Google Search Tests Products Gaining Attention Carousel
Google Search seems to be testing a new product carousel titles “products gaining attention.” I assume this carousel shows products that are being viewed or clicked on more often than they were previously, but I am not sure.
Here Is Why John Mueller No Longer Recommends Verifying All Google Search Console Property Types
Google’s John Mueller is no longer recommending you verify all the variations of your domain with Google Search Console. Instead, he said, keep it simple and verify using domain verification.
ChatGPT Generated Google Business Review Spam
It looks like review spammers are using ChatGPT and other AI tools to generate fake reviews. These reviews are being posted in Google Business Profile local listings and causing a headache for small businesses.
Microsoft Advertising Pilots Third-Party Government Services Ads
Microsoft announced it would be testing the ability of third parties who are delegated or authorized providers to advertise for certain government services with review and pre-approval.
Microsoft Bing Chat May Share Ad Revenue With Publishers
Microsoft may share the ad revenue it generates through the Bing Chat responses with some publishers it obtains that content from. Yusuf Mehdi from Microsoft wrote, “exploring placing ads in the chat experience to share the ad revenue with partners who…
Google Ads Removed 53% More Ads This Year – 5.2 Billion Ads Blocked
Google has released its annual ads safety report and the report showed that Google removed 67% more ads this year and in the previous year. Google removed over 5.2 billion ads, restricted over 4.3 billion ads and suspended over 6.7 million advertiser a…
Bing Chat To Ultimately Remove Chat Limits
Right now you cannot sit all day and ask Bing Chat questions, no matter how lonely you are, at some point, Bing will say to give it a break. But those limits, one day, will be removed and you will be able to talk to Bing Chat all day and all night, if…
Daily Search Forum Recap: March 29, 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 finished rolling out the big broad core update for March 2023, it was a big one…
Google March 2023 Broad Core Update Done Rolled Out
The Google March 2023 Broad Core update finished rolling out yesterday morning at about 10:30 am ET. It took 13 days to roll out, kicking off on March 15th at 10:30 am ET and completing on March 28th at 10:30 am ET.
Google Search Console Bulk Data Export Now Supports Multiple Properties
Several weeks ago, Google enabled the ability to export your Google Search Console data in bulk, automatically, to Google’s BigQuery. Now, Google announced that you can do this across multiple properties in Google Search Console, into a single Google C…
Google Showing Fewer Brand Names In Search Result Titles
Google may be showing less site names and brand names in the title of the search results snippet. Yes, Google has a sitename and favicon change for the search results, so maybe Google is less likely to repeat the site name in the title of the search re…
ChatGPT Bot – You Can Block OpenAI Plugins If You Want
With all the talk about ChatGPT and other AI bots, did you know that there is an OpenAI ChatGPT bot and it respects the robots.txt protocol? So if you want, you can block OpenAI’s ChatGPT bot from crawling, indexing and using your content and data from…
Bing Chat Math Results Rolling Out Nicer Formatting
Microsoft Bing will soon be rolling out cleaner and nicer math result formatting. Mikhail Parakhin from Microsoft Bing said this is already out to 10% of users for all chat modes.
Google Perspectives, About This Author & More Goes Live
Google has launched the new perspectives feature, added an “about this author” section, globally rolled out “about this result” and made it easier to access “about this page” in the Google Search bar and search results.
Google Search Console Core Web Vitals Report Update
Google updated the Core Web Vitals report in Google Search Console on March 27, 2023. The update may have resulted in a change in the number of URLs in your Core Web Vitals report, the search company wrote.
Microsoft Fixes Missing Data In Bing Webmaster Tools API
Microsoft has fixed the missing data in the Bing Webmaster Tools API. As a reminder, there was a bug that caused the Bing Webmaster Tools API to stop working, then Microsoft fixed it but about a weeks of data was missing. Now, Microsoft has filled the …
Bing Chat Bests Google Bard Says SEOs
By now, many of you, not all of you, have played with both Bing Chat and Google Bard. So far, about 70% of SEOs find Bing Chat to be better than Google Bard, based on a small Twitter poll by Brodie Clark.
Google Ads Editor Version 2.3 Gains Business Information Assets, Location Assets & More
Google has released version 2.3 of the Google Ads Editor, this comes four and a half months since version 2.2 was released in November 2022. The new version gains image assets, location assets, b business information assets, PMAX text asset automati…
Google Search Console Breaks Out Merchant Listings and Product Snippets Reporting
Google has updated some of the reporting within Google Search Console to break out the Merchant listings and Product snippets differences. You can see the difference in performance between how your search results do between Merchant listings and Produ…
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