Someone had an interesting question for John Mueller on Twitter, asking how does Google look for rich snippet spam. He asked if it was real time, an algo refresh or manual reports. John Mueller responded by saying all of them. @davebuts Yes, pretty much all of the them. — John Mueller (@JohnMu) November 4, 2015 […]
Warning About Contents in a JavaScript Array & Indexing in Google
Gary Illyes from Google has taken to Twitter with a technical SEO warning about websites that are using a javascript array to hide content until a visitor clicks to expand. PSA: If you put contents in a javascript array and only expand them when you click e.g. “…”, those contents won’t be indexed by Google […]
Chilling Effects Rebrands to Lumen, Adds New Features & Partners
If you are an SEO, chances are good that you have needed to use Chilling Effects while doing SEO or competitive analysis. Chilling Effects has undergone some brand new changes, some will make it even easier for doing research on notices in their database. Chilling Effects has changed their name to Lumen, have changed their […]
Google Featured Snippet for Resumes from LinkedIn
Google is displaying data from LinkedIn in a format in their search results, as a featured snippet, to highlight some of the more important details from a person’s employment history and background. It is displayed in a table format, but highlights the individual’s current position, while also including data on previous employment history, education, recommendations […]
Pages With App Interstitials Now Lose Mobile Friendly Ranking Boost
Google has officially begun making pages that serve app interstitials to users coming from the search results as no longer mobile friendly. This means those pages lose both the mobile friendly tag and associated ranking boost. Starting today, pages with an app install interstitial that hide a significant amount of content on the transition from […]
The Pitfalls of a One-Man Web Marketing Band
Imagine for a second you’re at a concert of your favorite musical band. The curtain comes up, and there is the lead singer, sitting on a stool, and he begins to belt out the most beautiful words and melodies. It’s nice. The lead singer sings each song perfectly. If that’s all the concert was, you might […]
Google Expands Holiday Hours to All Google My Business Listings
Google is launching a brand new feature to all local businesses, a feature we first saw being tested back at the beginning of September. Back in September we saw that Google was displaying alerts in the local knowledge panel showing that the business could have different hours due to the holiday – in this case, […]
Google Testing New Store Hours AdWords Extension for Local Businesses
Google is testing a brand new AdWords ad extension, this one an expandable extension that displays open hours for a business. In the same line as a local business address in the AdWords ad, it displays the open hours of the business for that day. When you click on the hours, it expands to show […]
Google Testing Huge 7-Line Snippets in Search Results
Google appears to be testing some search results showing up to 7 lines of description text in the Google search results. Ross Hudgens was the first to spot the very long snippet: I also was able to see 7 lines in the mobile search results for the same search query. A couple of things that […]
Update on Image Search Reporting Issues in Google Search Console
A week and a half ago, we reported that Google had added an issue to their Google Search Console Data Anomalies page. The issue was specifically for image search results and caused lower than expected impression and click data. Google has now updated this issue to include an end date and states that the reporting […]