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Google Publishes About Video Ads Help Doc

Google has published a new help document named About Video ads across Google surfaces. As you know, Google announced new video ad formats at Google Marketing Live and we’ve seen…

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Google Ads Testing New Conversion Goals Interface

Google is testing a new conversion goals interface within the Google Ads advertiser console. This now shows you a drop down option to dig into each goal and it groups…

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Bing Tests Blue Boxed In Snippet Extensions

Microsoft is testing using a blue boxed in design for the Bing Search snippet extensions. Normally this would be listed out as text, in a list type of view format,…

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Microsoft Bing Vehicle Ads With Car Condition Labels

Microsoft is now labeling some of the Bing vehicle ads with the condition of those automobiles. They include ‘New,’ ‘Used,’ and ‘CPO’ (Certified Pre-Owned). Also highlights features like ‘Single Owner,’…

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Daily Search Forum Recap: June 2, 2025

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. You can check…

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June 2025 Google Webmaster Report

It’s time for the big Google Webmaster report where I recap all the big organic Google Search related news I covered here over the past month. We had Google I/O…

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Bing Search Tests Chat with Copilot Section

Microsoft is testing a new “Chat with Copilot” section within the Bing Search results. This section will give you query and question ideas that expand your original search query done…

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Google’s Gemini Live Available On Gemini App

At Google I/O, Google demoed a feature named Gemini Live, where you point your smartphone camera at stuff and then ask Gemini questions about what you are looking at. Well,…

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Daily Search Forum Recap: May 30, 2025

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. If you want…

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Google Search Ranking Volatility Heats Up May 29th

Google Search ranking and results have experienced increased volatility over the past 24 hours or so – the search results are heating up. I am noticing an uptick in SEO…

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Google Ads To Allow Melatonin Ads Beyond US & Canada

Google is updating its Unapproved Substances section of the Healthcare and Medicines policy in June to allow the promotion and serving ads for Melatonin. This is currently allowed in the…

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Bing Tests Related Searches Alternative Texts

Microsoft is testing using alternative names and titles for the related searches section within the Bing Search results. I was able to trigger four alternatives to the normal related searches…

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Daily Search Forum Recap: May 28, 2025

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 CEO, Sundar…

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Poll: Most SEOs Are Scared About Google AI Mode

With Google rolling out AI Mode in the US and calling it the future of Google Search, many SEOs are worried about how organic search will lead traffic and conversions…

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Google AI Overviews Tests Query Expansion Tabs

Google needs even more queries, the 10% growth isn’t enough, so Google AI Overviews is testing query expansion tabs at the top of the AI Overviews. We’ve seen variations of…

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Google Search Console Tests New Crawl Stats UI

Google is testing a new design for the crawl stats section in Google Search Console. Instead of the more list view section below the main chart at the top, this…

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Bing Tests Sticky Footer With Related Searches

Microsoft is testing a sticky footer in the Bing Search results that show related searches. So the related searches section sticks to the footer, making these related searches way more…

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Google Technical SEO & Programmatic SEO Are Different

Google’s John Mueller does not want you to lump programmatic SEO with technical SEO. He said they are different things and that while technical SEO “will definitely continue to be…

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Bing Travel Stories

Bing added a new section to its search results named “travel stories.” You can see them when you enter in a popular travel country or city, and then look on…

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Google AI Overviews With Image Carousel

Google AI Overviews can now show an image carousel that you can swipe through to go to images. I am not able to replicate this myself but it seems like…

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Daily Search Forum Recap: May 23, 2025

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 confirmed there…

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Google AI Mode Tracking Referrer Issue A Bug

Google released AI Mode in the U.S. a couple of days ago and Tom Critchlow and Patrick Stox noticed that Google prevented you from tracking referrer data from AI Mode….

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Spike In Google Business Profiles Name Changes?

I am seeing some complaints within the local SEO community about a surge or spike in name changes happening to Google Business Profiles. It is unclear how widespread the issue…

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Google AdSense Anchor Ad Positions Setting

Google has added a setting for AdSense publishers to pick the positions of their anchor ads. They can pick from up to six different settings depending on top/bottom or side…

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Google Search Tests Recently Viewed Label

Google is testing a “recently viewed” label in the search results, next to search result snippets that you have clicked on in your recent search history. This is similar to…

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Google AdSense Ad Intents New Display Ads Option

Google has added a new display ads option for ad intents. The new option lets you pick between always show display ads with organic search results or show search ads…

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Google Ads Come To AI Mode & AI Overviews Desktop

Google is now pushing search ads on AI Mode and the desktop version of AI Overviews. Google’s Vidhya Srinivasan said at Google Marketing Live, “we’re expanding ads in AI Overviews…

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Google Ads New AI Tools & Agentic Capabilities

Google announced a number of AI-related features to help advertisers create and manage their ads account across Google Ads and Merchant Center. These include new AI tools for creating ads…

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Bing Tests Double Border Search Box

Microsoft is testing a double border style around the Bing Search box. This goes around the main search box but not the auto-complete box, I believe.

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Daily Search Forum Recap: May 21, 2025

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…

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Google I/O 2025 Search Ranking Volatility Heats Up

Google Search seems to be super volatile today and yesterday, so I will call this the Google I/O 2025 Google unconfirmed update. I am seeing a spike in chatter within…

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Google AI Overviews Tests Hidden Links

Google seems to be testing hiding the citations, link icons, for the AI Overviews default view. So when the AI Overview first loads in the Google Search results, the link…

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Google Begins Rolling Out Discover On Desktop

Since the weekend, Google has started to roll out Google Discover on desktop in many countries and regions. I personally can trigger it in Google New Zealand and some other…

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Google Speeds Up AI Mode

Google AI Mode seems like it got a lot faster over the past day or so. Instead of going through the steps of saying thinking about this, searching for results,…

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Google Search Ranking Update Volatility May 16th

As I mentioned in my Friday video, there seems to be a lot of Google search ranking volatility that kicked off on Friday, May 16th and throughout this weekend. The…

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Daily Search Forum Recap: May 16, 2025

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 confirmed ads…

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Bing Shopping Tests Shading Site Names

Microsoft is testing shading the site names, the brand names, of retailers in the Bing Shopping search results. So the name Amazon is in a blue shaded background color as…

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Google Search AI Shuffle Button

Google is testing a “Shuffle” button in some of its AI generated answers within the Google Search results. When you click the shuffle button, it seems to redo or change…

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Daily Search Forum Recap: May 15, 2025

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 is rethinking…

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Google Ads New Ads Funded By Details

Earlier this month, Google updated its Ads Transparency policy to specify that it will display the payment profile name as the payer name for verified advertisers. Well, now we are…

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Google Search Testing New Sub/Second Menu

Google is testing a new sub or secondary menu under the search bar in Google Search. This secondary menu, or sub-menu, is below the main search vertical options and is…