Hot on the heels of Yahoo testing out purple titles in their ads and organic search results, they are testing out a wild shade of turquoise too. Here is a full page screenshot showing the new color they are testing. It is quite noticeable, but it also kind of has the look of search results […]
Google AdSense Publishers Required to Add EU User Consent Policy to Sites
If you are using Google AdSense and serve any visitors from the European Union, you are now required to ask those visitors permission to use their data. You have probably all come across instances where you see something asking you for permission for cookies on the top of a website, something that is especially common […]
Google Manual Actions Issued for Image Mismatch Including Hotlink Prevention
If you have suddenly noticed many of your images suddenly being dropped from the Google Image Search results, Google has been issuing manual action penalties for the little known “image mismatch” manual action. While the manual action targets those who are displaying different images on the site to users when compared to the images shown […]
Google Product Listing Ads With “Price Drop”
Google has added a new type of notation to their Product Listing Ads (aka shopping ads), this time allowing retailers to add a notation when the price of a product has dropped by a certain percentage. They are being displayed for Product Listing Ads that appear both above the search results and in the right […]
Twitter Removing Tweets With Copyrighted Content
Has anyone stolen your tweet and you want revenge? Twitter will remove tweets via their DMCA form if they determine the tweet’s content was stolen. The Verge broke a story that a freelance writer was filing multiple DMCAs against a multitude of Twitter handles for tweeting out the same “joke” she had tweeted previously. The […]
Yahoo Testing Purple Title Links for Ads & Organic Search Results
Yahoo is testing their search results with the Yahoo purple links for all the titles on the page instead of the traditional blue links. Aaron Wall spotted this test on Sunday where all the title links for both ads and organic search results were all in Yahoo purple. We have seen some ads with a […]
Google to Restrict Autocomplete API Access on August 10, 2015
If you have a tool or website that uses the unsupported Google autocomplete API, be warned that your access will be shut off next month. On August 10, 2015, Google will begin restricting access to the autocomplete API. The autocomplete API gave suggestions for commonly used terms to complete the search query a user is […]
Google Begins Displaying JSON-LD Rich Snippets in Search Results
If you prefer JSON-LD for structured data, over the commonly used RDF or microdata, you are in luck. It appears that Google is now displaying rich snippets in JSON-LD in their search results. On Aaron Bradley‘s SEO Skeptic, he details how Google has begun showing rich snippets in JSON-LD format, at least for recipe rich […]
Google: App Interstitials Result in Huge Abandonment Rate
Google has published an interesting study about app interstitials, and the results are significant enough that companies should consider removing their interstitial or switch to an app install banner instead. Many companies, in implementing their mobile strategy, feel that the more app downloads the better. But it is one of the most annoying things for […]
Google Panda Update: Everything We Know About Panda 4.2
UPDATE: We have a new complete analysis of the Google Panda Algo, complete with brand new quotes directly from Google (January 2016). Understanding Google Panda: Definitive Guide for SEOs Yes, we have liftoff! Panda 4.2 has finally arrived, following Gary Illyes announcement last month that the refresh was coming. “This past weekend we began a […]