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…
Google’s new Search Console experience has some advanced filtering options that weren’t previously available when the public beta launched earlier this week. One of the most notable changes to the new Search Console is that reports now contain 16 months of data. Along with access to all this new data there are now new ways…
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…
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Recent Headlines From Marketing Land, Our Sister Site Dedicated To Internet Marketing: Search News From Around The Web: Google Assistant Now Natively Supports Podcasts, Recipes and News, SEO Skeptic How to…
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…
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…
Facebook appears to be testing a new feature that lets you assign a private message to an individual within your team. I spotted this new feature this morning when I was logged into the Business Manager section. Assign Facebook Messages to Your Team Members While checking the inbox messages to see if there were any…
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…
Google has announced that a beta version of the new Search Console, released a few months ago to select users, will now be available to everyone. The new Search Console will be rolled out gradually, and webmasters will be individually notified when they receive access. Still in beta, the new Search Console will live side…
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