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

As of 7:13 am ET this morning, Google has confirmed an issue with Google Ads where advertisers “may not have access to the most recent data,” Google said.

Ginny Marvin, Google’s Ads Liaison, posted a Twitter thread with an explainer on Google Ads value-based bidding, VBB. Ginny wrote, “We’ve had lots of questions & heard some misconceptions about…

Google announced it would end support for Sitemaps ping endpoints in six months. Google said this is because they are “not very useful” and the “vast majority of the submissions…

Google is once again testing larger product images in the search results for specific search results snippets. This is not the product grid results, but the product images on the…

It looks like Google is rolling out a small update for knowledge panels in the mobile search results with more card-like results and a larger card at the top and…

A Google Analytics expert, Charles Farina spotted that Google Analytics 4, which had tracking for many attribution models, keeps reducing the specific attribution cases you can track. We are now…

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

This coming Friday, June 30, 2023, will be the last day Google Analytics’s Universal Analytics 3 collects new data. The deadline is not being pushed off and you either switch…

It seems Microsoft would love to have the Bing app on Apple CarPlay and Google’s Android Auto. Technically, it does not seem to be an issue with Microsoft Bing making…

Microsoft Advertising sent out emails to its advertisers about changes to its advertising policies that start off next week on July 1st.

The Google Search Liaison, Danny Sullivan, posted another PSA last week on Twitter, saying word count is not a thing again. He said, “Reminder. The best word count needed to…

Gary Illyes from Google on the last Search Off The Record podcast said that for brand-new websites, their homepages should be indexed without a problem. If not, then the site…

In part one we learned about Amy Toman and her love for small business. We dug more into that love in part two and also spoke about helping small businesses…

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 Search now lets you select text within the search results page and search for that selected text. I believe Bing was testing this for a while, and so has…

This week we saw the continues heated and incredibly volatile Google search results continue throughout the whole week, and then it exploded this morning. Google’s Gary Illyes said we should…

So it’s been well over a week of incredible volatility within the Google search results. Pages have been bouncing all over the place, rankings are jumping and then last night…

Google’s John Mueller went to Twitter and Reddit to issue a PSA saying, “302 redirects are fine.” Yea, we covered the 302 versus 301 topic countless times over almost 20…

I have seen some folks in the SEO industry suggest that there will be some sort of search ranking and SEO impact with the sale of Google Domains to Squarespace….

Google has added red dots to the unread reviews, messages and other items on your Google Business Profile web search dashboard. If Google thinks you have not seen a new…

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

Google Ads seems to be testing the Automatically created assets setting for Performance Max campaigns. And Google Ads is replacing the “Final URL expansion” setting for some accounts, as well.

I am hearing reports of issues with Google Merchant Center, specifically DNS issues, timeout issues, 404 issues and other crawl issues being reported by Merchant Center when there are no…

Google has pushed off the date when data-driven attribution (DDA) will be deprecating. It was supposed to be this month, but it was pushed to mid-July, so a month later.

Gary Illyes from the Google Search team said on LinkedIn that you should avoid using LLMs and AI for diagnosing potential SEO issues or other issues with your site. Gary…

Google Ads is asking advertisers to “upgrade” from dynamic search ads (DSAs) to Performance Max (PMax) campaigns. Many PPCers think that DSAs will not last and will ultimately be replaced…

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

Google Analytics announced that you can now select which channels are eligible to receive conversion credit for web conversions shared with Google Ads. The default channel is Google paid channels,…

Bing Image Creator will get some big improvements in about a month. Microsoft Bing CEO, Mikhail Parakhin said this on Twitter the other day, saying the language model for Bing…

Google has just launched the new INP report within the Core Web Vitals reporting in Google Search Console. As a reminder, INP, Interaction to Next, is replacing FID, First Input…

Google announced that store sales reporting and bidding are now available across Performance Max Campaigns within Google Ads. This means advertisers can “measure total sales wherever customers prefer to shop…

Google mobile search results can show the Google Business Profile listing in one section and the reviews later down in another section. I am pretty sure I’ve seen this on…

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. Bing Chat goes…

Microsoft is testing showing larger favicons that also animate in the Bing Search results. The favicons look a lot larger in this test, here are side by side comparisons so…

Google is now showing the product price range slider with a store name overlayed. I know the slider is not new, it shows you the price range of that product…

Google’s John Mueller said it “reduces some risk” to launch a new domain prior weeks before migrating your site to it. John said this helps both with internal site risks…

Google Business Profiles seems to have added more options to when you should be notified from the platform. The list includes 13 different notification categories you can turn on or…

Microsoft’s Bing CEO, Mikhail Parakhin, said that Bing Chat has received significant performance improvements last week that makes Bing Chat more responsive and faster. Bing also reworked voice SDK in…

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 result…