Tag Archives: Google

Google Updates Video Finest Practices For Thumbnail Transparency

Google has added one line to its video best practices document explaining that you should have at least 80% of your thumbnail pixels have little or no transparency to enable video indexing. The new line was added over here and says “Transparency: At least 80% of the thumbnail’s pixels must have an alpha (transparency) value […]

Google Search Algorithm Replace Tremors & Instability All Week

So last Monday, we reported about a Google search ranking algorithm update that touched down on May 16th – the 6 month or so anniversary of the last confirmed Google broad core update. Well, that unconfirmed Google update continued on throughout the rest of the week through today, I updated that story a bit to […]

Google News Testing New Path Model Of House Web page

Google is testing a new version of the Google News portal. I am able to replicate it in some browsers, but not all. The message at the top says “you’re using a trail version of Google News.” The news portal looks much more news like and is a bit refreshing from the current version of […]

Google Shows Out Of Stock For Items Utilizing Back Order Worth In Structured Information

Did you know that Google shows “out of stock” for items you label with the value of back ordered in your structured data for products? Some feel it should say back ordered and not out of stock, but I am not too sure if there is much of a difference? Brian Freiesleben posted about this […]

Google Says Do not Get Hung Up About Toxic Hyperlinks

Google’s John Mueller responded to some concerns on Reddit about “toxic links.” He was asked where do these toxic links come from, in which he replied “Toxic links is all about selling tools.” He told the individual “don’t get hung up about it.” Yes, there are a few tools out there that help identify poor […]

Google Popular Products Carousel Positive aspects Filter Selectors

Google launched the popular products carousel in 2019 but now it seems Google is showing a carousel above the products to filter based on price, brand and other attributes. So we have an embedded filter carousel within the products carousel. Shameem Adhikarath posted this on Twitter implying this was new and my old screenshots do […]

Google Algorithm Replace, Spammers Kill Bing Sitemap Submission, FID to INP, New Google Advert Label & RIP Bill Slawski

There was another unconfirmed update on May 16th, about 6 months since the last confirmed Google core update. Spammers killed off the Bing anonymous sitemap submission method. Google will likely replace FID with INP in Core Web Vitals. Google Search Console performance reports now show education Q&A. There may be a new form of knowledge […]

Google Search Scroll To Spotlight Characteristic Can Now Share Highlighted Textual content

The Google Search and Chrome feature where you click on a snippet and you are taken to a position on that publisher’s page and it highlights the appropriate text now also lets you share that text. Well, at least Google is testing that feature for some searchers, on some browsers and platforms. JC shared this […]

Google Can Present Video Thumbnails In Search Even With out Embedding Video On Web page

Crystal Carter posted an example on Twitter of Google showing a video thumbnail for a snippet of her page but that page did not actually embed a video on the page. So if you visit the specific page, there is no video for a user to click on to play. To be fair, there is […]