Tyson Braun Tyson served as Senior SEO Consultant on the Professional Services Team at seoClarity, where he helped seoClarity users plot the best path to success. He has held positions at leading SEO and Digital Marketing agencies as well as internal SEO Manager roles working with top brands in several industries in his 10 years … Read more
A new study by search industry expert Rand Fishkin has revealed that Google’s rollout of AI overviews in May led to a noticeable decrease in search volume, particularly on mobile devices. The study, which analyzed millions of Google searches in the United States and European Union, sheds light on the unexpected consequences of AI integration. … Read more
Google is now showing Local Service Ads directly in the mobile version of the Google local business finder interface in Google Search. We know Google is showing LSAs now on Google Maps for iOS but now we are also seeing it on this surface. This was spotted by Anthony Higman, who does LSAs inside and … Read more
Google Chrome for Android has added new local places features to Chrome Actions, that will allow Chrome users to quickly call, get directions and read reviews from a local business directly from the Chrome search bar. What Google said. Google announced it added “new Chrome Actions to help you save time when you’re trying to engage with … 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
Google is testing a number of sitelink variations within its mobile search results interface. They come in these variations: boxed in, pill-like shaped, some with arrows, some in black, and some in blue. We saw the black sitelinks on desktop, which no one really liked, and we saw smaller sitelinks. But now Brodie Clark posted … Read more
Google had some more intense search ranking volatility this week, both on June 1st and also around June 5th. Google said white-labeled coupon sites would be penalized by its site reputation abuse policy. Google warns that it won’t index sites that absolutely won’t load on mobile devices, but it will index sites that are not … Read more
Google said it will not index sites that are not accessible on mobile devices after July 5, 2024. “If your site’s content is not accessible at all with a mobile device, it will no longer be indexable,” John Mueller wrote. To be 100% clear, this means that if your site won’t load at all on … Read more
Google’s mobile-first indexing initiative started just seven and a half years, while we thought it was completed last October, it is now really going to be fully done after July 5th. “The small set of sites we’ve still been crawling with desktop Googlebot will be crawled with mobile Googlebot after July 5, 2024,” John Mueller from Google wrote on … Read more
Google is testing a large blue visit button on its mobile search results interface. The button is hard to miss and shows up under the sitelinks for some searchers. Again, it is a test, so many of you will likely not be able to replicate it. This was spotted by Shameem Adhikarath who posted about … Read more
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