Search News Buzz Video Recap: July Google Product Reviews Update, Quality Raters Guidelines, Things To Know Disappear, Core Web Vitals, Bing, Ads & More
This week, it was awkwardly quiet with the Google rankings and then Google dropped the bombshell, the July 2022 Google Product Review update touched down. Google also released new search quality raters guidelines…
Google Maps To Add Aerial Views, More Biking Details & More
Google Maps announced it is adding photorealistic aerial views, new cycling route information, new notifications for sharing your location, and more.
Google: Age Verification Requirement May Prevent Site From Surfacing In Google Discover
Danny Sullivan of Google said on Twitter that he believes that sites that require age verification would not surface in Google Discover. He added he has to confirm this but has not responded in three days since saying this originally.
Google Core Web Vitals No Longer Impacted Pages With Noindex
In 2021, Google said that Core Web Vitals may also be graded based on pages on your site that are noindexed. Well, that is no longer the case according to an updated Google help document. A page that has noindex on it will no longer be factored into yo…
Google: Embedding Iframes With NoIndex Does Not NoIndex Your Page
This may be obvious to a lot of folks but embedding iframes can be a confusing topic to many. John Mueller of Google confirmed that if you embed an iframe that contains a meta noindex, it won’t result in the page you are embedding the iframe being remo…
Google Updates Search Quality Raters Guidelines On July 28th
Google has updated its Google Search Quality Raters Guidelines PDF just a bit over 9 months since the last update. The document keeps getting smaller, from 175 pages in 2020 to 172 pages in 2021 and now to 167 pages in 2022.
July 2022 Google Product Reviews Update Rolling Out – Everything We See So Far
The fourth version of the Google Product Reviews Update is now rolling out – this update is called – you guessed it – the July 2022 Google Product Reviews Update. This update, like previous updates, will take about two to three weeks to fully roll out.
Microsoft Bing Search Tests & New Features
There is just so much going on with Microsoft Bing Search between new features and tests, I figured I’d put together a quick list of them in one place. I am not 100% sure if these are all new because I am not as on top of Bing as I am with Google but …
Google Maps Tests Infinite Scroll For Search Results
We have seen Google Search test infinite scroll search results on and off for years, even launching continuous scroll on mobile officially. But now we are seeing Google Maps test infinite scroll in its search results interface.
Microsoft: 5% Of BingBot Crawls Are New BingBot
Fabrice Canel from Microsoft said on Twitter last night that 5% of all URLs downloaded are over the new BingBot user agent. To take you back, in April, Bing announced a new user agent for its crawler, BingBot.
Google Merchant Center Now Allows Login Required & Restricted Purchase Free Listings
Google has updated its Google Merchant Center policy to no longer disapprove the login required and restricted purchase free listings. Google said instead, Google will mark them as active but may notice the products “have limited visibility on Google.”
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Google Tests Explore More Search Refinement For Product Queries
Google seems to be testing another refinement feature named “explore more.” This is in addition to the product grids, and popular products and refine by search features. This looks similar to the refine by search feature but takes up less real estate.
Google Tests List View Top Stories With News Taking Over Web Results
Google not only is testing more list view formats for the top stories section but also testing, for some queries and some searchers, having the first set of web results taken over by news stories.
Google Tests Plus Sign On Related Searches, People Also Search For & More
Here is a small but interesting test I want to document. Google is testing showing a plus sign before the related searches and people also search for sections in Google Search.
Google Ads Revenue Up 13.5% & Microsoft Bing Ads Revenues Up 15% But Slowed Growth
Both Google (Alphabet/GOOG) and Microsoft Bing (MSFT) announced earnings last night and while both missed expectations, both earnings were not that bad and their respective stock prices are up after hours. If you zoom into Google Ads revenue, it was up…
Google Pushing Business Profile Verification Over Video
It appears that Google Business Profiles is pushing more and more to verify their businesses using video verification. We covered this before, as Google set this as the default option, but not as offering video as the only option.
Google: There Is No Objective Way To Count Links
Google’s John Mueller reiterated something he said before, he said on Twitter “there is no objective way to count links.” He said this in 2019 when he said “counting links on the web correctly is technically impossible, and everyone just makes different approximations & assumptions.”
Google Ads Automatically Will Switch Some Conversion Actions To Data Driven Attribution
Google is emailing some Google Ads advertisers that they will automatically move some of their conversion actions to data-driven attribution. Google announced data-driven attribution back in September 2021 when it first said it will be moving away from…
Google Maps May Remove Selfies, Blurry Or Poor Quality Images
Google Maps has updated its photos and videos criteria for the Google Maps user-contributed content policy. Google added selfie photos, excessively dark or blurry images, significantly rotated compositions, and the use of filters that dramatically alte…