Google Ads New Sales & Leads Conversion Reports
Google is rolling out new sales and leads conversion reports in the Google Ads advertiser console. These reports are under the Goals section, then Conversions and then Summary tab and there are then toggles to see sales versus leads.
Google Search Entity Trust Scores From APIVoid & ScamAdviser
Google seems to be showing trust scores for some website entities in the knowledge panel box. It can show a trust score from APIVoid and ScamAdviser. I can replicate it for some websites but not for most.
Google Menu Highlights Search Carousel
Google can show a restaurant’s menu right at the top of the search results for a search on that restaurant’s brand name. It comes up in this “menu highlights” carousel and showcases some of the items on that restaurant’s menu.
Google Business Profiles Learn Something Specific Question Box
Google is testing replacing the question and answer box for Google Business Profile listings with a title that reads, “Lear something specific.” At least I think it is the same functionality as the question and answer box.
Google Ads AI Chat Bot Is At A Loss For Words
Google Ads has been rolling out its conversational ad experience and more and more advertisers has been seeing the Google Ads chat feature come up. This Google Ads AI Chat can sometimes be at a loss for words. Thomas Eccel posted a screenshot of the G…
Microsoft Bing Advertising Revenue Up 18%
Microsoft reported its first quarter 2025 earnings and it showed that its search and advertising revenue was up 18%. The last quarter it was up 19%, but as I noted then, the last time it was up over 19% in a quarter before last quarter was 10 quarterly…
Small businesses and bloggers can now compete with Google’s AI drive
How Small Businesses and Bloggers Can Use Low-Cost AI to Compete
Google: Search Ranking Update Coming Soon But HCU Victims Should Move On
Google held that Web Creator summit yesterday at the GooglePlex, where Google told victims of previous search ranking updates including the September 2023 helpful content update, that a new search ranking update is coming fairly or very soon, but if th…
Google Ad Revenue Up 10% – With Biggest Ad Revenue Quarter Ever
Google / Alphabet reported its Q3 2024 earnings last night, where its ad revenue hit $65.85 billion, up 10% from last year’s quarter of $59.65 billion. Google’s revenue was up 15% with $88.3 billion and its profit was up 33% to $26.3B. Search revenue s…
New Google Ads Business Links Asset Type
Google Ads has a new asset type with enhancement features named business links. Google posted a new help document that says, “Business links is a new asset type with enhancement features that allow you to target customized and varied user intents all …
Confirmed: Google Ad Rep Made Unauthorized Changes To Ad Account
Ginny Marvin, the Google Ads Liaison, has confirmed that a Google ad representative, a Google employee, has made unauthorized changes to a Google ad account. Marvin wrote that following up after an investigation on the matter, “we did not properly fol…
Bing Tests Hiding Ads Labels After Domain
You thought Google was sneaky with their ad or sponsored labels. Microsoft has a history of being super sneaky with their ad labels in Bing Search. Here is a new example of Bing hiding the small ad label right after the domain name, normally it shows …
Google Tests Scrollable Search Ads Categories
Google is testing a search ad product carousel format that has these sub-categories that scroll as you swipe through the carousel of products. This format looks familiar but I cannot find any coverage of this new look, so I am covering it now.
Daily Search Forum Recap: October 29, 2024
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 AI Overviews are now rolling out to over 100 countries…
Google AI Overviews Rolling Out To 100+ Countries & Billion+ Users
Google announced it is rolling out AI Overviews in Google Search to over 100 more countries, making it available to over one billion users and in all supported languages. This is the biggest expansion of AI Overviews yet, which was previously availabl…
Google: Doubtful You’d See Big Ranking Drop Over Core Web Vitals Issues
Google’s John Mueller said it again, he said on LinkedIn, “We’ve been pretty clear that Core Web Vitals are not giant factors in ranking, and I doubt you’d see a big drop just because of that.” Google has been saying Core Web Vitals are important in ge…
Google Tests Frequently Saved Label On Search Result Snippets
Google is now testing a “Frequently saved” label on the search results snippets. Previously we’ve seen you’ve visit often labels, for you labels, preferred source labels and other labels in the search results.
Google Tests New Local Places & Compare Sites Interface
Google is testing a new “all places” and “compare now” interface to see businesses and third-party comparison sites outside of Google Search. This is something Google launched in the European regions but now some are seeing this in the US with this ne…
Bing Recommends Against Batch Mode For IndexNow
With the new Bing Webmaster Tools recommendations section, we are learning more about what Bing Search likes and dislikes. One of the things Bing does not like is when a site using batch mode, or batch URL groups for IndexNow. Bing says it can cause se…
Google Ads Raise Your Budgets Recommendation Gains Information
Google has updated the “Raise your budgets” recommendation within the Google Ads recommendations with more details and tips. I mean, no one wants to raise their budget unless they can make more money, so having more details on why you should raise you…