Google had added a new section to the Google Discover help documents around markup you can use to define your RSS feed for Chrome to use for the “follow” feature. In May, Google Chrome announced an RSS reader like feature …
Year: 2021
Google Adds Shipping / Return Annotations To Shopping & Search Results
Google announced it has added new shipping and return annotations in Google Search and Shopping results. This works across both the free and paid listings. …
Daily Search Forum Recap: September 1, 2021
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today… …
Google Once Again Allows The Sale Of N95 Masks On Google Ads & Shopping
Google has updated its Google Shopping and Google Ads policies to open up the sale of masks again on Google Ads and Shopping. Google said it has “determined that it is now appropriate to allow N95 masks in the U.S. …
Google On Multiple Rich Results Per Page – Focus On One, There Is No Defined Order
Generally, Google wants you to use one rich result structured markup (schema) per page. Why? Well, if you use multiple, you won’t know which Google may show and you probably won’t to define that on your end, versus letting Google …
Google Only Internal Feedback Link For Search Results
Google employees have a special feature that allows them to submit feedback about Google products, like Google Search, internally. So it bypasses the mechanisms you or I have, and feedback from a Googler is probably prioritized over feedback from the …
Google Ads To Drop Expanded Text Ads For Responsive Search Ads In 2022
Google announced yesterday that on June 30, 2022 it will drop support for expanded text ads for responsive search ads. Google said responsive search ads will be the only Search ad type that can be created or edited in standard …
Google Search Tests Double Indented Results
Last month we reported on Google testing showing indented search results. I’ve only really seen Google showing one indented result per snippet. Now I spotted an example of two indented result under a main listing. …
Daily Search Forum Recap: August 31, 2021
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 Search Console Performance Report Data Lost Completely
Last week, we reported that the performance report in Google Search Console for the dates of August 23rd and 24th had missing data. We were hoping Google would be able to retrieve and backfill the data, but it seems the …
Google: Don’t Blindly Replace Your HTML Title Tags With Google’s Titles
So now there are some SEOs asking if it makes sense for you to replace your HTML title tag with the title Google selected to show in the Google search results. John Mueller from Google said no, don’t just do …
Google Internal Tool To Check Site Quality
Google’s John Mueller said a couple of weeks ago that he has internal tools to look at sites or pages and see if a site is low quality. He said this in the August 20th video hangout. …
Google Tests Expandable Search Snippet Carousels
For the past couple of weeks, people have been showing me a feature in Google search that shows expandable snippets in a carousel format. Kind of like expandable sitelinks of some sorts. I thought I saw this before, but it …
Google: Content Behind Paywalls Is Not Automatically Thin Content
Google’s John Mueller said that just because some content might be behind a paywall, it doesn’t mean Google sees that content as thin content. Google allows content paywalls and will show them as much as it shows content not behind …
Daily Search Forum Recap: August 30, 2021
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today… …