Google Email: Incentivized Reviews Require Proper Identification
Last month, we covered how we saw an “Incentivized” label on some product reviews within Google Search. Now, Google is emailing merchants and advertisers notifying them that they must properly tag incentivized reviews for Google.
Microsoft Advertising Adds Asset-Level Editorial Review & Conversion Delay
Microsoft announced a number of new Microsoft Advertising features including Asset-level editorial review, Conversion Delay insights, callouts for Hotel Price Ads expansion and Microsoft Curate updates.
Google Ads New Original Conversion Value Metric
Google Ads may be rolling out a new metric named “Original Conversion Value.” This shows the raw data before Google does anything with it.
Quotes From Google, Microsoft & Perplexity On GEO Rush
Business Insider interviewed both SEOs and representatives from Google, Microsoft, and Perplexity on what it calls the “GEO rush.” The rush for SEO companies or other companies to sell GEO (AI SEO) related services. There are quotes from Danny Sullivan…
Cloudflare Outage Impact On Google, Bing & Other Search Bots – Your Site Will Be Fine
Cloudflare, which is used by around 20% of all websites (including this one), is having major outages this morning. Lots of site owners are concerned with how this may impact Google, Bing, and other crawlers. The truth is, these search engines have s…
Google: Consistency Is The Biggest Technical SEO Factor (Still In 2025)
For a decade now, Google’s John Mueller has been saying consistency is the most important SEO advice you can give someone. In 2025, he said it again, posting on Bluesky, “Consistency is the biggest technical SEO factor.”
Google Ads Campaign Total Budget For PMax Is Live
Google Ads has rolled out the “Campaign total budget” feature for Performance Max (PMax) campaigns. This was available for other match types and is now available for PMax.
Bing Microsoft Advertising Ads Label – Ads Related To: Query
Microsoft is testing a new ad label for the Bing Search ads labeled “Ads related to” followed by the query the ads are related to. In the example below, it shows “Ad related to: Cushions”
Google Search Weather Results Update – WeatherNext 2
Google confirmed a new search algorithm update – well, this is just a weather feature – but it is a stormy one. Well, maybe not. Google said Google Search’s weather results were updated to what they call WeatherNext 2 – Google’s “most advanced and eff…
Google AI Mode Adds Travel AI Features: Agentic Booking & Research
Google added new features to AI Mode including agentic booking for travel and Canvas for helping you build your vacation. The agentic booking works with dinner reservations and Google previewed booking for hotels and flights.
Google Ads Journey Aware Bidding Coming In 2026
Google Ads may be introducing a new bidding type named Journey Aware bidding in 2026. This will be reportedly for search campaigns using Target CPA.
Google Testing Old Search Design – Or Is It A Bug?
There have been several complaints over the past week about Google showing searchers its old Google Search design. Some of those search results seem to lead to a broken interface, while others just look like they are from a decade or so ago.
Google App Image Search: Get Started With A Few Topics
Google added a carousel to the top of the image tab within some Google Search apps, I think it might be a test. The carousel lets you scroll through some ideas to get you started with your image search.
When Google Search Snippet Description Go Wrong
We know Google has been using machine learning and more recently, AI, to generate search result snippets descriptions. Well, here is an example of Google getting a snippet not just wrong, but downright insulting.
Google Adds Top Combinations To Combinations Report For PMax
Google Ads top combinations report now has a Top Combinations option for PMax campaigns. This report should be able to quickly show you your top performing assets including logos, headlines, descriptions, images, sitelinks, and other assets.
Google Search Console Performance Report Annotations Rolling Out
Google seems to be rolling out the annotations feature within Google Search Console’s performance reports. This was a feature Google began testing in May and now it seems to be rolling out. I see it, so do many others in our community – do you see it?
Adding context to your Search Console data with custom annotations
We’re always looking for new ways to help you understand your data and make smarter decisions when it comes
to Google Search. That’s why we’re happy to announce a new feature within the Search Console performance
reports: Cust…
Search News Buzz Video Recap: Movemeber Google Update, Opal AI Spam, Discover Spam Fix, Copilot Search, Google Image Ads & More
This week, we had a pretty big update touch down early on and it really continued throughout the whole week, I named it the Movember update. Google Opal tool encourages you to create optimized AI content at scale. Google said…
Google Ads Advertiser Suspension Improvements: Faster & More Accurate
Google said it has made significant improvements to the Google Ads advertiser suspensions. Google said it reduced incorrect suspensions by 80%, appeals are addressed 70% faster and 99% of appeals are resolved within 24 hours.
Google: Don’t Close Your Google Ads Account To Make LSAs Work
Supposedly, there is this “hack” to “crack the code” to make your Local Service Ads work in Google Ads that is fake and not recommended. Folks are saying if your LSAs are not working, you should close that Google Ads account and make a new one. But Goo…