Wash Up Monday

Google Updates Google featured snippets with ‘How to schema’ - Several users have noticed that Google is now showing some search results with featured snippets with the “how-to” schema showing. They mention that they think this might be the first time they've seen structured data influence a featured snippet. Google tests knowledge panel in the middle…

Google Updates Google ads performance planner now supports shopping campaigns - In Google ads, the performance planner tool has now been upgraded to support Shopping campaigns. The performance planner can now support Shopping campaigns and smart shopping campaigns within Google Ads. The search giant announced this on social media platforms mentioning that the performance planner is now…

Google Updates Google My Business adds video conferencing integration - They have added a new option that says ‘connect in real-time, with video.’ Google My Business mention that you can grow your business and reach more customers, when you use video conferencing providers. Google ads has now more conversion categories - They mention on social media…

Google Updates Google tests larger font title for grouped snippets - Although users should have seen the Google group snippets a while back, now it seems that they are testing the first snippet you can see in the group being a larger font size for the title. There has been screenshots and chatter about this over…

Google Updates Google search console has added guided recipes support & reports - The search giant has now added support for guided recipes. What this means is that the guided recipes has step by step instructions on how to complete a recipe in Google search and on Google assistant. Google has also added a new enhancement…

Google Updates Google tests boxes with shadows for search result snippets – Google has been testing a new search results interface; an outlined search result snippets with a shadow effect. This means that the snippets that have a box around it, it look a bit raised off the web page. Although it is not clear…

Google Updates Google drops websites & the phone number button when marked as temporarily closed - If you have marked your business as temporarily closed within Google My Business, this means that Google will now remove the buttons on your listing to go to your website or even call your business. Google local inventory adds a…

Google Updates Google tests underlining “searches related to” - It seems that they have been testing a lot of variations to the look of the ‘searches related to’ feature. Well now the search giant is testing underlining the results, and the other day, Google was testing three columns instead of two. Google core update for May is live…

Google Updates Google search console adds copy feature to URLs - Google have added a small useful feature to their Google search console; the ability to quickly copy a URL listed in a report. In the past, users would have had to do tricks to copy the URL but now they can copy the whole…

Google Updates Google continues to test Favicons in search results - Earlier this year in January, they started to display favicons in their desktop search results, but then they removed most of them a month later after a lot of criticism. So since then, they have been testing to show these favicons only to a limited number…