To be clear, none of this is exactly new, but John Mueller of Google took the time to explain how mobile-first indexing works with mobile-first indexing. Most sites have been switched over to mobile-first indexing but if you have not, then here is what you need to know specific to m-dot or separate mobile URLs.

We have seen movie results in Google for a long time, but now the movie carousel is testing showing the Motion Picture Association film rating system labels on those movie image covers. Here is a screen shot of this in action from Mordy Oberstein as posted on Twitter. I cannot replicate this, I still see

Google has noted that it has updated the already updated Crawl Stats report to handle “additional types of crawls.” Google wrote “the crawl stats report has increased its reporting coverage for additional types of crawls.” As I said, the crawl stats report was updated in November 2020 but now, Google has said it added additional

Today is Martin Luther King Jr. Day and to celebrate the day, Google and other search engines like Bing, have special memorials on their home pages. Google has this special Doodle designed by Pittsburgh-based guest artist Noa Denmon and Bing has the ‘I Have a Dream’ inscription at the location of Dr. Martin Luther King

Here is a photo that was recently posted on Instagram, I am not sure when the photo was taken, of a tin trailer at the Google offices in Mountain View, California. There is nothing like an old tin can like this parked outside your office building. This post is part of our daily Search Photo

Just a PSA, when Google rolled out the update for the coverage report last week, it also fixed the validate fix issue from December 16, 2020. This is when Google posted the “issue validation is temporarily disabled due to upcoming changes in the report.” The new coverage report changes are out, so this “validate fix”

John Mueller of Google was asked the following question, “if I dofollow backlinks due to paying bloggers to write highly relevant review articles or paying for high-quality PR news articles, are they paid links that go against Google’s guidelines?” John responded that the short answer is yes, it is against Google’s guidelines. This was asked

There is a difference between what you see at Schema.org and what Google publishes at its Google Search developer documents for structured data rich results. The short difference is that what Google publishes is what you can potentially see surface in the Google search results but what schema.org publishes you probably won’t. In short, if

In part one, Phillip Thune, the CEO of Textbroker, and I spoke about FindWhat Days In 2000 To Running Textbroker in 2020. Here is part two. How To Prepare To Write: In part two of my interview with Phillip Thune, we talk about tips on how to prepare to write content. It starts with an

Google seems to be testing a new feature in its search results. A way to expand a specific news section in the main web results to show a carousel of news stories related to that section. Nicholas McDonough spotted this and shared it on Twitter. You can click on the diagonal arrows to trigger the