Google Ads is testing a new help feature named “Quick Help.” It is currently in beta and those who see it can access it by looking for the hovering help icon at the bottom right corner of the Google Ads console. This was spotted by Dario Zannoni who posted on Twitter saying if you “click […]
One of the oldest and still most talked about SEO topic is duplicate content. While there has never really been a duplicate content penalty, Google does not want to rank to 5 identical pieces of content in the first five positions in Google search. So what do you do if you have content that is […]
Google has added a new option in the Business Redress Complaint Form under the “Identify the content on Google Maps that you claim might lead to fraudulent activity” drop down. The new option is “this business doesn’t exist” and the local SEO community are super happy about this addition. This form was updated in the […]
Google has a carousel in both desktop and mobile search that leads with “more about.” For example, for a query on [apply business loan] you will find a carousel that reads “More about small business loans” with stories to publishers and government websites. Here is a screenshot that you can click on to enlarge: This […]
This week in search, we had another unconfirmed Google search ranking algorithm update that touched down in a big way on May 1st with a lot of weirdness the week prior. Moz’s home page was removed from Google Search for a 12 hour period after a fraudulent DMCA takedown request. Google is dropping support for […]
There is some speculation, and for good reason, that Google is showing more short videos about showing web stories in Google mobile search. Glenn Gabe and Brodie Clark both noticed this trend and the two of them follow web stories closer than almost anyone else I know. As a reminder, short videos first debuted in […]
As you know, last week, on April 26th, Google disables the URL parameter tool within Google Search Console and stopped respecting any of the rules added to that tool. Some are asking if the recent crawl spikes they saw with Googlebot was related to this change. Dave Smart posted on Twitter charts showing his crawl […]
Google is continuing its mobile search user interfaces with more variations of its grid search results format and full width video search result snippets. Grid Search Results Format We actually covered the grid search results format several weeks ago but according to Brian Freiesleben, this new version links the images in the results to the […]
Google Ads has rolled out the new create ad interface to all advertisers, the search company confirmed. This is a very subtle change in terms of the interface, there are no real new features – but the look is slightly different. Google told us there is now larger spacing and the box user interface styling […]
For the past week, I have been seeing a different pattern with a possible Google search ranking algorithm update. The forums and SEO discussion around a possible Google update was brewing a good part of last week but the automated tracking tools, most of them, didn’t really pick up signs of a Google update. So […]