Here’s a quick one – Facebook has started sharing how many posts a day each Page publishes within their on-platform search results. Spotted by digital media advisor Greg Baroth, the option’s likely designed to give regular users some idea of what to expect from each Page – but it could also help provide additional context […]
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Image: Google This week, we spotted a new treatment for Google Express in the search results. This included two new elements: a promotion for the program at the top of the results and a new look for Google Express ads in the Shopping carousel. The “Get it with Google Express” promotion at the very top
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Google is integrating third-party reviews into the Knowledge Graph for hotels. It apparently has been happening since 2016 and is entirely opt-in for the provider. Google works directly with the third-party review source (e.g., TripAdvisor) to integrate the content. In the example below, TripAdvisor reviews for Southern California hotel Terranea are available under the “view Google
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As we head into the slow holiday stretch, the news likewise takes a breather. Of course Google did surprise the search community this week by confirming some algo updates, starting a new webmaster video series, and moving Eric Schmidt into a non-Executive Chairman of the Board position. Elsewhere we had these announcements and events happening
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Google has confirmed it is testing a new mobile search interface and a new search refinement button. The new search interface shows fewer search results on the mobile search results page, with the option to click on a button labeled “more results.” In addition, Google is testing showing buttons to refine your search directly in
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More than seven out of every ten marketers are trusting just one technology to make sense of all their challenges in 2018. And it just might succeed … if it doesn’t also take their jobs. Or if privacy regulations reduce the amount of data available to power it. Artificial intelligence is set to be the most transformative
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Google has announced it has launched a new version of a structured data testing tool for rich results at https://search.google.com/test/rich-results. The company also said it will be calling rich snippets, rich cards or enriched results “Rich results” from now on and group them all together. Google said the new testing tool “focuses on the structured
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Testing a page is easy: just open the testing tool, enter a URL, and review the output. If there are issues, the tool will highlight the invalid code in the page source. If you’re working with others on this page, the share-icon on the bottom-right lets you do that quickly. You can also use preview
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Business owners, marketers, and SEO specialists all become apprehensive whenever Google makes an announcement regarding changes or updates to its algorithm. So it was not surprising that many of them had mild panic attacks when Google Pigeon was rolled out in July 2014. But how did the Pigeon affect search engines three years down the
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