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Google Trending Now For Shopping Results

Google is now showing a “trending now” box in the search results for shopping and product-related queries. This was announced back at Search On and now seems to be slowly…

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Google Ads Has Three New Reporting Columns

Google Ads announced three new reporting columns including results, results value and conversion goals columns. Google said these columns are available on the Campaigns page for tables and charts, as…

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Daily Search Forum Recap: October 18, 2022

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. Some SEO tips…

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Daily Search Forum Recap: October 17, 2022

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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Official: Google Ads Rolls Out Sponsored Label

For months we have been watching Google test a new ads label in search named “Sponsored” in bold black text. Well, now it is officially live in the Google mobile…

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Google Search Central Live Events Now Back In Person

Google has announced that it is kicking off its in-person SEO, creator, publisher, site owner, etc event named Google Search Central Live. The first in-person event will be in Singapore…

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Programming Note: Offline For Simchat Torah

I will be offline completely for the holiday of Simchas Torah on October 17th and October 18th, Monday and Tuesday. Any stories published here will be scheduled and written beforehand…

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Daily Search Forum Recap: October 13, 2022

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 may have…

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Bing Launches Knowledge Panel Test Polls

A few months ago we reported seeing Microsoft Bing test polls in the knowledge panels within Bing Search. Well, Microsoft said on Twitter that this is now live and a…

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Google Search Adds Arrow In Knowledge Panel

Google has added an arrow button, within a circle design, in the Google Search knowledge panel section. When you click on the arrow, it takes you deeper into the entity’s…

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Google Data Studio Is Now Looker Studio

Google has brought Data Studio into Looker and it is now named Looker Studio. Google says this will bring more features and analytics tools to the platform.

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Google Tests Previously Visited Sitelinks Icons

Google is testing a clock/timer type of icon on the sitelinks within Google Search. That icon apparently is designed to communicate that you previously visited that page from Google Search.

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Example Of Google Featured Snippet Callouts

A month ago we reported on Google’s announcement of the featured snippet callouts feature. Where Google uses MUM to bold sections of the featured snippet to give searchers a more…

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Google Ads API 2023 Release Schedule

Google has released its 2023 schedule for the Google Ads API. This includes the tentative dates for when various versions will be released and/or sunsetted for the Google Ads API.

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Google: Searching Visually Is Rare In Many Areas

John Mueller of Google said on Twitter the other day that “in many areas, searching visually is rare.” Meaning, that most of your traffic likely does not come from Google…

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Daily Search Forum Recap: October 6, 2022

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 Console’s…

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Multisearch Not Being Tracked In Google Search Console

Google Search Console is not currently tracking clicks or impressions for traffic sent through the new Google multisearch feature. Glenn Gabe confirmed this the other day by running some tests…

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Daily Search Forum Recap: October 4, 2022

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. Just a quick…

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Google Business Profile Suspensions Spiking

There seems to be a much higher level of Google Business Profiles suspended in the past couple of weeks than one would typically see. So a higher number of businesses…

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October 2022 Google Webmaster Report

Talk about a busy month, we didn’t just have one or two confirmed updates this past month – we had three! We had the helpful content update finish rolling out…

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Google Shopping Chat Feature On Product Results

Google Shopping seems to be testing or maybe has launched a new chat feature in the product search results. I personally cannot replicate this at the time I am writing…

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Google Search “More Hotels” Grid Layout

Google Search now has a grid layout option labeled “more hotels.” This is even when Google shows the hotel listings sections, other hotel listings, explore more hotels, and now also…