Google is testing larger sitenames and favicons again. You can see a considerably larger font used for the sitename (the link in the Google search result snippets) and a larger favicon being tested in the search results. Shameem Adhikarath spotted this change and posted about it on X – I was able to replicate the … Read more
Google is testing a larger font size for the main search result title link, followed by smaller fonts for that same snippet’s sitelinks. This was spotted a few days ago by both Umair Khan on X and Lily Ray on X. Google often tests font sizes for its search results, they have done this for … Read more
Google is once again testing a larger font size in the search box in the mobile search results. We saw this back in 2021 with the mobile search box, also in early 2022 with the desktop search box and then several other times over the years. This new one was spotted by Brodie Clark, he … Read more
Someone on Reddit asked a question about making a sitewide change to the code related to a website with ten languages. Google’s John Mueller offered general advice about the pitfalls of sitewide changes and word about complexity (implying the value of simplicity). The question was related to hreflang but Mueller’s answer, because it was general … Read more
Google is testing wider and larger image thumbnails on snippets in the desktop search results interface. The images look about twice as wide, maybe even more, the the normal image thumbnails you’d see Google display in the desktop search results. Mordy Oberstein captured a screenshot of the wider images and posted it on Twitter. He … Read more
Google Ads has been showing larger images on and off for a while now. But here is an ad for a law firm that has really large images on the desktop search interface. This was spotted by Anthony Higman, who posted this example on Twitter – I should note that I cannot replicate this: To … Read more
Google is once again testing larger product images in the search results for specific search results snippets. This is not the product grid results, but the product images on the side of the search result snippets. Here is a screenshot provided by Frank Sandtmann, he posted this on Mastodon and said, “And another test on … Read more
March 14, 2017 | Posted by Mordy Oberstein There has been a lot of Google algorithm update activity as of late, and it would be nice to get some perspective on what’s been going on, as these algorithms can seriously impact your rankings. Now, as you may well know, Google has said it … Read more
Microsoft is testing showing larger favicons in the Bing Search results. The favicons look a lot larger in this test, here are side by side comparisons so you can see yourself. Here is what I see, the normal smaller favicons: Here is what Khushal Bherwani posted on Twitter: Frank Sandtmann also noticed this and posted … Read more
Google launched the first Product Reviews Update in April of 2021 and it’s been fascinating to watch the evolution of the system over time. With each successive update, you can see Google fine-tuning the system, expanding to other languages, and more. And now we have the next step in its evolution, and it was a … Read more
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