Google is still working on their mobile search index, something Google first confirmed last year, although we haven’t heard much about it for a year or so. The mobile index would be completely separate from the desktop index and would be for searches done on mobile only. Why is Google working on a mobile only […]
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Next Mobile Friendly Update Includes Page Speed; Coming in Months
At Search Marketing Summit Sydney today, Gary Illyes confirmed that page speed will be a factor in the next mobile friendly update. Google has long talked about wanting to make page speed a mobile friendly factor, but this is the first time someone from Google has confirmed that it is actually coming. I also asked Illyes […]
Does Google Value AJAX Content Less Than Static HTML Content?
AJAX is still pretty popular for websites, and at Google Dance Tokyo, Gary Illyes and the other Googlers were asked about whether AJAX content was valued less by Google when compared to straight static HTML content, or if Googlebot still has trouble with AJAX – something that many webmaster dealt with years ago. But does Googlebot […]
Google: You Can Ignore Links from Scraper Sites
At Google Dance Tokyo, Gary Illyes was asked about scraper sites during the Q&A. He was specifically asked whether a site owner should be concerned about their site being scraped and republished, and all their internal links in the site were turned into external links from the scraper site pointing to the original site. You […]
Why Google Rewrites Title Tags & What SEOs Can Do
At last week’s Google Dance Tokyo, during the Q&A, Gary Illyes was asked about Google rewriting title tags, and if Google would ever allow SEOs the ability to prevent Google from rewriting them. And Illyes had some interesting responses on both of those. We will never quit rewriting titles. We’ve seen so many sites whose […]
Google Adding Site Name to End of Titles for Brand/Site Queries
Google is adding the site name to the end of some search queries in the search results, truncated the title in order to display a brand or site name at the end. Here is an example of a search which included “thesempost” in the search query. But what is pretty significant is Google is that […]
Google Adds Thumbnails to Food Related Wikipedia Results
Google has added thumbnails to food related queries for Wikipedia results in the search results. Here are some examples. Andrea Pernici was the first to spot these new Wikipedia results. They are styled very similarly to recipes that also feature an image, but without the added recipe markup we usually see with recipes in the […]
Google Lets Searchers Choose Language When Query In Different Language
If you type in an English word in Google.co.in, Google will show a language selector, allowing the searcher to see results in either the searcher’s usual language (in this example Hindi) or in English, the language that the query was in. Here is how it looks: It gives the searcher two “tabs” to select from, […]
Google Showing Third Party Reviews in Local Map Results
Google is displaying reviews from select third party review sites in their local knowledge panels that appear in the maps results. Conrad O’Connell was the first to spot it with reviews from Booking.com and Princeline. But I was also able to trigger ones with Agoda as well. Here is what it looks like: You can […]
New AMP Features Including Social Sharing, Sidebars & Collapsing Sections
The AMP project has announced some new additions to AMP that gives publishers more flexibility on the look and feel of AMP pages while still being fast for users. They include one much-requested addition – social sharing buttons. <AMP-SOCIAL-SHARE> This will populate some of the most popular social sharing buttons. including Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and […]