Google Search Recipe Carousel Dropped Many Recipe Sites This Week
Earlier this month, we reported on issues Google had with recipe search results. Some changes were made that seemed to resolve some of those issues, but then it seemed to have triggered new issues with the recipe carousels in the Google Search results.
Google Ads Keyword List With Clickable Stars
Nate Louis noticed that clickable stars were placed next to the keyword list in his Google Ads advertiser console. He can click them to highlight them and unclick them to unhighlight them. He has never seen these before and doesn’t know what clicking …
Daily Search Forum Recap: February 12, 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 spoke again about the timing to recover from a helpful content update…
Google SGE Tests Removing Side Carousels
Google seems to be testing removing the side carousel in the SGE, Search Generative Experience, interface. The side carousel generally shows the card answers on the right side of the desktop SGE results. It seems Google is testing not showing those ca…
Google Updates Image Removal Documentation
Google has updated, in a big way, its how to “Remove images hosted on your site from search results” help documentation page. Google said, “Part of our ongoing efforts to keep our documentation accurate, we updated the documentation for image removals…
Google: Timing For Recovery For Helpful Content Update
Danny Sullivan, Google’s Search Liaison, posted again about the timing around recovering from the helpful content update. He essentially repeated what Google said back when it first was announced, that the classifier is always running to check if conte…
Google SGE Now Works In Mobile Safari
When Google first launched SGE, the Search Generative Experience, it would only work in Chrome or the Google Search App on Gmail accounts opted into the search labs experiment. But now when I try accessing SGE while on mobile Safari, the native Apple …
Google Rolling Out Branded Local Services Ads (Opt Out Coming…)
Late last week, Google began to roll out those branded Local Service Ads, but it surprised many businesses without a way to opt out of the feature. I am told that Google will provide a way to opt out and will send more details to advertisers this week.
Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Update Brewing, Quality Improvements Still Coming, Ranking Confusion & Bing Deep Search
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This week we covered a new possible Google search ranking update that started brewing on Wednesday, February 7. Google’s Danny Sullivan said again…
Google Drops Web Stories From Images & Carousel View & Updates Search Feature Availability
Google has updated its Web Stories documentation to explain where Web Stories can show in search. Google said Web Stories no longer will show up within Google Image Search, the carousel view and made some changes to where these Web Stories show within …
Google-Extended Bot (Token) Does Not Affect Google Search
Google has made an update to its Google crawler (user agent) search documentation to change the references of “Bard” to “Gemini” because of the product name change. Google also clarified that Google Extended has no impact or effect on Google Search.
Google Business Profiles Activities & Events In Dashboard
Google has added the ability to add activities and events to the Google Business Profiles dashboard. This is a quick form to add upcoming events or activities to your business quickly.
Google Tests Blue Shaded Search Bar Headers (Some That Are Sticky)
Google Search is testing various shades of blue for its search header, including a sticky version that, um, sticks as you scroll down the search results. Here are various screenshots from a few folks that I found on X over the past several days.
Danny Sullivan & John Mueller Send Internal Newsletters For Google Staff
Did you know that both Danny Sullivan and John Mueller send emails to Google employees on a routine basis? I heard from multiple sources that John sends one weekly, I think maybe on Fridays, and Danny Sullivan shared a screenshot of a portion of the e…
Google Search Ranking Algorithm Update Brewing February 7th and 8th
I am seeing signs of a new Google search ranking algorithm update brewing. It started yesterday, Wednesday, February 7th, and is going into today, Thursday, February 8th. There is an increase in chatter within the SEO industry and also some, not all, …
Google Search Carousel: Up-And-Coming Stores
Google has this new product or shopping-related box in the search results named “Up-and-coming stores.” This box seems to show trendy stores in the Google Search results as a carousel you can swipe through on your mobile phone.
Legit Guest Blog Post Leads To Google Manual Action, Says Site Owner
Over the past few days the SEO industry has been chattering it up about how a site received a Google Search manual action for unnatural links for a “legit guest blog” post. But when you look, this manual action only affected “some pages,” not the whol…
Microsoft Pulls Back Flighting Deep Search
Microsoft has stopped fully testing Bing Deep Search in the wild, saying they stopped “flighting” it for searchers. Now Bing Deep Search is in some sort of “shadow flight” to a very limited number of users.
Google Slows Dynamic Search Ad Crawler To Every 3 Weeks vs 2 Weeks
Google has updated its managing crawl budget guide documentation to say that the crawl frequency of the Dynamic Search Ad targets. It use to be every 2 weeks, 14 days, and now it is every 3 weeks, 21 days.
Google: Search Quality Improvements Coming In Near Future
For the past few months now, Google has been saying there are big improvements coming to address some of the search quality issues we’ve all been seeing in the Google Search results. Danny Sullivan, Google’s Search Liason, wrote yesterday that these i…