Google: Proximity Not A Relevancy Factor For Local Service Ads
Google has updated its Local Services Ads help document on ad rankings to remove the line around “proximity to potential customers’ locations” is a ranking factor for those ads. Ginny Marvin, the Google Ads Liaison, said the document was updated but th…
Google May Show How Many Shoppers Purchased On Your E-Commerce Site
Google has sent some Google Merchant Center e-commerce site managers notifications that a new annotation may begin to show up in the search results next to their site’s listing that shows how many searchers purchased on your site. It may read, “1K shop…
Daily Search Forum Recap: May 9, 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.
There is another Google search ranking update going on today, May 9th – Google did not confirm it…
Google Search Ranking Update Volatility Starting On May 9th
I am seeing signs of a possible Google search ranking update today, May 9th, between a spike in early chatter this morning within the SEO industry and many of the tools showing a significant lift in ranking volatility in the Google Search results.
Google Renames AI Answer Back To AI Overview
A week ago, we saw Google renamed the AI overview experimental results to simple “AI Answers.” Well, that didn’t seem to last long. Google renamed it back to “AI Overview” but left off the “experimental” text on that label – at least in the forefront.
Google Tests New Search Notes Button
Google is testing a new button to add a note to the search results. As a reminder, Google launched Notes in Google Search and Discover last November as a labs feature. The new note button is much smaller and just has an icon of a notebook with a plus …
Google Analytics Gains Google Ads Conversion Performance Beta
Google Analytics has a new beta Google Ads report named “conversion performance.” This is a beta feature right now, so you might not be able to see it. But you must link your Google Ads account to your GA4 account. Then you will see the conversion perf…
Sundar Pichai, Google’s CEO, Responds To Google Search Quality Issues
Google’s CEO, Sundar Pichai, was interviewed by Emily Chang at Bloomberg before the big Google I/O event. They talked a lot about a lot of things, but there was 25-second clip where they spoke about core search quality. As you can imagine, he didn’t sa…
Bing Tests Clear Distinction Between Free & Paid Search Results
Microsoft’s disclosure of search ads on Bing has not been the greatest, honestly, in many cases, worse than Google’s disclosures. Recently, however, Bing has been testing a clearer distinction between its ads and organic free listings.
Google: Having News In Your Site Name Is Fine
Here is a new SEO myth I have not heard before… Someone said that using the word “news” in your site’s name is bad for SEO and Google ranking. John Mueller from Google said it is not, it is fine to use “news” in your site name.
Bing Ads Carbon Neutral Label Goes Green
Microsoft Advertising, the ads you see in Bing, have these “Marketing with Purpose Attributes” ad labels with carbon-neutral labels. Those labels used to be gray, but now Bing has them in a dark green, which makes them way more visible.
Google Product Review Summary Labels Snippet
Google is now showing these short summaries of reviews by placing a label over the review with one or a few words. So the labels might show “low quality,” “compact,” “lightweight,” “performs well” and so on.
Google Local Business Profile Reviews Listings Updated
Google has updated the page where you view, reply and report reviews for your Google Business Profile listing. Joy Hawkins spotted the change and she says it seems to be live, personally, I think I still see the old version.
Google Local Business Profile Reviews Listings Updated
Google has updated the page where you view, reply and report reviews for your Google Business Profile listing. Joy Hawkins spotted the change and she says it seems to be live, personally, I think I still see the old version.
Daily Search Forum Recap: May 7, 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 has started to enforce the site reputation abuse policy with manual actions…
Google Began Enforcing The Site Reputation Abuse Policy Last Night
Google said it began to enforce its new site reputation abuse policy last night. The policy went into effect on Sunday, May 5th, but Google did not announce it would take action until last night. As a reminder, this should target sites doing what some…
Google Search Ranking Update Volatility Starting On May 3rd
I am slow to report on this but figured I’d document it just in case some of you noticed ranking volatility and fluctuations on or around May 3rd and May 4th. This is not a confirmed Google Search ranking update but there are signs of an update that t…
Google Ads New Performance Max For Marketplaces
Google Ads has launched Performance Max for Marketplaces. This is designed to help you sell your goods or services on specific marketplaces using Performance Max.
Number Of Search Results Dropped Google Search Results Page
It seems Google has fully removed the number of results found, the results count, from the Google Search results page. It was removed from the Google Search Generative Experience last June and Google has been testing removing it for ages but not it see…
Rumors Of Google Auditing 25% Of Google Ads Are False
The Google Ads Liaison, Ginny Marvin, said the rumors of Google auditing 25% of Google Ads accounts are false. She wrote, “The rumor about Google auditing 25% of Google Ads accounts on 1 May is inaccurate.”