Google has added “Like” and “Dislike” buttons to movie knowledge panels in their search results, as part of the drive to show their own movie ratings, in place of third party movie ratings which have been featured in Google’s knowledge panels for over a year. Here is what the new addition to the movie knowledge […]
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Google Adds “Buy e-Book” Options to Book Knowledge Panels
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 […]
How Google Reports Impressions, Positions & Clicks in Search Analytics
There has been a lot of confusion about Search Analytics, specifically what counts as clicks and how positioning is reported. When various search features are included in the search results, and when some sites may or may not show them, it can be hard for some site owners to figure out what some of the […]
No Google Ranking Advantage to Removing Older Content
There has been a trend by webmasters to remove older content because many feel that it is a signal to Google that the site might not be of high quality. Others believe older content impacts Panda and remove it as a Panda preventative. The question came up in last week’s Google Webmaster Office Hours. We […]
Google Displaying Data from Tables in Regular Search Results
We have seen many cases where Google will show tables in featured snippets in the search results. And some types of structured data have the appearance of tables when Google displays it in the search results, such as event listings. But now Google is pulling information from tables to show in the search results. Here […]
Google Adds Rich Results Report to Search Analytics in Search Console
There is a new report for webmasters in Google Search Console. In Search Analytics, you can now get data for all “rich results”. The rich results report includes all rich results, which includes structured data that shows up in Google’s search results for the site’s pages as well as any rich cards. It appears under “Search […]
What is Coming to Google Search Console? Includes 90+ Days of Data
What is in the works to be added to Google Search Console? At Big Digital Adelaide, I had the opportunity to have a fireside keynote chat with Gary Illyes from Google, and one of the things I asked was what was coming to Google Search Console. He mentioned some backend things that the team was […]
Google Increases Width of Main Search Results Column
Google has made a major change to the search results column. In a major redesign of the search results appearance, Google has significantly increased the width of the column in the main search results column, impacting everything Google displays in that column. Google has increased the column for organic search results to about 600 pixels […]
Google Testing Black Titles in Search Results
Google is going pretty bold in their latest test of colors in the search results… this time changing the titles from the usual blue to black. But there are many confused searchers as a result of this test, with many thinking they might have malware installed on their computer because the results are so different. […]
2 Ways Google Suggest Can Expand Your Keywords Beyond Simply Completing Them
Google Suggest (Autocomplete) has always been providing lots of useful insights onto how Google understands and interprets the language and the user intent. It’s interesting to witness such experiments as entity disambiguation right in auto-suggest drop-down. Google Suggest reflects some of Google’s experiments they are currently focusing on, like guessing the brand behind the query, […]