Google: Semantic HTML Is Not A Google Search Quality Signal

Google seems to have rolled out pricing overlays on top of some product thumbnail images within the search snippets. For example, if you search for [diamond bands] and look at the Costco result, you will see these pricing overlays.

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web. Google’s Danny Sullivan said again that personalization is used in a super light way in search, in fact…

Google’s John Mueller told one publisher that “it’s possible that there’s just no SEO solution” to your Google ranking issues. He said sometimes it is not a technical or link building issue, sometimes it has to do with your content and your product and that “the site strategy is now obsolete.”