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It looks like Google has launched a new look for its question and answers carousel. This is not the local Q&A box, this is also not the question hub. This is when you add QA structured data to your pages and Google can show these rich results in the search results. Here is what Brian

Remember in July we saw Google testing adding regular expressions (regex) filters to some of the Search Console performance report. It then went away quickly. Well, Google’s John Mueller was asked about that and if they will be coming back to Search Console. John was asked “do you have a plan to add regexp filter

It looks like Google is testing taller shopping ad formats in Google Search. Shalom Goodman noticed this and posted both sizes on Twitter. I made them into a GIF so you can easily see how much taller these are. These are about 55 pixels taller for some reason. Like the organic search results in Google

Danny Sullivan of Google has confirmed that the December 2020 core update is still rolling out. I asked, despite Google saying the rollout normally takes two weeks, I asked because unlike previous updates, you would “feel” it more over time – in this update, it was felt in a big way on Friday, December 4th

Google has updated the Google Search Console API to give us faster and fresher data, the ability to filter data based on the news filter, domain property support in Sitemaps and guidelines on how to migrate the Discovery document. A lot of this may stem from the groundwork Google set when the company upgraded the

I am so sad to report that Greg Sterling is leaving Search Engine Land. I’ve been writing with Greg at Search Engine Land and before that, Search Engine Watch, for over 14 years. He is one of the smartest, honest, caring and funny people I know. And I will greatly miss reading his stories and

Join host Ben as he continues his SEO Planning Week discussion with Searchmetrics’ Strategist and Advisor Jordan Koene to talk about how to create SEO SMART goals. Together they discuss how to set specific, measurable, achievable, relevant and time-bound goals. The complexity of SEO goals require detailed steps to ensure they’re executed successfully – SMART

Here is an old photo but recently added to Instagram by Jeffrey Carlyle of Google who posted that it took him “over a year to notice the hat from “Windy Day” hidden away in the rafters.” He posted a photo of it but I’ll be honest, I have no idea what “Windy Day” is, I

Generally when Chanukah/Hanukkah falls out in early December, like it does this year, Google launches the Chanukah decorations before the other holiday decorations for Christmas or Kwanzaa. This year, Chanukah starts this Thursday night, December 10 so the decorations were added last night, Tuesday, December 8th. You can see it yourself by searching on Google

It looks like Google is testing a new design for the Google Guaranteed badge or icon. The previous design was a green circle with a white check mark inside of it. The new design is more in Google colors, it is a shield with a checkmark in it, using Google colored lines. Tom Waddington posted