At State of Search last week, Gary Illyes from Google talked about the importance of AMP – Accelerated Mobile Pages and how it would become more important in 2016. Now Google has announced that AMP pages are coming to Google Search next year. Google doesn’t give a specific date, other than “early next year,” but […]
Archives for 2015
Facebook Adds Share Option for Including Original Post
If you have shared something on Facebook since yesterday afternoon, you have probably noticed a new sharing option pop up. This allows Facebook users to decide whether or not they want to include the original post with the share or not. Here is how it looks when you share a link on Facebook now. It […]
Google Removes Business Reviews in New Google+ Redesign
When Google+ launched their new redesign, one glaring omission for local businesses was the fact Google dropped the business reviews from the Google+ local pages. While many wondered if it was an oversight, we now have confirmation that they will not be returning. Elizabeth P, a rep from Google on local confirmed that reviews are […]
Bing Ads Launches New Black Friday Flyer Ads in Search Results
Bing has added a new ad unit to the top of their search results highlighting the Black Friday flyers of some businesses. The ads highlight the entire flyer with a “view flyer option” along with thumbnails and links to individual items that are on sale for Black Friday. The ad unit also includes when the […]
Upcoming Penguin Will Be Update, Not Refresh, and Real Time
For those who have been wondering whether the new Penguin would be an update or merely a refresh, we now have our answer. It will be a true Penguin update – meaning with new signals – rather than a refresh, which would mean simply rerunning the last version of Penguin. Gary Illyes from Google confirmed […]
Where is Social Content Going – The Web Summit 2015 Recap
Last year, when I attended the Web Summit (Dublin, Ireland) for the first time, I was not fully aware of what was happening. The event was much bigger than I expected, and there were so many sessions going at the same time. The biggest challenge of all was that many stages were far apart from […]
Google Search Analytics Updated Once Again
It appears that the Search Analytics in Google’s Search Console is updating once again. After being stalled after the November 11th data refresh, users can now find data up to and including November 20th. The Search Analytics has been suffering issues lately with not refreshing the data. Already this month it had stalled with data […]
Unruly Unveils Most Shared Video Ads of 2015 with ‘Friends Furever’ Topping the List
A cute video ad for Android featuring clips of unlikely animals playing together is the most shared ad of 2015, according to data released today by Unruly. “Friends Furever” – which depicts some surprising animal friendships – has attracted 6,432,921 shares across Facebook, Twitter and the blogosphere since its launch in February, putting it ahead […]
Google Officially Releases Search Quality Rating Guidelines
Google has officially released their Quality Rating Guidelines, the same guidelines I analyzed earlier this week from a leaked copy. This marks the second time that Google has released a version, having released a stripped down version in 2013. But this is the first time they have publicly and officially released the entire document. Something […]
New Book & Play Themed Carousels in Google Knowledge Panels
Google has added some new features to the Google Search results in both the knowledge panel and the associated carousel for books as well as both musicals and plays. This was actually a feature I was hoping for when covering a similar feature for movies. @jenstar try out some books or plays now. 🙂 — […]