One of the more interesting things to come out of I/O for SEOs is Google’s announcement of their new Real Time Search Indexing API. This API is for real time indexing from publishers, ensuring the most up to date and accurate content is available for searchers to find. This means that publishers using the API […]
AMP Expanding to Recipes in Mobile Search Results
It has been long rumored that AMP would be expanding to other parts of the search results. At Google I/O today, Richard Gingras announced that AMP will be coming to recipes in the mobile search results. Recipes in AMP will be in the carousel format and include a photo, similar to how we see AMP […]
Google Testing Mobile-Style Card Search Results on Desktop
Google has been making their desktop search results much more like mobile search results in recent years, and their latest test brings that to a whole new level. Google is testing the card style search results that many associate with the mobile search results. Here is how AdWords ads appear: And here is the regular […]
20% of Google’s Mobile Search Queries are Now Voice Queries
For many years, Google had been warning webmasters about the importance of going mobile friendly, as more and more search queries were done on mobile devices. Now, webmasters should be considering the role of voice queries. During the keynote for Google I/O, Sundar Pichai revealed that 20% of mobile search queries are actually voice queries. […]
How to Handle Product or Business Reviews in Other Languages / Countries
An interesting question came up in yesterday’s Google webmaster office hours with John Mueller about reviews and using them on sites for different countries and languages from the initial review. We’ve just launched websites in Canada, Australia and South Africa. Am I allowed to use the UK customers’ product reviews across these new sites (we […]
Google Launches New Rich Cards in Search Results
Google has announced the addition of rich cards in the mobile search results. Rich cards are similar to rich snippets, but in an expanded format in a carousel. Google is initially showing these new rich cards for recipes and movies in the mobile search results. There is also a new related rich cards section in […]
Google Adds “People Also Search For” Thumbnails to Search Results
Google has expanded how they display their “People also search for” feature in the search results. Instead of a text version, Google is now displaying the feature with thumbnails. Here is how it appears in the search results: When you click through to “View 2+ more”, it takes you to a carousel style result in […]
Google’s New Mobile Friendly Test Available to All Users
Google has officially launched their new mobile friendly test to all users. This coincides with the recent increase to Google’s mobile friendly ranking boost this month. The new mobile friendly test actually started showing up earlier this month to some users. But it is now in the process of rolling out to all users. The […]
New Mobile Title Tag Lengths for Google Search Results
Last week, Google shook things up by increasing the width of the search results, and increasing the length of the title tags showing in the search results with it. Google has also expanded the increased title tags to the mobile search results as well, and they have been expanded significantly more than in desktop. Google […]
Manual Actions & Reconsideration Request Bug in Google Search Console
There is a known bug in Google Search Console that is making it difficult for those with manual actions – or suspected manual actions – to either file a reconsideration request or see the manual action within their account in the first place. There seems to be two issues with manual actions, depending on where […]