Google seems to be expanding their reminders to alert webmasters about the new mobile friendly algo that was launched last week. While we have seen reminders within Google Webmaster Tools, they have added a new alert at the top of the Google AdSense login page to alert any publishers about the mobile friendly algo in […]
Google Looking for Feedback on Challenges of Video Content on Sites
Are you creating video content for a website or app? If so, Gary Illyes from Google is interested in hearing the challenges you are facing when it comes to having video content. I’m reading this article on Digiday titled “WSJ now has a 40-person video team cranking out 40 videos a day”. You should also read […]
Rich Snippets Can Cause Sites to Lose “Mobile-Friendly” Tag
It appears that some schema markup appearing in the mobile search results is forcing the “Mobile-friendly” tag from being listed in the search result. Steve Morgan from SEOno was the first to publicize the issue. However, when you check the URL and the page in question, it both appears to be mobile friendly and passes […]
Bing Search Adds Enhanced Recipe Tabbed Answer Boxes
In addition to similar drink answer boxes that have begun appearing in search results, Bing has also begun doing something similar for some more simplistic recipes. They don’t seem restricted to just one source, as we have seen results from both FoodNetwork and WikiHow.com. Here is an example for “shrimp cocktail recipe”. As you can […]
Bing Adds Their Own Version of Drink Recipes in Search Results
Google recently added knowledge graphs for popular drinks in their search results, and Bing is following suit with a fancier version of their own enhanced answer box for drink recipes. The drinks seem to be in partnership with About.com, as all of the cocktail recipes I searched for were pulling data from about.com Here is […]
Google Removes “More Reviews” Link from Local Knowledge Graph Results, Uses Google Reviews Only
If you are a local business who hasn’t focused much effort on getting reviews on your Google My Business page, you will probably be regretting that decision now. Google has removed the “more reviews” links from local knowledge graphs appearing in the Google search results, in favor of linking to Google reviews alone. Mike Blumenthal […]
Bing Adds “Trending on Social Networks” Section to Search Results
Bing has recently added a new section to their Bing Search results titled “Trending on social networks about <keywords>” These seem restricted to simply Facebook and Twitter, as I did not find any examples that including Google+, Instagram or Pinterest, the remaining most-popular social networks. They don’t seem to be showing up for every […]
How to Set Up Site Search Reports in Google Analytics to Track Visitor’s Searches
Many people don’t realize that Google Analytics supports site search for websites, allowing you to track the searches that visitors are doing on your sites. However, it doesn’t work out of the box, you need to set it up. Tracking your internal site searches are great for a few reasons. First, it gives you some […]
Some Datacenters Have Rolled Out Google’s Mobile Algo Update Completely
Everyone has been watching to Google mobile results with eagle eyes to see not just if the mobile changes have rolled out, but what the ranking differences are in the new mobile results. And while we knew it would take about a week or so for the new mobile algo to completely roll out to […]
Google Changes New Mobile Breadcrumbs to Show HTTPS Page Status & Site URL
When Google officially launched the new mobile breadcrumbs, they were running a mix of URLs and site names to show the site name of each result in the mobile search results. At the time, I said I preferred the old style structure they had been testing a few weeks earlier as it retained the example.com […]