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…
Buckle Up: Google To Make Major Search Ranking Changes
Danny Sullivan, the Google Search Liaison, spoke at BrightonSEO in San Diego on Friday and while most of what he said was “not new,” he did say big changes are coming to search rankings. Sullivan told SEOs to “buckle-up” because major changes are comi…
Signs The Google November 2023 Reviews Update Hit This Weekend
Google launched its November 2023 Reviews update on Wednesday afternoon, November 8. But we didn’t see it have much of any impact until Saturday, November 11th. It currently seems this Reviews update is not as widespread as the November 2023 core upda…
Google Showing More FAQ Rich Results By Tweaking Which Sites Can Show Them?
Over the weekend I saw two SEOs notice that Google is showing FAQ-rich results more often since it recently announced it would only show these FAQ-rich results for the most authoritative sites. The weird part, I tried to replicate it and I am not able…
New Google Business Profiles Gym Attributes/Amenities
Google is rolling out new Google Business Profiles attributes for gyms. You can add these attributes by editing your Business Profile and then they should show up in the local listing in Google Search and Google Maps.
Google Search Console Adds Learning Video Rich Results Data To Performance Reports
Google has added the learning video rich results data to the Google Search Console performance reports. Google announced this news just minutes ago on X, saying, “Search Console will start reporting Learning Video rich results as a search appearance in…
Google News Magazine Support To Be Discontinued December 1, 2023
Google announced that it will discontinue its Google News magazine service starting on December 1, 2023. Any magazines you purchased and that are available within the Google News apps or news.google.com to your library of magazines will be removed.
Google Antitrust Leaked Documents
User interaction signals
Create relevancy signals out of user read, clicks, scrolls, and mouse hovers.
Not how search works
Search does not work by delivering results which match a query that ends at the user. This view of search is incomplete.
How s…
Daily Search Forum Recap: November 10, 2023
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.
Check out the weekly SEO video recap…
Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Reviews Update, SGE Expansion, Ranking Pillars, Shopping Updates, Bing Reliability Scores & More
Google released the November 2023 reviews update on Wednesday afternoon, while the November 2023 core update rages on with a ton of heated volatility. I posted the Google webmaster report for November. DOJ documents released…
Google Search Posts From (X, Instagram, YouTube & More)
Google seems to be testing a “posts from” section in the search results. Very much like the popular on Twitter (now X) section but this includes not just posts from X but also Instagram, YouTube and other social networks.
Google Search Does Not Use Sistrix’s A Virus Scanner
John Mueller, a Google Search developer advocate, said on X that Google Search does not use a virus scanner. Googlebot does not scan documents for viruses as it crawls the web.
Google Shopping Adds Amazon Prime & Nike Membership Promo
Google seems to be testing showing a promotion for Amazon Prime membership directly in the Google Shopping search results interface. It is this line that has a small Amazon logo and says “Amazon Prime member benefits: Prime members get fast shipping on eligible items, exclusive deals & more.”
Bing Search Testing Shopping Filters Within Product Overlays
Microsoft may be testing shopping search filters in the product overlay within the search results. When you hover your mouse over a product and the overlay window comes up, Bing is showing some shopping filters to narrow down the products.
Google Search Result Thumbs Up/Down Poll: Was This Result Helpful
Google is trying out another design for surveying or polling some of its searchers if they find the search results helpful or not. This one shows directly under a snippet and says “was this result helpful?” It then has a green thumbs-up icon and a red…
Daily Search Forum Recap: November 9, 2023
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 is now rolling out the November 2023 Reviews update…
Google November 2023 Reviews Update Rolls Out
As expected, the Google November 2023 reviews update has started to roll out this week. It started on November 8, 2023 at about 1 pm ET. This will be the last time Google confirms a reviews update because it is now more of a regular update, compared to…
Google Expands Search Generative Experience To More Countries & Adds New Features
Google announced it has expanded the Search Generative Experience beta to 120 or so countries and four new languages. Google also added new follow-up questions, AI-powered translation help and more interactive definitions in AI-powered overviews.