Possible Google Search Algorithm Update May 1st With Rumbles All Week
For the past week, I have been seeing a different pattern with a possible Google search ranking algorithm update. The forums and SEO discussion around a possible Google update was brewing a good part of last week but the automated tracking tools, most…
Vlog #171: Lior Krolewicz On Being In The Special Ops & How Paid Search Has Changed
Lior Krolewicz is the founder and CEO of Yael Consulting, a marketing consulting company. I’ve known Lior from when he was based in Israel, he spoke at a previous SMX Israel event back in the day. We spoke about his history in the space…
Replacing Your Blog With An App Landing Page Will Impact Your Google Rankings
It is not too uncommon to see app developers, before the app is launched, to launch a blog on the home page of the app’s domain name. This is done to gain traction on the domain name before the official app is actually live. But will moving the blog …
Google Search Tests Lighter Purple Color For Clicked On Search Results
Google Search is testing a lighter colored purple for the links you have clicked on and visited in the search results. This report came from both Mordy Obserstein and Khushal Bherwani and I can replicate it myself in different browsers.
Google Asked If You Should Avoid Naming Your Company Or Product 404?
We know that sometimes Google can be triggered to treat your pages as a soft 404, essentially Google thinks that page should be 404ed and thus removed from the search results. So one SEO asked if he should avoid naming his new product or service with …
Google Search Console Caches Inspection Tool Live Test URLs For 90 Days
In Google Search Console, you can use the URL Inspection Tool to test how Google sees a URL in its index versus in real time by using the live test button. Jamie Indigo asked on Twitter how long does that URL for the live test cache. Daniel Waisberg o…
Old BingBot User-Agent To Stop Being Used In Fall 2022
Fabrice Canel from Microsoft Bing announced on the Bing blog that the search company will retire the legacy BingBot user-agent in the Fall of 2022. Instead, Bing will use a user-agent that is more representative of its evergreen BingBot rendering engi…
Search News Buzz Video Recap: AI Lawyers Demanding Links, Google Not Stealing Content, Old Bingbot, Google URL Parameter Tool & AdWords API Gone & More
This week in search, a reporter uncovered that sketchy SEOs are making up fake lawyers using AI to send out fake DMCA requests demanding links to their sites…
Google Search Console Performance Report Average Position Metric Goes Missing (It’s Now Fixed)
Starting about an hour or two ago Google dropped the average position metric filter from the Google Search Console performance report. This seems to be a bug and Google’s Daniel Waisberg is looking into the issue. Do not panic, I really think this wi…
2022 Google Merchant Center Product Data Specification Updates
Annually, Google updates the Merchant Center product data specification and Google made some updates to it last night. Some updates went into place on April 27, 2022 and some go into place on June 26, 2022.
You Can Now Remove Personally Identifiable Information (PII) From Google Search
Google is now letting you make a request to remove personally identifiable information (PII) from Google Search. This includes information such as phone number, email address, or physical address, login credentials and more found in Google Search.
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Google: No We Are Not Stealing Your Content & Citing Google As The Author
The other day Gianluca Fiorelli posted on Twitter that he felt Google was taking content from third party sites and placing that content on in the Google Search knowledge panels but sourcing itself, Google, as the author of that content and not the sit…
Google Reduces Visibility Of Business Edits With Color Changes To Updates
Google has recently changed how it shows what edits or updates were made to a Google Business Profile listing in Google Search and Google Maps. Prior, Google four different types of colored label notifications for edits, now it only has two. It now o…
Google Ads API Version 10.1 Now Released
Google has released version 10.1 of the Google Ads API, which is an update from the major release of version 10 from early February 2022. The big additions in v10.1 include the addition of discover campaigns, campaign groups, local service campaigns an…
Daily Search Forum Recap: April 27, 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.
The Google Business Profile manager is going away in 2022…
New To Google Ads Performance Max: Customer Acquisition Goals, New Insights & Upgrade Tool
Google announced three new features to Performance Max campaigns in Google Ads. These including New customer acquisition goals, new Performance Max insights reports, a one click upgrade tool for Smart Shopping.
Google Search Tests Images On Left Side Of Search Result Snippets
Google may be testing displaying images thumbnails on the left side of the search result snippets. At first, when Kunjan Shah sent this to me on Twitter, I thought it was a Google bug. But then others like Brent D. Payne showed it to me on YouTube as …
Both Google Ads & Microsoft Bing Ads Revenues Up ~22%
Both Alphabet/Google (GOOG) and Microsoft (MSFT) announced earnings last night and both saw increases in search ad revenues by about 22% year over year. While Microsoft crushed its earnings estimate and its stock is up about 5% in pre-market trading, …
Meet MuellerBot; An AI John Mueller To Answer Your Google SEO Questions
Danny Richman created an AI version of John Mueller of Google named MuellerBot. It was built off a GPT-3 powered script to answer SEO questions as if John Mueller himself answered them. It is pretty fun and sometimes scary accurate.
Google Business Profile Manager Is Going Away Early 2022
When you try to access the Google Business Profile Manager at google.com/business, Google will prompt you with a notice that “you can no longer manage your business here” from early 2022. After you login and click on a business, you are presented with…