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Year: 2021
Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Algorithm Update, Page Experience FAQs, Google News Failures & Less Of A Local Pack
This past weekend we had yet another unconfirmed update from Google Search, this is while we wait for the core update to be released. Google has updated its FAQs document around the core web vitals and page experience update including……
Google: We Can Recognize & Understand Pagination Through Internal Links
I am still not over losing rel prev/rel next and Google’s John Mueller was asked about it on a video hangout from yesterday. In short, John said Google is no longer using this and no longer needs to. Google is …
Daily Search Forum Recap: April 1, 2021
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today… …
Google My Business Suspension Email Notifications
In July 2020 Google told us they would begin to notify businesses when they are suspended from Google My Business. Instead of just being suspended and being labeled as such in Google My Business, Google would send out email notifications. …
Microsoft Advertising Automotive Ads For Bing
Microsoft announced a new form of ads on Bing Search under Microsoft Advertising named Automotive Ads. Microsoft said this is currently an “open beta” available to advertisers in the United States (US) and United Kingdom (UK). …
Google New Label For Local Business Reviews Now Live
Back in December we reported Google was testing a “new” label in the local business reviews for reviews about a month old. Well, that new label seems to be live now in the local reviews for all to see. …
Google Search More Critical Of E-Commerce Sites That Sell Medical Equipment
Google’s John Mueller said in the Friday webmaster hangout said that “especially for medical topics, anything that’s a little bit more critical” Google is more selective and critical over. He said he would see an “medical e-commerce site kind of …
Google Knowledge Panels Can Show Competitors As Alternatives
So you get this fancy knowledge panel for your company name and/or product names and people search you on Google and can see how amazing your business is in this knowledge panel. But then all of a sudden, Google decides …
Daily Search Forum Recap: March 31, 2021
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today… …
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 …