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 […]
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 […]
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. 🙂 — […]
App-Only Content Now Appearing in Google Search Results
Google has stepped up promoting app content in the search results by now adding the ability to show content that is only available within an app. Google is showing it in the search results even to those users who might not have the app installed. Because we recognize that there’s a lot of great content […]
Google Search Analytics Will Be Fixed By End of Week
After a brief period of updating, Search Analytics in Google Search Console is once again delayed. It began updating again but now it has stalled once again without any updates since November 11, 2015. Zineb Ait Bahajji posted an update on Google+ that the team is aware of the issue and they are working on […]
Ad-Supported Apps in Google Play Store Will Be Labeled
In a move that could have a profound impact on both those who create apps as well as those who advertise in apps, Google is planning to begin listing when an app in the Google Play Store is supported by in-app advertising. Google currently states when an app has in-app purchases available, and they do […]
Third Party Content in Google Now Cards Coming
For those of you who are Google Now fans, Gary Illyes from Google said they are wanting to add third-party cards into Google Now. We do see cards that are considered third party, primarily extracted from emails with the appropriate markup, such as the ones we see for flight details, hotel reservations and package shipping […]
Bing’s Duane Forrester Announces He is Joining Bruce Clay Inc
Duane Forrester, part of the Bing Webmaster Tools team, recently announced he was leaving Bing and Microsoft but didn’t reveal where we was planning to move to. And now we know… he is joining the team at Bruce Clay Inc. Duane made the announcement during his keynote at State of Search in Dallas, Texas on […]
100 Billion Deep Links Indexed; Results Returned in 45% Android Searches
During Gary Illyes’ keynote at this week’s State of Search, he revealed some updated stats about app indexing which should make some webmasters stand up and take notice, especially those who might be sitting on the fence about whether or not to do an app or not. First, Illyes said that Google currently has 100 […]