Super Bowl 50 is now in the history books, but the ads that appeared before and during the “Big Game” will continue to get views during “overtime.” YouTube and Google have collected some stats around the top trends they saw during the game. For example, they saw a huge interest in watching ads on YouTube […]
Archives for February 8, 2016
Google’s Medical Knowledge Panels Redesigns May Treat Section
Google has made a slight change to the knowledge panel, redesigning the previous “Most Commonly Used For” section and renaming it “May Treat” instead. Google added this carousel late last year as part of the new features they added to the medical knowledge panels that are showing up for many medical conditions and medications on […]
Google Adds Related Medications to Medical Knowledge Panels
Google has added a brand new feature to medical knowledge panels that are displayed on the right hand side of the search results for some medical related search queries. If you search for some medications on Google, you will now see a new section in that medical knowledge panel that displays “Related Medications”. When one […]
WordPress Recipe Plugins Causing Rich Snippet Manual Actions
If you run a recipe website, or have recipes on your website, and you are using one of the popular recipe plugins for WordPress that automatically markup the text for recipe rich snippets, you might want to check in Google Search Console for manual actions related to rich snippet spam. Multiple plugins have been triggering […]
Emojis No Longer Permitted in Google Product Listing Ads
Google has quietly updated their Store Name Guidelines to now state that listings cannot include emojis. We broke the news last month about emojis being used in store names in Google’s Product Listing Ads. A wide variety of emojis could be used and some were experimenting with using on-theme emojis to promote their listings. Here […]