Google Promotes Google Lens In Mobile Search
Google is promoting the Google Lens feature in the mobile search results based on the type of query you enter. Google has a promotion box smack in the middle of the search results page that says “search what you see, camera search” with a picture of a…
Google Ads Scripts Gains Support For Performance Max Campaigns
Google announced that Google Ads scripts now support Performance Max campaigns. Google said, “this treated as a brand new campaign type in scripts, similar to how video or shopping campaigns already work.”
Google Local Search Ranking Update Around September 7th
Google may have also pushed out a local search ranking update around September 7th. This is in addition to the helpful content update between August 26th and September 9th and the September 2022 core update that kicked off on September 12th.
Google: Profile Links Are Not Enough
This may be obvious to most of you, but Google’s John Mueller was asked if profile links, links in forums or social profiles if those links are enough to get you to rank in Google Search. John said no and left it at that, which is probably the best way…
Google Ads Consolidates Manage Automatically Applied Recommendations In One Page
Google Ads has added a new consolidated or bundled page that puts all your automatically applied recommendations on one page. Google said there is “a new version of the “Manage” tab where you can explore recommendation bundles and learn more about each…
Google Search Console Adds New HTTPS Report
Google has added a new HTTPS report within Google Search Console. This new report now shows you not just which pages are not served over HTTPS but also why they are not being served as HTTPS.
Google Merchant Listings Expanded, More Structured Data Properties & New Search Console Reports
Google announced a lot of new features and availability around shopping and product experiences in Google Search yesterday. Google expanded eligibility for merchant listing experiences, added more structured data properties, and released new Google Sea…
The new HTTPS report in Search Console
Google Search Console has a new report called HTTPS, which provides more information regarding the HTTPS status of the site
and make it easier to understand which pages are not served over HTTPS, and why not. Use this report to get insight…
The new HTTPS report in Search Console
Google Search Console has a new report called HTTPS, which provides more information regarding the HTTPS status of the site
and make it easier to understand which pages are not served over HTTPS, and why not. Use this report to get insight…
Daily Search Forum Recap: September 13, 2022
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 announced a new core update yesterday and so far and early on…
New Search Console Merchant Listings report: expanding eligibility with Product structured data
Google is pleased to announce expanded eligibility for enhanced product experiences in
Google Search through the use of Product structured data. These enhanced
product experiences were previously only open to Merchant Center users. W…
New Search Console Merchant Listings report: expanding eligibility with Product structured data
Google is pleased to announce expanded eligibility for enhanced product experiences in
Google Search through the use of Product structured data. These enhanced
product experiences were previously only open to Merchant Center users. W…
Google September 2022 Broad Core Update Is Live – What We Are Seeing Now
Google Search has started to roll out the second broad core update of the year, the September 2022 broad core update. It started on September 12, 2022 at about 11:25 am ET and can take about two weeks to roll out.
Google Consolidates A/B Testing SEO Impact In Search Help Documentation
Just like with Google’s consolidation of preventing spam on your site, Google did the same with its blog post on how to minimize A/B testing impact in Google Search. Google has repurposed that old blog post into an official help document in the Google …
Google Review Guidelines Now Prohibit Incentivizing Removal Of Negative Reviews
Google has updated its Google Maps contributor guidelines, specifically disallowing a business to incentivize those who leave negative reviews to remove those reviews. Previously, the guidelines only prohibited incentivizing leaving positive reviews.
Google: We Will Never Penalize You For Not Having H1 Attributes
Google’s John Mueller said something he normally does not say, the word “never.” He said Google will never penalize a site for not having an H1. John said this on Reddit, adding that it is good practice and low effort to have H1s but you won’t be pena…
Report: Google Showing Fewer Featured Snippets, But I Am Not Sure…
According to both RankRanger and Semrush, Google is showing fewer featured snippets in the search results since Thursday, September 8th. Personally, I am not seeing this when I search but this is what these two tracking tools are showing.
Daily Search Forum Recap: September 12, 2022
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.
There was a core update announced today…
Vlog #188: Christine Zirnheld, aka Shep On Being A PPC Hypocrite
Christine Zirnheld, aka Shep, is a Digital Marketing Manager at Cypress North, is a co-host on Marketing O’Clock, and has been with the company for over four years. Shep came from her maiden name Shepherd and Greg Finn gave him the nickname of Shep…
Google: Billions Of Redirects Are Fine But Site Moves Do Impact Rankings
Someone is looking to move to a new CMS where the site has 20,000 products on the front-end of the website. When the site switches to a new CMS, it sounds like the URLs will need to change. He asked if he could redirect 20,000 URLs.