Serps display

[Prime85]

Good Morning Everyone,

So by now i'm sure you've all heard about the search engines like Google and Bing displaying Emoji's in the Page titles of the SERPS.

Does anyone know how to input the emojis into your page title?  I have a magento site and have no idea where to find the emoji's and how to place them in the title.

Any help/guidance/advice would be appreciated.

Thanks!

[Mike.Goracke]

Looks like it will actually be a "waste of time", per Google's John Mueller.

"Google's John Mueller in a Google+ hangout was asked this at 51:40 mark and answered they will be going away. He said "it is kind of a waste of time" since "soon they will not be shown at all." - https://www.seroundtable.com/google-emoji-waste-of-time-20258.html

Hope this helps.

Mike

[Prime85]

Does anyone know where to go inside the site (through FTP) in order to access the page titles for each individual category?

Thanks!

[Prime85]

so is there no way to do this from inside the magento admin panel?

[TomRayner]

Hi there

You just need to add the unicode of the Emoji into your HTML.  You can find the unicodes for each emoji in the list here: http://apps.timwhitlock.info/emoji/tables/unicode, plus how they'll look on each device.

If you're running WordPress there's a couple of plugins that can do this for you as well, such as Hello Emoji and Open Source Emoji.

Just don't go overboard with them.  Part of me fears Google will suck the fun right out of this and block Emoji's from appearing in the SERPs if lots of people jump on the bandwagon.  Hope not, but possible.  Also consider that not every visitor on every device might be able to see the emoji properly, which could put people off.

With all that said, I love emojis. 'U+1F60D'