Daily Search Forum Recap: March 24, 2025
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 spoke about when (if ever) independent sites will see their content surface better in Google Searc…
Google Search: No Specific Date For Independent Sites Surface Better
Google would not give a specific date for when we will see independent sites to start surfacing better and higher in Google Search. As a reminder, Google wrote with the March 2025 core update, “We also continue our work to surface more content from cre…
Google Ads Search Terms Report Gets PMax Terms
Google now is showing Performance Max terms in the Google Ads search terms report. Plus this report shows the new negative keywords terms that is now supported for PMax campaigns.
Google: Removing EU News Publishers Had No Impact On Search Ad Revenue
On Friday, Google published its findings from its experiment of removing some EU news publishers from its search results. The results said that Google had no visible loss of search ad revenue when the news publishers were removed.
Google Merchant Center Conversion Data Lost & Unrecoverable In February
Google Ads has confirmed that it has lost some conversion data for some advertisers who used Google Merchant Center in February. The data is not coming back, it is unrecoverable. We don’t know the exact dates, but Google did mention it was in February…
Google AI Overviews With Al Explanation & Related Images Button
Google is testing a new feature in the AI Overviews (although, they look familiar to me for some reason). When you click or hover over on a word in the AI Overview, Google will bring up a menu to get an AI explanation, show related images or copy to cl…
Google Business Profiles Appeals Still Delayed
A month ago, we reported that Google Business Profiles support was backlogged and delayed. Well, the delay is not getting any better. Victoria Kroll from Google posted an update on Friday afternoon in the Google Business Profiles to inform us that th…
Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Core Updates, AI Search Leak, AI Overviews linking to Google, Assistant To Die, Bing News & More
Google confirmed that the volatility we saw prior to the core update was unrelated to this latest core update. I also posted status updates on the Google March 2025 core update. Google is testing AI Search features beyond the new AI Mode…
Google March 2025 Core Update Volatility Bursts Or Tools Confused?
As a reminder, the Google March 2025 core update touched down on March 13th, and as Google said, not before. And while many sites were hit super hard in the early days, the net of this update didn’t seem as wide as other core updates. Now, I am seeing…
Google Ads Now Lets You Quickly Hide All Recommendations
Google Ads now lets you quickly hide all recommendations with the click of a button. Previously you had to hide each recommendation one-by-one, but now you can hide them all with one click.
Google: Stop Over Focusing On Tiny SEO Metrics
John Mueller from Google said on Bluesky that he sees some SEOs over-focusing on the tiniest SEO metrics and that they should spend their time focusing on more important things.
Google Search Console API To Support 24-Hour Hourly View
Google Search Console’s API will soon add support for the 24-hour hourly data view, plus, this will give you access to not just the past 24 hours but the past 8-days by hour.
Google’s Mortgage Calculator Hasn’t Worked In A Week
About a week ago, if you searched for mortgage related math questions in Google Search, Google stopped giving you the answer. Google first introduced its mortgage calculator features a decade ago but suddenly the features disappeared last weekend.
My Takeaways From Google Search Central Live NYC 2025
Google hosts events around the world for SEOs, content creators, webmasters, site owners and marketers named Google Search Central Live. They’ve been doing it for years and I’ve attended many over the years. This is the first time the event was held i…
Daily Search Forum Recap: March 20, 2025
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 admitted that if searchers don’t use your page in the search results…
Microsoft Confirms Schema Helps Its LLMs (Copilot) Understand Your Content
There is a big debate in the SEO community on the topic of schema markup and LLMs. Do LLMs like Microsoft Bing’s Copilot, Google’s Gemini, OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Perplexity and others use schema markup and structured data in any way. Fabrice Canel, Princip…
Google Drops Review Counts For Non-Shopping Results
Google seems to have dropped showing the number of reviews are on a page, the review count, next to the review stars, for non-shopping/e-commerce pages. Google Search is now showing rating review values when using AggregateRating mark-up.
Google: If Searchers Don’t Use Your Page In Search It May Be Removed
Google admitted in a video published on its own Search Central YouTube channel that if searchers do not use your page(s) in the search results, those pages may stop showing up in the search results. Martin Splitt said this in a recent YouTube short he…
Bing Buy Now Button Goes Directly To Checkout
Microsoft Bing’s shopping carousel results have a “buy now” button that now links directly to the checkout page of the merchant. So when you click on buy now, it adds that item directly to the cart of the merchant’s website.
Google Business Profiles Fixed The Reverification Bug
Last week, Google sent out a bulk load of reverification requests to Google Business Profiles. Well, according to Google’s Rick Saxe, it was a bug and the bug should be fixed as of the past day or so.