New Google Merchant Center Next To Replace Classic Merchant Center
Google announced Google Merchant Center Next, a more lightweight, easier-to-use version of Google Merchant Center at Google Marketing Live. Google added, “while we’re simplifying, the features that larger retailers rely on aren’t going anywhere.”
Google Ads Generative AI Performance Max & New Google Product Studio
Google will roll out generative AI for Google Ads Performance Max and a new Google Product Studio. The company announced these two recent changes at Google Marketing Live, in addition to all the other coverage we are posting today with that event.
Bing Search Is The Default Search Engine For ChatGPT
Microsoft announced yesterday a lot of AI news, like Google Ads did, but the big news at least for us is that Bing Search is now the default search engine for OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
Google Search Console Reporting Glitch With Video Traffic May 4-17
Google Search Console confirmed it had a bug in reporting video-specific traffic in the performance report between May 4th and May 17th. Google seems to have resolved the issue going forward but your reports between May 4 and May 17 might be lower tha…
Google Rich Results Test Tool Gains Brings Back Code Button
Google has added back the edit code button to the Rich Results Test tool. Ryan Levering from Google posted this news on Mastodon saying, “Excited for this new button in Rich Results Test that makes it easier to test fixes to live code.”
Bing Search Tests Blue Highlighted Text In AI Chat Answers Within Search
Microsoft Bing is testing highlighting portions of the AI chat answer in blue, the one embedded in the Bing Search results. Bing Search started to test embedding its Bing Chat AI answers into the Bing search results two months ago and now Bing is test…
Google Featured Snippets Puts Vertical Lines Between Answer & Images
Google now shows vertical lines between the featured snippet text and the featured snippet images. This is on the full-width featured snippet, which has a horizontal line below the featured snippet, separating it from the main search results. Now Goog…
Google Tests Services Button First In Local & Map Search Results
Google seems to be testing displaying the “services” button as the first action button in the local and maps search result listings. Usually, the first action buttons would be the call button, the directions, or even the website buttons. But Google is …
Google Site Names Now Supported On Subdomains On Mobile Devices
Google now supports the site names feature on subdomains, Google said subdomains on mobile devices is supported. Site names are still not supported on the subdirectory level.
Vlog #224: Glenn Gabe On Fixing Sites Hit By Google Core Updates, Links & Disavow
In part one with Glenn Gabe, we talk about Bing chat and Google Bard and also the use of AI-generated content, in part two we dig more into E-E-A-T and how AI tools may replace us all…
Google: Incorrect Last Modification Date In HTTP Header Does Not Hurt Your SEO
Google’s John Mueller felt the need to post a PSA that said having an incorrect date set in your last modification date within your HTTP header won’t hurt your SEO. He said on Mastodon, having an incorrect date set there “won’t negatively affect your s…
Unusual AMP Crawl Issues Reported In Google Search Console Starting May 12th
If you still use AMP on your site, then go to the AMP enhancements report in Google Search Console and filter by “crawl issues.” You may see a spike in the number of crawl issues reported on and going forward from May 12th.
Google Bulk Mobile-First Indexing Switch Batch Today (Last Batch Done)
I am hearing reports from SEOs that Google did another batch switchover from desktop-first indexing to mobile-first indexing for many sites. As you know, Google started the mobile-first indexing over six years ago but told us earlier this month that th…
Google 3D / AR Images On The Desktop Search Interface
Google is now testing displaying the 3D/AR or 360 product images on desktop. This was live for mobile search for a while but not Google is testing it on the desktop interface.
Bing Chat Doubles Character Chat Limit
Microsoft has doubled the character limit of Bing Chat from 2,000 characters to now 4,000 characters. This is still rolling out for some users, but I personally see it in creative and precise mode, not in the standard balanced mode.
Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Helpful Content Update Promotes, Google Algorithm Update, Bard Gains Citations, Drop In Local Packs & More
This week we learned that the upcoming Google helpful content update would soon promote content, not just demote content. Google also pushed out a search ranking algorithm update, but it was not confirmed. Google Bard now shows citations like Bing Cha…
Google Business Profiles Expanding Language Assistance Selection
Google Business Profiles seems to be expanding which businesses can add and edit the languages they offer support it. This is the language assistance option that Google first introduced in Google Business Profilers for healthcare facilities back in Dec…
Microsoft Bing Cars For Sale Adds “No Accidents” Label
Microsoft Bing Search has cars for sale feature that shows cars they have listed in the Microsoft Autos site. Now, Bing is showing a green label named “No Accidents” for cars they can verify have no accidents reported for that VIN.
Google Business Profile Edit Posts Bug
For the past few days, Google Business Profiles has a bug when you try to edit existing Google Posts or Google Updates. I confirmed this myself when writing this story and it was still an issue then.
John Mueller Of Google On Gambling With SEO Shortcuts
For the past 20 years, I’ve seen the SEO line; well, this SEO trick that is against Google’s guidelines works for this website, why shouldn’t I do it for my website? John Mueller of Google responded to one of those on Mastodon, saying it is simply a g…