If you have suddenly noticed many of your images suddenly being dropped from the Google Image Search results, Google has been issuing manual action penalties for the little known “image mismatch” manual action. While the manual action targets those who are displaying different images on the site to users when compared to the images shown […]
Yahoo Testing Purple Title Links for Ads & Organic Search Results
Yahoo is testing their search results with the Yahoo purple links for all the titles on the page instead of the traditional blue links. Aaron Wall spotted this test on Sunday where all the title links for both ads and organic search results were all in Yahoo purple. We have seen some ads with a […]
Google to Restrict Autocomplete API Access on August 10, 2015
If you have a tool or website that uses the unsupported Google autocomplete API, be warned that your access will be shut off next month. On August 10, 2015, Google will begin restricting access to the autocomplete API. The autocomplete API gave suggestions for commonly used terms to complete the search query a user is […]
Google Begins Displaying JSON-LD Rich Snippets in Search Results
If you prefer JSON-LD for structured data, over the commonly used RDF or microdata, you are in luck. It appears that Google is now displaying rich snippets in JSON-LD in their search results. On Aaron Bradley‘s SEO Skeptic, he details how Google has begun showing rich snippets in JSON-LD format, at least for recipe rich […]
Google: App Interstitials Result in Huge Abandonment Rate
Google has published an interesting study about app interstitials, and the results are significant enough that companies should consider removing their interstitial or switch to an app install banner instead. Many companies, in implementing their mobile strategy, feel that the more app downloads the better. But it is one of the most annoying things for […]
What Alerts & Messages Would You Like to See in Google Search Console?
Are there some alerts or messages you would love to see added to the Search Analytics feature in Google Search Console? If so, Zineb Ait Bahajji, a Google Webmaster Trends Analyst, is looking for feedback from webmasters. As you might expect, so far there are plenty of “Yes” votes but no “No” votes. There are […]
How Google Handles the New Top Level Domains for SEO
Google Webmaster Blog has posted a new blog post regarding all the new gTLDs (generic top level domains) that have been making their debut recently and how Google is handling those new gTLDs from a ranking and SEO perspective. Most notably, Google states that essentially they treat all gTLDs, including the new brand gTLDs, the […]
Site Offline Recently? Google Search Console Wants to Know
Has your site suffered from some downtime recently? If so, Gary Illyes from Google wants to know about it. He posted on both Twitter and Google+ requesting details for those who have had websites go offline for any reason. He also added some clarification on Twitter, that he was looking for sites that have been […]
Bing Adds Product Thumbnails to Organic Search Results
Bing has added new thumbnails to their organic search results for some product searches. These thumbnails make those particular search results stand out, but most notably, these are organic search result listings, not paid ones. Here is another example. While it is unclear what triggers these product thumbnails in the organic search results, for every […]
New Reviews & Review Formats in Bing Knowledge Panels
As Google is reducing the reviews shown in their own knowledge panels, Bing is going in the opposite direction by adding a ton of new review options, as well as formats for displaying those reviews, in their knowledge panel in the Bing search results. These new reviews show the number of stars in the ratings […]