If you are in the Google Webmaster Tools alpha/beta for Search Analytics (formerly called Search Insights), they have just added a brand new feature that allows you to filter by URL when looking at the page reporting data. Annie Cushing from Annielytics was the first to notice this change, although it has been requested by […]
Google Adds New Book Carousel Feature to Search Results
Google made some changes to knowledge graphs for book titles in January that when you clicked on the “people also searched for” within the knowledge graph, it would show a book carousel. Google is now expanding on that and is now showing the carousel directly in the search results for book related searches. I was […]
Massive Google Analytics Outage Affects All Users
If you are have been trying to access Google Analytics for the past few hours, you have either been greeted with an endless loading screen or this: While initially many people expected the outage to be fixed within a few minutes, it has now been hours since the first problems were noticed. It is unknown […]
Google Begins Including Dates on Answer Boxes in Search Results to Show Timeliness
One of the criticisms about Google’s answer boxes is that it is hard to tell just how recent, or not, the information presented in the answer boxes is. Well, Google seems to be looking at a way to alleviate these concerns by now showing the date attributed to the content shown in the answer box. […]
Google Expands Event Listings With Data From Facebook Pages
Google is expanding their concert listings for artists by adding other types of events to their knowledge graph – including aquariums and even venues that don’t normally host events or sell tickets, such as Times Square in New York City. Previously, the knowledge graphs seemed to be restricted to events that one could purchase tickets […]
Google Confirms New Mobile Ranking Signal Does Not Affect Tablets
Although it has been said before, Google confirmed on Twitter that the new mobile ranking signal, which is scheduled to launch on April 21st, does not affect rankings on tablets. @Jumzle The upcoming mobile-friendly change is for mobile users, not tablet users. — Google Webmasters (@googlewmc) April 1, 2015 There have been concerns from those […]
Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox Will No Longer Trust Secure Certificates from CNNIC
Both Google Chrome and Mozilla’s Firefox will stop trusting new digital certificates that of the issued by China Internet Information Center (CNNIC) following last week’s breach that saw unauthorized security certificates for various Google URLs. In simple terms, CNNIC issued certificates to Egypt –based MCS Holdings in the name of various Google domains, which is […]
Google AdSense Publishers Could See Social Casino Ads Unless They Opt Out
Do online social casino ads drive you crazy? Well, they will now start appearing in your Google AdSense ads… unless you explicitly opt-out of them. Did you know your AdSense ads will start displaying social casino ads on your site unless you… Click To Tweet Google describes the ads as “includes simulated gambling games (including, […]
Google Filling Autocomplete with Competitors & Related Articles, Complete with URLs
Google is back with yet another auto-complete change that they are testing… And Google has kicked it up a notch from the test in late March where Google was filling autocomplete with comeptitor’s names. Now they are also including the title of the competitors website as well as the site’s URL. This autocomplete works similarly […]
Google Local Pack Results Back After Being Missing Monday & Tuesday
On Monday evening and into Tuesday morning, people began noticing that local pack results were no longer being shown in the Google Search results. People in various countries were noticing the missing pack results, however this was affecting multiple browsers, users and countries. While many people feel that it was simply a bug in the […]