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Kwanzaa is coming up next week and Google has launched its Kwanzaa decorations for its search results. Just like Google did with Christmas decorations and Chanukah decorations. Search for Kwanzaa…

Gary Illyes from Google explained how Google Search may or may not handle special characters within Google Search. He explained this in the latest Google SEO office hours at the…

Microsoft is currently on a holiday lockdown for Bing, Copilot, formerly known as Bing Chat. Mikhail Parakhin, the CEO, Advertising and Web Services at Microsoft, wrote on X, “Holiday lockdown…

Bing is showing a box in its search results for “Local businesses for Christmas.” This box shows Christmas-related stores, such as groceries, bakeries, etc, that are open now.

Google Ads has this advertiser verification program and now advertisers can use their DBAs (“doing business as”) or trade names for that verification. Google said these names are accepted if…

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 Search had…

Google may be testing a new search result snippet interface that overlays more details about that search snippet. It is like a preview feature when you hover over the search…

Google sends some businesses personalized emails about suspensions to their Google Business Profile. The emails explain why the suspension happened and the necessary steps to reverse the suspension, with an…

Google often shows images taken from websites and publishers like your sites in its search results. Would you prefer Google to show your image in search with attribution, or would…

Google has updated its policy where an identifier exists issue will no longer lead to disapproval of your product listings. Instead, Google will first issue you a warning for identifier…

Google has added three verticle dots to its search results snippets for years now. It seems like Bing is testing three dots but in a horizontal format. How is that…

Google Search may be having issues with indexing or serving this morning. I am seeing tons of reports from SEOs on X that Google is having indexing issues, tons. So…

Christmas is in five days and today Google has launched its Christmas decorations for Google Search. As an FYI, Google launched the Chanukah decorations on December 3, 2023 but now…

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…

Google has documented how it Google handles sites with a high proportion of non-consensual explicit imagery. Google updated its spam policies and the Google ranking systems guide with links to…

Gary Illyes from Google explained when he thinks it makes sense to use a hierarchical versus flat structure for your website. In short, he said larger sites might benefit from…

Here is a wild bug in Google where the Google Ads description is just about 90 words. The limit Google Ads has for description is 90 characters, not 90 words…

Over the past few months or so there has been a lot of complaints both from the SEO community and the general internet community about the quality of the Google…

Google’s Ginny Marvin confirmed that Google Ads is testing placing ad headlines in your ad descriptions. This was spotted by advertisers, Anthony Higman who posted on X a screenshot showing…

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…

Google’s John Mueller said in the last Google SEO office-hours from December 2023 that there is no such thing as perfect SEO. He said, “in fact no SEO is perfect.”

Google is now testing a new label, in text format, that reads advertised identify verified or identify verified on individual Google Ads in the search results. Previously we saw blue…

Google is testing a new design and layout for its medical and health-related results in the mobile search results. The new design looks like some other user interface tests we’ve…

A common question I hear from new SEOs is why Google is not taking action against the spam I reported to them. A competitor or site is ranking well because…

With all the Google Shopping try on features, it looks like Google is rolling out a sparkle animation feature for the Google Image shopping search results. It shows you the…

Google announced additional integration support between Google Analytics 4 and AdSense. Google originally added integration in June 2023 between GA4 and AdSense but now “if you’re using GA4 subproperties or…

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…

In part one with Dave DiGregorio we spoke about his journey from working in sports memorabilia to getting into SEO. Then, in part two we talked about some local pack…

Earlier this month we covered a report from Sterling Sky that said the Google Local search ranking algorithm now uses if a location is open as part of its local…

You’d expect that the Google search ranking volatility would calm as we get closer to the holiday break, Christmas timeframe. But no. Google’s search ranking volatility is ever so heated,…

Google announced late on Friday that starting on February 1, 2024, it will start to enforce the consent management requirements for Google Search Ads publisher products, such as AdSense for…

Google Merchant Center is beta testing a new score card to help merchants understand how their browsing experience score is doing. This card is called “Browsing Experience” and it shows…

Google can now show video labels or indicators to some news stories in the top stories section of Google Search. The video label is added under the snippet on the…

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…

The Google search results have been very volatile the whole past week, and most SEOs think Google will confirm another algorithm update before 2023 comes to a close. Google Groups…

Google has added to some listings in the local panel in its search results a “Share” button within the three dots in that listing. Previously, the three dots had the…

There is a bug with the Google Business Profile agency dashboard where owners and managers cannot accept new invites. The issue started a few days ago, Google is aware of…

Google is testing an image box that you can click on and expand to reveal images. Google’s mobile search results can show an image link, that if you click on…

Google is testing placing the search bar at the bottom of the Google Search App. This might be an Android only test right now, but some users are noticing that…

A couple of years ago, Google added a filter to its shopping search results for “get it by” a specific date. Now with the Google Search results getting more e-commerce-like,…

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…

For the past few days or so it seems that the Google Search Console API has been delayed. There has been complaints about this on social media and in the…

A couple of weeks ago, Google introduced a new Google Ads policy saying it won’t allow personalization of ads for consumer finance in the United States or Canada. Well, it…

Google has added to the new Google Business Profile suspension emails the ability to make an appeal request, right from the email. The latest update was that the emails showed…

Microsoft is working to bring its new Deep Search feature to Copilot, formerly known as Bing Chat. The issue is, (1) Deep Search is only available to a limited number…

At the beginning of this year we covered the updated posting restrictions guidelines for Google Maps where Google said they can turn off posting for a particular place. Well, we…

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…

Most SEOs believe Google will push out another confirmed algorithm update before the end of the 2023 year – so within the next few weeks. I ran a poll on…

Google’s John Mueller said it is fine to publish some content in both PDF and HTML formats. He said both “can be shown independently in the search results.” If Google…

Google Ads will make it easier to complete the business operations verification. Google will add “a step-by-step guide to complete business operations verification, clarify reasons for failing business operations verifications,…

A couple of weeks ago, I reported about that Google Groups was seeing a very big ranking and visibility boost. Well, it seems to have caught Google’s attention, the rankings…

Google Search and its shopping results have been pretty wild over the past year or so and Google keeps on testing new features in this area. Now we are seeing…

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…

There has been a bit of controversy over the name parasite SEO in the industry and Google itself doesn’t like the term either. So they said they will be renaming…

There was a complaint on X from a publisher who said Google is not showing details in the “About this site,” “About the source” section in the Google Search results…

There has been a surge in complaints from site owners and publishers who are seeing the “Video is not the main content of the page” error in the video indexing…

Microsoft Copilot, formerly known as Bing Chat, is currently testing a notebook feature and hopes to fully roll out that feature in a “few weeks.” This began testing when Microsoft…

A month ago we reported that Google Shopping results had a space for joining membership programs from stores. Now Google is showing these in some shopping listings (not ads) as…

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…

In part one with Dave DiGregorio we spoke about his journey from working in sports memorabilia to getting into SEO. Then, in part two we talked about some local pack…

On Friday, Google’s Search Liaison, Danny Sullivan, said that the search company has taken steps to deal with the parasite SEO problem. He also added that the specific change with…

OpenAI responded to the complaints that ChatGPT’s GPT-4 is getting “lazier.” The AI company responded to X saying, “we’ve heard all your feedback about GPT4 getting lazier! we haven’t updated…

Danny Sullivan, Google’s Search Liaison, said something that is probably somewhat obvious to many of the readers here, that SGE is not able to tell you how Google’s search ranking…

Google has confirmed it is looking into reports of Google Search showing the wrong image for the story it displays in the search results. Recently Google has been showing the…

Google sent an email to AdSense, AdMob and Ad Manager users saying they are “launching support for programmatic bidding on inventory eligible for Limited ads.” Limited ads (LTD) give publishers…

The last likely Google confirmed update of the year, the November 2023 reviews update, completed last Thursday afternoon on the 7th. But days after it completed the Google search results…

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 November 2023…

The Google November 2023 reviews update, the last one Google will confirm, finished rolling out yesterday afternoon on December 7, 2023. It took 29 days to roll out, which initially…

A site owner’s guide to understanding Google’s alternative feeds and secondary serps and how it’s becoming harder than ever to track clicks and impressions from Google’s ecosystem.

It seems Google is expanding the Things To Know feature in its search results, both in how often it is shown, where it is shown and how it is shown….

Google is testing bolding the name of the business within the local panel in the search results. I was unable to replicate this but my screenshot shows my company name…

Google now can show if a price is the lowest it has been in a 30-day period. This can show in the product listing results for your Google search results….

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 launched Gemini,…

Joy Hawkin and team posted about a new Google local ranking factor – the factor is is if a business is currently listed as open or closed based on its…

Google announced its latest AI advancements named Gemini yesterday, calling it the most capable AI models yet. It is already baked into Bard and it is being tested in SGE,…

Google SGE, the Search Generative Experience, is testing the ability to export the responses it provides to your queries to Gmail and Google Docs. There is an export button on…

I’ve been noticing that Danny Sullivan, Google’s Search Liaison, has been removing posts from his X (formerly Twitter) account a lot. I also noticed on select posts, John Mueller from…

AdWeek posted that Google Ads is now allowing advertisers to temporarily opt out of the Search Partner Network in Search and Shopping ad campaigns, even if they are using Performance…

Google seems to have rolled out its full-width and larger image pack search results interface. It comes with not just the large full-width image pack we covered in 2021, but…

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. Bing launched Deep…

Microsoft has announced a new search feature to Bing Search named Deep Search. Deep Search is an “enhancement” to Bing Search that provides “deeper and richer exploration of the web,”…

Google is testing a lite version of a knowledge panel, maybe a knowledge panel “snippet” in the mobile search results. It is a snippet that looks like a sub-knowledge panel…

Google has been battling with site name issues since it launched the site name feature in October 2022 for mobile and then site names for desktop results in March 2023….

When Google announced its more personalized search experience last month, Google said it would show you results you visit more often at the top. Google said those results would be…

Google is going to remove the Product results search appearance filter from both the Performance report in Search Console and from the Search Console API. This will happen in about…