If you have ever had your site hacked, you know it is a pain to clean up the mess – usually in the form of spammy high value keywords and links – as well as fix whatever compromise led the hackers to gain access to compromise your site in the first place. But there is […]
Google Adds New Movie Carousel Sorting Options
Google has added some new sorting features to their movie carousels which will be very handy to both movie buffs and to those who want more options when it comes to what they see. One of the problems with the carousels for genres is that they tend to show only the most popular, which is […]
AdBlock Launches Mobile Browser for Android & iOS
With much of the focus being on the new ad blocking capabilities in iOS 9, AdBlock Plus has upped their game by launching their own mobile browser to tackle the problem of online advertising on mobile devices. While Apple gears up for iOS 9 and media speculate on some apps in private beta, we’ve gone […]
Google Doodle for Canada’s First Day of School on Google.ca
Canada got its own Google Doodle today – featuring the new Google logo – celebrating the first day of school on Google.ca. While many schools in other parts of the world, including the US, have already gone back to school, the Tuesday after Labour Day in Canada is traditionally the first day back to school […]
Google Local Results Include Holiday Hours Alert
If you searched for a business on Labor Day, you may have noticed that Google has begun adding an alert to their local knowledge panel alerts under the “hours” listing for businesses. Google adds “Labour/Labor Day might affect these hours” to the local knowledge panel when people are searching for local businesses over a holiday […]
Using AdBlock With Chrome Results in Non-Skippable YouTube Ads
If you use Chrome and have noticed that all your YouTube video ads are suddenly non-skippable, you are not alone. Users with AdBlock enabled are suddenly discovering that YouTube is seemingly only serving non-skippable ads. The notion of non-skippable video ads isn’t new on YouTube, but it definitely isn’t the default method. Most videos come […]
Google Doubles Medical Conditions in Knowledge Panels & Adds Features
Google Google expanded their medical results earlier this year to bring detailed and verified medical information into the knowledge panel for commonly searched for medical conditions. Google is now enhancing this even further by doubling the number of medical conditions available via knowledge panel by adding more commonly searched conditions. This will bring the number […]
Google Testing New Expandable Local Knowledge Panel
Google is testing a local knowledge panel that starts collapsed and requires user interaction in order to expand it and see the additional details – details that are normally displayed by default. Here is an example for a search for “Internet Marketing Ninjas” with a collapsed knowledge panel. When expanded, it shows details like a […]
App Interstitial Warning Doesn’t Target Cookie Warnings or Other Pop-Ups
The new change Google is making to remove the mobile friendly tag and mobile ranking boost to webpages that show users an app interstitial – or app install box that covers most of the screen – does not impact other types of pop-ups or interstitials… at least not yet. This change is specific to those […]
Workaround for Search Queries Report in Google Search Console
For those who prefer the old Search Queries report in Google Search Console will be in for some disappointment – it appears Google is removing access to the old search queries report in favor of the new Search Analytics which launched earlier this year. Fortunately, for those who love the old search queries report and […]