by Ryan Rodden | Dec 30, 2017 | SERPs
There’s been a lot of recent updates going on in December 2017, with link spam corrections and bizarre celebrity errors. Today I discovered that Google is now displaying user reviews within a local map pack, if the review happens to have a certain keyword. I was...
by Ryan Rodden | Dec 5, 2017 | SERPs
Update: I noticed today (Dec. 9th, 2017) that this has been fixed. I notified John Mueller of this and the Google team seems to have corrected the issue. Still a fairly hilarious blunder. I like to follow updates to the Google Knowledge Graph to see how the Big G...
by Ryan Rodden | Sep 7, 2017 | SERPs
Today I was exploring some keyword ideas related to Halloween costumes. In past years, this had been an interesting but competitive niche to go after if you were an affiliate marketer or provided marketing services to retailers. Halloween searches explode starting in...
by Ryan Rodden | Apr 19, 2017 | SERPs
When using a “how-to” type query, Google showed me not just a YouTube video result, but a suggested clip from the video highlighting the exact time they want you to watch. This is incredibly cool and weird at the same time. Is it possible they know that...