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Google is testing an icon or button overlayed on images in the image search results to “see more like this.” I personally do not see this myself, so it must…

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 search results…

Google is testing translating search results snippets with a “Translated by Google” drop-down feature under that specific search result snippet. It shows you that Google can translate the result from…

The new Google Search Generative Experience started to roll out to some users in late May but we are already seeing a decline in usage for these generative AI search…

Just when updates to Google Bard were getting stale, Google announced a boatload of new things for its generative AI tool, Bard. In short, Google added several new features to…

Google is going to release its second batch up improvements for Site names in the search results “in the near future,” Danny Sullivan, Google’s Search Liaison said.

Hey there – it is me again – reporting about another unconfirmed Google search ranking algorithm update. This one seemed to start yesterday, July 12th. I am seeing a lot…

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

Google’s explore section, which we first found a year ago and is now live for all, now seems to be showing Google Ads or sponsored listings. I have not seen…

John Mueller, a Search Advocate at Google, was asked when you should use the link disavow too. He said on Twitter, “Essentially — if you weren’t buying links, don’t disavow.”

Google is testing a feature to swipe over a specific search result snippet so you can save or share it. When you swipe over the snippet, you are presented with…

Google introduced the site name feature last October for mobile and last March for desktop search. Did you know that sometimes Google might not show a site’s site name in…

Google has not published a new update for Google Bard for five weeks now. The last update published was on June 7, 2023 and since then it has been quiet.

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 has a…

Google AdSense now supports Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) payments in EUR currency for publishers in many new countries. The Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) is a payment-integration initiative of…

Google’s Search Liaison, Danny Sullivan, said he would take the feedback he heard from the publisher community yesterday back to the Google Search team. This feedback was around Google’s advice…

Google Search Console’s page indexing report should show more fine-grained page indexing issues starting on July 2nd. Google forgot to add an annotation to the report back then but promised…

After hearing reports that the Google News team is working on fixing an issue, Google has confirmed it last night. Many publishers were either not showing up in Google News…

Google Ads will be updating its generic Circumventing Systems policy this month. The change will “clarify that the policy prohibits repeated and simultaneous policy violations across any of your accounts,…

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

Google began to send out email notifications about the new INP, Interaction to Next, core web vitals report recently. I believe Google started to send them out shortly after the…

Google has removed the call tracking feature from Google Business Profiles. Supposedly this was a very buggy feature that would not work well and sometimes send calls to the wrong…

Google’s Universal Analytics 3 which was supposed to stop collecting data over a week ago, on July 1st, is still collecting data for most, if not all, UA3 profiles. Every…

Danny Sullivan, Google’s Search Liaison, posted a Twitter thread, with slides from a presentation he prepared for an AOP event in London back in May around SEO and Google guidance…

Danny Sullivan, Google’s Search Liaison, posted that Google’s core advice around how to rank well in Google Search has not changed in two decades. Google showed a screenshot of its…

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 search results…

Bing is now testing showing branded side labels next to each search result listing. We saw earlier more basic side labels and before that branded side bars for some search…

Google announced last night that it is looking to develop a complementary protocol to the 30-year-old robots.txt protocol. This is because of all the new generative AI technologies Google and…

This morning, we are seeing significant movement with the Google search results ranking and algorithm. Twitter blocked unregistered users from seeing tweets, which blocked Googlebot and resulted in huge drops…

If you do some sports-related queries, sometimes, Google Search will let you rate the players and then see how those players line up against each other based on their ratings.

I am really trying to not cover the Google search ranking volatility and not report on another Google search ranking update but today things got super heated again. And don’t…

Google Search can show deals in both a product carousel format and a product grid-type of format. Some of these I think were somewhat showcased last November but over time,…

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

Google Merchant Center seems to be rolling out its old beta feature named automated discounts. Automated discounts helps retailers automatically discount their product prices based on multiple real-time signals, Google…

Next month, Google Ads will remove the examples it provides in its Google Ads Legal Requirements policy. Google posted that on August 7, 2023, it will no longer list examples…

Now when you update your business hours, and maybe other information, on your Google Local Service Ads, those updates will be synced up with your Google Business Profiles within 24…

It looks like Google is testing placing author names in the top stories carousel within the mobile search results. I believe Google had this at some point before, but I…

Google’s John Mueller said it doesn’t matter either way if you put your blog posts on a subfolder of /blog or just on the root directory of the site, without…

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

Bing Chat will be adding a feature to tell it not to search the web for an answer. Mikhail Parakhin, the CEO of Bing Search at Microsoft, said on Twitter,…

Google’s John Mueller has another good one-liner about SEO and Google ranking. He said on Mastodon, “No ranking factor compensates missing relevance, or missing user interest.”