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Google’s Featured Snippet Videos Now Overlay in Search Results

August 27, 2018 at 3:59 am PST By Jennifer Slegg

Google’s Featured Snippet Videos Now Overlay in Search Results

Google has made a major change with how featured snippets with a video are done in the search results.  Instead of clicking through to the YouTube video landing page, Google is overlaying the video directly into the search results instead.  The overlay does not feature any of the YouTube features and is instead a very […]

Google Slows Crawling With 5xx Server Errors

July 13, 2018 at 5:08 am PST By Jennifer Slegg

Google Slows Crawling With 5xx Server Errors

When a website starts to serve Googlebot 5xx server errors, how does Googlebot handle the change in server status?  The question came up about Google crawl errors, and John Mueller from Google had some interesting comments about 5xx type of server errors and how it impacts Googlebot. That's a very vague question, and a post […]

Google’s Mobile Page Speed Update Rolling Out

July 9, 2018 at 7:24 am PST By Jennifer Slegg

Google’s Mobile Page Speed Update Rolling Out

Google has confirmed that their page speed update – officially called the “Speed Update” is now rolling out.  The change makes a site’s mobile page speed a ranking factor. Google’s Page Speed Algo had previously only considered the desktop speed forsearch results, with sites with a very slow desktop speed being impacted negatively in both […]

Bing Testing Local Packs with Image Thumbnails

June 1, 2018 at 7:31 am PST By Jennifer Slegg

Bing Testing Local Packs with Image Thumbnails

Bing has been testing another variation of their local pack in the search results.  Instead of the usual listing, it adds a thumbnail image for the business on the left hand side of each result in the pack. The images Bing is choosing to display vary between logos, thumbnails of the map and photos from […]

Google: Considerations When Splitting One Site Into Two Individual Sites

May 31, 2018 at 5:19 am PST By Jennifer Slegg

Google: Considerations When Splitting One Site Into Two Individual Sites

John Mueller from Google talked about the issues that can arise when splitting one site into two or multiple sites.  This is something that many site owners do, but depending on the reasons for doing it – whether SEO or for the user – you can end up doing more harm to your overall search […]

Switching to AMP Won’t Negate Other SEO & Google Algo Issues on a Site

April 26, 2018 at 6:25 am PST By Jennifer Slegg

Switching to AMP Won’t Negate Other SEO & Google Algo Issues on a Site

The use of AMP is an interesting one.  For many site owners, using AMP can result in a lift in traffic, but this is because AMP gets priority placement, such as the carousel placements.  But it doesn’t specifically get an additional ranking boost outside of the regular mobile friendly one. But an interesting question came […]

Google Sends “Violating Ad Experiences” Violation Notices to Site Owners

August 28, 2017 at 5:38 am PST By Jennifer Slegg

Google Sends “Violating Ad Experiences” Violation Notices to Site Owners

Google has begun sending out a new warning related to the Ad Experience Report added earlier this year.  The violation notices warn of specific infractions related to the Better Ads Coalition with the way site owners have implemented ads on both desktop and mobile sites. This new violation does require site owners to file a […]

Google Adds Autoplay Video to Search Results Page

July 24, 2017 at 7:08 am PST By Jennifer Slegg

Google Adds Autoplay Video to Search Results Page

If you hate when videos auto play, then you really won’t like this new feature in the Google search results.  Google is now autoplaying video when you do a search query that brings up a video in the knowledge panel on the right side of the results.  Yes, Google begins autoplaying the video when loading […]

Using Meta Keywords Tag Not a Google Spam Signal

July 17, 2017 at 6:02 am PST By Jennifer Slegg

Using Meta Keywords Tag Not a Google Spam Signal

We have known for some time that Google ignores keywords placed within the meta keywords tag, something Google officially announced back in 2009, as it was something that was heavily spammed many, many years ago.  But what about the possibility of Google using it as some kind of spam flag, in a reverse use of […]

KnowledgeVision’s Knovio 3.0 is Not Your Old School Online Video Platform

June 30, 2017 at 6:06 am PST By Greg Jarboe

KnowledgeVision’s Knovio 3.0 is Not Your Old School Online Video Platform

KnowledgeVision Systems, a leader in smart media creation and hosting technology, has announced the immediate availability of a major update to Knovio, its cloud-based online video platform. Knovio 3.0 dramatically expands the capabilities of an online media platform that’s already used by more than 235,000 registered users in more than 2,000 companies and campuses on […]

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