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Google has expandable ad formats and it seems like Google likes to use those formats for some queries and for some searchers. Valentin Pletzer shared screen shots of him being covered with these ad formats in Google Search. He shared screenshots on Twitter – and I was not able to replicate any of them. Here […]

We expected Google to start showing non-AMP pages in the top stories carousel in mobile search last Thursday. It seems like as of yesterday, Monday afternoon, Google began to show non-AMP pages in the top stories carousel. This was suppose to happen Thursday according to Google but I think it was maybe just a super

In 2018, Google’s Danny Sullivan said Google does not recognize sentiment in Google Search. He was asked again in 2021 and Danny Sullivan, no, Google still does not consider it for uses in Search. This was worded a different way but the question Danny Sullivan said “no” to was “Does Google now consider sentiments in

John Mueller of Google confirmed what most of you SEOs already know, that it can take Google “several months” to understand quality changes that are made to a site. John Mueller said on Twitter “making significant quality changes across a site takes time to be picked up & reflected in search.” “These things often take

I asked Satyajeet Salgar of Google who went to Google last week for an in person meeting to snap photos of anything for this daily piece and he sent me a photo of a yellow Volkswagen bus. This bus was parked somewhere at the GooglePlex and had a matching yellow boot, so no one can

 GUESTS & RESOURCES Episode Overview: Welcome to the China Series on the Voices of Search Podcast with Benjamin Shapiro and Marcus Pentzek. In this series we’ll be exploring breaking into the Chinese market, from assessing whether its the right move for your organisation, how the market differs and all you need to know about

DuckDuckGo ads are everywhere these days, on the radio (targeting JohnMu), TV, billboards and even as you walk through the airports. Here is a photo shared on Twitter of a DuckDuckGo ad in an airport shared by the CEO of DuckDuckGo Gabriel Weinberg. Meanwhile, DuckDuckGo is growing both in terms of users and financial backing.

Google has released several updates to both the robots.txt documentation and the structured data documentation last Friday. Here is a list of those changes from Google’s site. Simplified the introduction page to make it clearer what is robots.txt and what is its intended use. Expanded the instructions about creating and updating robots.txt files. Removed redundant sections from our documentation

Google is using a new justifications label for the Google Maps local pack named “seen by shoppers.” Justifications are the labels you in the local pack sometimes based on Google thinking you may want to know that extra bit of information about that local business. Here is a screenshot of this from Brodie Clark on

John Mueller from Google said on Twitter that Google does not have the concept of page authority. “We don’t have a notion of page authority,” John Mueller said. How does this differ from maybe site quality, well, that is a good question. First, here is the context behind why John responded the way he did: