Google Search Date Filter Does Not Show You Historic Rankings
Google’s John Mueller confirmed an unusual SEO myth that said that the date filter in the Google Search tools will show you how pages ranked in the search results during that date range. John confirmed this is not true, all it does is filter search re…
Google Ads Listing With More Expandable Link
Google Search has these “more” links in the Google search ad listings that expand to show more ad extensions. I am not 100% sure if it is new or not but I personally cannot replicate this, so maybe it is new?
Google’s John Mueller Gives Advice On Increasing Your DA – No Joke
Google’s John Mueller posted a response on Reddit with his advice on how to improve your site’s DA, domain authority. He said he was “torn” with his response since DA is not a Google metric, is not used my Google and has no impact on your rankings. B…
Google Product Reviews Volatility, Local Search Ranking Update, New Search Features, MUM & BERT Expands and Search Console News
We are finally seeing ranking volatility in the search results related to the product reviews update after not seeing much early on. Google also released a local search ranking update that supposedly corrected the Vicinity update from December…
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Google Now Using MUM For Detecting Personal Crisis Searches & BERT For Detecting Shocking Content
Google promised to let us know when they expand when they use MUM in search and Google did just that yesterday with this new announcement. Google announced how they are using MUM for better detection of queries around personal crisis. And Google also …
Google Audio Knowledge Panel To Listen In Your Language
Last month we spotted Google testing an audio based listen and translate feature for the local panel. It seems Google is now trying this out for standard knowledge panels. These will play an audio clip of the knowledge panel text in English or your lo…
New: Google Data Studio Supports Discover & Google News Traffic From Search Console
Google announced that now the Search Console connector for Google Data Studio can now bring in traffic data for Google Discover and Google News. This means you can do more mashing up of your data, directly in Google Data Studio specifically with those…
Google: Nofollow Is Not A Dampening Factor
Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that the “nofollow is not a dampening factor.” Meaning, when you put a nofollow attribute on a link, it does not dampen the value of the link, it totally does not give any credit or value to that link at all.
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Now Seeing Volatility For The Google Product Reviews Update (v. March 2022)
Earlier this week I reported that we were not seeing huge changes yet for the March 2022 Google Products Reviews update. Well, it seems like some of the tools and a number of SEOs are now noticing larger changes specific to sites that would match the …
Google Search Highly Cited Stories & Come Back Later For Evolving Results
Google is rolling out to features to give searchers more ammunition when looking at the search results on news related topics or evolving topics. One is a highly cited label for top stories and the other is more information about search results that a…
Google Continues Expandable Tab Search Result Snippets Test
Back in August 2021, Google began testing this expandable tab search result snippet. Then the test seemed to have expanded in November 2021. Last week, I had countless folks ask me about this again, but I am not yet able to see it myself – but clearly …
Google: Keep Old Redirected URLs In Sitemaps Files Temporarily
Google’s John Mueller said again on Twitter that you should only keep old URLs that have been redirected elsewhere in your XML sitemap file temporarily and not long term. John has said this a few times before – but now John is saying keep them there f…
Bing Round Category Icons To Explore More Images
Microsoft Bing is testing (or maybe rolling out) new explore icons for images that show up in the web results. There are these round circle category icons that let you refine your search for the query, to show more images that match the refined query.
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Bing Interactive Wikipedia Box In Search Results
Microsoft Bing seems to be testing a new search feature that embeds snippets of content from Wikipedia in this large Wikipedia box in the search results. It basically brings in portions of content from Wikipedia broken down by the Wikipedia’s page con…
Google Search Local Pack Refine Query & Location Search Box
Google seems to be testing a specialized local pack that looks more like the local service ads. Maybe this is a bug because the ads are not labeled or maybe Google is testing free local service listings? The local pack design looks more like local ser…
Daily Search Forum Recap: March 30, 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.
This newsletter showcases a ton of search interface tests, a ton of them. Yes…
Daily Search Forum Recap: March 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.
Almost a week into the Google Product Reviews update for March 2022, it looks like this update is not tha…
Google AdSense Anchor Ads On AMP Sites With Auto Ads
Google AdSense announced that those with AMP sites that have Auto ads with AdSense will now support anchor ads. From April 11, 2022, if you’re using Auto ads for AMP, anchor ads will start to appear on your sites.
New Google Trusted Store Badge Based On Shopping Experience Scorecard
Google has launched a new Trusted Store badge for merchants who have an excellent Google Shopping experience scorecard score. Google also launched a new set of Google Merchant Center insights reports.
Google Structured Data Error Reporting Gets More Descriptive Names & Context
Google today has rolled out more specific, descriptive and contextually helpful names for the structured data error reporting it shows in Google Search Console rich result status reports, the Google Search Console URL inspection tool and Rich Results …