Google will be removing the “Content Keywords” section from Google Search Console, removing Google’s tracking of the keywords they see as most popular on your pages and site overall. Content Keywords is a combined report that lists the most common keywords within a site, including variants, and reports it within Search Console. This feature will […]
Google Testing Alert to Inform Searchers That AMP Means Fast
Google is testing a way to help searchers understand what exactly an AMP result is. They are testing a notification that shows underneath an AMP result, alerting the searcher that an AMP page is a really fast web page. Here is how it looks: It says “AMP delivers a lightning-fast experience” and can be closed […]
Google Testing New Version of “Back to Top” at Bottom of Search Results
Google is testing another variation of “back to top” in the mobile search results, to make it easier for searchers who want to quickly jump back to the top of the search results page, rather than continuing on to the second page of results. Here is how it looks: Google was earlier testing a version […]
Google Rewrites Titles & Adds Headlines for Some Featured Snippets
Sometimes Google has a perfect featured snippet for a query, but the page’s title doesn’t quite match. So Google will create a new title for a featured snippet to reflect the changes. The headline appears at the top of the featured snippet, which is different from the usual featured snippet without a headline. Here is […]
Google Adds Live Busy Status to Local Businesses in Search Results
Google will now show how busy a business in in the local business knowledge panel within the Google search results. The new feature is an addition to the “popular times” feature that shows how busy a specific business is on various times and days of the week. The new feature adds a “live” tag to […]
Google Returns Sitelinks to the Search Results
Earlier this month, Google removed sitelinks from individual search results, meaning sites lost the row of sitelinks at the bottom of their listing. While this didn’t affect branded site’s sitelinks, a huge number of sites lost them for more generic queries. Gary Illyes commented at the time, asking if they had returned yet, which made […]
Google Search Console Adds New AMP Reports in Search Analytics
Ever since Google launched AMP in the “ten blue links” of the Google search results, the reporting in Google Search Console’s Search Analytics would not track it properly. But they have now launched new AMP reporting that allows site owners to get detailed AMP reports. Site owners can switch between two AMP specific reports. The […]
Google Fixes Date Bug From Embedded YouTube Videos
Google has fixed the date issue that caused many sites to show wrong publish dates directly in the Google search results. Sites that had embedded YouTube videos were showing publish dates that were actually taken from embedded videos on the page, rather than from the page’s publish date. Here is an example from this site. […]
Google Indexes Desktop Page for Mobile First Index, When AMP Only Mobile Friendly Version
There has been some confusion about how Google’s mobile first indexing change would be affected by sites that have a traditional desktop page, but the only “mobile friendly” page is the AMP version. I asked Maile Ohye from Google about this, and we got some clarification on the issue. If the only mobile version page […]
Google Showing Wrong Article Publish Dates When YouTube Videos Embedded
Google has an interesting date bug issue right now in the search results – when there is an embedded YouTube video, Google will show the date from the YouTube video, rather than the date the article was actually published. Here is an example from this site. The Google Panda guide was published in 2016, but […]