Google Business Profiles Posts Integrates AI-Enhanced Images
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 engaging AI-generated background for the photos you plan to use in the post.”
Google Ads AI Images Can Now Create People & Faces
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 feed-only Performance Max campigns.
Google Top Quality Store Pages Add AI-Generated Review Summaries
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 the reviews you may see an AI-generated summary of those reviews.
Google: Audio Version Of Page Does Not Benefit Your Google Rankings
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 users, but has no SEO impact.
Google Local Update Drops Organic Listing When Local Listing Is Present
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 Google removes the URL for the core organic results, when that URL is also prese…
Bug: Google Business Profiles Management Pages Currently Broken
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 and serves a 500 error when you try to do anything.
Google Business Profiles Support Backlogged
Google Business Profiles support team is currently a bit delayed, with a backlog of support requests, video verification delays, and reinstatement request backlogs.
Google Business Profile Listings With Yandex Reviews
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, more often than not, you see reviews only from Google. …
Google Search Tests New Grid Boxed Design
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 results elements but more of the search features.
Google Search: Find Results Based On Images You’ve Viewed
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 results that reads, “Find results based on images you’ve viewed” with a link to “m…
Google Tests All Results Vs All In Search Menu
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 Google is always testing these small changes.
Google HCU SEO / The Disconnected Entity Hypothesis
Hypothesis Google’s algorithms, HCU, SPAM, and CORE updates, amongst other things, impact “Disconnected Entities” and seek to demote and remove them from Search. An “Unhealthy Entity” is a “Disconnected Entity”…
Hobo Robot / An autonomous marketing solution for your business
Hobo Robot is an automated robot at the heart of a suite of tools in Google Docs designed to streamline various aspects of digital marketing and SEO for businesses. It integrates functions like: WordPress content management. Email newsletter automation…
Automate your marketing with Hobo Robot
I am on a mission to automate my marketing and lead generation and get the behemothic power of Google working 24 hours for me, at little to no running costs. Google WANTS me to do this too. They want me to use Google Cloud. They want you to use it too….
Google: There Is No Persistent Shortcut To Faster Crawling
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 tell Google you want them to crawl you faster, all the time.
Google Search Testing Background Section
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 find from others.
Google Ads Advanced Plans
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 will create conversion creation and capture plans for you.
Bing Tests Knowledge Panels With Related Searches Box
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 ads and more revenue. Or maybe to help searchers find a more diverse set…
Google Search Testing New Pagination Bar Without Numbers
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, the test just shows a next button.
Jeff Dean: Combining Google Search With LLM In-Context Learning
Dwarkesh Patel interviewed Jeff Dean and Noam Shazeer of Google and one topic he asked about what would it be like to merge or combine Google Search with in-context learning. It resulted in a fascinating answer from Jeff Dean.