Google Ads Automatically Created Assets Beta Feature
Some advertisers are seeing in the Google Ads console a beta feature named “automatically created assets.” This feature allows Google to generate headlines, descriptions, and other assets using your content from your landing page, domain and other ads…
Google Merchant Center To Opt In All To Automatic Item Updates For Condition On June 26th
We covered this news back in April, but as Kirk Williams posted last week, some of you may have forgotten. In short, Google Merchant Center will automatically opted everyone in to the new automatic item updates for condition on June 26, 2022.
Google Tests Search Filters On Left Side Bar
We recently spotted Google testing the search bar navigation on the left hand side and now Google is testing different search filters on the left side bar. These are for product related queries that let you filter by feature, brand, department, size, e…
Daily Search Forum Recap: June 3, 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.
Microsoft’s IndexNow, after much hesitation…
Programming Note: Offline For Shavuos 5782
This is a programming note that I will be completely offline for the holiday of Shavout/Shavous, from Friday night June 3rd through late Monday night June 6th. Any stories published here will be scheduled and written beforehand and not posted live…
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Google: You Don’t Have To Resubmit Your Page For Indexing Each Time You Update It
Google’s John Mueller said when it comes to reindexing and resubmitting your web pages to Google Search – Google does it on its own. You do not need to resubmit your pages each time you update the content, Google will figure it out.
IndexNow Coming To Yoast SEO Premium
Despite Yoast’s founder, Joost de Valk, being super unimpressed with IndexNow, the Microsoft backed indexing initiative, Yoast will be adding support soon for IndexNow in Yoast SEO Premium.
Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Core Update, Nofollow Links, Rich Results & Apple Search Rumors
This week, we dove more into the Google May 2022 broad core update, stories of those hit, how Google looks at the data prior to the rollout and more. Google also hinted that useful nofollow links, despite the policy change in 2019…
Google Shopping Ads Loyalty Program Feature Live?
At Google I/O the company announced a new Shopping Ad feature to showcase your loyalty programs directly in Google Search. Well, that feature might be out in the wild now, for Target and other retailers.
Google AdSense To Test Chrome’s Topics API Starting July 1st
Google announced that starting July 1, 2022, Google AdSense will begin testing the Chrome’s Topics API for ad requests on a “small percentage of traffic.” The Topics API was announced early year as a replacement for the flopped FLoC Google cookie repla…
Google’s John Mueller: It’s Easier To Stop Buying Links Than Maintaining Your Disavow File
Google’s John Mueller has one of his good one liners again. An SEO named Sara Taher asked him for his “thoughts on people updating the disavow file everyday?” John responded “It would be easier to stop buying links /shrug.”
Daily Search Forum Recap: June 2, 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 brand new learning video rich results…
Google Hints Useful Nofollow Links Won’t Pass Much Or Any Weight
Danny Sullivan from Google hinted the other day on Twitter that links that are nofollowed, even if they are useful links, are unlikely to pass much weight or any weight at all. In short, despite Google changing how they see the nofollow attribute in 2…
New Google Search Learning Video Rich Results
Google has added new rich results for learning videos. Learning videos are videos that are aimed at students and teachers to discover and watch educational videos. They include educational level and concept and skills covered in the video. There is ne…
Google Sitemap Submission Date A Day Head – How Futuristic
Yesterday an SEO named Nilesh Dhobi submitted an XML sitemap through Google Search Console. It was on June 1, 2022 but Google showed the date submitted as June 2, 2022. I doubt this is a big deal but I found it funny.
Google Ads Guides For Search Ads Automation & Keyword Matching
Google’s Ginny Marvin shared two new resources and guides around Google Ads that the company just announced. One is the Search Ads Automation Guide and the other is a guide around the Google Ads keyword matching systems.
New Google Author Markup Best Practices For Article Structured Data
Google has posted a whole new section in the article structured data documentation for author markup best practices. These new best practices can help you communicate to Google the correct author details for your articles.
Google Suspends Job Training Rich Results
Google has officially suspended (pun intended) the job training rich results, this is something Google did by accident in January 2021 but now it is official. Google said they “ultimately found that it wasn’t useful for the ecosystem at scale.”
Google Tests Knowledge Panel Without A Box Border
Google is testing a user interface where it does not surround a knowledge panel completely with a box. Instead, there is just this vertical divider line in the desktop results.
Google Business Profiles Bug Temporarily Drops Product Management Features For Merchant Center
The folks at WhiteSpark showed screenshots of Google Business Profile limiting the control you have over your product listings within your local panel. They showed how “businesses can no longer edit existing Products on their Google Business Profiles …