Google Mobile Search Results With Business Profile Listing & Reviews Broken Out Separately
Google mobile search results can show the Google Business Profile listing in one section and the reviews later down in another section. I am pretty sure I’ve seen this on and off over the past year or so, but I can’t find my coverage of it.
Microsoft: Bing Image Creator Will See Big Improvements In A Month
Bing Image Creator will get some big improvements in about a month. Microsoft Bing CEO, Mikhail Parakhin said this on Twitter the other day, saying the language model for Bing Image Creator will get a big update.
He said…
INP Core Web Vitals Report Now Live In Google Search Console
Google has just launched the new INP report within the Core Web Vitals reporting in Google Search Console. As a reminder, INP, Interaction to Next, is replacing FID, First Input Delay, in March 2024. To prepare, Google has launched a new report to show…
Google Ads Brings Store Sales Reporting & Bidding To Performance Max Campaigns
Google announced that store sales reporting and bidding are now available across Performance Max Campaigns within Google Ads. This means advertisers can “measure total sales wherever customers prefer to shop and optimize their bids for in-store revenue…
Daily Search Forum Recap: June 20, 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.
Bing Chat goes a significant performance improvement…
Google Business Profiles Adds More Detailed Notification Settings
Google Business Profiles seems to have added more options to when you should be notified from the platform. The list includes 13 different notification categories you can turn on or off under the notifications menu for your Google Business Profile.
Google: Launching A New Domain Before Migrating Content To It Reduces Some Risk
Google’s John Mueller said it “reduces some risk” to launch a new domain prior weeks before migrating your site to it. John said this helps both with internal site risks and also external site risks (like from Google’s side).
Bing Search Tests Larger Favicons That Animate
Microsoft is testing showing larger favicons that also animate in the Bing Search results. The favicons look a lot larger in this test, here are side by side comparisons so you can see yourself.
Google Price Range Product Slider With Store Names
Google is now showing the product price range slider with a store name overlayed. I know the slider is not new, it shows you the price range of that product that Google tracked. But the store name overlay, might be new.
Bing Chat Gets Significant Performance Improvements
Microsoft’s Bing CEO, Mikhail Parakhin, said that Bing Chat has received significant performance improvements last week that makes Bing Chat more responsive and faster. Bing also reworked voice SDK in both the iOS and Android Bing apps to make it more …
Daily Search Forum Recap: June 19, 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’s search result volatility is not cooling down…
Vlog #228: Amy Toman’s History & Passion With Local & Small Businesses
Amy Toman and I met at a beach in New Jersey on a stormy rainy day, because we wanted to be weather reporters. Amy is a local SEO specialist at Digital Law Marketing and is also a Google Product Expert for Google Business Profiles…
Google Search Ranking Volatile Super Heated Over Father’s Day Weekend
On June 14th we reported on a Google Search ranking algorithm update and since then the Google search results have not stopped with its larger than normal volatility. It is like they put the pot of water on the stove and never turned it off, at least …
Study: Removing The Address In Google Business Profiles Will Make Your Local Rankings Drop
A recent small study by Joy Hawkins showed that if you remove the address from your Google Business Profile listings your rankings in the local pack and in Google Maps will significantly suffer.
AI Topics From Google Search Central Live Tokyo
Google on Friday held the Google Search Central Live event in Tokyo, they do this event around the world and Google’s last stop was Tokyo. The topic, at least from the tweets I saw, was around AI and search – which I guess surprises no one.
Google Sues Business Over Alleged Fake Business Profiles & Reviews
Google had filed a lawsuit against a company that allegedly created fake Google Business Profiles and tons of fake reviews. Google said it filed the suit “to help put an end to these types of malicious schemes.”
The Mysterious Appearance Of “Local Guide Program” Queries In Google Search Console
Google’s Local Guide Program queries are showing up in Google Search Console across sites, always ranking number one, mostly for desktop queries, and for many landing pages.
Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Ranking Fluctuations, Perspectives Filter, SGE Business Profiles, Bard With Lens, Bing Chat Visual & More
This week, we had yet another pretty hot and unconfirmed Google search ranking update in the middle of the week. Google finally launched that perspectives filter in the mobile US search results. Google updated its Search Generative Experience…
Google Ads Location Setting To Use Media From Google Business Profiles
Google Ads has a setting named “automated locations” that has a subsetting to grant Google Ads access to your media and photos from your Google Business Profile. You can turn this on or off under “automated locations” option in Google Ads.
Google: Products Within Google Business Profiles Not Going Away
There was some concern that products were going away within Google Business Profiles and being moved fully to Google Merchant Center Next. Ginny Marvin, the Google Ads Liaison, said on Twitter that this is not true; she said, “Products will remain ava…