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Google has made two changes to the rich results report in Google Search Console. One of the changes was related to the job posting report and the other change was related to the FAQ and Q&A rich results report. Google documented both of these changes on this help page but we will explain them below. […]
Google announced it is bringing Google News “Full Coverage” feature you can find in Google News directly to Google Search. Google said the company is “now bringing Full Coverage to Search, making it easier for more people to explore all aspects of a story from a variety of perspectives.” What is Full Coverage. In 2018, […]
Microsoft announced several updates to Microsoft Bing Search that make the search experience more “visually immersive,” the company said. This update goes across many different search features including recipe results, image search’s similar looking items, expandable search result carousels, infographic knowledge panels and the local answers design. Let’s go through each update briefly below. Infographic-like […]
In October 2020, Google announced passage indexing, a new way of Google ranking specific passages from a web page in search. Google has updated us that passage ranking, as they are now properly calling it, went live on Wednesday, February 10, 2021, in the afternoon Pacific Time for queries in the US in English. What […]
Google announced on Twitter that in November 2020 it has released an update to Google Image Search that reduces duplicative images in the image search results: “We made an improvement to Image Search to reduce duplicate images, so that we can display others that are relevant yet visually distinct.” Visually distinct. Google has said the […]
Google announced that black-owned businesses can now also show a special label or indicator in their product and shopping results within Google Search. The label reads “identifies as Black-owned” and shows in the product listing results within Google Shopping. What it looks like. Here is a GIF from Google showing this label in the Google […]
Google has quietly updated the product structured data help documentation to add a section for price drop appearance. In that section Google said it now supports displaying price drop rich results on snippets within English in the US, on both desktop and mobile search. What is looks like. Here is a screen shot of price […]
Whether you’re a small business owner or an agency that works with SMBs, you’ve likely encountered issues with low ad budgets. SMBs are often spread thin and, especially in light of business shifts due to COVID, their ad budgets are, too. However, low budgets don’t have to mean small returns for SMBs or their agency […]
When most classrooms were off for the holiday break, Google was spotted testing homework practice problems and quizzes directly in its search results. The special search results seem to come from Toppr and BYJU’S, after-school learning software companies. What it looks like. Here is a screen shot we were able to trigger in Google search […]
In this article, I will look into People Also Ask (PAA) on Google’s search results pages for exact match brand searches, also referred to as brand SERPs. What sparked my desire to write this article at this time? There has been a stunning development: PAA boxes, that users have become accustomed to seeing when they […]
Google has launched the “Google Shopping Gift Guide,” a microsite that highlights products it predicts will increase in popularity in the US this month, according to Google search trends over the last several months. The Google Shopping Gift Guide on mobile. Image: Google. The site contains the year’s top 100 trending gifts, divided into seven […]
The Google Page Experience update is set to launch next May, Google confirmed Tuesday. That’s roughly a year after the company first announced the update and gives us another six months to prepare for it. The update will take expected user experience into consideration for ranking in search results. “Today we’re announcing that the page […]
Antisemitic memes appearing in Google Image search results caught the attention of search professionals last week — and broader media this week. Many are urging the company to make tangible moves towards removing such content. Google isn’t the only search engine surfacing these hateful memes — Search Engine Land’s Editor-in-Chief, Ginny Marvin, pointed out that […]
Google announced it now supports new schema markup for product results, specifically the shippingDetails schema.org markup. With this markup, you can add details around the cost and expected delivery times around your shipping options on a product-by-product basis. What it looks like in Google search. When you add shippingDetails schema and Google decides to show […]
Monday afternoon, the SEO community began to notice massive ranking changes in the Google search results. Initially it looked like the Google algorithm updates from the old days but as time went on, it just looked like something was really off — as if there was a glitch. It was a bug. Turns out it […]