YouTube is changing the way that video comments are displayed on desktop, with a new ‘teaser’ type presentation, which will show a single comment below the clip. When expanded, however, the new desktop comments stream will soon open to the right of the playback window, as opposed to expanding below. Right now, on mobile, YouTube […]
Google Search Console’s performance report starting on May 13, 2022 now logs impressions for additional desktop features. One example Google gave was “top stories.” Google said you may see an increase in your desktop impressions when you filter by Good Page Experience in the search appearance filter. But honestly, this just does not make much […]
In the coming weeks, Google Search for desktop will soon support signed exchanges for some sites. Sites serving different HTML based on the user-agent header (ie using dynamic serving) will need to opt out by adding a meta tag to your page. Signed exchanges (SXG) allow Google Search to prefetch your content while preserving the […]
Google Search is testing displaying much larger images again in the desktop search results. Here is a comparison of the normal image thumbnails in the desktop search results compared to the larger images in the desktop search results. Normal: Larger: This was spotted by Punit on Twitter the other day. Punit also said that Google […]
That is a wrap – the Google page experience update for desktop is now fully rolled out – as of yesterday, March 3rd. If you are counting, that is a 9-day roll out, which began on February 22nd and ended on March 3rd. Here is the tweet announcing it is done rolling out: The page […]
This week in search, I reported how the Google page experience update for desktop has been fully rolled out. I also posted my monthly Google webmaster recap, for you all to check out and catch up with. Google Search Console’s URL Inspection tool is erroring out for some folks. Alan Kent from Google said no […]
This week was packed with algorithm and ranking topics but not the typical unconfirmed Google updates. We had Google officially begin rolling out the desktop version of the page experience update, it will take several weeks to fully rollout. I am also seeing an unconfirmed update start to roll out yesterday into today. Google quietly […]
In this show we have everything for you from creepy crawlies to blood sucking vampires and walking zombies. First, we’ve had a couple of unconfirmed updates to Google’s search algorithm this week, one last weekend, the second on Monday, and the third on Wednesday and Thursday. Google said they don’t release algorithm updates specifically ahead […]
Google has a new Google Ads serving issue that affects ad serving in the desktop version of Gmail. So if you run Google Ads on Gmail, your ads may not show to a “significant subset of users” according to Google. Google posted the incident over here and wrote: “We are aware of an issue with […]
We now have an official date when Google will die Page experience update Factors / signals to the desktop. Google announced that it would start rolling out in February 2022 and complete it by the end of March 2022. The same factors aside from being mobile-friendly are used for the desktop version. Google told us […]