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It looks like Google is testing thinner, 85 pixels less wide, knowledge panels in the Google Search results. Jason Barnard said the current/old knowledge panel on desktop search is 455 pixels wide. The new, thinner, version is 370 pixels wide. Jason posted this screen shot comparing the two on Twitter: I was able to replicate […]

Google Search is making some changes to its search results around COVID-19 vaccines. Much like it did for COVID-19 news and information in general, Google is trying to make sure it provides the most accurate, trustworthy, authoritative and up-to-date information as possible – espesially when data and information is changing so quickly. Google said it

Every year Google puts up its Santa Tracker before Christmas. While we have the Chanukah decorations live, the Christmas and Kwanzaa decorations are not live yet but the easter egg for the Santa tracker is live. All you need to do is search for [christmas] and click on the Santa hat GIF: Then the magic

This week, we covered more on the changes related to the Google December 2020 core update. Specifically, Google said it is still rolling out and it looks like on Thursday, December 10th there was a second wave of the update. I also posted a poll asking if Google should have released the update when it

Yesterday I reported that this Google December Core update was a really unusual core update because it seemed like the rollout happened over a 48-hour period and was not a slow two-week rollout. Well, I talked too soon – there may have ben a second wave (is it bad to use that term because of

GUESTS & RESOURCES Episode Overview: Join host Ben as he continues SEO Planning Week with Searchmetrics’ Strategist and Advisor Jordan Koene discussing how to create a flexible SEO roadmap. Together they talk about the actual process of pulling the right pieces together to ensure you’re executing the SMART goals you’ve created. Creating a roadmap is

Competitive analysis is the process of identifying and researching your competitors to get the information you need to gain a competitive advantage. You need to conduct a competitive analysis as a part of your market research. Only then can you develop an effective marketing strategy to steer the ship in the right direction. Here’s how

It looks like some Googlers are receiving packages from Google for the 2020 holiday season that contain pajamas with the Google logo on them. Daniel Waisberg from Google, based in Israel, shared this photo on Twitter. It looks like Google sent a t-shirt, sweat shirt, socks and sweat pants but I am not 100% sure

It looks like Google has launched a new look for its question and answers carousel. This is not the local Q&A box, this is also not the question hub. This is when you add QA structured data to your pages and Google can show these rich results in the search results. Here is what Brian

Remember in July we saw Google testing adding regular expressions (regex) filters to some of the Search Console performance report. It then went away quickly. Well, Google’s John Mueller was asked about that and if they will be coming back to Search Console. John was asked “do you have a plan to add regexp filter