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 […]
Google for years has been doing super fancy search features based on reviews left in Google Maps. Here are some more features that may or may not be new, but you should be aware of in any event. Specifically, Google using hotel reviews to build lists of things to do and also to show quick […]
At Google I/O last week, Google’s Annie Sullivan and Michal Mocny introduced a new metric named INP or Interaction to Next Paint. INP measures overall responsiveness to user interactions on the page and it may or may not replace FID, First Input Delay, as a Core Web Vitals metric. I know a lot of SEOs […]
We’re all familiar with the famous quote, “good artists copy, great artists steal”. But what you might not know is that, in the content marketing world, some steal from themselves. And, apparently, there’s nothing wrong with it. According to Google’s Search Advocate John Mueller, publishers that reuse parts of their own content to create new […]
At least we had a quiet weekend for the first time in a while, but that didn’t last long. Monday, May 16th, we once again saw multiple signals of a possible Google search ranking algorithm update that has not been confirmed by Google. I am seeing spikes in both levels of chatter about an update […]
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 […]
Google has quietly added a new search appearance filter to the performance report in Google Search Console. The new search appearance filter is named “translated results” and it shows you how many searchers accessed your site’s content when Google translates it in the search results. This seems to be mobile only right now, based on […]
Google had added a “popular destinations” search related carousel to the search results for some queries. Valentin Pletzer spotted this the other day and I can see it as well on both mobile and desktop search. You can replicate it yourself for queries like [japanese tourism] or [chinese tourism] and so on. Here are some […]
At Google I/O yesterday, Google announced a new report coming to Google Search Console named the video page indexing report. This report will be available under the index section in Search Console and will show you a summary of all the video pages Google found while crawling and indexing your web site. This was quickly […]
One of the few sessions at Google I/O on Google Search was , by John Mueller, who you all know, and also Dikla Cohen, a Web Ecosystem Consultant at Google. This covers some of the more basics around Google Search Console and measuring your video content. This includes a new report coming to Google Search […]