Bing Search is testing the addition of a customer service phone number that appears in grey – similar to other annotations – and is displayed beneath the title and URL, but above the page description. These are appearing on the organic (non-paid) search results. This should make it much easier for people searching for a […]
Google Begins Showing Answer Boxes with Two Sources
While writing my article earlier this week on Panda and Penguin, I noticed that Google is showing an answer box for Panda. But the interesting thing is it is showing two sources. You can see it has its usual answer box text and source. But instead of choosing an image from the source they are […]
How to Make Google Rank Current Year’s Event or Product Higher Than Last Year’s One
We have all seen it happen. We search for an event, such as a conference or a festival, only to discover the top listing is for the previous year’s event. And if you are doing a quick search to see dates just from the search results alone, it can be very easy to confuse the […]
Google’s Doorway Algorithm is Live & Updates Regularly
Yes, Google’s doorway algorithm has gone live. Some webmasters were questioning whether Google had pushed out the doorway algorithm or not because many did not notice much of a change in the Google search results. And there had been no official word from Google that it had gone live, just their announcement that it would. […]
Order Food Directly From Google’s Search Results
Google is getting into the food ordering service by allowing US searchers to order food… and order it directly from the search results. Google is working with six different companies with this new feature – Seamless, Grubhub, Eat24, Delivery.com, BeyondMenu, and MyPizza.com. You will now see an option to “Please an order” for all restaurant […]
Why SEOs Should Focus on Google’s Other Algo Signals, Not Just Panda & Penguin
If you have ever been hit by a flying Panda or Penguin, it can have a pretty devastating effect. And by far, the most Google algo attention is given to Panda and Penguin, with the only possible exception of the month leading up to the mobile friendly algo launch date in April… although the terror-inspiring […]
Google Infographic Shares Mother’s Day Gift Trends
The folks at Google have just shared an infographic that shows Mother’s Day gift trends. And search engine marketers – especially ones that have waited until the last minute to figure out what to give mom this Sunday – will be delighted with the data, even if the graphics are a little cheesy. And SEMs […]
Google’s PageSpeed Service Shutting Down in August
If you have a website that is utilizing Google’s PageSpeed Service, Google has announced they will be closing the service on August 3, 2015. Any webmasters who do not update their DNS accordingly will discover their sites will be down after that date. After 4.5 years of service, the PageSpeed Service team regretfully decided that […]
Google Webmaster Tools Launches Search Analytics Report
The wait is finally over. Google Webmaster Tools has finally launched the long-awaited Search Analytics reporting for webmasters, replacing the less-robust Search Queries report. Google first began alpha testing a new search analytics – originally called Search Impact – earlier this year. It gives webmasters much more search query data than was previously available in […]
Mortgage & Auto Insurance Comparisons in Google Search Results
Google is bringing Google Compare to mortgages and bringing it to additional states for auto insurance queries in the Google search results. Dr. Pete Meyers from Moz actually saw this in action a few weeks. It showed up in one of his Mozcast data crawls, although no one has reported any sightings of this showing […]