For those who prefer the old Search Queries report in Google Search Console will be in for some disappointment – it appears Google is removing access to the old search queries report in favor of the new Search Analytics which launched earlier this year. Fortunately, for those who love the old search queries report and […]
Archives for 2015
Google Adds Quotes to Knowledge Panels for Famous Individuals
Google has been adding quotes to the top of their search results recently in knowledge boxes. Now they have also been added to the knowledge panel for well known individuals in the search results. Google seems to include a sampling of quotes to include in their knowledge panel for individuals, and they do display when […]
Pages With App Interstitials Won’t Get Mobile Friendly Ranking Boost
Google is officially adding app interstitials to the mobile friendly test, a month after I spotted Google’s plans to add the change. This means that webpages that serve users an interstitial when they click through from the Google search results will be impacted by this change. App interstitials will begin showing as an error in […]
Google Launches Brand New Logo & Branding
Hot on the heels of Google creating parent company Alphabet, Google has now released a new logo they feel better reflects the many facets and areas of Google. The Google still uses the same familiar color scheme that users know and love, but with a brand new typeface to go with it. Here is the […]
Google Deprecating Web Hosting via Google Drive… Finally
Google is deprecating discontinuing support for those who host websites on Google Drive, a little known feature that has been available for three years, but one that has definitely caused issues. “Websites” had been hosted via Google Drive with a googledrive.com/host/[doc id] address, but that left plenty of room for some confusion when it came […]
Google Expanding AdWords Home Service Ads
Google caused considerable interest when they began running Home Service Ads as a pay per lead beta test in San Francisco for both plumbers and locksmiths. It seems to be testing well, as Google has added several new service categories to the beta. The new service categories are house cleaner and handyman. It looks as […]
AdWords Newest Ad Extension Announced: Structured Snippets
Google AdWords is rolling out structured snippet extensions as an option to the dynamic ad extension released easier this year. The original ad extension was dynamic and automatically generated. The information that appears in an ad’s snippet reflects categories of content found on the advertisers site. They are intended to highlight a specific aspect of […]
Google Adds New Weather-Related Search Features
Google has stepped up their game in the weather department by adding some new features for weather that show in the Google search results. First, Google is now showing weather information via Google autosuggest when people search for “weather ” in Google Search. The autosuggest shows the current weather information for the location searched for. […]
Google Chrome Restricting Autoplay Video to Current Tab Only
Google Chrome will no longer automatically play video in tabs that are running in the background. Autoplay videos will now be restricted to the active or current tab only. For users who love to open multiple tabs, it can sometimes be a game of hide and seek to try and determine which tab has an […]
Google Chrome to Begin Blocking All Flash Ads by Default
If you are still using Flash advertisements, either on your site as an advertiser, or on other sites as an advertiser, be aware that Google is making a new change that will disable Flash ads to everyone using the Chrome browser. The change will go live on September 1st. While this change is supposed to […]