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This is a cute mobile search feature, where Google is showing you a carousel of GIFs that you can click on to share with your friends. It is query dependent, and will match relevant GIFs to your query. Here is what it looks like: Saad AK spotted this and posted about it on Twitter and

Google seems to be testing or rolling out a new feature in the people also ask section named “learn more about.” It shows a box that basically teaches you more about the topic you searched for. Valentin Pletzer spotted this and posted on Twitter saying “Google tests a new kind of carousel at the end

Google’s Danny Sullivan said that Google does and did provide “transparency and guidance” around its core updates. He said on Twitter “my response is that we’re giving a lot of things to consider. That page doesn’t guarantee doing all these things somehow equates to improve ranking.” This is in response to a Russ Jones post

Chris Dicker, the Managing Director at Trusted Reviews, has been asking for advice on “traffic loss after traffic loss” for the site Trustedreviews.com. Google’s John Mueller dropped some hints after “briefly” looking at the site and thread. You probably want to first review the Google Webmaster Help thread where Chris asks “does Google think we

GUESTS & RESOURCES Episode Overview: Join host Ben for a special edition of Winners and Losers, Black Friday 2020 with Searchmetrics’ Director of Services Tyson Stockton. Together they review this year’s Black Friday findings, the impact on the U.S. economy and how companies fared this year. In-store spending was expectedly down this year 51.2% compared

GUESTS & RESOURCES Episode Overview: Join host Ben as he continues SEO Planning Week with Searchmetrics’ Strategist and Advisor Jordan Koene as they discuss the next step in planning after goal alignment – Defining your yearly initiatives. Initiatives are the body of work you’re creating for the quarter and year overall, and the goals you

According to John Shehata, the Global VP of Audience Development Strategy & CRM at Conde Nast, Google is now testing not showing AMP pages in the Top Stories carousel in Google Search on mobile. Google can do this for COVID related news but outside of that, Google should be only showing AMP links in the

Google announced you can now within Google Ads share your lead form extensions across multiple campaign types, such as Google Search, Google Discover and YouTube. Google said it is “now rolling out improvements to make lead form extensions easier to manage and more effective for your business.” Google said it now “made lead form extensions

I am super sad to point out, although obvious, that the request indexing tool was not fixed prior to the holiday shopping season. Google “temporarily suspended” the request indexing tool on October 14, 2020, 55 days ago, and it is still not working. I honestly thought it would be back a week or so before

Back in March 2018, Google began testing showing no results, aka zero results, in the Google search results. Google then reverted it after the backlash and then launched it only on mobile for only time/date, conversion or math related queries. Well, now it seems Google may be testing showing it on the desktop results. Kapil