Google Search Tests Showing All Of The Menu Bar Options
Google is testing displaying all of the menu bar options under the Google Search bar. This is instead of showing the “more” button, to see more search options.
Google Follow Feature Docs Now Say Use Descriptive Titles For RSS Feed & Use A Single Feed
Google has made a couple of tweaks to the documentation for the Follow Feature in Google Search. Google added you should use (1) descriptive titles for your RSS feed and (2) a single feed even if you have multiple.
Google: Dynamic Rendering Is A Workaround and Not A Long-Term Solution
Google has updated its help documentation on dynamic rendering to say “dynamic rendering is a workaround and not a long-term solution for problems with JavaScript-generated content in search engines. “Instead, we recommend that you use server-side rend…
Google Search Showing Fewer Review Rich Results In Shopping Vertical
Google may be showing fewer reviews in the search result snippets, fewer review rich results, specifically when you filter by the shopping vertical. This seemed to happen right when Google released the Google Product Reviews update, there was a five p…
Google Search Console Reporting To Gain Google Lens? Not Yet…
As Google Lens becomes more and more popular, SEOs are asking, will we be able to see what traffic we get from Google Lens in Google Search Console? The answer is that Google Search Console currently does not support showing Google Lens traffic or da…
Google Rich Results: People Also Ask Rises While FAQs Drops
Google may be displaying more people also ask rich results and showing fewer FAQ rich results. Semrush and RankRanger are reporting that there are big swings in some rich results and how often they are showing.
Google Clarifies GTIN Values Must Be In Numerical Form
Google has quietly updated its product structured data document to specify that the GTIN value must be presented is in numerical form. Google said it does not support the URL form for GTINs.
Google Keyword Planner Newish Feature: Organize Keywords Into Ad Groups
Google has added a newish feature to the Keyword Planner tool to organize keywords into ad groups. The reason I say newish is because Search Engine Land explained it was in beta but now it is available to everyone.
Google Local Service Ads New Weekly Email Performance Summary
Google has revised the emails they are sending Local Service Ads advertisers with a new email that says “Weekly recap | See how your ads did this week.”
Google Search Is Very Broken Now: Outages, Indexing Issues, Pages Missing & More
Last night, Google suffered a pretty big outage with Google Search that is still lingering through this morning. It seemed to be larger than just an outage because there are tons of complaints about indexing issues, pages dropping out of the index, and…
Daily Search Forum Recap: August 8, 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.
Over the weekend we saw a lot of volatility in the Google search results…
Vlog #184: Part I: Sarah Burke On Data Analytics and Differences Between GA 4 & UA3
Sarah Burke is the Data and Analytics Manager at Cypress North, she has been with the company for seven years, starting as a digital marketing manager. Prior to that…
Google Search Ranking Algorithm Update On Saturday, August 6th – PRU Tremors Or Something Else?
On Saturday, August 6th, we saw a lot of signals that there was another Google Search ranking algorithm update. It is not clear if these are tremors for the finished Google products reviews update from July 2022 or if this is something new and different.
Google: Noindex On One URL In An Hreflang Cluster Can Impact All The URLs In That Cluster
In the latest Search Off the Record podcast, Lizzi Sassman of Google asked Gary Illyes of Google about using a noindex on international URLs in an hreflang set. Gary said it can potentially lead to the whole cluster being noindexed.
Google Search Image Preview Overlay Now Fully Live In Web Search Results
Several days ago we reported how Google was testing a web search feature for the image pack that keeps you within web search when you click on a specific image. Well, this image preview pack overlay feature seems to be fully live for me and others.
Google Local Spam Now Includes Duplicate Photos, Posts, Videos, and Logos
Google has updated its Business Profile posts content policy to specify that Google now considers duplicate photos, posts, videos, and logos as spam. If you have duplicate photos, posts, videos, and logos on your Google Business Profile, your post may…
Google Now Supports Pros and Cons Structured Data For Reviews Pages
Google now supports new structured data for pros and cons of editorial review pages. This new markup can be validated in the Rich Results testing tool and other Search Console tools (I assume). Also, Google will prioritize supplied structured data pr…
Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Product Reviews Update Done, Blogger SEO Best Practices, Mobile-First Indexing Alive, SEO Rants & Much More
Shockingly, Google finished rolling out the Google product reviews update on August 2nd and didn’t even tell us on social. We are seeing some volatility and fluctuations in Google Search may be due to the Google Product Reviews…
July 2022 Google Product Reviews Update Finished On August 2nd & No One Said Anything
So Google has finished the rollout of the July 2022 Google Product Reviews Update in a record-breaking fashion, in a six-day period. It even shocked Google because Google originally estimated 14-21 days for the rollout and Google didn’t even mention an…
Google Business Listings Test Photo Overlay Interface In Web Search
Google seems to be testing overlaying the photos of some Google Business Profile listings in the web search results. Typically when you click on a photo in a Google Business Profile listing you are taken into the Google Maps interface to view the photo…