An interesting question came up in yesterday’s Google webmaster office hours with John Mueller about reviews and using them on sites for different countries and languages from the initial review. We’ve just launched websites in Canada, Australia and South Africa. Am I allowed to use the UK customers’ product reviews across these new sites (we […]
Archives for 2016
Google Launches New Rich Cards in Search Results
Google has announced the addition of rich cards in the mobile search results. Rich cards are similar to rich snippets, but in an expanded format in a carousel. Google is initially showing these new rich cards for recipes and movies in the mobile search results. There is also a new related rich cards section in […]
Google Adds “People Also Search For” Thumbnails to Search Results
Google has expanded how they display their “People also search for” feature in the search results. Instead of a text version, Google is now displaying the feature with thumbnails. Here is how it appears in the search results: When you click through to “View 2+ more”, it takes you to a carousel style result in […]
Google Adds Shopping Ads to Image Search Results
Google has officially added Product Listing Ads to image search results. They are now available to all advertisers as part of the Google Search Network. We spotted Google testing PLAs in the image search results back in January. The new PLAs in image ads look the same, except for a difference in the URL color […]
Twitter No Longer Counts URLs or Photos in Character Count
Good news for those who have been struggling with Twitter’s 140 character count limit. A change expected to roll out within the next two weeks will see Twitter no longer include the characters from URLs or photo URLs in the 140 character limit in each tweet. A change to how Twitter counts characters has been […]
Google Updates Structured Data Testing Tool
Google has updated their structured data testing tool, making it more helpful to users who run into problems. The new tool has much more detail on common errors to help site owners fix their structured data issues. One of the big changes, and most helpful for debugging is the ability to either check a URL […]
Google’s New Mobile Friendly Test Available to All Users
Google has officially launched their new mobile friendly test to all users. This coincides with the recent increase to Google’s mobile friendly ranking boost this month. The new mobile friendly test actually started showing up earlier this month to some users. But it is now in the process of rolling out to all users. The […]
New Mobile Title Tag Lengths for Google Search Results
Last week, Google shook things up by increasing the width of the search results, and increasing the length of the title tags showing in the search results with it. Google has also expanded the increased title tags to the mobile search results as well, and they have been expanded significantly more than in desktop. Google […]
Manual Actions & Reconsideration Request Bug in Google Search Console
There is a known bug in Google Search Console that is making it difficult for those with manual actions – or suspected manual actions – to either file a reconsideration request or see the manual action within their account in the first place. There seems to be two issues with manual actions, depending on where […]
New Google AdWords Carousel Within Ad in Search Results
This is a very interesting mobile test, and one I know advertisers will be eager to test out. This regular mobile AdWords unit seems to be more like a product carousel, but with rentals instead of regular products. And it looks absolutely amazing. There were a total of four listings. Here is the view when […]