Microsoft Advertising Policy Updates Coming July 1st
Microsoft Advertising sent out emails to its advertisers about changes to its advertising policies that start off next week on July 1st.
Sitemaps ping endpoint is going away
The Sitemaps Protocol was introduced in 2005
to help search engines with the discovery of new URLs, and also to help with scheduling new
crawls of already discovered URLs. It’s a wildly popular protocol that hasn’t chang…
Daily Search Forum Recap: June 23, 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’s search results exploded this morning in terms of volatility but still…
Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Heated Search Results, Using AI For SEO, INP Report, Bing Chat & Google Ads Updates
This week we saw the continues heated and incredibly volatile Google search results continue throughout the whole week, and then it exploded this morning. Google’s Gary Illyes said we should avoid using LLMs and AI for diagnosing SEO issues. Gary also…
Google Search Ranking Volatility Exploding Today – Where Is The Confirmed Algorithm Update?
So it’s been well over a week of incredible volatility within the Google search results. Pages have been bouncing all over the place, rankings are jumping and then last night and today we are seeing even hotter temperatures from the Google tracking too…
Bing Search Within Search Results By Selecting Text To Search
Bing Search now lets you select text within the search results page and search for that selected text. I believe Bing was testing this for a while, and so has Google Search, but now it seems to be live.
Google Selling Google Domains Won’t Impact Your SEO Or Google Rankings
I have seen some folks in the SEO industry suggest that there will be some sort of search ranking and SEO impact with the sale of Google Domains to Squarespace. I just wanted to clarify this sale should have zero impact on your Google Search rankings …
Google Business Profile Dashboard Now With Red Dots To Unread Items
Google has added red dots to the unread reviews, messages and other items on your Google Business Profile web search dashboard. If Google thinks you have not seen a new review, it will mark the reviews icon with a red dot until you click on it and rea…
Google Issues PSA Saying 302 Redirects Are Fine
Google’s John Mueller went to Twitter and Reddit to issue a PSA saying, “302 redirects are fine.” Yea, we covered the 302 versus 301 topic countless times over almost 20 years here, so here is the 2023 version. 302 redirects are just fine to use, acc…
Google’s Gary Illyes: Don’t Use AI & LLMs To Diagnose SEO Issues
Gary Illyes from the Google Search team said on LinkedIn that you should avoid using LLMs and AI for diagnosing potential SEO issues or other issues with your site. Gary wrote, “don’t use them for diagnosing potential issues with it.”
Google Pushes Non-Last-Click Rules-Based Attribution Models Deprecation Date To Mid-July
Google has pushed off the date when data-driven attribution (DDA) will be deprecating. It was supposed to be this month, but it was pushed to mid-July, so a month later.
Google Merchant Center Timeout & Crawl Issues Bug?
I am hearing reports of issues with Google Merchant Center, specifically DNS issues, timeout issues, 404 issues and other crawl issues being reported by Merchant Center when there are no real issues.
Google Ads: Upgrade From Dynamic Search Ads To Performance Max
Google Ads is asking advertisers to “upgrade” from dynamic search ads (DSAs) to Performance Max (PMax) campaigns. Many PPCers think that DSAs will not last and will ultimately be replaced by PMAx campaigns and this is just one of the first steps to that.
Google Ads Automatically Created Assets For Performance Max Campaigns
Google Ads seems to be testing the Automatically created assets setting for Performance Max campaigns. And Google Ads is replacing the “Final URL expansion” setting for some accounts, as well.
Google Analytics 4 Adds Google Ads Conversion Credit Selection Eligibility
Google Analytics announced that you can now select which channels are eligible to receive conversion credit for web conversions shared with Google Ads. The default channel is Google paid channels, but you can select Paid and organic channels.
Google Mobile Search Results With Business Profile Listing & Reviews Broken Out Separately
Google mobile search results can show the Google Business Profile listing in one section and the reviews later down in another section. I am pretty sure I’ve seen this on and off over the past year or so, but I can’t find my coverage of it.
Microsoft: Bing Image Creator Will See Big Improvements In A Month
Bing Image Creator will get some big improvements in about a month. Microsoft Bing CEO, Mikhail Parakhin said this on Twitter the other day, saying the language model for Bing Image Creator will get a big update.
He said…
INP Core Web Vitals Report Now Live In Google Search Console
Google has just launched the new INP report within the Core Web Vitals reporting in Google Search Console. As a reminder, INP, Interaction to Next, is replacing FID, First Input Delay, in March 2024. To prepare, Google has launched a new report to show…
Google Ads Brings Store Sales Reporting & Bidding To Performance Max Campaigns
Google announced that store sales reporting and bidding are now available across Performance Max Campaigns within Google Ads. This means advertisers can “measure total sales wherever customers prefer to shop and optimize their bids for in-store revenue…
Daily Search Forum Recap: June 20, 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.
Bing Chat goes a significant performance improvement…