Google Says Charitable Donations In Exchange For Business Reviews Is Against Guidelines
Google has told Joy Hawkins that giving charitable donations in exchange for a positive review on your Google Business Profile listing is against its guidelines.
Google Search Treats .AI ccTLD As gTLD (Domains)
Google has updated its help document to add the .ai generic country code top level domain (ccTLD) to the the list of domains it treats as generic top level domain (gTLDs).
Google Search Console Reporting Some Mobile Indexing As Desktop Indexing
Google has a bug in Google Search Console where it reported some sites being indexed using mobile indexing as being indexed using desktop indexing. I am sure we all have sites that are “mobile friendly” and also show that Google is indexing it using th…
Bing Teases Bing Chat Webmaster Tools Reporting – It’s Almost Ready
Fabrice Canel from Microsoft Bing posted a tease on Twitter of the heavily anticipated upgrade to Bing Webmaster Tools. We are expecting Bing Chat reporting, so we can see impressions and clicks directly from Bing Chat to our sites, like Bing shows us…
Google Search Console Insights Upgrade Adds Insights For Sites Not Associated With Google Analytics
Google announced that Search Console Insights, where the property is not associated with a Google Analytics property, was upgraded to show more insights. Specifically new content performance insights, such as your site’s most popular and trending conte…
Bing CEO: Google Bard Uses A Much Smaller Model Than Bing Chat
Mikhail Parakhin, the current CEO of Bing at Microsoft and former CTO at Yandex said that Google Bard uses a “much smaller model” than Bing Chat. This came after someone complimented Bard for its speed over Bing Chat.
Bing Chat Sports Grounding & Android Widget
Bing Chat is now better at answering sports-related questions with new sports grounding and it also now has an Android search widget. Bing also announced other changes to Bing Chat over the weekend.
Daily Search Forum Recap: May 30, 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 Search Console performance report was heavily delayed, Google is (or was) working on a fix…
Vlog #225: Menachem Ani On Google Ads & Structuring Performance Max Campaigns
I went to Menachem Ani’s office, JXT Group, to chat all things paid search. We first spoke about he first got into the Google Ads business, he was doing Google Ads since the early times. He started in the space doing ads for eBay listings…
Google Search Generative Experience Early Complaints & Responses From Google
Google began to slowly roll out the Google Search Generative Experience on Thursday and I posted many screenshots of what I found. Since then, Danny Sullivan, Google’s Search Liaison, responded to some public complaints and criticism of this new searc…
Bing Chat Adds Anchor Text Hyperlinks Within Answers
Instead of just showing citations in the footer of the response and answers in Bing Chat, Bing is now showing anchor text hyperlinks as responses. In fact, if you watch the answer being built, Bing Chat will create the actual HTML hyperlink.
Bing Video Search “More Like This” Action
Bing has a feature in the Bing video search results to see “more like this” on video overlays. Plus, there are a few more features here on the video landing page in Bing Video search.
Google: Allow GoogleBot To Bypass Age Gate On Adult Content
Google has updated its SafeSearch, adult content filter, help documentation to say you should not show the age gate prompt to Googlebot. Google wrote, “For content behind a mandatory age gate, we recommend allowing Googlebot to crawl your content witho…
Google Search Generative Experience Ends In December 2023?
Google has noted that the Search Generative Experience as a labs experiment runs through the end of this year, through December 2023.
Google Search Console Performance Report Delayed 60+ Hours
The Google Search Console Performance report is now delayed over 60 hours. For me, it is about 63 hours delayed. The good news, Google is aware of the issue and I am sure it will catch up soon.
Google Home Page On Memorial Day
Today, like previous years, Google has posted a grayed-out logo and a small US flag, to commemorate Memorial Day in the US. I will not be posting stories today, to respect the holiday.
Daily Search Forum Recap: May 26, 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 has opened up the new Search Generative Experience to some waitlisted users…
Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Marketing Live AI Ads, Google Search Ranking Update, Topic Authority Ranking System & More
This week, we had the big Google Marketing Live event where Google showcased more of how ads will work on the new Google Search Generative Experience. Google launched the new Google Search Generative Experience for some waitlisted searchers (it is not …
Google Search Generative Experience Live For Some – Early Screenshots & Videocasts
The all-new and exciting Google Search Generative Experience is now rolling out as a labs experiment to some early waitlisted users. I should have access by now, but I am offline, I wrote this yesterday before I was able to play with it (which is why t…
Microsoft pubCenter (Next) Set Up & Configuration
The other day, I reported that Microsoft was sending invites to relaunch and expand Microsoft pubCenter, Microsoft’s AdSense alternative. So I signed up and was given access the other day and I wanted to share some screenshots of the screens.