If you go to login to Google Search Console, you will discover that the website has a brand new redesign and look, which makes it much easier to find the current information as well as some new pages, including a calendar that lists all Google webmaster related events. Google announced it on the Webmaster Central […]
Archives for January 19, 2016
Google Adds Product Listing Ads to Image Search Results
Google is definitely ramping up Product Listing Ads coverage on the search results. They have now added PLAs to image search. Here is how they appear: They display below the usual sections for narrowing down the image search. Regular image results appear below the PLA listings. All the listings show the price and the store […]
The Google “Penalty” That is Actually From a Hacked Site
Recently, there has been an increase in the number of webmasters who are reporting that they have lost all Google referral traffic. Normally, when one sees organic referrals from Google drop to zero, the natural assumption is that the site has a site-wide manual action applied. Yet when looking in Google Search Console, there is […]
Google Testing Massive Expandable Product Listing Ads
Google is testing a massive Product Ads listing at the top of their search results. The PLA test features an expandable arrow that expands the usual 5 PLA ad unit at the top of the search results into a massive 16 ad unit, pushing down the search results. ChannelAdvisor spotted the test in the search […]
10 Tools for Curated Collaboration
Curating and collaborating, the two are a necessary combination when you are doing a group project. Research is more easily completed, and the information you gather more diversified, if you have multiple people looking at different resources. It would be nice if it didn’t take so much time and energy, though. There is no real […]
Google Testing Gray Stars in Ratings, Local & AdWords
Google is testing yet another color of stars in the search results, but I bet many business and website owners won’t be so happy with this one. Here is how it appears in the search results, this one in a local 3-pack. This is also the last color of the collection of star colors that […]