November 2023 Google Webmaster Report
Here is the big Google webmaster report for November 2023 and it is a big one. We had two confirmed updates; the October 2023 core update and the October 2023 spam update. Let’s not forget all the unconfirmed algorithm updates we had this month.
Google Search Shop Deals Shows Commerce-Like Interface With Products By Category
Google Search seems to be widely testing an e-commerce-like interface where it shows products and shopping deals by category. The page is filled with the product grid interface, with a special shop deals top design (not the shop deals banner) and then…
Google Search Shopping Side Bar Filter Adds Toggle On/Off Option
For over a year, we have seen Google show us a left-sidebar filter generally for shopping-related queries. Well, now Google has added a toggle on and off option to turn on or off that filter. I personally can replicate this toggle button that will sh…
Sullivan Shares Internal Documents On How Google Search Listen To SEO Feedback
On Friday, Danny Sullivan, Google’s Search Liaison, shared some internal documents showing how he complies some of the feedback from SEOs online and then prepares that feedback to share with the Google Search teams. He has done this a couple of times …
AdSense for Search To Stop Serving Over Google, Ad Personalization Deprecating
Google announced late on Friday that AdSense for Search (AFS), AdSense for Shopping (AFSh), and Programmable Search Engine (ProSE) will stop serving ads over google.com and this will also mean that ad personalization will be deprecated for these produc…
Daily Search Forum Recap: November 3, 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.
The Google November 2023 core update is now rolling out…
Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Core Update, Bug With Discover, Last Reviews Update, Mobile-First Indexing Done, Internet Ruined, SEO, Local, Ads & AI
This was a fun week, being that you all ruined the internet. First up Google shocked us with a new core update…
Google November 2023 Core Update Rolling Out
Only two weeks after the October 2023 core update finished rolling out, we have a new core update rolling out – the November 2023 core update. This is a different update to the core update, Google said “We have different systems that are considered cor…
Google AdSense Payment Revenue Share Structure To Change & Impression Payments Coming
Google has big AdSense news, which it says won’t result in a change to how much publishers get paid. Google said it is changing its AdSense revenue-share structure and will also pay per impression and not per click. But again, Google says this won’t ch…
Google’s Helpful Content Update Is Sitewide; A Single Character Change Won’t Help You
As a reminder, the Google helpful content system/update is a sitewide algorithm. It looks at your site as a whole when applying its ranking system to the Google Search results. So changing a character on one page of your site, won’t do anything to hel…
Google Ads Editor Version 2.5 Is Now Out
Google has released version 2.5 of the Google Ads Editor, this comes 17 weeks since version 2.4 was released in Jul 2023. The new version gains campaign level broad match, search themes, DSAs to PMax and much more.
New Google Reviews Update Coming Next Week; It Will Be The Last Confirmed Reviews Update
Google announced a new reviews update is going to roll out sometime next week and this new update will make the reviews update more real time. Thus Google will stop giving periodic notifications of improvements to its reviews system going forward.
Google AdSense Launches New Ad Review Center
Google has announced it launched a new Ad review center for AdSense, Ad Manager, and AdMob. The new Ad review center should make it easier for you to approve ads, Google explained.
No, SEOs & Google Didn’t Ruin The Internet & Nor Is The Internet Ruined
The SEO community was in a buzz yesterday when The Verge published an entertaining, detailed, and long piece titled Did SEO experts ruin the Internet or did Google? The short answer is no, SEOs didn’t ruin the Internet, Google did not ruin the Internet…
Google Core Update Bug Resulted In Discover Traffic Issues – Now Fixed
Last night, Google confirmed a bug with the Google October 2023 core update that impacted Discover traffic for “some sites.” The bug was started on October 5th and lasted through October 31st.
Google Business Profiles Adds Detailed Parking Attributes
Google Business Profiles has added a huge list of detailed parking attributes you can add to your business. I am not sure if this is fully rolled out to all businesses but you may be able to see it when you edit your business profile.
Google Search Deals Section With Green Discount Labels
Google is testing showing really bold green labels on products within the product grid section. I personally see more muted white labels but Khushal Bherwani saw bold green labels.
Google Business Profiles Adds Small Business Attribute
Google added a new business attribute for small businesses to showcase they are small. You can add it under your Google Business Profile, where you edit your listing and select your attributes.
Search Central Live Taipei 2023
We’re excited to announce that Search Central Live is coming back to Taipei for the first time ever on December 6. As usual, the event is hosted by the Google
Search team and we’re looking forward to bringing together the community to lear…
A Q&A on Google Search updates
Google Search regularly updates our search ranking systems to ensure we’re showing the most
relevant, helpful content that we can. We’ve had a series of notable updates we’ve shared about
in the past few weeks, and we have two for this month. Given this, it’s a good time to share some
reminders in a Q&A format about how we do updates, why we share about them, and what (if anything)
creators need to consider when one happens.