Some site owners who have been impacted by Penguin have been waiting for quite some time for a Penguin update to happen. While we know that the next Penguin will bring a new real-time Penguin, playing the waiting game in the meantime has been tough. In last week’s Google Webmaster Hangout with John Mueller, he […]
Google Showing AMP Results Outside of AMP Carousel in Search Results
At SMX earlier this month, Dave Besbris, Vice President of Engineering said that they would be bringing AMP results to other parts of the search results, and it appears they have already started this push. Google is now displaying AMP results beyond the usual carousel. Over the past few weeks, many have become familiar with […]
App Install Cards Get Ranking Boost for App-Seeking Queries
At SMX West last week, Mariya Moeva from Google talked a great deal about app indexing in the Google search results. But she also touched on the area of app install cards/buttons that sometimes appear in the search results for mobile users… and more specifically, why we don’t see them as much anymore. The app […]
Sites With Linking Manual Actions Will Lose Rankings After Action Lifted
At SMX last week, Juan Felipe Rincón talked about many aspects of manual actions that impact webmasters. One of the things he mentioned is something many advanced SEOs would be familiar with, but it is also something I know still surprises some website owners who are recovering from a link related manual actions who might […]
Google Running AdWords Ads for Home Service Ads Promo
Google is now running AdWords ads to advertise their Home Service Ads. Navolutions was the first to spot the ad. What is noteworthy is there are no other paid ads at the top of the page, nor are there any Home Service Ads being displayed, despite many being available. And the local 3-pack wasn’t present […]
Google Finally Showing AMP Results in Chrome for iOS
When Google AMP first launched, many found it ironic that AMP results would not show up in Google Chrome or the Google Search App for iOS users. While AMP results showed in the news carousel in Safari, Google was only displaying regular non-AMP news carousels in Chrome and GSA on iOS. This has finally changed. […]
Results in AMP Carousel Can Also Appear in Regular Google Search Results
If you have been concerned about your AMP pages being buried far along to the right in an AMP carousel, and potentially missing out on traffic, you shouldn’t be too concerned. Pages that appear in the carousel can also appear in the regular non-AMP search results. John Mueller was asked about AMP pages in this […]
Google Adds Icons for Quick Facts in Medical Knowledge Panels
Google has fancied up their popular medical condition knowledge panels by adding colorful icons next to some of the most important things that searchers should know. When doing a search on desktop, the knowledge panel for some medical conditions has been dressed up with some brand new icons for important quick facts in the search […]
Google Considering Manual Actions on Fake App Interstitials Like Yelp Uses
If the fact some sites have been getting their mobile friendly tags in the search results along with the associated ranking boost, despite still serving what is essentially an app interstitial, it appears that Google is looking into taking action….manual action. I covered the issue at the beginning of January, showing how Yelp is serving […]
Google’s Tips for Troubleshooting AMP Errors
If you have been seeing some AMP errors show up for some of your WordPress posts, compliments of the wildly popular AMP WordPress plugin, Tomo Taylor, the AMP Community Manager at Google has posted some great troubleshooting tips for publishers yesterday. It was in response to a publisher who was still seeing hundreds of AMP […]