Google’s AIO is increasingly favoring a shrinking set of authoritative websites for topics like health, B2B technology and insurance The post Google AI Overviews Trending Toward Authoritative Sites appeared first…
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Another week and more Google search ranking volatility hit mid-week, did you notice? Google’s crawler might be causing issues on your site this week. Google still is making its crawling…
Microsoft Bing Search’s Copilot Answers now can show maps and local results, including local ads. The AI answer has a map on the left side and then on the right…
A couple of days ago, Google sent out an email to owners of Google Business Profile listings. The email was a reminder about the Google Business Profile policies, and it…
A year or more ago, Google added a toggle switch to use Gemini directly in the iOS Google Search app. Well, that was removed this week and you now need…
Microsoft is testing outlining the individual search result snippets within Bing Search. So when you look at a snippet, it has this outline around it, and then when you hover…
If you go to Google Shopping and enter a query that is not shopping related, Google will add a button above the shopping results asking you to search Google for…
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John Mueller suggested causes for a seemingly false ‘noindex detected’ error in Search Console The post Google On Search Console Noindex Detected Errors appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
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. We are seeing…
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I am seeing the SEO community starting to chatter around a lot of Google Search ranking volatility. Keep in mind, the third-party tracking tools currently seem relatively calm. Often, I…
Google has updated its “How the Google Ads auction works” page to add a line that says that Google will run different auctions for each ad location.
Google has released version 19 of the Google Ads API, v19 adds enhanced video assets for Performance Max campaigns, updates to brand guidelines and tons of other additions, changes and…
Microsoft is now showing the sources it used to generate its AI-based “from sources across the web” section in Bing Search. If you click on the little i icon, Bing…
Google is now showing a “top search” definition box below the auto suggestions within Google Search for some searches. I guess it is a quick way for Google to give…
Google may be rolling out the high value new customer mode for Google Ads advertisers, after it has been in beta for some time. This setting lets you set different…
Research suggests that Google doesn’t index over 50% of pages, though indexing rates are improving The post Data Suggests Google Indexing Rates Are Improving appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
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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. Google Local Service…
Google simplifies removing personal data from search with new alerts, streamlined takedown requests, and search result refreshing. The post Google Simplifies Removing Personal Info From Search Results appeared first on…
Slowly disappearing are the days when just one search engine dominates over the rest. The Internet is fragmenting, and people may choose a search engine over others because of specific…
Google Ads had a bug with the sitelinks creation page, where the prefill functionality was not working right. Google confirmed the issue and said it was “very limited and was…
Google has sent out an email to its Google Local Service Ads advertisers, notifying them that they are now letting searchers use a booking link to schedule an appointment or…
A few weeks ago, we saw Microsoft testing green colored sponsored URLs for the Bing search results. Now I am seeing reports of both underlined and bolded URLs and titles…
Last April 2024, Gary Illyes from Google said he was on a mission to make web crawling more efficient, he wanted to “figure out how to crawl even less, and…
Microsoft is testing another user interface and experience for the links they show within its AI Answers, the Copilot responses. These links show with a hyperlink icon and the domain…
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Microsoft seems to be testing a more fully AI-powered search engine, which may be named Copilot Search. Copilot is the name of Microsoft’s AI features, formerly known as Bing Chat.
Some sites, hosted on some CDNs (content delivery networks), are experiencing a big spike in server response times for crawling, while seeing a drop in total crawl requests. So technically,…
18 year old, publicly traded education technology company, Chegg, has sued Google over its AI Overviews and how it has hurt their traffic and revenue. Chegg has “filed a complaint…
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Google is testing opening the normally closed/collapsed AI Answer box. Meaning, normally you need to manually tap to expand the answer, here Google is testing opening these boxes by default,…
The Google Search Console API has been delayed for the past several days. Data is days behind the web interface and causing issued for those who use Looker Studio, Big…
Google seems to have added, for some merchants, a new section named Physical Stores to the Google Merchant Center Next console. In this section is random data from within the…
Research data compares Google AIO volatility with organic search and suggests a fresh perspective for SEO The post Data Shows Google AI Overviews Changing Faster Than Organic Search appeared first…
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A few weeks ago, I reported on how Google was testing showing deeper Google AI Overviews, maybe powered by Gemini 2.0, with over 60 links and citations in them. Well,…
I will start off by saying, I am super confused by this Google Ads email but it says Google is “Improving offline conversion quality in Smart and PMax Campaigns with…
Microsoft is at it again with its search engine – Bing. Previously, when you searched for Google, they tricked you to think you were searching Bing and then hide Google…
For the past few years or so, Google has had a more detailed, almost survey-style review questionnaire for some local results, especially restaurants. Now, according to Claudia Tomina, Google has…
Apple seems like it may be preparing integration Google Gemini in Apple Intelligence as an option for its users to select. Aaron Perris from MacRumors spotted hints in the iOS…
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Hostinger Horizons enables web app development through a simple AI chat interface The post Hostinger Horizons Enables Anyone To Build Web Apps With AI appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
EU reportedly prepares charges against Google for DMA breaches, alleging its search services receive preferential treatment over rivals. The post Google Faces EU Charges Over Alleged DMA Breaches appeared first…
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We had more ranking volatility with the Google Search results, this time we reported on it on Thursday. There are some rumors of a local update where Google would remove…
Google posted a new Google Ads update for Response search ads (RSAs) where up to two RSA headlines can serve in the space that previously only sitelinks were eligible for…
Google is testing a new box that highlights that you can book the hotel at the official site, the hotel’s direct website. This does not look like a sponsored result,…
Microsoft has this new style for some of the Bing Search Copilot answers. They can show a card or box that has a tabbed carousel where you can swipe through…
Google will soon stop placing your Google Ads on parked domain names by default. Instead, you will need to opt in to showing your ads on these parked domains.
Last week, Shameem Adhikarath spotted a sponsored label on top of the “People also consider” box within the Google Search results. I figured it was a bug with ads not…
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Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) is one of Google’s three Core Web Vitals. Like the other two (Cumulative Layout Shift and Interaction to Next Paint), it’s not exactly clear what it…
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It’s been almost two weeks since I last reported on a Google Search ranking update (unconfirmed) and that may be a recent record. But that being said, I am now…
Google announced a couple new Google Lens features; (1) they are expanding how AI Overviews show on Google Lens results and (2) Chrome and Google’s iOS app now let you…
Google Business Profiles now can add backgrounds to the images you upload to your Google Posts, using AI. Victoria Kroll from Google wrote that you can now “can create an…
Google announced three updates to its image and assets system including its generative AI can now generate people and faces. Google also announced asset audience recommendations and asset testing for…
Google is showing AI-generated review summaries on some top quality store pages. So when you click on a specific retailer or merchant’s top quality store link, at the top of…
Martin Split from Google said that having an audio version of a page or a blog post, does not impact your Google rankings. He said it is good for your…
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Learn the ins and outs of using sitemaps to improve content discovery and indexing. The post How To Use XML Sitemaps To Boost SEO appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Google’s Martin Splitt answers whether adding an audio version of a blog article will impact the page’s search ranking. The post Google Answers Whether Audio Versions Of Blog Posts Help…
Google expands ‘Circle to Search’ to its iOS apps, enhancing visual search for iPhone users. The post Google Brings Circle To Search To iPhone appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
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Unpack the role of AI Overviews in SEO. Get essential data on their triggers, traffic impact, and how to rank in these dynamic search results. The post The Impact Of…
The first week of January, we reported on an interesting local update we named the January 2025 local search update. Well, this might be more of a diversity update, where…
If you try to access your Google Business Profile page right now, you likely won’t be able to. It seems Google Business Profile edit section within Google Search is broken…
Google Business Profiles support team is currently a bit delayed, with a backlog of support requests, video verification delays, and reinstatement request backlogs.
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,…
Google is testing a new design for its search results that are more of a grid format, more of a boxed in design. They are not on all the search…
Google has this feature in its search results that lets you find results based on the images you’ve view within Google Image Search. It places this button in the search…
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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I can answer one of those questions for you. (Sorry, the universe thing is above my pay grade.) I work at Ahrefs, and we pronounce Ahrefs like “H-refs”. It’s how…
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Uncover the potential impacts of Google’s new Ask for Me on local businesses and customers. Is it a game changer, or bad for local businesses? The post Google’s New ‘Ask…
Google’s John Mueller said that there is no persistent shortcut to faster crawling. Yes, you can expedite crawling for specific situations and times, but there is no way to just…
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…
Microsoft is testing adding a new box to the knowledge panels within Bing that show related searches. This is obviously to encourage searches to do more queries, to generate more…
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,…