Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Update, Twitter Blocked Google, Bing Removed From ChatGPT & More SEO, PPC and Analytics News
This morning, we are seeing significant movement with the Google search results ranking and algorithm. Twitter blocked unregistered users from seeing tweets, which blocked Googlebot and resulted in huge drops in Google Search traffic but a few days l…
Google Search Ranking Algorithm Update & Volatility Super Heated
I am really trying to not cover the Google search ranking volatility and not report on another Google search ranking update but today things got super heated again. And don’t get me wrong, the Google search results have been very heated for over a mon…
Google Search Player Ratings & Compare Lineups
If you do some sports-related queries, sometimes, Google Search will let you rate the players and then see how those players line up against each other based on their ratings.
Google To Work On Complementary Robots.txt Protocols For AI & More
Google announced last night that it is looking to develop a complementary protocol to the 30-year-old robots.txt protocol. This is because of all the new generative AI technologies Google and other companies are releasing.
Bing Tests Search Result Listing Branded Side Labels
Bing is now testing showing branded side labels next to each search result listing. We saw earlier more basic side labels and before that branded side bars for some search queries. I am also seeing favicons on the side of the snippets. Bing is always…
Google Search Deals Carousel & Product Grid Formats
Google Search can show deals in both a product carousel format and a product grid-type of format. Some of these I think were somewhat showcased last November but over time, they may evolve.
Google Merchant Center Automated Discounts Fully Live
Google Merchant Center seems to be rolling out its old beta feature named automated discounts. Automated discounts helps retailers automatically discount their product prices based on multiple real-time signals, Google explained.
Google Ads To Remove Examples From Legal Requirements Policies
Next month, Google Ads will remove the examples it provides in its Google Ads Legal Requirements policy. Google posted that on August 7, 2023, it will no longer list examples on the page.
Edits To Your Local Service Ads Will Update Your Google Business Profile
Now when you update your business hours, and maybe other information, on your Google Local Service Ads, those updates will be synced up with your Google Business Profiles within 24 hours.
Test: Google Top Stories With Author Names
It looks like Google is testing placing author names in the top stories carousel within the mobile search results. I believe Google had this at some point before, but I have not seen author names in this feature in a long time.
Google: It Doesn’t Matter If You Use Blog Folders For URLs & We’re Not Wrong
Google’s John Mueller said it doesn’t matter either way if you put your blog posts on a subfolder of /blog or just on the root directory of the site, without the /blog.
Bing Chat To Allow You Not To Search The Web (No-Search)
Bing Chat will be adding a feature to tell it not to search the web for an answer. Mikhail Parakhin, the CEO of Bing Search at Microsoft, said on Twitter, “#nosearch is coming” when asked if Bing Chat can exclude web search results from the answers.
Google’s John Mueller: No Ranking Factor Compensates For Missing Relevance
Google’s John Mueller has another good one-liner about SEO and Google ranking. He said on Mastodon, “No ranking factor compensates missing relevance, or missing user interest.”
Twitter Makes Changes To Show Content To Google, Tweets Returning To Google Search
On Monday, I reported that Google stopped crawling and indexing Twitter content after Twitter made it that unregistered (signed-out) users were not able to see tweets. Well, Twitter made a change in the past 24 hours or so that now Google and unregiste…
ChatGPT Shut Down Browse With Bing After Accessing Paywalled Content
The other day Open AI announced that it disabled the browse with Bing add-on to ChatGPT “out of an abundance of caution.” The issue was that some content that was behind a paywall was being consumed and presented to users. Open AI said they disabled i…
Google Ads Editor Version 2.4 Gains Multi-Account Overview, Google Drive Integration & More
Google has released version 2.4 of the Google Ads Editor, this comes 14 weeks since version 2.3 was released in March 2023. The new version gains video asset library, multi-account overview, Google Drive integration, scheduled posts, editable product g…
Vlog #230: Matt Abbagnaro On Getting Into PPC & Google Ads Performance Max
Matt Abbagnaro was kind enough to meet me in some parking lot last minute to discuss search marketing. We picked the parking lot so I can find an Electrify America charging station and charge while we do our interview…
July 2023 Google Webmaster Report
If I had to sum up this month, I’d call it the month of way too many unconfirmed Google search ranking updates. I wrote about five of these, but it felt like there were even more. Google pushed a quality update for its Search Generative Experience. G…
Google Search Generative Experience Shows Local Store Inventory
Did you know that the new Google Search Generative Experience that launched to us a month ago shows nearby stores that have products in stock directly in the generative AI answer. This might not be new, but based on my early tests, I don’t believe I’v…
Bing Chat Improves Efficiency & Reduces Latency Issues By 25%
Bing Chat has made some big efficiency improvements and reduced latency issues for some queries by 25%. Mikhail Parakhin, the CEO of Bing, said on Twitter, “yesterday we released a completely reworked backend for inner monologue, reducing time to firs…