Google has made a small update to its crawl budget documentation page to add a best practice is to have the same links on both the mobile and desktop version (if you have different versions) on the page. If you do not do this, it can slow the crawling and discovery of your site, especially … Read more
Google is testing its mobile design for knowledge panels on desktop. You can see the card formatted design for these knowledge panels on the desktop interface. We see them on mobile for many years. We’ve also seen Google these card and interactive formats years ago and recently for local knowledge panels. We’ve also seen mini … Read more
A few weeks ago, we saw Google testing pill formats, bubble formats, for sitelinks in the mobile search results. Now Google is testing that format on the desktop search results. Brodie Clark on SERP Alerts posted examples of this on X and over here. He wrote, “Google is now testing out a new format for … Read more
Google Search is rolling back its continuous scroll user interface and bringing back the legacy Google Search pagination bar. Google told us that starting yesterday it will stop offering continuous scroll on desktop, with the mobile search interface to follow in the coming months. Google told us this was to make search faster and only … Read more
Last week we reported that Googlebot will pretty much halt crawling and indexing websites using its desktop crawler and just crawl using its smartphone crawler (which caused a lot of confusion). But John Mueller of Google said on Reddit that he doesn’t think it means you can “completely disregard what’s served on desktop in terms … Read more
Google’s John Mueller responded to a question about whether it’s okay to stop optimizing a desktop version of a website now that Google is switching over to exclusively indexing mobile versions of websites. The question asked is related to an announcement they made a week ago: “…the small set of sites we’ve still been crawling … Read more
What Is a Reverse Image Search? A reverse image search involves using an image to look for similar images online. For example, check out this Google reverse image search results page: We provided Google with the image on the left. And it returned the related images on the right. The process for doing a reverse … Read more
Knowing how your target market uses mobile or desktop devices helps you plan your marketing strategy. And reach more of your intended audience. Let’s compare mobile vs. desktop usage, the advantages and disadvantages of each, and actionable tips you can use for your business. Mobile vs. Desktop Usage Statistics for 2024 To show the differences … Read more
In June, Google launched the perspectives search filter in the mobile search results. Now, Google is testing that filter within the desktop search results. As a reminder, the perspectives search filter will give you long and short-form videos, images and written posts that people have shared on discussion boards, Q&A sites and social media platforms. … Read more
Google is running an experiment that may bring its Discover feed to desktop users. The Discover feed shows recommended content like news, weather, sports scores, and stock prices directly on the Google homepage, alongside the traditional Google search bar. In a statement, Google confirmed testing the Discover feed on desktop, but only in India. The … Read more
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