In an announcement made September 27, people who use Yoast SEO are going to be opted into all of its snippet features by default. The update that contains this change, version 12.2, will roll out on October 1. A few days before, on September 24, Google announced new snippet settings to provide site owners some options that […]

The Yoast WordPress SEO plugin has recently been updated with how-to block. This new release even adds to the top of the meta box as well as schema and security fixes. Yoast, who referred back to Google’s announcement of support for how-to structured data at the I/O conference that took place in May, says it revamped […]

The latest update of the Yoast SEO WordPress plugin has revamped its mobile snippet preview. Now, it generates a preview of what your content will look like as a listing in Google’s mobile search results. Although this isn’t a new feature, the update replicates a Google mobile search snippet more accurately than before. It even […]

In Yoast SEO’s newest update, it is enhancing its FAQ blocks by automatically generating structured data to accompany questions and answers. With this upate, some UX improvements is introduced, as well as addressing issues with AMP pages when viewed in Reader mode. This update is only compatible with the WordPress block editor. Webmasters start by […]

Support for structured data continues to be added by Yoast SEO with its 11.2 update. This newest plugin version lets webmasters insert their own pieces of schema into Yoast’s graph, filter out pieces they don’t want to show to search engines, as well as add or delete social profiles. With structured data, search engines can […]

With Yoast’s 11.1 SEO plugin update, image and video Schema enhancements have been implemented into their service. Even though it won’t necessarily improve your ranking by adding Schema, it can at least enhance the way your results appear. Google is showing more images in web search results, which means that if you add the appropriate […]

Google is testing a change in the search results for TV show and movie streaming options.  This feature was first launched by Google in the knowledge panel in 2017.  With this test, more streaming providers and options have been added. Screen shots of the new interface being tested for TV shows and movie streams were posted by Valentin […]

Google now has the ability to link some content it is showing in their search results in a new way.  Rather than linking to the page, Google anchors you to the exact spot of the answer you’re looking for and highlight the block of text that is most relevant to your query.  This feature only […]

Google confirmed that they are experimenting with a new feature that helps some of their searchers pronounce words.  A Google spokesperson said “this is an experiment” they are running. There is a screenshot in a Reddit thread of this in action.  The query that triggered this one mobile search, in Google India, was [how to pronounce compunction]. If you ask […]

If you go to Google and preform a search for [navigate] or [navigation] or [directions] or any other similar search, you will receive a direct answer/one box result at the top asking you “where do you want to go?” Below that, you’ll be asked to enter a starting point and a destination.  Once you’ve entered the […]