Google Hotel Pricing Charts Moved To SERP
An expanded and interactive hotel pricing chart has been moved to the SERP. More information will show in here than before, allowing users to find closer to what they’re looking for straight from the SERP.
Human Error Likely To Be Cause Of April 2019 Google Outages
According to two anonymous sources, the April outages were likely caused by human error. They also outline a few more details in what was actually happening behind the scenes.
New Sites Will Be Indexed Using Mobile-First Starting July 1st
The default state is switching to mobile-first indexing, meaning that new sites that start to index in Google will be using mobile-first indexing. Older sites are not subject to this, and will be switched over when they’re ready, as is currently the case.
Small Change To Video Box On Mobile
The mobile video box has changed slightly to highlight one of the video results sitting on top of the others in a larger thumbnail. The desktop version remains unchanged, three thumbnails side by side.
Google Updates The “How-To” Structured Data Guidelines
A change-up of the guideline document for “How-To” structured data was released by Google. The goal is to clear things up for SEOs that choose to use the data on their page.
Seeing Possible Signs Of A Google Search Ranking Algorithm Update
Many SEOs felt a strange fluctuation in their rankings recently, could this be the early sings of an algorithm update?
Google’s working pretty hard on favicons right now. These little icons help users distinguish results with a small logo or other image to identify a site quicker. There have been many reactions, positive and negative, going around about all this, and this article outlines many of them.
Google Says All The Indexing Issues Are Finally Resolved
Finally, an end point to the mess of indexing bugs Google has been experiencing lately. They say that any issues you may still have in your Search Console are totally unrelated to the indexing bugs and should be treated as usual.
3D Objects With AR Support Now Live In Google Search
A little bit ago, Google announced that they were bringing 3D models and AR to Google search, and it’s finally rolling out. Search any of the supported objects, scroll down, and you should see a 3D model sitting there. Click around and you can see it via AR! This feature hasn’t released globally yet, unfortunately.
John Mueller Creating New “SEO Snippet” Videos
Ask your SEO questions on Twitter and you might get an SEO Snippets video made on it. This new video series covers an array of SEO questions in nice and short videos.