Google Image Search on mobile is testing a new related images carousel feature for image previews. This was spotted by Brian Freiesleben and posted on Twitter yesterday. …
Month: November 2021
Google Confirmed Crawling Bug But Said There Were No Negative Effects
Google’s John Mueller confirmed Google had a crawling issue – specifically saying “crawling for the caches had slowed down for some sites.” Google said it was fixed “a while” ago and added that “it wasn’t widespread, and that there were …
Google Ads Sports Betting Ads In Florida No Longer Allowed
Google Ads posted an update that you a no longer to promote sports betting services or ads in Florida using the Google Ads platform. Google said this is effective as of today, November 24, 2021. …
Daily Search Forum Recap: November 23, 2021
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today… …
Google Local Business Photos Lead To Blank Images On Desktop Search
If you go to Google Search on desktop and type in some local businesses, then click on the first photo in the local knowledge panel – Google will load a black or blank photo. It is some sort of weird …
Googlebot Slow Crawling The Web From November 11 – November 17?
Olivier Papon from Seolyzer, a log analysis toolset, reported the other week that Google seemed to slow or stop crawling most of the web between around November 11 and November 17th. I did ask Google about this but have yet …
Google Shopping Results Display $0 Prices With Monthly Fees
Did you know that the Google Shopping results can show products with $0 prices? That is, I think, if there is a promotion for let’s say a monthly ongoing fee – such as charging $0 for an Apple Watch if …
Google Generally Has Different Crawl Capacities For Your Images Hosted On A CDN
Google’s John Mueller confirmed that when it comes to sites that host their images (or likely other files) on an external CDN, like we do here, Google will have a separate server capacity (maybe crawl budget) for your domain versus …
50% Of SEOs Not Seeing Impact From Google November 2021 Core Update
Marie Haynes posted a Twitter poll (which I reshared a couple times yesterday) asking what you (mostly SEOs) are seeing five days into the Google November 2021 core update. About 50% of those who responded said they are not seeing …
Daily Search Forum Recap: November 22, 2021
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today… …
Vlog #147: Bryan Cush On Health Consumer Searches, Doctors With The Same Name & Health Brand Defense
In part one, Bryan Cush, the co-founder of Tidal Health Group, and I spoke about how to use health data for content and search marketing and in part two we dug into using medical databases… …
How to Sell Your Merch on Spotify
Do you want to sell merch right from your Spotify profile? Of course you do. Especially since that’s one of the priority destinations for your fans. If you’ve looked around Spotify as a fan yourself, you’ve likely seen OTHER artists …
Google Search Console New Design Interface Now Live
This morning at about 5:30am ET, the Google Search Console team rolled out a new facelift and design for Google Search Console. The new design, according to Google’s Daniel Waisberg is “much cleaner.” Google said the design aims to improve …
Google Sort By Date For News Is Buggy
Danny Sullivan, the Search Liaison at Google Search, confirmed there is a bug with the sort by date feature in the Google Search news tab. Danny said on Twitter “if you’re searching with date restriction in news tab, we found …
Google Ads Mobile App Gains Performance Insights, Review Search Trends & Create Campaigns
Google has added a few new features to the Google Ads mobile app. The new features work on both the iOS and Android app and include that you can see more explanations with Performance Insights, review Search trends and create …