Google Search Adds Follow Feature
Google is rolling out a new search feature to let you follow topics. You can click on a follow button and Google will not only show you more of those topics in your Discover feed but also show you more of that topic in Google Search.
Google Search Labs Adds Notes To Search Results
Google Search is testing a new notes feature where you can add your own notes to the search results and also see the notes others have left on that search result. This is a Search Labs experiment that you need to opt into and launched in the US and Ind…
New Google Search Console Robots.txt Report Replaced Robots.txt Tester Tool
Google announced a new robots.txt report within Google Search Console and at the same time said it will sunset the old robots.txt tester tool. The new tool shows which robots.txt files Google found for the top 20 hosts on your site, the last time they…
Bing Chat Now Named Copilot
Microsoft has rebranded Bing Chat to Copilot. “Beginning today, Bing Chat and Bing Chat Enterprise are becoming Copilot, with commercial data protection enforced when any eligible user is signed in with Microsoft Entra ID,” they wrote yesterday.
Google Adds New Course Carousel Info & Search Console Reports
Google announced it has expanded its courses rich results so you can now provide new data such as pricing, educational level, ratings, and length with structured data. Google said this data can appear in a new carousel feature within Google Search.
Google SGE Gift Ideas, Generate Images For Apparel & Men’s Virtual Try On
Google announced some new Search Generative Experience (SGE) features for shopping, including gift ideas, generating images for apparel purposes, and more virtual try-on features.
Search Quality Raters Guidelines update
As of November 16, Google’s Search Quality Rater Guidelines have been updated to simplify our guidelines.
As a reminder, these guidelines are what are used by our search raters to help evaluate the performance
of our various search r…
Google Sues Over Fraudulent & Weaponized DMCA Takedown Requests
Google has filed a lawsuit against two men who allegedly used Google’s DMCA process “aimed at removing hundreds of thousands of their competitors’ website URLs from Google Search results,” the lawsuit writes.
Bing Image Search Hard To See Ad Labels
We covered a number of the tests Microsoft Bing Search has been trying around its ad labels, mostly around it making the ad label harder and harder to tell if it is an ad or not. Now, in Bing’s image search, Bing is doing the same.
Google Safety Crawler Google Help Documentation
Google has updated its help documentation specific to Google Crawlers and added the Google Safety crawler to the list of special case crawlers. This crawler is not new but Google decided to add it because they “received many questions” over the past ye…
Google Tests Northeast Arrow By Sitelinks
Google is testing placing a northeast arrow symbol by the sitelinks in the Google Search results. We have seen arrows before with sitelinks but not the northeast error symbol.
Google Testing SGE Ads – Sponsored Content – You May Also Like
Google seems to be testing a new ad format for the Search Generative Experience named “you may also like.” These seem like content ads, where Google shows sponsored content, articles, in a carousel, below the follow-up section after asking SGE follow u…
Google: Avoid Including Prices Of Flights In Your Title Tags
Google has updated its title links help documentation to say it is best to avoid including flight price information in title elements. Google said this is because flight prices rapidly change and if you show one price to a searcher and then they click …
List your courses with new course info structured data
As people continue to search for courses on Google, the desire for more detailed course
information has grown. Today, we are announcing a new set of recommendations to provide
course structured data to Google. Publishers now have the…
Google: Expect To See Changes In Search Around Third Party Hosted Content
Google’s Search Liaison, Danny Sullivan, said that while Google has updated its guidance around blocking third-party content, more is to come. Google said we should see things improve over time related to issues around third-party hosted content, somet…
Google Discover Products Section Adds Pricing & Discounts
Google Discover added products or e-commerce sections about a month ago. But now it seems Google is adding both pricing details and discounts to those product/e-commerce Discover results.
Google Won’t Detail How It Uses User Interaction Signals In Search
Danny Sullivan, the Google Search Liaison, said during his brightonSEO keynote address on Friday that Google Search does use user interaction signals for Google Search but he added he won’t go into specifics on how these user interactions are used.
Google Products Results With Discussion and Forum Feature
Google seems to be testing showing the Discussion and Forum feature within product listing search results. The Discussion and Forum is about a year or so old now but I’ve never seen it for products, that is until now.
Microsoft Advertising Sending Faster Email Disapproval Notices
Microsoft announced that it has updated some of its existing advertising policies and with that also made the email notification process for disapproval faster and quicker.
Vlog #248: Dave DiGregorio’s Path From Sports Memorabilia To Local SEO Management
Dave DiGregorio is the Vice President at Sterling Sky, Inc, and while we spoke a lot about SEO, we also spoke about lot about Michael Jordan trading cards. This is a long interview where we talk SEO while also looking at the cards…