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 […]
Google’s Remove URL Tool for Emergencies, Not Site Migration
While most SEOs know when to use Google’s remove URL tool, there are some people who don’t understand when they should and shouldn’t use the remove URL tool. John Mueller answered a question about whether someone should remove the HTTP version of a site via Google’s remove URL tool when they are migration a site […]
When Switching to HTTPS, Google Recrawls Faster to Process Move
John Mueller recently posted a Q&A for moving a site from HTTP to HTTPS. He has answered several questions readers had, and one of them was noteworthy for those who are making the switch to a secure site. When Google recognizes that a site is switching to HTTPS, Google will sometimes recrawl the site faster […]
Google Penalizes Japanese Link Network
On the Japanese Webmaster blog today, Google announced that they have penalized a Japanese link network for violating webmaster guidelines. They haven’t detailed which link network was penalized but I expect that information will be publicly available soon after penalized SEOs start talking about being hit with manual actions from this link network removal. この一環として、Google […]
Check Google Search Console for New Structured Data Errors
Google has made some changed to how they are processing structured data markup, meaning you could have some new structured data errors pop up in your Structured Data section in Google Search Console. John Mueller made the comment on Google+ that along with the new support for JSON-LD in products and snippets, they have “cleaned […]
Google Using JSON-LD for Products & Reviews
We reported earlier this week that Google is now using JSON-LD for ratings and reviews in the search results. Google has officially confirmed JSON-LD for not just ratings and reviews, but also for products. Google has now updated their support page for ratings and reviews to reflect that JSON-LD is now available, which had not […]
New Ways to Use the SEO Tools in Your Toolbox
We know: You like 2-3 SEO tools, you get used to how they work and nothing compares to them. But what about all the rest out there? There are other SEO tools, and they do great things for other SEO people. I want to share with you some of the personal SEO tools that we […]