Good news if you have ever suffered from having incorrect information show up in a Google Knowledge Panel in the search results. Google wants to make it easier for site owners and individuals to update their knowledge panels and edit them for correct information, according to Gary Illyes during his State of Search keynote Monday. […]
Latest Google Search Quality Rater’s Guide: Mobile Rewrite
We have another Google Quality Rater’s Guidelines & Handbook, and this one is mere weeks old – October 2015. And like the last time we covered the Quality Rater’s Handbook, Google has completely written major parts of their guidelines. Last year we saw Google put the emphasis on pages that had a high level of […]
Google AdWords Launches Holiday Snippets & Texts
Last week Google started letting business owners set holiday hours and this week the presents continue but this time in the AdWords sphere. On Tuesday they announced on their Google+ Page that people can subscribe to receive via SMS promotions related to Black Friday, Cyber Monday and general Holiday deals. Clearly this is a test […]
Google AdWords Testing Location-Based Store Reminders
Google AdWords is testing a new feature where they will remind you when a business for a particular ad is nearby, after interacting with a new “Remind me when I’m nearby” feature in their ad in the search results. It is called Location-Based Store Reminders. Here is how the new feature appears within an AdWords […]
Google Testing Larger Recipe Descriptions in Search Results
Google is testing an enlarged version of their recipe results, such as this one including 5 lines of description, plus additional lines for site links. These are regular recipe results, using the recipe schema markup, but Google is displaying a much longer description than the usual two lines we see in most recipe results. They […]
Google Search Analytics Updating Once Again
The Search Analytics in Google Search Console is slowly updating once again. Search Analytics last updated on November 3rd and had been stuck there for days. Late yesterday, data showed up for November 4th, and as of this morning we now see data from November 5th. So it is slowly updating once again. It is […]
Google Begins Sending Warnings for SSL Certificate Issues
Google is now sending out warning letters to webmasters when they have an issue with the secure certificate on their site. Here is what the warning looks like: The new warning letter has [ WNC-60700 ] for an issue number. This seems to be one of multiple types of warning letters for SSL issues, although […]
Google Looking for App Developers for Research Study
If you are an app developer – and don’t mind signing a non-disclosure agreement – Google is looking for those willing to participate in a research study next week. The sessions take place in either New York or San Francisco, although you can also attend remotely via Google Hangouts with a video camera, speaker and […]
Google Now Shows Severity Rating for Blocked Resources in GSC
John Mueller has announced on Google+ that they have added a great new feature to Google Search Console – a new severity rating for any blocked or unreachable resources on a webpage. Here is how it looks: It shows the severity of the issue – Low, Medium or High. According to Mueller, the rating is […]
Google Bolding Answers to Some Organic Search Result Queries
Google appears to be testing some changes in their search results by bolding the specific information they feel searchers are looking for. For example, when searching for “<profession> salary”, Google is bolding the salary amount in the search results, at least for results from Glassdoor. For the Glassdoor example, they don’t appear to be using […]