Memorial Day Google Search Ranking Volatility
While I highly doubt Google pushed an algorithmic change over Memorial Day, there was a significant spike in chatter in the SEO community and the third-party Google Search tracking tools are showing volatility. Yes, traffic can be weird and lower on M…
Google’s John Mueller On Recovering From Core Updates – Maybe You Had A Good Run…
John Mueller, a Google Search Analyst at Google, wrote a response to a site owner who saw their site tank in September 2023 and hired SEO, and there has been no improvement. John’s response was that it was likely not one thing but many things and that …
Undated Google Ads Experiments To End August 23, 2024
Google has sent some Google Ads advertisers email notices that any of their Google Ads experiments without an end date will now be assigned a default end date of August 23, 2024.
Google Tests Thin Top Deals Search Bar
Last November or so, Google started to roll out the “shop deals” search bar on both desktop and mobile, this was from the shop deals banner in the middle of the search results page. Now, Google is testing a thinner version of the shop deals search bar.
Report: 14,000+ Google Search Ranking Features Leaked
Rand Fishkin along with Mike King may have published one of the biggest data leaks outside of the Department of Justice data reveal around Google Search and its internal ranking features and signals. The document was from an anonymous source but verif…
In Face Of AI Overview Backlash, Google Updates Docs With How To Show Web Only Results & How To Give Feedback
Google has updated its help documentation page on AI Overviews to tell searchers how to show only web results in its search results (not show AI Overviews, videos, image, etc), plus how to give feedback on the AI Overviews Google provides. This obvious…
Google’s John Mueller Blasts The Concept Of Toxic Links, Again
Google’s John Mueller once again blasted the “concept of toxic links,” he wrote on Reddit, “The concept of toxic links is made up by SEO tools so that you pay them regularly.” As you know, John is not a fan of link selling, buying and removal services…
Some Reporting Fewer Links Reported In Google Search Console
I am hearing numerous reports from SEOs that the link report within Google Search Console is showing drastically fewer links than it did a month prior. I am not sure if this is impacting all SEO, but there are a number of SEOs complaining about this.
Google Images “See Exact Matches” Helps You Find Who Stole Your Images
Google Images lets you upload an image, and then it may show you an option to “see exact matches.” This essentially will show you all the locations where the image is found by Google across the web. Obviously, this can help you find out who stole your…
Google Mobile Tests Large Blue Visit Button On Search Results
Google is testing a large blue visit button on its mobile search results interface. The button is hard to miss and shows up under the sitelinks for some searchers. Again, it is a test, so many of you will likely not be able to replicate it.
Google Grayed Out Its Logo On Memorial Day Again
Google has grayed out, muted, its logo, for Memorial Day, again this year. It also applied an American flag under the search box with the message, “Honoring those who sacrificed.” That links to the search results for [Memorial Day] on Google Search.
Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Ranking Volatility, Ads In Google AI Overviews, Sundar Pichai Interview, Heartfelt Helpful Content & More Ad News
We had more Google search ranking volatility in the middle of the week after some calming for a few days. Google Ads will soon show within the Google AI Overview, plus we covered a lot more ad news. Sundar Pichai was interviewed…
Google: The Site Reputation Abuse Policy Enforcement Not Yet Algorithmic
Google has once again said that its enforcement of the site reputation abuse policy is still only being done through manual actions and not algorithmically. Danny Sullivan, Google’s Search Liasion, said this on X yesterday, “We have not gone live with…
Google Search Can Now Index Electronic Publication (EPUB)
Google Search can now index Electronic Publication, the .epub, file type. Google added EPUB as a supported filetype to the file types indexable by Google help documentation.
Directory Of Embarrassing Google AI Overviews
Every day now, I see several screenshots on X of embarrassing and sometimes harmful AI Overviews within the Google Search results interface. I mean, we covered the one that recommends you drink urine, but I can’t cover each and every one I see – there…
Google Analytics Real-Time Reports Adds Users In Last 5 Minutes
Google has updated the Google Analytics real-time reports to show real-time data in the last five minutes. Previously, Google only showed users in the last 30 minutes but now Google is showing both, 30 minutes and 5 minutes.
New Google Search Profiles With Reviews & Notes
Google is rolling out new profile pages that shows you the reviews and notes you left across Google Search. And starting on June 24 your reviews and notes may be public to other Google users.
Daily Search Forum Recap: May 23, 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.
Microsoft Bing was offline for a while today, taking down third-party sites like ChatGPT Search…
Google Robots.txt Parser Updated In GitHub
Google has updated its open source robots.txt parser code on GitHub the other day. Gary Illyes from Google pushed the update yesterday morning to the repository there.
Google Ads Referral / Affiliate Program
Did you know Google Ads has a referral or affiliate program. Where you can refer Google Ads a new advertiser and you will earn $250 in ad credits in Google Ads. I am not sure if this is new, but Anthony Higman thinks it might be new.