Yoast SEO automatically handles all sorts of things for your site. Features like meta tags, schema, sitemaps, and content analysis help you rank higher in organic search results. However, you may have a custom or specific use case that requires adjusting how our plugin works for your site. Yoast SEO includes filters that allow you … Read more
Do you know what users see when they find your content on search engines? If not, you may want to take a look. A search engine result page (SERP) preview lets you see how your page appears in search engines. You can use this data to optimize your search snippets for greater visibility, a better … Read more
Google is once again investigating issues with recipe images and other images not showing for some sites within the Google Search results. We reported on several issues with recipe sites several weeks ago and it seems to be happening again for some of these sites. I am not sure if it is related to Google … Read more
What Is a Featured Snippet? A featured snippet is a webpage excerpt that succinctly answers a searcher’s question. And is often featured at the top of search results in what’s frequently called “position zero.” Like this: They fall under the larger umbrella known as search engine results page (SERP) features—which are special results that stand … Read more
Google is testing fading in the text of the search result snippets as you scroll down to see more search results. The text is a light gray, and then it becomes a more solid black as you scroll toward that search result snippet. This was spotted by Brodie Clark who shared this on X – … Read more
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It seems that Google has stopped serving featured snippets in its search results this morning. It started around 7 AM ET today, just about an hour ago. I cannot trigger any featured snippets to load. It might be some sort of rendering or serving bug or maybe Google decided to ditch featured snippets. It can’t … Read more
Google is testing a new feature for featured snippets that will animate the highlighting of the text of part of the featured snippet. It looks like Google is manually highlighting the text in the featured snippet. This was spotted by Shameem Adhikarath who shared a video screen recording of this in action on X – … Read more
TikTok videos have been spotted in two prominent locations in Google’s Search results – featured snippets and Search Generative Experience (SGE). While I’m not entirely sure if this is “new,” I’ve never seen this before and this is definitely new to many people in the search community. Why we care. Many people have been having … Read more
Google is testing a “Chat with a live agent” button in the search result snippets. We have seen Google place the “Chat with a live agent” button in the local pack and local panels before but I don’t believe we have seen it in a search result snippet. Here is a screenshot of the Chat … Read more
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