Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Mother’s Day Algorithm Update, Google I/O News, Horrid SEO Advice In Googleâ��s Courses, New Ad Format & More
Google had a big unconfirmed search ranking algorithm update around Mother’s Day. Also, this week was Google I/O and Google had a ton of announcements specific to search…
New Translated Results Search Appearance Filter Added to Google Search Console Performance Report
Google has quietly added a new search appearance filter to the performance report in Google Search Console. The new search appearance filter is named “translated results” and it shows you how many searchers accessed your site’s content when Google tran…
Google Search Adds Popular Destinations Carousel
Google had added a “popular destinations” search related carousel to the search results for some queries. Valentin Pletzer spotted this the other day and I can see it as well on both mobile and desktop search.
Bing Top Rated Tutors Carousel Through Microsoft TakeLessons
Bing Search has a new carousel for “top rated tutors” for keyword searches such as [piano], [makeup], [guitar] and so on. This brings up a special search carousel that pulls data from TakeLessons, a Microsoft owned property.
New Video Page Indexing Report Coming To Google Search Console
At Google I/O yesterday, Google announced a new report coming to Google Search Console named the video page indexing report. This report will be available under the index section in Search Console and will show you a summary of all the video pages Goog…
Google I/O Session: Google Search For Site Owners
One of the few sessions at Google I/O on Google Search was presented by John Mueller, who you all know, and also Dikla Cohen, a Technical Solutions Consultant at Google. This covers some of the more basics around Google Search Console, some of the new…
Google Universal Analytics Real Time Reports Now Changed To “In Last 5 Minutes”
Google has changed the Google Analytics real time reports in Universal Analytics to show data “in the last 5 minutes.” This is instead of it showing real time analytics for “right now.” It is hard to say if any actual metrics changed or Google just ch…
Google Won’t & Can’t Manually Change The Weird Search Results For HubSpot
The other day, I spotted a conversation with Victor Pan, the head of Technical SEO at HubSpot and Danny Sullivan, the Search liaison at Google about how HubSpot’s home page is not the number one listing in Google Search for a query on HubSpot.
Microsoft Tests Bing Interesting Reads
Microsoft seems to be testing a search carousel titles “interesting reads.” This can show up for a super competitive keyword phrase, like [coffee], [beer], [wine] and so forth. I personally cannot replicate it but the box seems to show content from ne…
Google Ads Updates Performance Max Best Practices With More On Final URL Expansion
Ginny Marvin, the Google Ads Liaison, said the Google Ads team has updated its additional best practices for Performance Max help document with more details on how final URL expansion works in this context.
Google Search Console May Stop Collecting Data After Inactivity By Site Owner
We know that Google will stop collecting data within Google Search Console when a site is not verified or removes its verification. But did you know if you do not use Search Console, you verify it but never go in to look at the reports, Google may stop…
All The Search Related Announcements From Google I/O 2022
I know you are all super busy, so let me quickly let you scan through all the search related announcements that Google announced at Google I/O yesterday. From multisearch near me, immersive map views, Google Translate & Lens expansion, image skin tons and schema, My Ad Center, personal information tool, about this result expansion, Android and so much more.
Daily Search Forum Recap: May 11, 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.
That was quick, within 24-hours…
Google Maps Others Are Asking With Prompt To Answer This Question Carousel
We know Google has a lot of those question and answers sections in the Google Maps business listings. We saw Google showing this in the maps interface (not just the search interface) recently but now Google is showing “others are asking” to trigger mo…
Google Now Supports Education Q&A Structured Data
Google has added a new page to its search developer documents for Education Q&A structured data. It seems similar to the Google Q&A structured data, do you remember when Google added the STEM-education related guidelines to that page?
Google Erased The Keyword Density Slide From Digital Marketing Certification Coursework
Yesterday we reported that Google’s SEO section of its digital marketing coursework for its certification program spoke about the importance of keyword density and word count. Well, within 24 hours, Google has removed that content from the coursework.
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Bing Wikipedia Box In Search Results Now Scrolls On Hover
Microsoft Bing has updated the interactive Wikipedia box in the search results to scroll based on where you hover your mouse on the left side of the box. We first spotted this Wikipedia box in Bing Search back in March but it seems Microsoft upgraded …
Google Tests New Ad Format With Swipeable Images Carousel
Google seems to be testing a new search ad format that has really large images that you can swipe through and learn more about. The ads, when clicked on, expand to show you a large image, with the name of the product, the price, ratings/reviews and a …
Daily Search Forum Recap: May 10, 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.
Remember that digital marketing certification from Google, well…
Google Allows FAQ Schema Markup That Are In Different Sections Of A Page (Not Lists)
Google’s John Mueller was asked if Google allows for FAQ schema markup and structured data that appears in different sections of a blog post and that are not formatted as a traditional FAQ list. The answer, John gave was yes, assuming the FAQs are visi…