So you probably have heard the news that Australia wants Google and other platforms to pay to list search results to news outlets. I wrote a more detailed article on this at Search Engine Land. Well, now, Google has added a large noticeable banner to the top of the search results in Google Australia for

Here is a photo from December 2018 from the Google Indonesia office. It shows these chairs or seats that look like wooden drums of some sorts. They are covered in Google colored fabrics to make it easier to sit on. This was shared on Instagram. This post is part of our daily Search Photo of

We lost a special and talented SEO soul yesterday, Hamlet Batista. Hamlet Batista was not just insanely talented in his profession, in our industry, but he was also one of the most giving, caring and loving people that our industry ever knew. And now, with the deepest sorrow, he is with the angels in heaven.

Normally when you do a search for hotels in a specific location, Google will show you a hotel search box with pricing pins in a blue background color. Google is testing variations of the colors for those pins both in red and white background colors, and maybe more. Sergey Alakov spotted Google testing red pricing

Does Google rank pages as individual web pages or does Google rank websites as a whole? The answer is really both. Google evaluates your site’s quality overall and that can impact your site during broad core updates, in Google Discover, whether Rich Results are shown for your site, and whether individual pages of your site

Mark Williams-Cook posted a super interesting example of Google Search showing a different set of ranked results for the same query. The only difference was how the search was conducted. One search was done as a query, typing in the words into the search box. The second was selecting the entity in the search suggestions

Google posted on the Google blog that it will try to no longer show “teaser” based web stories in Google Search and Google Discover. Paul Bakaus from Google wrote “A critical ranking signal at Google is the quality of your content. And a one- or two-page teaser for your blog post doesn’t tell a satisfying

Google on Sunday, January 31, 2021, will stop supporting markup in the format from data-vocabulary.org. Google gave us over a years notice of this change, so this change should not come as a surprise to anyone here. In fact, Google initially said they would remove this support on April 6, 2020, but then pushed off