Google Tag – A New Version
Google announced a new Google Tag that Google says will “unlock new capabilities to help you do more, improve data quality and adopt new features – without requiring more code.” Google Tag Manager is not changing today but it sounds like it will change…
Microsoft Advertising Rolls Out Automotive Ads, New Ad Formats, More Bidding Options, Plus More
Microsoft announced its monthly updates for the Microsoft Advertising platform. This includes rolling out automotive ads, new ad formats, more bidding options, vertical ads and so much more.
Google Tests Site Name & Favicon On Image Results Within Web Search
Google is testing promoting the source of the images it displays in web search by adding the full site name and the favicon from the site in the image box. This was spotted by James on Twitter and I simply cannot replicate this.
Legal Ruling May Allow Rumble To See Some Of Google’s Secret Ranking Algorithms
Glenn Greenwald reported that a “federal district court in California on Friday denied Google’s motion to dismiss a lawsuit alleging that the Silicon Valley giant is violating federal antitrust laws by preventing fair competition against its YouTube vi…
Google Continues To Work On Deduplicating Multiple Ad Listings After LSAs Example
Joy Hawkins pointed out an example of Google Local Service Ads showing duplicate listings for the same law firm for the same query. Google has policies against that and asked if those policies are effective, to which Google’s Ad Liaison said yes, and t…
John Mueller Beautiful SEO Rant On Doing Versus Reading
I know some of you may not like it and may think I am some sort of suck-up for covering this but there is so much truth and beauty to John Mueller’s recent SEO rant. He said, “maybe you should stop reading SEO blogs and instead do something useful for your site & its users?”
Google: Update Internal Links From HTTP To HTTPS But…
If you are on an HTTP site and you decide to migrate the site to HTTPS, it is common practice to update all of your internal links from the HTTP URL format to the HTTPS URL format. Google’s John Mueller was asked about this on Reddit and he said “I’d …
Google Search Console Validate Fix For Coverage Report Not Working Right Now
Yesterday afternoon Google temporarily disabled the ability to validate fixes for issues in the coverage report. This is related to some “minor updates” the Google Search Console is adding to those coverage reports over “the next few days.”
July 2022 Google Product Reviews Update Kicked In Friday Afternoon
On July 27th Google said it began to roll out the July 2022 Google Product Reviews update. But we didn’t see it impact the Google search results until a couple of days later on Friday afternoon, July 29th.
Being In Close Contact With Google Doesn’t Benefit You Or Me
Being in close contact with Google or the people that work at Google really does not benefit you (or me). The is just the simple truth – you just won’t benefit from that.
Google Perspectives Search Results
Google seems to be testing a new search box and feature titled “perspectives.” Perspectives seem to give searchers answers to a more broad and maybe philosophical type of query.
Google Business Profile Tests Expandable Menu In Web Search
Google Search is testing a new expanded menu for the Google Business Profile tool in Google Web Search. This allows you to click an arrow down to expand the options to edit your business profile directly in the desktop Google Search interface.
Google Doesn’t Care How Many Facebook Tracking Links Are In GTM
It seems Google does not care how many Facebook tracking links you have in your Google Tag Manager, especially for Google Search reasons. John Mueller was asked about this and said “I’m not aware of anyone at Google, much less in Search, caring about …
Daily Search Forum Recap: July 29, 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.
Google has updated its search quality raters guidelines PDF last night…
Search News Buzz Video Recap: July Google Product Reviews Update, Quality Raters Guidelines, Things To Know Disappear, Core Web Vitals, Bing, Ads & More
This week, it was awkwardly quiet with the Google rankings and then Google dropped the bombshell, the July 2022 Google Product Review update touched down. Google also released new search quality raters guidelines…
Google Maps To Add Aerial Views, More Biking Details & More
Google Maps announced it is adding photorealistic aerial views, new cycling route information, new notifications for sharing your location, and more.
Google: Age Verification Requirement May Prevent Site From Surfacing In Google Discover
Danny Sullivan of Google said on Twitter that he believes that sites that require age verification would not surface in Google Discover. He added he has to confirm this but has not responded in three days since saying this originally.
Google Core Web Vitals No Longer Impacted Pages With Noindex
In 2021, Google said that Core Web Vitals may also be graded based on pages on your site that are noindexed. Well, that is no longer the case according to an updated Google help document. A page that has noindex on it will no longer be factored into yo…
Google: Embedding Iframes With NoIndex Does Not NoIndex Your Page
This may be obvious to a lot of folks but embedding iframes can be a confusing topic to many. John Mueller of Google confirmed that if you embed an iframe that contains a meta noindex, it won’t result in the page you are embedding the iframe being remo…
Google Updates Search Quality Raters Guidelines On July 28th
Google has updated its Google Search Quality Raters Guidelines PDF just a bit over 9 months since the last update. The document keeps getting smaller, from 175 pages in 2020 to 172 pages in 2021 and now to 167 pages in 2022.