Google is testing a new style of the local knowledge panel on desktop, which is actually the mobile version of the knowledge panel. Here is how it appears, the primary difference in the photos at the top being displayed carousel style rather than the desktop style: With the mobile style, it is also missing the […]
Google’s Pilot for Real Time Indexing of Breaking News Now Available
Want to push breaking news live directly to Google’s search results? Google is now accepting publishers for their pilot of the Search Live Coverage Carousel feature, which allows publishers to push breaking news to the search results in real time. Yes, you can push your breaking news content updates, whether content or video, directly to […]
Google’s New Mobile Interstitial & Popup Change Applies at Page Level
If you were wondering how Google would apply the new interstitial / popup changes to pages, Gary Illyes from Google has confirmed that it is applied on a page level and not a site level. @digitalwhat the algorithm affects individual pages, not whole sites @googlewmc — Gary Illyes (@methode) August 27, 2016 This isn’t too […]
AMP Now Supports A/B Testing
If you have been wanting to do some A/B testing on your AMPlified page performances, AMP is now supporting a new <amp-experiment> which gives publishers flexibility to test variations of pages. This is especially good news for those publishers wanting to monetize better as well as for advertisers that are currently testing out using AMP […]
Google to Devalue Sites with Pop-Ups & Interstitials in Mobile Search Results
Google is finally making the leap to target sites that are giving searchers a poor user experience by devaluing sites using all kinds of pop-ups and mobile interstitials – including fake interstitials. Starting early next year, Google will not rank pages with intrusive interstitials as highly as those without. And more importantly, this includes pop-ups […]
Google Dropping Mobile Friendly Tag; 85% Mobile Search Results are Mobile Friendly
Google will be dropping the familiar “Mobile-friendly” tag from all mobile friendly results when someone does a search on a mobile device. With 85% of the mobile search results are now mobile friendly, it makes sense that this move would happen to declutter the search results and leave a cleaner look. With the majority of the […]
Popular 404 to 301 WordPress Plugin Injecting Cloaked Spam Links for Search Engines
If you use the WordPress 404 to 301 plugin, you will want to remove it, or at the very least update it. Users discovered that the plugin is injecting paid links that are only visible to search engines. So a site owner visiting their site would not see anything amiss, but checking it via a […]
Google Testing Mobile Style in Local 3-Pack on Desktop
Google is testing a new style of local 3-pack in the desktop search results – and this style draws directly from how Google styles the mobile search results. Sergey Alakov spotted this test in the search results (via incognito) The blue color and the style of icons all match the style from the mobile results. […]
Google Alerting Site Owners About Pages With AMP Errors
If you have AMP errors on any of your webpages, and you do a query that triggers a page with those errors, Google is now showing a notification in the search results to alert site owners to the issue. Here is what it looks like: This error is only shown when you are logged into […]
Google AdWords Reduces Keyword Planner Data to Low Budget & Non-Advertiser Accounts
Last week, we were first to report that Google AdWords was restricting data for the AdWords Keyword Planner for those advertisers without active campaigns. Google has now officially confirmed the change, and revealed another detail – accounts that are also under a certain monthly spend will also see the reduced data in the Keyword Planner […]