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Review Stars Disappearance In Google SERPs is a Glitch
Posted by Paul Smith | February 29, 2016Recent news about the dramatic fall in the number of review stars on SERPs has been confirmed as a glitch by John Meuller, the Webmaster Trends Analyst for Google. Initially, people were speculating on a wide range of causes, including changes made purposefully by the search giant to re-balance things […]
Streetmap Loses Google UK Court Battle
Posted by Paul Smith | February 15, 2016Taking on web-giants Google in the courtroom is a brave and bold move and as UK based company Streetmap recently found out, David doesn’t always manage to topple Goliath. As their name implies, Streetmap peddle a maps and directions service covering the whole United Kingdom; a venture undeniably similar to […]
Right-To-Be-Forgotten links likely to be removed by Google from global searches
Posted by Paul Smith | February 11, 2016Ever since Google began their ‘Right To Be Forgotten’ (RTBF) in 2006, 43% of links submitted (approx. 1.4 million URLs) have been removed. Now, Google plans to remove European RTBF links from worldwide search engines for those searching in the country where the request was made, making it almost impossible […]
Check for new Structured Data errors in their Search Console
Posted by Paul Smith | February 5, 2016Search engines like Google, Yahoo and Bing use structured data within web pages to refine and filter search results more accurately, enhancing the way results are displayed and making it easier for users to find what they’re searching for. Google have just announced they’re supporting JavaScript Object Notation (JSON-LD) for […]
Personal Data Within Google Search Results – ‘Recent Purchases’
Posted by Paul Smith | February 2, 2016Google is trialling a controversial new feature that allows them to use your personal data within Google search results, including your recent purchases. The reaction from the internet has so far been mixed, to say the least, with many people finding it disturbing and intrusive. The data displayed is taken […]
Microsoft Drops Support of Lobby Group FairSearch
Posted by Paul Smith | January 28, 2016We were interested to read that Microsoft has dropped its financial support for FairSearch, the lobbying group committed to the defence of online competition and promotion of fair searches across the Internet. FairSearch has been very active in the European antitrust case against Google which filed formally in April 2015, […]
Google Showing Personal Data in Search Results
Posted by Paul Smith | January 25, 2016Google is testing a new feature that allows them to show personal data within the search results. This addition has seen a mixed reception so far, with some users considering it to be rather creepy, although the data that is being shown is pulled purely from other Google services, and […]
Google Adds AMP Error Report to Search Console
Posted by Paul Smith | January 22, 2016Internet giant Google announced the introduction of a new error report within the Google Search Console specifically designed for news publishers deploying AMP (accelerated mobile pages). What exactly is AMP? AMP enables mobile webpages to load quicker by eliminating certain downloadable elements that users normally require in order to access […]
Google becoming more demanding with content standards
Posted by Paul Smith | January 7, 2016Google released the latest version of its Search Quality Rating guidelines in November 2015. These guidelines help Google’s employees to understand the ranking system and to identify websites that are high quality in addition to those that should not be ranked well in the results. The guidelines are 160 pages […]
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