Google has updated its paywalled content search developer documentation to explain that Google Search Generative Experience may link to content behind a paywall. Google wrote, “SGE overviews may include links…
Google seems to have stopped showing rich results for event markup in the Google search results. The event lists are no longer showing up event URLs in the Google search…
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…
Google has updated its favicon search developer documentation to remove the section for the Google Favicon user agent and to clarify that if you want Google to show your favicon…
Google is testing another version of these “mentioned in” features. This one is in the top stories section and it is called “mentioned in these stories.”
Microsoft Bing is now sending out new emails through Bing Webmaster Tools named “Comprehensive Performance Insights Reports.” These are reports that show you how your site is performing in Bing…
Google has added two new attributes for businesses listed in Google Business Profiles. These attributes are identifies as disabled-owned and identifies as Indigenous-owned.
Google is testing a new method to ask users to choose their location to better localize or personalize the search results presented to that searcher. This overlay says, “choose location…
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…
This is just a reminder that despite Google saying the helpful content update will one day be able to find hidden gems in its search results, it does not yet…
Google has new structured data markup for car dealerships, it is called vehicle structured data. You can use it to communicate to Google information about your new car listings for…
A couple of weeks ago, Bard posted that for some questions, it might show you two drafts side-by-side. I have yet to see that in action, that is until now.
Google Explore is a section in the mobile search results that generally shows up after scrolling several pages of search results. Google at some point decides to give you a…
Google is now showing products within the Google Explore section. Google Explore is the section you see in mobile search after you continue to scroll through the search results.
Google has added a single line to its Googlebot documentation to say that when Googlebot crawls from within the US, it crawls using the Pacific timezone. Google added, “When crawling…
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web…
In part one, we learned about Chris Long and his experience working with Bill Slawski. Then, in part two, we spoke about helping people with SEO on LinkedIn and using…
We are seeing high levels of volatility and SEO industry chatter over the weekend, starting late Friday, October 13th, through Saturday and Sunday. I suspect this is from the Google…
Last week, we learned that Google officially dropped indented results from its search results interface. With that Google, on Friday, removed the “Host group” section from its visual elements gallery…
Google is testing the Google Discover feed on the Google.com desktop home page interface. This test is currently in India, Google confirmed, and is just an experiment. Google’s Discover feed…
Google will make the “existing Local Services Ads photos guidelines on the same page as the Local Services platform policies,” the search company announced. This goes into effect on November…
Google Search is testing a gear setting icon on its local places results to let you set your food preferences. This setting would then show you restaurant results that better…
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…
For the original iTunes version, click here. This week, we saw the impact of both the Google October 2023 spam update and the Google October 2023 core update with some…
Google has upgraded its Search Generative Experience to create images and text, not just give you answers and show you images or content from others. Google said SGE can now…
Google Search seems to be testing adding a people icon in the search bar, auto-complete search bar. I am told the people icons only show up when in the perspectives…
Google is testing having links overlay, like watermarks, on product result images. I can replicate this on some browsers, not all, so it looks like a test where Google can…
Google has stopped the indented results, something Google has been doing for well over a decade. Instead, Google will just list out the result it would have indented in the…
Google has a new “trending seller” icon for some product results in the search result snippet. This shows an arrow trending up icon next to the words “trending seller” below…
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…
Microsoft Bing image creator through the image creator tool or Bing Chat can make images for you using AI. But recently, it has come under fire around its moderation system…
The Google News Showcase is new for those in the US and with that we are seeing content from within the Google News Showcase show up in more places. One…
Google is testing yet another new recipe search interface. This may be an ongoing test, as I cannot replicate it, but the recipe interface is way more interactive and useful…
Microsoft Bing is testing a new layout for the Bing video search results page. The layout has sections, and headings, for different types of videos, grouping those videos together. The…
Google shows a section in the search results for “people also buy from.” It seems Google will show you other stores where people can and will buy the item you…
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…
Google Ads later this month will update its policies for ads that offer rewards to allow indirect or non-monetary items to be offered as rewards. This policy change will happen…
There are reports that Google is automatically editing the attributes of businesses within Google Business Profiles. I am told these edits are helpful and logical, since Google is using okay…
Google Discover now shows a new section named “Get the latest on” and shows an author/journalist that you can click on and see their knowledge panel with their recent articles.
Google is testing a new ad format, at least I think it is newish, where it shows local ad that has images that expand when you swipe over them to…
Google has confirmed an issue with Google Ads this morning “affecting a significant subset of users.” The issue is specific with serving Google Ads and the spending controls for campaigns…
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…
We are now a few days into the two October Google Search updates, the October 2023 spam update and the October 2023 core update and the Google search results are…
A couple of weeks ago Google released a new robots.txt directive to tell Google not to use your content for Bard or other AI Google projects. The Google Search Generative…
Did you know that a search through Google Lens can trigger an AI-generated response in the Search Generative Experience? I guess it makes sense, Lens is generally just triggering a…
Google Search’s people also ask is now showing cards in carousels. This has been going on for several weeks, I believe, but I never covered it.
Google can show local pack results in the mobile interface with these expandable refinements section. So if Google is not sure if you want one type of business category, it…
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web. Google’s October 2023…
In part one, we learned about Chris Long and also spoke about his co-worker, the profession of SEO, Bill Slawski. In part two we dig into helping people in SEO…
Google is testing a lightweight version of the Search Generative Experience. This version shows a more subtle AI-generated answer box, without all the color and with just a few lines,…
I am hearing reports that the Google October 2023 spam update that touched down on October 4, 2023, at around 12:50 p.m. ET is starting to do its job. This…
Google is showing some folks an e-commerce or products section in their Google Discover feed. Glenn Gabe was shown a “clothing” section in his Discover feed that led to Google…
Google has added a new way to retrieve leads from Google Local Service Ads – text message. Google use to send these “message leads” to your email account. Now Google…
Google is testing a line divider between the site name, URL and favicon and the snippet’s description. I am not sure I like this and I know Google has tested…
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web. Google shocked us…
This week, we had Google officially release another core update, the October 2023 core update. Also, a day before Google started to roll out the October 2023 spam update. We…
Google is now also rolling out the October 2023 core update. This is happening while Google is rolling out the October 2023 spam update and only weeks after Google finished…
Google’s Ad Liaison, Ginny Marvin, confirmed on X that Google Ads has stopped maintaining the Keyword Planner individual & ad group keyword forecasting data. She said that “few advertising were…
Bing Search is testing showing video chapters for video search results. This is similar to the Google Search key moments feature that has been out for a while.
Several weeks ago some businesses were seeing that they could edit their social profiles within Google Business Profiles. But most businesses did not have access to this feature. Now it…
Bing Search may sometimes show a “Trending in Bing” carousel at the top of the search results. That carousel shows alternative search refinements based on your previous query but it…
Google may be having issues with indexing and serving new content within Google Search. The issues started around 2pm ET and have been sporadically happening since then. I personally have…
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web…
Google has released a new spam update, the October 2023 spam update. This update goes after cloaking, hacked, auto-generated, and scraped spam. But those sites written in Turkish, Vietnamese, Indonesian,…
Google Assistant will live on with a little help from its friend – Bard. Assistant With Bard is coming in the next few months after Google tests it with a…
Wired had a piece named How Google Alters Search Queries to Get at Your Wallet. That piece wrote, “Google just flat out deletes queries and replaces them with ones that…
For years and years now, spammers have been creating fake obituaries using automated methods. In fact, Danny Goodwin covered the issue Google Search has with obituary spam a couple of…
Google seems to be testing a new hotel search result snippet. The search result snippet shows a carousel of hotel cards under the main snippet. These cards can be swiped…
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web. Apple Business Connect,…
Google’s Local Service Ads (LSA), Google Screened, previously would load the same advertisers as you scrolled down the search results page. Now, Google is loading unique, different advertisers when it…
Apple has announced new insights and analytics to Apple Business Connect, its local business dashboard. The new insights are called “Peer Group Benchmarks” and tell you how well your business…
Google is testing a section titled “popular stores” in the Google search results. It shows you stores like Walmart, Target, Amazon, Best Buy, Home Depot and more.
When Microsoft Bing announced its new features a couple of weeks ago, including the updated performance reports, it also went ahead and updated the colors of the top bar from…
Bing seems to be testing added “learn more” cards under the knowledge panel within the search results. The learn more cards are in a carousel format that you can slide…
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web. I posted the…
Here is the big Google webmaster report for October, where I sum up all the most important topics SEOs need to know with Google organic search over the past thirty…
Bing seems to be testing showing the number of people who visited a website listed in a search ad. The ad in the Bing Search results says X “visitors in…
Microsoft launched DALL-E 3 in Bing Chat late on Friday night and went it went live, it just stalled. It took a really long time for Bing Chat to create…
A few months ago, Microsoft increased the Bing Chat conversation limit to 30 turns in a chat conversation. But according to Mikhail Parakhin of Microsoft, no one hits that number…
Google may be testing a bright red “back to top” button in the desktop search results. As you scroll down, this button overlays at the top portion of the screen.
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web…
Chris Long, the VP of Marketing at Go Fish Digital, stopped by my office to chat SEO and that is what we did. Chris does a lot of internal marketing…
I am seeing some early signs of an unconfirmed Google search ranking algorithm update, maybe some small shifts, starting yesterday, Sunday, October 1st. Only a couple of the tools showed…
Google Search has started to test a box labeled “ask your own” under the People also ask and more questions section. This seems to take you into a chat-like experience,…
Google has added a new section to the Google Discover documentation to explain three reasons why Google Discover traffic may drop. Those three reasons include changes in interests, content type…
Google Business Profile is updating the data within the bulk Insight data to match the data you see for a single business profile listing. Google emailed those who have downloaded…
Generally, Google has said that when pages are not indexed and there are no technical issues, the reason it might not be indexed is that the page does not meet…