If you have been thinking of switching over to HTTPS but haven’t wanted to deal with fixing all the potential issues that come up with an HTTPS migration, at least one of the most common issues won’t cause significant issues when you make the leap – and that is the problems surrounding mixed content warnings. […]
Google Search Console Updates for Both AMP & Rich Cards
Google has made some changes to both AMP and Rich Cards that will affect how Google is reporting the numbers within Google Search Console. Google noted the changes on the Data Anomalies page, where they report on updates and issues within Google Search Console that can impact reporting. Unfortunately, with this particular update, they did […]
AMP Comes to Google Image Search But Not Images in Regular Results
If your images are on AMP pages, Google will now show the AMP URL, along with the icon, in the mobile image search results. Here is what it looks like: When viewing images in image search, you can’t actually tell whether the image is on an AMP page until you select and image and Google […]
Automated Queries From SEO Tools Against Google TOS
Gary Illyes from Google has another reminder that using tools or services that send automatic queries to Google – such as to check rankings or indexing – are against the Google TOS. Periodically, new tools that get released will run up against Google’s terms of service (and against the terms for Bing as well, and […]
Reminder: There Is No Google Sandbox Affecting New Sites
Google has reminded site owners once again that there is no Google sandbox. The question came up on Twitter, and Gary Illyes commented again on the supposed sandbox. @seobybrett we don't have a Google sandbox — Gary Illyes ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ (@methode) December 12, 2016 There are still many sites, including “penalty checkers”, that promote […]
Google Expands Features of Property Sets in Search Console
When Google launched Property Sets in Google Search Console, while webmasters were happy to see Google doing something to address the issue of sites being spread across multiple properties – such as https and http as well as www and non-www – the lack of features that could be viewed with Property Sets was pretty […]
Google Adds “Test Your Site With Google” to Google Homepage
Google is testing a new prompt on their homepage, alerting searchers that they can test their sites with Google, and get a free report on improving it. Here is what it looks like: The link for testing goes to Google’s mobile page speed insights. It is interesting Google is promoting this on the homepage. […]
Google Adds Query Refinement Carousel for Some Search Queries
Google is making it easier for searchers to refine their queries on mobile. They have added a new feature that allows searchers to go through an image carousel to select a specific type of product within their search query. When selected, Google will then refine the search query to show that additional keyword or keywords […]
Bing Adds Facebook Posts to Brand & Business Knowledge Panels
Bing has begun showing the latest Facebook posts in the knowledge panels in the search results. This adds freshness to the knowledge panel by showing recent content that brand has posted to their official Facebook page. Bing will show the latest Facebook posts in a card style, showing up to two of the most recent […]
Publish Recipes? Google Just Changed the Image Size Requirements in Schema
If you publish recipes on your website, you will want to pay attention to this change. Google is increased the minimum image size required to show a recipe thumbnail in the Google search results. The change size is not huge, but if you use a plugin that created a specially sized thumbnail image for the […]