Google Vehicle Ads Now Open To Canadian (& US) Advertisers
Google’s vehicle ads, which launched as a beta in January 2022 and then became available to all US advertisers in March 2022, are now available to Canadian advertisers this month.
Bing Chat To Be Able To Process Book Size Documents
Bing Chat may soon be able to process book-size documents, not just a page or two of a PDF of web site, but a whole book. Mikhail Parakhin, the CEO of Bing, said this on Twitter the other day.
Vlog #219: Igal Stolpner On International SEO: It’s About The Regional Users
In part one, we learned about who is Igal Stolpner and now in part two we dive into the topic of international SEO.
He said while hreflang is important for international SEO…
Google April 2023 Reviews Update – What We’re Seeing…
On April 12th at noon, while I was offline, Google released the April 2023 reviews update that expanded the product reviews update to go beyond just products and also impacted services and things. It has been just under a week since it launched, and s…
Report: Google Working On New More Personalized Search Engine & Project Magi
The New York Times reported yesterday that Google is working on an “all-new search engine” while also working on Project Magi, aimed to add AI-based features to the existing search engine.
Google On A Site Dropping In Ranking For One Keyword
Gary Illyes from Google spoke about the topic of a website dropping in rankings for a single keyword or single keyword phrase while ranking fine for others. Can it happen? And if it does happen, what should you look out for?
Google Search Console New Video Indexing Report Inline Data URLs Issue
Google will now report inline data URLs that are used as video URLs as “Invalid video URL” in the video indexing report within Google Search Console. This may lead to a reassignment of the “Invalid video URL” issue to the new issue but the total number…
Google FAQ Snippets Drop For Many Sites On April 5th
Google seems to be showing fewer FAQ snippets for many sites starting on April 5th. Over the holidays, I received several questions about this but didn’t have time to write it up until now. But while the tracking tools are showing no decline in FAQ s…
Daily Search Forum Recap: April 14, 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.
While I was offline…
Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Reviews Update, Google Core Update�s Local Search Impact, Webspam Report, Generative AI Coming To Google Search, Bard Updates & Bing Chat Plugins
This week in search, we covered the new April 2023 reviews update that goes beyond just product reviews. We also covered the possible impact the Google March 2023 broad core update had on local search. Google’s John Mueller said they don’t…
Google Translate In Mobile Search Adds Camera
If you do some translation-based queries in Google mobile search, you will not just see a Google logo icon but also Google testing a camera icon, to search by camera.
Google To Ban Ads For Concentrated Sodium Nitrite Of Over 10%
Google said starting on May 23, 2023, Google will disallow and prohibit ads that sell products with a concentration of more than 10% sodium nitrite. I am sure this may impact less than 1% of you, but I wanted to ask MidJourney to make an image of Goog…
Google Android App Tests Additional Search Buttons
Google is testing a version of the Android app that include additional search buttons, many of which the iOS app has had since last year. These buttons include solve homework, identify a song, shop for products, translate text and more.
Google Removes Video Thumbnails In Search Results When Video Is Not Main Content
Google announced it will remove the video thumbnail image from the search results snippet when that video is not the main content of the page. Google said this change will impact search appearance reported metrics for videos in the performance report i…
Google: Most Links SEOs Make To Gain Rankings & Manipulate Search Are Ignored
Google’s John Mueller said that when it comes to links SEO make to manipulate search rankings and gain ranking position in Google, those links are mostly ignored by Google Search. This is a line Googlers have been saying since Penguin 4.0 came out and …
Daily Search Forum Recap: April 13, 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 says just because a site is good today…
Google: Just Because A Site Is Good Now, Doesn’t Mean It Won’t Degrade In Search Quality Later
Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that just because a site appears to be doing super well in terms of Google ranking and SEO today that it won’t one day degrade in value. John added, “just because something’s in Google News now doesn’t mean it’ll …
Google Search Car Carousel
We saw Google label some car types as electric and hybrid a year ago. Now Google has this car carousel in the mobile search that lets you filter by many other car types.
Poll: 30% Use More Than Just Google For Search & Discovery
Greg Sterling ran a poll on Twitter asking, “Are you now branching out from Google as a search/discovery tool?” Almost 30% of those who answered, which are primarily SEOs/SEms, said they are, while the other 70% said they are sticking with Google 99% …
Google Tests Local Finder Images Only For Ads?
Google may be testing only showing images in the local finder, the local search results in Google Maps, for listings that are ads. The rest, may only show a map image but not an image from the business profile.