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Google is testing yet another form of layouts for the Google Search results. Here Google is testing showing half of a line break of some sorts to separate out the top answers and features snippets and other sections. Here are screen shots from Tom Pool on Twitter and Kristine Schachinger on Twitter – note you […]

A while back, JR Oakes asked Martin Splitt of Google if he can confirm if there is a difference between display:none and visibility:hidden in terms of Google’s ability to “see” the content in the container? Martin said he does not think there is a difference. JR Oakes then decided to test it. Here are those

So yesterday, I accidentally published a story too quickly, around a new FAQ around Google’s Page Experience Update. One point in there that is new information is this line “using page experience as a signal for ranking will apply only to mobile Search.” Yes, the Google Page Experience Update ranking signals will only be weighted

November was a pretty busy month where Google gave us a date for the launch of the page experience update and with that, Google will be testing a visual indicator or badge in the search results for this. Google released several unconfirmed Google algorithm updates this month but we have yet to see an official

As we have been expecting, Google has rolled out more ways for businesses to message and communicate with customers. Plus, Google is also rolling out more performance insights reports to see how customers are finding your business in Google Maps and Search. Improved Messaging There are a lot of improvements here including new ways for

GUESTS & RESOURCES Episode Overview: Join host Ben as he concludes his conversation with Kalicube founder and author Jason Barnard discussing why only the strongest survive in the everchanging search industry. Together they review what “Darwinism in search,” is and its impact on search technology. Google’s algorithm ranks websites much like the natural world, where

In March 2018, we revived our YouTube channel and grew it from 14k subscribers to over 180k subscribers.  We did this by following a list of proven strategies that helped us get more subscribers to our YouTube channel. In this post, I’ll share those strategies with you.  Target topics that people are searching for Keep your

Google posted an FAQ around Core Web Vitals and the upcoming Google Page Experience update launching in May 2021. Google’s Cheney Tsai said the company has compiled some of the most frequently asked questions about Core Web Vitals and Page Experience. This was not posted as a blog post or help document but in the

Stan, Google’s dinosaur, which has been at the GooglePlex for as long as I can remember, now is wearing a mask. It might be a bit too big to properly socially distance but it wearing a mask. Here are some photos I found on two different Instagram accounts. This post is part of our daily

Google has released a help document named large site owner’s guide to managing your crawl budget. It is an advanced help document on helping developers manage Googlebot crawls on their web site. It reminds me of the blog post Gary Illyes of Google wrote in 2017 about crawl budget. Google first defines who should think