If you have looked in your Gmail promotions tab in the past few hours, you would have seen that Google has completely redesigned the look and feel of the ads that Google displays above emails in the promotions tab. Here is how they look now. As you can see, they are now sporting the yellow […]
Google Blocks Right to Be Forgotten Removed Results from All EU Searchers
When Google began remove links from the search results under “Right to be Forgotten” in the EU, there was a workaround that a searcher within the EU could go to Google.com and see those removed results. Google was only removing them from the EU versions of the search engines, such as Google.fr. But now Google […]
Switching Domains? Helps to Use Site Move Tool in Search Console
Whenever a site is switching domain names for whatever reason, there is always the worry about the loss of rankings, PageRank values from links and whether it will see the success the previous domain had once the redirects have been processed and the new site has been fully crawled. Gary Illyes from Google was asked […]
AMP to Support Both Paywalls & Subscriptions
Depending on which side of this business model you fall on, you will be either really happy – or really not – that AMP is supporting both paywalls and subscriptions. “AMP’s paywall implementation is crucial for publishers of quality contents. Google’s AMP team has come up with a system able to address most of the […]
Google to Stop Running Flash Ads in Phased Stoppage
In an unsurprising move, Google has announced they are phasing out all Flash ads and are replacing them with HTML5 ads. With many users no longer showing any Flash content due to security issues, many have been expecting this move. There are two phases for the ending of Flash ads. On June 30, 2016, advertisers […]
Google Updates Image Search PLAs With Mobile Refined Queries
Google recently launched Product Listing Ads in Google’s image search results. These PLAs, launched January 19th, show sponsored products in a row for both desktop and mobile when a particular search query would have PLAs to display. We are now seeing a new change to the mobile image PLAs with a new refined feature. Ryan […]
Google Asking Searchers if Featured Snippets Are Helpful
How useful or helpful do you find Google’s featured snippets? Google is interested in finding out, as they are including a section below a featured snippet asking the searcher if it is useful or not. Here is the screenshot: It is just a yes or no response, and it actually shows above another featured snippet […]
Google’s Medical Knowledge Panels Redesigns May Treat Section
Google has made a slight change to the knowledge panel, redesigning the previous “Most Commonly Used For” section and renaming it “May Treat” instead. Google added this carousel late last year as part of the new features they added to the medical knowledge panels that are showing up for many medical conditions and medications on […]
Google Adds Related Medications to Medical Knowledge Panels
Google has added a brand new feature to medical knowledge panels that are displayed on the right hand side of the search results for some medical related search queries. If you search for some medications on Google, you will now see a new section in that medical knowledge panel that displays “Related Medications”. When one […]
WordPress Recipe Plugins Causing Rich Snippet Manual Actions
If you run a recipe website, or have recipes on your website, and you are using one of the popular recipe plugins for WordPress that automatically markup the text for recipe rich snippets, you might want to check in Google Search Console for manual actions related to rich snippet spam. Multiple plugins have been triggering […]