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Google seems to be expanding showing its expandable knowledge panels user interface. What is meant by expandable knowledge panel is that the right hand side knowledge panel you see in the search results sometimes can show expandable and collapsable menus to show more segments of information. Google had this interface since at least late 2020, […]

Last November, I reported that Google was testing showing links in a featured snippet that links not to the featured snippet site but to a third-party web site. Well, Google has continued that test and here is another example of it in action. Brian Freiesleben spotted this new one and posted about it on Twitter

Here is a new Googler, a Noogler, who said he just received his Noogler propeller hat. It seems he started working at Google 8 months ago, back in June. He works in the Zurich office, so maybe it takes Google longer to mail the hats overseas? Anyway, even 8 months into the job, he seems

I have been on the hunt to find the first SEO or SEM in our industry who was vaccinated. Well, Joel Janovsky, from RankRanger based in Israel may have been that individual. He shared a photo of him receiving his second dose the other day and is a week or so away until he builds

Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that it is best to implement your structured data on the page itself and not use Google Tag Manager to implement your structured data. He said the reason is because it makes it “straight-forward & usually easier to monitor/maintain.” John did add that using Google Tag Manager is “great

Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that there is no specific timeframe for when an out of stock product page on your e-commerce site will end up resulting in a soft 404 in Google Search. A soft 404 is when Google thinks a page should return a 404 server status code but technically is not.

They say in business, one way to ensure your long-term failure, is to use the line “we’ve always done it this way.” Maybe the same is true for SEO? Esben Rasmussen, an SEO, posted on Twitter “I am just in an uphill struggle with a global IT department of a big company “Our old SEO

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