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
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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.
Google: Expect A Confirm Google Algorithm Update This Summer
I think everyone in our industry is surprised we have not had a confirmed Google search ranking update since April 2023. But you should expect Google to confirm a search ranking algorithm update before the summer is up.
Google Search Console Link Report Showing Drastically Fewer Links
Google Search Console has a link report and that link report has become less and less useful over the years. This morning, it seems like Google pushed an update or has a bug where now people are seeing about half the number of links that they saw the p…
Google: Journalistic Awards Are Not A Direct Search Ranking Signal
As you may remember, Google has a news topic authority ranking system, which has been around for a while but Google recently disclosed to the public. Danny Sullivan, Google’s Search Liaison, clarified on Twitter that some of the “signals” listed in its…
Bing Chat In Dark Mode Coming In A Couple Of Weeks
For the past couple of months now, Microsoft has been saying dark mode is coming to Bing Chat. But now they are putting a timeline on it – dark mode for Bing Chat is now only a “couple of weeks” away.
Microsoft: Bing Chat To Work On Any Browser In A Week Or Two
Several weeks ago, Bing’s CEO, Mikhail Parakhin said that Bing Chat will soon work on any browser – that you don’t have to use Microsoft Edge to run Bing Chat. Well, now he is saying we are only a week or two away until that starts to roll out.
Bing Chat Now Supports Visual Search
A month ago we saw Bing Chat testing visual search. Well now it is available for all who want to snap a photo or upload an image to Bing Chat.
Google: AI Content Is Not By Default Well Received By Its Algorithms
Danny Sullivan, Google’s Search Liaison, responded to Vox Media’s claim that AI content is currently “well-received by search engines.” Sullivan said, “It’s still not correct that AI content will be “well-received by search engines,” at least for us.”
Google Drops Support For Related Search Operator
Google has removed the related search operator from its “overview of Google search operators” help documentation. The related search operator would show you pages that are related to a specific URL.