At SMX earlier this month, Dave Besbris, Vice President of Engineering said that they would be bringing AMP results to other parts of the search results, and it appears they have already started this push. Google is now displaying AMP results beyond the usual carousel. Over the past few weeks, many have become familiar with […]
Sites With Linking Manual Actions Will Lose Rankings After Action Lifted
At SMX last week, Juan Felipe Rincón talked about many aspects of manual actions that impact webmasters. One of the things he mentioned is something many advanced SEOs would be familiar with, but it is also something I know still surprises some website owners who are recovering from a link related manual actions who might […]
Results in AMP Carousel Can Also Appear in Regular Google Search Results
If you have been concerned about your AMP pages being buried far along to the right in an AMP carousel, and potentially missing out on traffic, you shouldn’t be too concerned. Pages that appear in the carousel can also appear in the regular non-AMP search results. John Mueller was asked about AMP pages in this […]
Google Adds Icons for Quick Facts in Medical Knowledge Panels
Google has fancied up their popular medical condition knowledge panels by adding colorful icons next to some of the most important things that searchers should know. When doing a search on desktop, the knowledge panel for some medical conditions has been dressed up with some brand new icons for important quick facts in the search […]
Google Considering Manual Actions on Fake App Interstitials Like Yelp Uses
If the fact some sites have been getting their mobile friendly tags in the search results along with the associated ranking boost, despite still serving what is essentially an app interstitial, it appears that Google is looking into taking action….manual action. I covered the issue at the beginning of January, showing how Yelp is serving […]
Google’s Tips for Troubleshooting AMP Errors
If you have been seeing some AMP errors show up for some of your WordPress posts, compliments of the wildly popular AMP WordPress plugin, Tomo Taylor, the AMP Community Manager at Google has posted some great troubleshooting tips for publishers yesterday. It was in response to a publisher who was still seeing hundreds of AMP […]
Google Removing PageRank From Google Toolbar
If you are still one of the Google PageRank devotees, you may have noticed that your Google PageRank is suddenly showing as not available…. or it will be shortly. Google is removing the publicly shown Google PageRank from being displayed. For some Google toolbar users, the visible PageRank has already been removed, although it may […]
How SEO and PPC Can Work Together to Maximize ROI
SEO and PPC have always been very conflicting ideologies. On one hand, you have a precise profession where every cent counts (PPC), and, on the flip side (SEO), more is better with no regard to logic. Who cares about conversion rates when you get 10x the traffic as a PPC campaign? Am I right, my […]
Google Adds Featured Snippets in Multiple Languages
Featured snippets have been a staple in the English search results for quite some time. But now they seem to have been rolled out across additional languages as well. Dr. Pete Meyerswas the first to notice them rolling out on non-English languages, and many others followed up with screenshots for various languages. Gary Illyes from […]
Google Search Results: Position #10 Gets More Clicks Than 8 & 9 Combined
After years of anecdotal evidence and speculation, Google has finally confirmed what many suspected… that the #10 spot in the search results isn’t actually that bad of a place to be. At SMX West yesterday, Paul Haahr was talking about the Google search results from an engineering perspective, and he dropped some interesting tidbits about […]