Google is introducing a new feature this summer that will make it much easier for people to remove “revenge porn” of themselves from the Google search results. Our philosophy has always been that Search should reflect the whole web. But revenge porn images are intensely personal and emotionally damaging, and serve only to degrade the […]
Archives for 2015
Emojis Removed from Titles in Google Search Results
RIP Emojis in the Google search results. It took almost two months, but Google has finally removed the emojis that were showing up as titles. Expedia was the first major website to begin showing emojis in their title tags, however it didn’t catch on too much with Google announcing that they would be removed from […]
Google Testing Blue Web Link in Search Results UI Change
Google is testing a pretty significant UI change for them – changing the traditional, and longstanding, red “Web” link that appears at the top of the Google search results to one in blue. I am actually surprised at how much I like this, as well as how noticeable it is that it changed. From what […]
Google Testing Additional Line Breaks in Search Results
Google is running another interesting mobile test with additional lines in between titles and descriptions. Google OS spotted the change in mobile search results in Chrome, which also features the usual “Web” etc links at the top of the results all in capital letters as well as a new blue “web” link. Google Mobile Search […]
How User Experience & User Intent Affect Panda, Penguin & Other Google Algorithms
When most people focus on SEO, they think purely in terms of how Google sees the on-page elements of a page and how they could potentially be impacted by one of the many Google algorithms. But too often, SEOs are so focused on that aspect that they are forgetting two other areas that certainly play […]
Google Adds Content Carousel to Mobile Search Results
Google is testing out a new content carousel to show additional content results from a website. These results were showing up Thursday AM in the Google search results for mobile. Normally sites are restricted to two pages in the search results (outside of sitelinks and additional results outside the “ten blue links” such as image […]
Google Cache Includes Links for Text Only & View Source
Google has updated their Google cache header to now include links to show not just the usual rendering of the cached page, but also includes links for both the text-only version of the cached page and a view source version. Here is the text-only version: And the view source: This change will make it much […]
Google’s June Algo Changes: What We Know So Far
Yes, we have a Google update that is making major waves in the search results. But before you get excited about it being Panda or Penguin, it is not. But this is definitely a huge impact in the search results, with Mozcast posting some extremely high (although slightly skewed) temperatures. Here is what we do […]
Why Some Penalties Removed Faster, According to Google
In yesterday’s Google Webmaster Central office hours, the question came up about how some sites seem to get back into Google’s search index faster than other sites, in light of Thumbtack’s link penalty and subsequent removal of the penalty a week later. John Mueller actually went quite in depth into it, talking both about why […]
Google Reminds Webmasters of Meta NoIndex Issues
Gary Illyes from Google is reminding webmasters to be careful of how they use meta “noindex” tag. Illyes mentions that most search engines will honor a <meta name=”robots” content=”noindex”> even if it is placed in a body element. Please be mindful with noindex directives and remember that most search engines will honour it, even if […]