more examples. It is interesting that Bing is giving this prominent placement to Facebook, […]
Archives for 2015
Indexing Not Complete for Google’s Mobile Friendly Algo Boost
We already knew that Google’s new mobile friendly algo had completely rolled out, but it turns out that according to Gary Illyes, Google is still reindexing all the new mobile friendly pages to give them the mobile friendly boost in the mobile search results. This isn’t actually that surprising, because as John Mueller has often […]
Bing Testing Search Results with Ten Sitelinks for a Single Listing
I was doing some random searches on Bing when I came across this massively large organic search result. It featured ten different site links – all with descriotion also included for each one – in the Bing organic search results. Usually when it comes to sitelinks, search engines tend to play it on the side […]
Google Using NoFollow Links on Google’s Homepage
Occasionally Google places extra text beneath the search box, usually highlighting an event, although on some occasions it has been used for disaster relief and to promote Android. Last week during the annual Star Wars Day “May the Fourth be with you”, Google placed a promotional link on the homepage for Google Play, which led […]
Proposed Legislation Would Make It Illegal For Companies to Penalize Individuals for Negative Online Reviews
With more and more stories of contracts including clauses that prohibit leaving negative reviews or threaten fines or lawsuits for doing so, US lawmakers are wanting to make the practice illegal. The law would make SLAPPs – strategic lawsuits against public participation – illegal. There are some states that already have SLAPP laws in place […]
Bing Adds Boxes to Search Results to Highlight Popular Pages on Site
Bing is running another test in their search results which highlights what they view as important links – such as Login, Contact Us & Menu pages. They appear to the right of the site links for the organic search listing, with a shaded box surrounding each one. When you click on the page, it takes […]
Map Maker Temporarily Closed as Person Behind Android Hack of Google Maps Continues to Spam
After the multiple recent spam attacks hitting Google Maps, courtesy of Map Maker, a tool that allows users to edit and add to Google Maps, Map Maker will no longer be accepting any user edits. This is unfortunate, as it is certainly a case of a few rogue users ruining it for everyone else. The […]
Bing Search Adds Customer Service Phone Numbers to Search Results
Bing Search is testing the addition of a customer service phone number that appears in grey – similar to other annotations – and is displayed beneath the title and URL, but above the page description. These are appearing on the organic (non-paid) search results. This should make it much easier for people searching for a […]
Google Begins Showing Answer Boxes with Two Sources
While writing my article earlier this week on Panda and Penguin, I noticed that Google is showing an answer box for Panda. But the interesting thing is it is showing two sources. You can see it has its usual answer box text and source. But instead of choosing an image from the source they are […]
How to Make Google Rank Current Year’s Event or Product Higher Than Last Year’s One
We have all seen it happen. We search for an event, such as a conference or a festival, only to discover the top listing is for the previous year’s event. And if you are doing a quick search to see dates just from the search results alone, it can be very easy to confuse the […]