Google has launched new “buy e-books online” feature in the Google knowledge panel for books. These first showed up for book related searches on Friday morning. Here is what it looks like: The most interesting thing about these is that they seem to be organic results and NOT paid. They do not have a sponsored […]
Google Rewrites Titles & Adds Headlines for Some Featured Snippets
Sometimes Google has a perfect featured snippet for a query, but the page’s title doesn’t quite match. So Google will create a new title for a featured snippet to reflect the changes. The headline appears at the top of the featured snippet, which is different from the usual featured snippet without a headline. Here is […]
Bing Now Shows Holiday Hours for Local Businesses in Search Results
Bing is finally showing holiday hours in their local pack and local business knowledge panel results. They began showing up yesterday to show holiday hours and closures for Thanksgiving Day. They are also detailing special hours for events such as Black Friday. Here is how it looks showing holiday closures in the local pack: And […]
SEO Agency SEO Hocasi Confirms Google Penalty
One of the larger SEO agencies in Turkey has confirmed that their main site has stopped ranking for their major keywords, and it has been major news in the Turkish webmaster and SEO forums since last week. And all signs seem to point to either a link manual action (they have been subject to repeated […]
Google: Easier Way to Link & Share Actual URL on AMP Pages Coming
If you have tried to share a URL from an AMP article you have read in Google, chances are you have noticed that the link copied is a www.google.com/amp/ URL and not the actual URL of the source page. It is frustrating for many because it can obscure the actual site when the link is […]
Google Quietly Launches AdWords Shopping Tab Results in Ten Countries
Google has quietly launched the AdWords Shopping tab in multiple countries, ten new countries in total, featuring local results for those countries. The new launched countries include Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Mexico, Norway, Poland, Russia, Sweden and Turkey. These new countries did previously show country specific products at the top of the search results and […]
Google Testing Darker AMP Icons in Search Results
Google is testing a new darker AMP symbol in the search results. The new icon stands out significantly more when you compare it to the usual light grey symbol you normally see in the search results. Mats Tolander spotted it in action: This is quite different from the usual grey, but still not as noticeable […]
Abusive Bots & Services Behind the AdWords Keyword Planner Data Restrictions
It appears as though we now know the reason that Google made the recent Keyword Planner Tool changes that sees some advertisers and SEOs see restricted data instead of detailed data – it was to prevent bots and other services from abusing the intended use of the Keyword Planner. In a response to multiple people […]
Bing Adds Images & Ambiguity Thumbnails to Autosuggest
Bing has added thumbnails to their autosuggest dropdowns. They show for a variety of queries, but seem to show most often for the types of queries where Bing is fairly confident that it is likely the result the searcher is looking for. Frank Sandtmann spotted it in the Bing search results and sent them […]
Some Removed Users Being Reauthorized in Google Search Console
Last week we reported that some users were receiving many new user verification emails from Google Search Console, for users previously added to the account as a result of Google re-running verification checks. It was described as an issue on Google’s end, but it seems it could also have some unintended consequences. It seems that when some […]