Microsoft Bing Advertising Revenue Up 18%
Microsoft reported its first quarter 2025 earnings and it showed that its search and advertising revenue was up 18%. The last quarter it was up 19%, but as I noted then, the last time it was up over 19% in a quarter before last quarter was 10 quarterly…
Google: Search Ranking Update Coming Soon But HCU Victims Should Move On
Google held that Web Creator summit yesterday at the GooglePlex, where Google told victims of previous search ranking updates including the September 2023 helpful content update, that a new search ranking update is coming fairly or very soon, but if th…
Google Ad Revenue Up 10% – With Biggest Ad Revenue Quarter Ever
Google / Alphabet reported its Q3 2024 earnings last night, where its ad revenue hit $65.85 billion, up 10% from last year’s quarter of $59.65 billion. Google’s revenue was up 15% with $88.3 billion and its profit was up 33% to $26.3B. Search revenue s…
New Google Ads Business Links Asset Type
Google Ads has a new asset type with enhancement features named business links. Google posted a new help document that says, “Business links is a new asset type with enhancement features that allow you to target customized and varied user intents all …
Confirmed: Google Ad Rep Made Unauthorized Changes To Ad Account
Ginny Marvin, the Google Ads Liaison, has confirmed that a Google ad representative, a Google employee, has made unauthorized changes to a Google ad account. Marvin wrote that following up after an investigation on the matter, “we did not properly fol…
Bing Tests Hiding Ads Labels After Domain
You thought Google was sneaky with their ad or sponsored labels. Microsoft has a history of being super sneaky with their ad labels in Bing Search. Here is a new example of Bing hiding the small ad label right after the domain name, normally it shows …
Google Tests Scrollable Search Ads Categories
Google is testing a search ad product carousel format that has these sub-categories that scroll as you swipe through the carousel of products. This format looks familiar but I cannot find any coverage of this new look, so I am covering it now.
Daily Search Forum Recap: October 29, 2024
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 AI Overviews are now rolling out to over 100 countries…
Google AI Overviews Rolling Out To 100+ Countries & Billion+ Users
Google announced it is rolling out AI Overviews in Google Search to over 100 more countries, making it available to over one billion users and in all supported languages. This is the biggest expansion of AI Overviews yet, which was previously availabl…
Google: Doubtful You’d See Big Ranking Drop Over Core Web Vitals Issues
Google’s John Mueller said it again, he said on LinkedIn, “We’ve been pretty clear that Core Web Vitals are not giant factors in ranking, and I doubt you’d see a big drop just because of that.” Google has been saying Core Web Vitals are important in ge…
Google Tests Frequently Saved Label On Search Result Snippets
Google is now testing a “Frequently saved” label on the search results snippets. Previously we’ve seen you’ve visit often labels, for you labels, preferred source labels and other labels in the search results.
Google Tests New Local Places & Compare Sites Interface
Google is testing a new “all places” and “compare now” interface to see businesses and third-party comparison sites outside of Google Search. This is something Google launched in the European regions but now some are seeing this in the US with this ne…
Bing Recommends Against Batch Mode For IndexNow
With the new Bing Webmaster Tools recommendations section, we are learning more about what Bing Search likes and dislikes. One of the things Bing does not like is when a site using batch mode, or batch URL groups for IndexNow. Bing says it can cause se…
Google Ads Raise Your Budgets Recommendation Gains Information
Google has updated the “Raise your budgets” recommendation within the Google Ads recommendations with more details and tips. I mean, no one wants to raise their budget unless they can make more money, so having more details on why you should raise you…
Google Search Downgrading Rankings Of Content Starkly Different From Main Content
Google is now saying it has ranking systems that “aim to understand if a section of a site is independent or starkly different from the main content of the site. This helps us surface the most useful information from a range of sites.” This is the reas…
Google To Sunset Call Ads; Migrating To Responsive Search Ads
Google Ads will be sunsetting call ads sometime next year and will be migrating those to responsive search ads. Google wrote, “Call ads are being upgraded to responsive search ads to enable new features and simplify asset creation and management.”
Google Business Profiles Testing Reviews Within Photo Carousels
Google is now testing showing reviews within the photos carousel within a Google Business Profile listing. So when you scroll through the photos for a business, Google can also show review snippets.
Google Search Snippet With Mentioned Products Carousel
Google is testing showing a carousel named mentioned products, that can be displayed under a search result snippet that shows the products mentioned in that search result. This came up for Reddit results, in the Discussions and forums section in Google…
Google Updates URL Structure, Favicon & Adds Google Trends Docs
Google has added a new search document on Google Trends while also making some small updates to the URL structure, best practices documentation, and favicons documentation. Google has been doing a lot of videos around Google Trends, so the new document…
Google Business Profiles: Answer Questions About Your Inventory
Google Business Profiles may now ask you to verify your information about your store inventory within the Products section of your profile. Google will ask “Do you sell these products in-store?”