Google Blog recently announced updates for several of its tools and apps for Android and accessibility. Roughly 1 billion people have some type of disability in the world. Development towards making products usable for everyone has long been a Google mission. It’s been one year since Google began expecting web pages to pass its mobile […]
Archives for April 2016
Google & Bing Add Gas Pricing to Local Search Results
Both Google and Bing are now displaying pricing information for has stations directly in their search results. Here is Google displaying gas prices both for a generic gas search and for one with a specific gas company name. Google is also showing them in the desktop results too, also in the local pack. Bing also […]
Google Adds Store Distance to Product Listing Ads
Google is now testing out adding flags showing distance to the advertising retailer when the listings are shown in Google’s carousel for Product Listing Ads. Here is how it appears, as a little blue flag on the top left of the individual product within the PLA carousel. Here is another example: Google did start displaying […]
Bing Adds “First Post” Dates to Forum Threads in Search Results
Bing has made their search results much more useful for those who searching for information. For forum posts, Bing has now added a line that says when the first post in the forum thread was made. It also includes the number of posts, which Bing has shown in the search results for some time. Here […]
Don’t NoFollow All Links for Outbound Link Manual Action Recovery
If you were on the receiving end of a manual action warning for unnatural outbound links this weekend, if your strategy to fix the problem was to nofollow every link on the site, you may want to rethink that strategy for a number of reasons. This is also something I brought up in my initial […]
Outbound Link Manual Actions Related to Links in Paid Reviews
It seems that my speculation that the unnatural outbound link manual actions sent over the weekend were related to Google’s recent warning to bloggers about using followed links for paid reviews is accurate. Many, if not all, of the targeted sites are blogs and it is becoming apparent that they seem to have compensated reviews […]
Google Featured Snippets Expand to 10 European Countries & Languages
SEO just got a lot more interesting for those in the EU as Google has brought featured snippets to 10 European countries and languages. This means that the featured snippet could be the visual #1 organic result on pages where the search query triggers a featured snippet in the search results. The ten new countries/languages […]
Google Now Blocking Sites With Deceptive Download & Install Buttons
Is your site using fake download buttons or attempts to install fake versions of popular software updates? If so, Google will now completely block searchers from accessing your site via their “red screen of death” that prevents access to the site and also details the issues Google found. Here is how a site will now […]
Unnatural Outbound Link Manual Actions from Google
Many bloggers were hit with “Unnatural Outbound Links” manual actions late Friday night. This manual action is one that doesn’t seem to be sent out very frequently, as link related manual actions tend to target sites that receive the links, not the the sites that are doing the linking. It seems that the vast majority […]
Google Removes In-Depth Articles from Search Results
Google seems to have removed all instances of in-depth articles from the search results. Dr. Pete Meyers confirmed the removal, and Mozcast shows a drop to 0% coverage. I did look at many of the keywords I track that included in-depth results, and none of the search results contained those results. Here is the Mozcast […]