Recently a customer was asking about their meta descriptions and if they were fine. When I checked, I saw Google was adding the ellipsis (...) at the end of each one. Ellipsis are Google’s way of saying they are generating the description for you and ignoring the actual SEO meta description tag for this search …
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Google Image Search is now showing product availability
Google is always changing how their search results work. Usually to the annoyance of SEOs but sometimes… sometimes a change is good. Recently Google Image Search started showing the product availability in the Rich Results for image searches. Both in the result lists: and in the details: This brings Image Search closer to regular Search’s …
Find out what Google is showing from your Shopify store
One of my more popular articles is about using a special search to find all of the Rich Results in your store. That got me thinking about all of the other types of searches you can do to see what Google has about your store. In all of these, you’ll want to replace example.com with …
Google mobile first indexing and structured data
With Google enabling mobile-first indexing for stores, they also include a little note about the structured data: Your site may have structured data embedded on your desktop pages that can drive rich snippets in Google’s search results pages. If this structured data is absent on your mobile site, you could lose those rich snippets and …
Never forget, even Google produces bugs
Last last week and continuing through the weekend, Google had a major de-indexing bug where some pages and entire domains were removed from Google Search. From what Search Engine Land and Google Search’s official Twitter account reported, they are still fixing it as of when I write this. I have confidence they’ll fix it, as …
How both organic and paid traffic benefits from structured data like JSON-LD
Google doesn’t do a great job of describing how the search results work between Google Search and their paid ads from Google Ads and Merchant Center. A JSON-LD for SEO customer was asking about this when I sent him the following email. It’s not a perfectly precise definition but I think it can help as …
Google penalties from using fake reviews in your Shopify store
Recently a new store emailed me about how fake reviews work in Google. Just to make sure, the star will appear even if it not real reviews ? I mean I can put fake reviews on my website as I launched it few weeks ago so I do not have much review. Neither your reviews …