Wash Up Monday

Google Updates Google shopping ads allow user generated images in reviews - Users can now have user-generated images within product reviews. Google ads team state that this allows customers to visually connect through pictures of previous customers wearing or using products. You can simply enable this by adding a new schema to your product feeds for reviewer images. However, this is currently…

Google Updates Businesses can opt out of online orders - There is a new Google My Business form to opt out of online orders on Google. You can simply fill in a form if you are the restaurant owner to remove the call-to-action button for online ordering. H1 tags is not critical for ranking - A spokesman from Google…

Google Updates Google has new movie schema - Google has rolled out two Movie and TV related  schema micro-formats. . The first one is to enhance user experience when searching on mobile devices. The other update is new developer documents for movie structured data. Movie & TV search interface - You canswipe left or right with this interface on…

Google Updates Competitors’ local listings shown above the branded local knowledge panel - It seems that Google now shows a carousel feature of competitor businesses within the area, this happens when a user specifically searches for a company name in Google search. So, when it comes to a branded search that brought up a local knowledge panel for a…

Google Updates Google penalise domain leasing - The search giant issued a warning about websites that lease out their own subdomains and subfolders in order for other companies to rank their content better on leased domains. If you are doing this then Google will take action by penalizing those sections of sites. Google Ads tests the advt label - There…

Google Updates Google adds delivery icons to local pack - It seems like Google has added a delivery icon to their local pack listings. The delivery icons send searchers directly to an online delivery service. Although Google has offered delivery buttons in the local results in the past, this is far more different than before. Google People also…

Google Updates Google search tests more pagination options - The search giant is testing numerous ways of paginations on the desktop search results page. The tests include showing the more results button on desktop like it does on mobile. Below are some of the features; More results on desktop - Google rolled out the ‘more results’ button on mobile search results…

Google Updates Google removes references to PageRank & 200 Signals from disavow help document - A while ago the disavow backlinks help document in Google's help centre mentioned PageRank and how this is one of 200 signals it uses for rankings. The help document has been updated in the past several months and removed both those references. Google Ads…

Google Updates Google bug knowledge panels without attribution - Google is testing displaying knowledge panels in their search results that do not show any attribution. If you try to test this, you will get Google attributing Wikipedia for the content but in some cases you may notice that it shows a similar knowledge panel but has no link or…

Google Updates Google posts tests related to your search - You may have noticed that there has been chatter and pictures of Google showing a new section to display Google Posts in a Google local panel. The new section is called “related to your search" and shows Google Posts that are more relevant to your search query. Google…