Google can display both a large featured snippet with image alongside a Google knowledge panel on the right side. What makes this most noticeable is that the featured snippet – with an image and a table – is very lengthy and is actually longer than the knowledge panel with the related projects in it. On […]
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Google Testing 4 Line Description Snippets in Search Results
Google is testing out longer snippets in the descrption for some Google search results, giving some results 4 lines of description over the standard two lines that you see in the majority of results. While Wikipedia triggered the first 4 lines of description as information sites, as you can see with the Hobbycraft result, commercial […]
Google Video Snippets Visibility Continues to Drop in Search Results
When SEER Interactive noticed that the visibility of Google video snippets in the search results were significantly reduced, I did a story looking at the drop in visibility, but noticed that the visibility jumped up by 4% on that day. So people wondered if it just a temporary flux that would sort itself out, or […]
Rethinking Affiliate Sites With Google’s Product Review Update
Google released a new product review update two weeks ago, which rewards higher quality product reviews while directly or indirectly negatively impacting low quality product reviews that have become a popular source of content for many websites over the past few years. The rollout affects only English language reviews, and Danny Sullivan from Google has […]
New Google Quality Rater Guidelines, Update Adds Emphasis on Needs Met
Google has released a brand-new Google quality rater guidelines, coming close to a year after the last one was released in December 2019. This update doesn’t have some of the sweeping updates and changes that we’ve seen in some of the previous updates. There are many interesting things Google has added, stressed, or changed, so […]
Google Adding FAQ, Q&A and How To Verticals to Search Results
At Google Dance Singapore, Gary Illyes from Google revealed a new feature that is coming to the Google search results. The new feature would see specific content from a webpage, including FAQ, Q&A and how-to verticals being highlighted in the search results for those pages. And these rich results take up nearly the entire screen […]
Google Search Quality Rater Guidelines Updated: Beneficial Purpose, Creator Reputation & More
It has been a year since we last saw Google’s Search Quality Rater Guidelines updated, but they released a brand new version over the weekend. Here is what has changed, with commentary about why it is important for site owners and tips they can take away from it to incorporate into their own sites. Once […]
Google Adds “Mentioned on Wikipedia” Carousels in Search Results
Google has often shown carousels in the search results for both mobile and desktop for all kinds of searches. Google has added a new version for searches with a “mentioned on Wikipedia” carousel. Searchers, and site owners, have often complained about Google’s carousels not having data from where the information is taken from. So Google […]
Insights from Google’s Voice Search Quality Rater Guidelines
Google has released quality rater guidelines specifically for voice search, the first time they have published guidelines specifically around the evolving world of voice search and assistant responses for search queries. While most will refer to them as the voice search quality rater guidelines, the official name is “Evaluation of Search Speech – Guidelines.” For […]
Google Updates Quality Rater Guidelines for YMYL & Offensive Results
Google has made another update to the Google Quality Rater Guidelines, coming only a couple of months after the last release, which saw major changes made to target fake news, science denail and clickbait, among other things. This updates sees Google bring added clarification to specific areas of the guidelines and other minor changes. The […]