A business is suing a former client after they left a negative review on Yelp. The review was left despite having a non-disparagement clause in the The issue stems from a negative review that a client, Michelle Duchouquette, left for Prestigious Pets, a local pet sitting business in Dallas, Texas. But Prestigious Pets includes a non-disparagement […]
Google AMP Launching in Search Results February 24
We have known that Google plans to launch AMP sometime at the end of February. But AdAge is now reporting that AMP is scheduled to go live in the mobile search results on February 24th. All signs are pointing to their planned eminent launch of AMP. Google added AMP error reporting to Search Console and […]
Review Stars Dropping in Google Organic Search Results
There has been a trend in the past couple of days where review stars have been dropping by a fairly large percent in the past couple of days. Here we see the first drop on Mozcast. As you can see, the review stars dropped by 14.5%. But the following day, Mozcast’s update on Thursday morning, […]
Google Adds AMP Help to Webmaster Help Forums
Having problems implementing AMP on your pages? Google has added a new webmaster help forum section specifically for AMP, and added some new pinned posts with quick answers. John Mueller announced the new AMP forums for all questions related to AMP. We now have a category for AMP / Accelerated Mobile Pages here in the […]
Google Wants Feedback on Adding More Days to Search Analytics
Why do you want to see more than the standard 90 days in Search Analytics within Google Search Console? Zineb, a Google Webmaster Trends Analyst wants to know what webmasters would use the increased data for. While the common answer is seeing either seasonality or year over year data, here are many more reasons webmasters […]
Google Launches AMP Demo – Accelerated Mobile Pages
If you have been working to get your pages ready for AMP – Accelerated Mobile Pages, but are unsure how your content will actually appear in live AMP results, you will love this new testing tool. Google has launched a new AMO demo tool that allows you to view the search results with AMP specific […]
Google Testing New Product Listing Ads Style in Yahoo Search Results
Yahoo has been showing Google search results to some searchers recently. And it seems that with the partnership comes a new testing ground for Google’s product listing ads. Here is how Google is displaying the product listing ads that are being shown on the Yahoo search results. They have a very distinctive shaded border around […]
No Rich Snippets? Quality of Other Sites in Same Search Results Plays Role
Zineb Ait Bahajji shared some pretty important information on Twitter this week for those who want rich snippets for their site – or who are struggling to get rich snippets to show up. She said that Google doesn’t want to clutter up the search results too much but that another factor comes into play when […]
Google Still Considering Adding More Days to Search Analytics
One of the biggest requests that many SEOs have is to have more days worth of data in Search Analytics. While there are tools designed to download the data every X number of weeks, having the data within Search Console would be much more optimal for many SEOs. @Jonny_J_ we are thinking about it, but […]
Google Adds Crawl Status Reports to Data Anomalies Page
Google has renamed the former “Crawl Error Report” to “Crawl Errors/Crawl Status Report” on their Data Anomalies page. Google uses this page to alert users to updates, changes or issues with various Search Console features and reports. Here is how it appears now: Nothing has been added to the newly renamed section. So it could […]