Google has confirmed it has been testing Google Search result listings without any descriptions, again. Google first tested this in 2015 and is now testing it again for the past couple of weeks. Aishwarya Tapadar from Google confirmed this in a Google Web Search Help thread saying “this is a small experiment that will be […]
Google has often said that if they shared the full details of how its search algorithms and ranking factors would work, it would lead to abuse and poorer quality results. It seems like most SEOs agree with that sentiment. A poll by Azeem asked “If Google were to be 100% transparent about how to rank […]
We know Google has deduplication Efforts to determine when a featured snippet is displayed so that it may be Remove the snippet from the main web results. Google can do the same in some cases when a URL is listed in the Top Stories section and then doesn’t appear in the main web results. In […]
Google recently added a new section called “Shops” to mobile search results. This was first discovered by Khushal Bherwani on Twitter and we have confirmation from Google that this was actually new to Search Engine Land yesterday. Google said, “We recently launched Shops, a new module available on mobile devices for select shopping searches in […]
During the pandemic, even the least prepared companies were “forced” to rely more on social media as the central channel for marketing, sales, customer service and more. As a matter of fact, Hootsuite‘s Social Trends 2022 report states that 83% of marketers surveyed have some level of confidence in quantifying the return on investment (ROI) […]
According to recent Semrush data, that month, December, was the most volatile month of the year and likely Google history. Here is a diagram shared by Semrush’s Mordy Oberstein Twitter shows how December skyrocketed compared to the rest of the months in 2021. Yes, December felt very volatile when it came to the fluctuations and […]
When Google image searches on mobile devices, these labels are used for sections of the images that sometimes appear in search results. A new label I’ve never seen shows “best categorized results”. I have no idea what that means – do I? I mean, I understand and understand them latest pictures Section but “best categorized […]
To many months of testing, Google did Confirmed it moves the local pack results up and the map to the right of those local results in the desktop search. Google said the search company “expects this to be widely available in the coming weeks”. In the past few days a lot of people have asked […]
Praveen Sharma shared a screenshot of a new carousel in Google mobile search results that shows localized language content based on the searcher’s location, regardless of the language of the query entered. In this example, Praveen’s query was in English, but Google showed him results in Hindi based on his location. The screenshot that Praveen […]
Marie Haynes posted a Twitter poll (which I re-shared a couple of times yesterday) asking what you (mostly SEOs) see after five days Core Google update from November 2021. About 50% of respondents said they didn’t see much of this update on the websites they study. As a reminder, the November 2021 core update was […]