Google Ad Revenue Up 3.3% & Bing Ads Revenue Up 8%
Both Google (Alphabet) and Bing (Microsoft) reported earnings last night and both showed that their ad revenues grew. Google Ad revenue was up 3.3%, with overall revenue up 7%. Microsoft Advertising revenue was up 8% with overall revenue up 8% as well.
Daily Search Forum Recap: July 25, 2023
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 said site names in the title tag are fine…
Bing Chat May Get An Expert Mode Search Interface
Microsoft might build an expert mode search interface for Bing Chat for those who may want to do more advanced prompting. Mikhail Parakhin, the Bing CEO, said on Twitter, “Yes, we are contemplating a more sophisticated interface for the ‘expert’ users.”
Google Business Profile Messaging With Availability Status & Away Mode Settings
Google Business Profiles messaging feature may be rolling out the ability to set your status to respond to messages and the ability to configure your away mode.
Google Search Comparison Sites List & Box Interface
Yesterday I covered the hotel version of Google Search testing a comparison sites carousel and a new search filter. Well, it seems it is not specific to just hotels but works for comparing websites in general and also for more categories.
Google: Spammy Link Networks Share Vulnerable Sources With Each Other
Google’s John Mueller said that when a link spammer (or I guess any time of spammer) find a vulnerability on a website, they might share that vulnerability with their network of spammers. So it is important that you close any vulnerabilities on your si…
Google: Just Because Google Drops Your Site Name From Its Title; Doesn’t Mean You Should
Should you put your site name in your title tag? Google’s John Mueller said it really shouldn’t be an SEO decision. John Mueller seems to be a fan of having a site name in the title, despite this site not doing that for our article pages.
Vlog #233: Fabrice Canel On Generative AI Content & IndexNow
In part one, we learned more about Fabrice Canel of Microsoft Bing and spoke about indexing quality. In part two we dig more into of the concern around content generation through generative AI tools and IndexNow…
Google Search Ranking Algorithm Volatility Finally Cooling?
For the past few months, Google’s search results have been very volatile, but over the past couple of days, it seems, at least to some rank-checking tools, the volatility is cooling and calming.
Google Search On Top Level Domains: Spammy, Keyword Rich, Coming Soon Page & More
Google posted a new Search Off The Record podcast all around picking a domain name and SEO. This was recorded by John Mueller, Gary Illyes, and Martin Splitt of Google. They spoke about checking if the domain is spammy, the price of TLDs, whether you …
Google Hotel Search Results Comparison Sites Carousel & Filter
Google seems to be testing a new hotel search feature that lets you compare sites using a carousel and a new search filter. The carousel shows you comparable hotels that you can click to see more, bringing up a “compare sites” filter to browse more ho…
Google Business Profiles Automated FAQs Feature
Google Business Profiles seems to be rolling out a new FAQ feature where Google will automatically create FAQs based on your Google Business Profile details and your website.
Google Merchant Center Collections – Group Products Together
Google Merchant Center is rolling out a new feature named “collections.” Collections let you group up to 100 products together in the same collection. Google said collections, “Collections allow you to associate products and other creative assets with …
Daily Search Forum Recap: July 21, 2023
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 Ads Editor released a minor release, version 2.4.1. Bing Chat will remain free…
Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Ranking Updates, News Indexing Bug, AI Content, Trust, Awards, Page Experience, Links, Related & Bing Chat
For the original iTunes version, click here.
Every week, the Google Search volatility keeps getting hotter, but Google did say we should have a confirmed update this summer. Google fixed the News indexing bug late last Friday…
Google Search Compare Systems & Savings From EnergyStar & Energy.gov
Google Search is testing a new carousel search feature that shows products from EnergyStar.gov and Energy.gov, governmental websites, on products that you can buy to save with tax credits from the government.
How It’s Going After Removing Google AMP Pages 3 Weeks Ago
On June 28th, three weeks ago, I removed the AMP pages from this site. Overall, I didn’t see overall traffic changes from the change. I did notice issues with this site in Google Discover, a spike in crawl rates, a jump in AMP errors and some more chan…
Microsoft: Bing Will Remain Free
With Microsoft announcing the enterprise version of Bing Chat, some are worried that the free version might disappear. Well, it won’t. Mikhail Parakhin, the CEO of Bing at Microsoft, said on Twitter, “Bing will stay free, of course.”
Google Ads Editor Version 2.4.1 Minor Release Available
Google has released a minor update to the Google Ads Editor. This is version 2.4.1 and I am not exactly sure what updates we have with this minor release.
Google Clarifies URL Structure Guidelines With Supported Characters
Google has updated its URL structure guidelines to specify what characters Google Search supports in URLs.