Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today… …
Day: March 31, 2021
Google Easter Egg: Ever Given At Suez Canal
If you do a search on Google for [ever given] or [suez canal], you will see a new Google easter egg. You will see boats floating along under the search bar. Yes, this was an easter egg Google made to …
Google: Don’t Have Open Redirects On Your Website
Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that Google “generally recommends not keeping open redirects.” An open redirect is when a parameter values (the portion of URL after “?”) in an HTTP GET request allow for information that will redirect a …
Google Updated The Core Web Vitals & Page Experience FAQs
In December 2020, Google posted a Core Web Vitals & Page Experience FAQs. Well, Google has just updated those FAQs to add a lot more detail. The most important thing that I wanted to pull out are these line “out …
Google Limits Key Moments Feature To Small Set Of Video Providers
Google has updated its help documents to explain that now it has limited which video providers can show up with the key moments interface in Google Search. It is available for all YouTube videos based on just adding a video …
Google Search Dropping Three Pack For Two Pack (Local Results)
Joy Hawkins is saying she is noticing evidence that Google is testing, testing heavily, showing a two-pack instead of a three-pack. I personally cannot replicate this and I only rarely ever see two results in the local pack (for extremely …