Google’s John Mueller said in the Friday webmaster hangout said that “especially for medical topics, anything that’s a little bit more critical” Google is more selective and critical over. He said he would see an “medical e-commerce site kind of falling into that category.” In short, Google will apply a higher level of scrutiny on

So you get this fancy knowledge panel for your company name and/or product names and people search you on Google and can see how amazing your business is in this knowledge panel. But then all of a sudden, Google decides to show “alternatives” or competitors right in your knowledge panel. That is what happened to

Microsoft announced a new form of ads on Bing Search under Microsoft Advertising named Automotive Ads. Microsoft said this is currently an “open beta” available to advertisers in the United States (US) and United Kingdom (UK). These automotive ads are feed-based product ads where you can upload all the attributes of your car inventory. The

Izzi Smith notified me on Twitter that the Wer weiß denn sowas TV game show asked a question about SEO. It is in German, so Izzi translated it for us. The question was “An SEO manager ensures that:” The options for the answers included: a) Working hours are adhered to in companies b) Guests get

Joy Hawkins is saying she is noticing evidence that Google is testing, testing heavily, showing a two-pack instead of a three-pack. I personally cannot replicate this and I only rarely ever see two results in the local pack (for extremely remote queries), but she is saying Google is testing showing two instead of three results

You will see boats floating along under the search bar. Yes, this was an easter egg Google made to celebrate when the Ever Given was freed from being stuck and blocking the Suez Canal.

Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that Google “generally recommends not keeping open redirects.” An open redirect is when a parameter values (the portion of URL after “?”) in an HTTP GET request allow for information that will redirect a user to a new website without any validation of the target of redirect. This can

In December 2020, Google posted a Core Web Vitals & Page Experience FAQs. Well, Google has just updated those FAQs to add a lot more detail. The most important thing that I wanted to pull out are these line “our systems will continue to prioritize pages with the best information overall, even if some aspects

Google has updated its help documents to explain that now it has limited which video providers can show up with the key moments interface in Google Search. It is available for all YouTube videos based on just adding a video description and now a “small set” of video providers at this time. Google wrote that