We know Google can show reviews from third-party sources in Google Business Profile listings. We’ve seen Google take reviews from Yelp, travel sites and other third-party websites. But these days,…
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Google is testing spelling out the search menu and instead of saying “All,” Google is testing writing out “All results.” I am not sure why Google is testing this, but…
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Google Search is testing a new section in the search results titled or named “Background.” This includes articles from news publishers, with I guess, more background information than you would…
Google Ads has this section (not sure if it is new) named Advanced Plans. This feature allows you to select a “mix of ad types based on goals” and Google…
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Google is testing removing the numbers from the pagination menu at the footer of the Google Search results page. The normal pagination bar shows the page number you are on,…
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Google has upgraded the emails Google Business Profiles sends when your verification has failed. It now shows the reason(s) a verification has failed and what you need to do to…
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Google is testing adding to the search results snippet a section that is named “page includes.” To be honest, this reminds me of the tags we saw on the search…
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Google has updated its Merchant Listing structured data documentation to now support, in beta, membership loyalty pricing property types. Google also updated the docs to provide more examples and instructions…
Google seems to be adding links to review publishers when you hover over some of the product results, popular products, snippets. The links show only after the box expands, and…
Google seems to have removed the minimum required budget for Local Service Ads. It is not clear if this is intentional or a bug but the box to stop you…
Google Ads has added to Performance Max campaigns, the search themes, an indicator to tell you what is driving a specific change in your ad performance. This shows a trend…
Remember the Bing shopping / e-commerce cards? Well, now it looks like Bing is putting an ad slot in them and labeled them as ads.
Google has posted an update on the reviews bug we first reported on a week ago, that it later confirmed this past Monday and we saw a fix rolling out…
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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. Reddit blamed Google’s…
Google announced it is testing new pre-fetching methods that increase the speed (Largest Contentful Paint – LCP) of the first two results by 67 milliseconds and for the results after…
Google sent out notifications to Google Ads advertisers with upcoming changes to customer match lists. Google will set a new maximum membership duration of 540 days for customer match lists…
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Google Search is showing a snippet that has a date in the future. Normally the snippets have dates from the past; such as this content was found by Google X…
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Google is making more changes to the Google Publisher Center, in March Google News will fully transition to automatically generated publication pages in March.
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Google has posted a notice in the Google Ads console reminding advertisers about the upcoming brand guidelines changes that are now slotted for March 2025. This change was communicated numerous…
Google is testing adding filters to the latest post carousel. These filters can show recent posts, video posts, posts from Instagram, or Facebook.
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The big Google review count bug, that we first reported on Friday and that later Google confirmed on Monday afternoon, is now being fixed. We can now see review counts…
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Over the weekend, the Super Bowl LIX weekend, there has been a lot of chatter about ranking volatility and traffic losses. Truth is, I feel there is often chatter about…
Earlier we reported that Google was testing AI-organized restaurant results in the Google Search results. Now, Google is doing the same for local events; and organizing them with AI.
Google is testing a new “share list” button for local packs, place results, in the Google Search results. I assume this lets you share the local listings you see with…
Google has combined the marketing email preferences within Google AdSense, which may lead to you getting more emails from the Google AdSense team. Google merged the “Customized help and performance…
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Google has updated its Google Business Profiles reinstatement emails to now include the case number on the first appeal email. Plus, Google added five proof upload boxes to upload more…
In December, we reported that Google was experimenting with something they call AI Mode. Well, now, we have more details and even screenshots of AI Mode in Google Search.
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