Google My Business Now Lets Users Upload Videos by @MattGSouthern

Google My Business is bringing videos to the photos dashboard, allowing business owners to upload videos, and view videos uploaded by customers. The ability for businesses to upload videos to their own listing is a brand new feature, and could prove to be an effective marketing tool. The ability for customers to upload videos to…

Google Offers Image Search Indexing Tips by @martinibuster

Google’s John Mueller recently offered a fascinating insight into the kinds of images that are and are’t properly indexed by Google Image search. Getting indexed by Google search can be important for publishers because of the traffic. Others feel that ranking high in Google search doesn’t add value. Mueller’s advice offers something for publishers of…

SearchCap: Smart devices, SEO in 2018 & ad targeting

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Smart speaker sales grew 103% last yearJan 11, 2018 by Greg Sterling The virtual assistant devices became the fastest selling consumer technology last year, dramatically outpacing wearables and VR. Advanced Ad…

How Google Rates Voice Search Results by @MattGSouthern

Google has published a set of guidelines for its quality raters to follow when evaluating voice search results. A similar set of guidelines exist for rating the results in Google Search, this marks the first time guidelines have been put in place for rating results returned by Google Assistant. More specifically, this document deals with…

SearchCap: Alexa & Google Assistant, AMP URLs & link building

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google announces solution to longstanding AMP cache URL display problemJan 8, 2018 by Michelle Robbins Later this year, the Google AMP cache will finally display publisher URLs instead of Google URLs…

Google announces solution to longstanding AMP cache URL display problem

Google announced today that they are well on their way to solving one of the most annoying (to publishers) “features” of AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) – Google URLs, not the publisher URLs, displaying in search results served from the AMP cache. Several half-steps have been taken along the path of the AMP project development to…