Google Search Console Goes Adds Shopping & Merchant Features
Google has added a new shopping section to the Google Search Console platform. Google added a shopping tab that includes a quick way to create a Merchant Center account, access to your product snippets, merchant listings and shopping tab listings perf…
Google On The Most Expensive Pages To Crawl & Does It Matter
There is a fun Twitter thread where Google’s John Mueller and SEO Elmer Boutin talk about expensive pages for Google to crawl. John starts off by explaining that Google doesn’t think about it from an expense or not, it is more about if the page is some…
Google Tests New Local Knowledge Panel Photo & Street View Layout
Google is testing a new user interface and design for the photos and street view imagery in a local panel knowledge panel within Google Maps. This is being spotted by a lot of SEOs within the community.
Google Business Profiles “Showing The World Cup” Attribute
With the World Cup just around the corner, Google is asking certain businesses, like bars, restaurants and other venues if they will be showing the world cup at their location. If they add the “showing the world cup” attribute to their business profil…
Google Tests Picture In Picture For Videos In Search Results
Google is testing a picture-in-picture mode for videos that are shown in the search results. You can click on the video preview image and play the video at the bottom right corner of the search results page.
Daily Search Forum Recap: November 16, 2022
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.
Have you ever heard of the Google Coati update algorithm…
Google Coati Algorithm – The Google Update You Never Heard Of
At SMX Next yesterday I have the privilege of interviewing Hyung-Jin Kim, the Vice President of Google Search. Hyung-Jin Kim has been working on search quality for the past 20 years and leads up core ranking at Google Search. He mentioned a few times d…
Google Posts / Updates Adds Cropping Photo Tool
Google has added to the Google Business Profiles Google Posts or Updates section the ability to use a cropping tool when you upload photos to your updates. So now you can upload photos and crop them later in the Google Updates section.
Google: We Pick Up On URL Patterns That Don’t Work But Should Slow Crawling Those URLs
Google’s John Mueller confirmed that GoogleBot will crawl and pick up on URL patterns that simply do not work on your site. I mean, we have all seen this happen time and time again with sites we manage. But John added that the crawling should slow over…
Google: Cross Link Words In Your Content When It Is Relevant & In Context
Google’s John Mueller said that while it does make sense to cross-link between your content on your website, you should do it only when it is relevant and within the context of the content. If your users get confused by your links, so may search engine…
Google AR Products & Clippable Coupons Live
It looks like the Google AR products, at least for shoes, and the clippable coupons feature is now live. If you search for various shoes or sneakers, you will see some of the product images have 3D icon that takes you into the AR feature in Google Sea…
More “Google Explore” Testing As The Dynamic SERP Feature Now Covers Topics, People, and Even Companies
In June of 2022, Mordy Oberstein first spotted a new SERP feature being tested called Google Explore. That’s where a feed of content shows up after a user scrolls through several pages in the mobile SERPs. It has a special treatment in…
Local Study: Review Recency Impacts Google Local Rankings
Another small study done by Joy Hawkins says that the recency of reviews does impact the rankings of those local business listings in Google Search and Google Maps. Like the previous studies, this was not really statistically significant but it is nice…
Bing Trending Or Top Picks For You & Google Also Nearby For Product Search Results
Here are some cute features spotted in both Microsoft Bing and Google Search around products. Bing is testing showing “trending for you” or “top picks for you.” Google is testing showing “also nearby” in the product listings as well.
Google Recommends Dot Over Commas Numerical Separators In Review Snippet Structured Data
Google has updated its review snippet structured data help documentation to recommend using dot separators in numerical review values over comma separators in numerical review values. Both dots and commas will work, but Google is recommending the dots …
Google Ads Data Missing From Looker Studio Or Google Sheets with GA4 API?
There are reports that in some cases you can be missing some of your Google Ads data and campaign information when you use the Google Analytics 4 API in conjunction with Looker Studio and/or Google Sheets.
Daily Search Forum Recap: November 14, 2022
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.
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Vlog #197: Rick Mariano On Helping Clients Succeed Digitally Online & Hiring with Employee Retention
In part one with Rick Mariano we spoke about helping build LocalEdge to provide high volume digital marketing services at a low cost and then in part two we spoke more about using automation and the human touch…
Another Weekend Google Search Ranking Algorithm Update – November 11th – 12th
It seems as if I see more volatility signals on the weekends with Google Search than I do during the weekdays. We may have had another Google search ranking algorithm update, unconfirmed, this weekend, around November 11th and 12th.
Google Ads Paying Advertisers $100 To Enroll In Automatically Applies Recommendations
Google Ads is sending emails out to some advertisers offering to pay them $100 in Google Ads credits for enrolling in automatically applied recommendations. The response from the PPC community is almost all against doing this for any amount of money, …