Apple Search Engine Four Years Away, At Least
The Information wrote a piece that says Apple is at least four years or more away from building its own search engine – Apple Search. We have been talking about Apple’s quiet efforts in building its own search engine for many years now and to see they …
Google Business Reviews Going Missing After Suggested Edits (Scary Bug)
Google Business Profiles and business listings reviews are going missing, dropping out completely, again, but this time it seems to be related to automated suggested edits occurring on some business profiles.
Google Local Reviews Shows Number Of Reviews From Reviewer By Category
Last week I reported on how Google Local reviews can display how many reviews a specific reviewer left in a specific city. Well, Google is also doing this by category, how many reviews a specific reviewer left for the business category type.
Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Algorithm Update Maybe, Search Console Bugs & Mess, Google On AI Content, Google Ads Gets Buggy & More
We had yet another biggish unconfirmed Google search ranking algorithm update on November 4th and 5th. Google also removed the annotation about the search features bug and added a Discover performance report bug to the list. The Google Search Console …
Google Ads API v12 Updated Client Libraries & Code Examples
Google has updated the client libraries and code examples for the new Google Ads API version 12, which was released a couple of weeks ago.
Google: Some Old Links May Be Irrelevant (AKA Link Rot)
Google’s John Mueller said that some old links to old websites may be irrelevant links, at least from a Google Search and ranking perspective.
Google Confirms Hreflang Link Tags Don’t Need To Be Hierarchical
Google’s John Mueller confirmed I think again, that hreflang link tags do not have to be in hierarchical order. When asked about this, John said that “it doesn’t matter” on Twitter.
Google Ads Editor v2.2 Adds Asset Library Access, Easier Ad Scheduling, Improved Notifications & More
Google has released version 2.2 of the Google Ads Editor, this comes four months since version 2.1 was released in July. The new version gains quicker access to the Asset Library, easier ad scheduling, improved notifications, and more.
Bing Tests AI Chat Feature At Top Of Search Results
Microsoft is testing the AI chat bot feature at the top of the Bing Search results. We have seen the let’s chat feature from Bing for a while now but not at the top, featured snippet area.
Google Search Console API Delay Confirmed, To Be Fixed In Days
Google has confirmed a delay with the Google Search Console API being a bit more delayed than normal. Daniel Waisberg from Google said the “delay was caused by processing issues, and should be back to normal in the next few days.”
Google Removes Search Features Bug Confirmation & Replaces It With Google Discover Search Console Reporting Error
Google has done something unusual, it has removed one of the confirmed data anomalies notes about a search features bug, and added a new note confirming a bug with Google Discover logging resulting in a data drop in the Search Console Discover performa…
Mastodon Is Using Rel Noreferrer On Outbound Links Causing Visits To Appear As Direct Traffic In Google Analytics
Mastodon is surging with Twitter in chaos, but traffic from the social network will be hard to track. That’s because Mastodon is using rel noferrer on outbound links causing visits to appear as Direct Traffic in Google Analytics.
Google: Sites With Good Category Pages Don’t Need Internal Search Results Indexed
Generally, Google says you should never let Google index your internal search result pages. But John Mueller of Google said you shouldn’t even be considering going against Google’s advice here, if you have good category pages, you won’t even need to t…
Bug: Google Ads Disapproves Ads For Using The Word “Get”
Yesterday, a number of advertisers were asking why there Google Ads were being disapproved. The disapproval was due to the ad using the word “get” in the ad text and extension. It turned out it was a bug, a weird bug, that Ginny Marvin, Google’s Ads Li…
Google Can Pass PageRank From HTTP To HTTPS URLs With Redirects
Yes, Google can pass PageRank and other link signals from an HTTP non-secure URL to HTTPS secure URL through redirects. John Mueller from Google said this is how Google does canonicalization and that there is “no special “security dust” involved.”
SEO Tricks Make Browsing The Web For The Visually Impaired Really Bad…
John Mueller shared on Mastodon that he met with someone who relies on screen readers to consume the web. And he explained to him how old-school SEO tricks make reading the web using screen readers, well let’s just say, not pleasant.
Google Updates Help Documentation To Say Using JavaScript For Links Can Be Fine
Google has added a single “note” to the create crawlable links help documentation to say that links generated by JavaScript, where the link is visible, can be crawled by Google. Google added this line “Note that links are also crawlable when you use Ja…
Google: Work On The Larger SEO Issues Before The One Off Issues
Google’s John Mueller recommended the obvious (as I write this I am asking myself why write it but hey, sometimes the obvious needs to be reminded). If you have SEO work to do, do the work that is a larger problem before you do the smaller ones, like …
Google Local Finder Auto-Play Video Thumbnails
Google has recently, estimates are in the past few weeks, added auto-play video thumbnails in the local finder on mobile. Allie Margeson spotted this and posted a video of it in action on Twitter, which I will embed below.
Google: Child Elements Don’t Count Towards Sitemap URL Limit
Google has updated the sitemap section of the localized pages search help documentation to say that “Child elements don’t count towards the URL limit for sitemaps.”