Google Local Search: Browse By Products & Browse By Stores
Google local listings have been pushing products for the past several years, in fact, it just recently added in-store products in the help document around improving visibility in Google local search. Google has been showing browse by products and brow…
Google Tests Related To Recent Searches & Trending Search In Search Bar Menu
Everyone now is seeing the people also ask and people also search for in the search bar menu area. Now, Google is testing related to recent searches and trending searches in that search bar instead of the people also ask related information.
Google Trusted Store Badge Now Live
A couple of weeks ago, Google announced the new Google Shopping “trusted store” badge. Well, now it seems to be fully live, as of just a few days ago. Also, when you click on the trusted store badge, it tells you what makes that specific store “truste…
Vlog #167: James Gibbons On How Search Has Changed, SEM Tools & Other Search Sources Of Traffic
In part one with James Gibbons, the senior customer success manager at Quattr, we mostly spoke about how search tools can help you make decisions, and we also spoke about his history…
Search By Image & Text With Google Multisearch
Google has launched a new way of searching by image with Google Lens named “multisearch.” Multisearch lets searchers search by image and then refine that image search with a text query on top of it. And just to be clear, while Google says this is done…
Google Search Showing Massive Poll On Search Results Satisfaction
We covered Google polling searchers before asking if they are happy with the search results. But now Google is showing some pretty massive polls asking “how satisfied are you with this result?” under specific search results.
Google AI Can Update Local Listing Hours Including Live Traffic, Street View Imagery & More
Google announced that it will update the local business hours listed in Google Maps and Google Search of over 20 million businesses using AI. How? Google said it looks at a multitude of things including popular times (real user location data), the hou…
Bing Doesn’t Support data-nosnippet HTML Attribute
While Google supports the data-nosnippet HTML attribute, Microsoft Bing does not, clarified Fabrice Canel of Microsoft on Twitter. The data-nosnippet attribute lets you designate textual parts of an HTML page not to be used as a snippet in the search …
Podcast: Past, Present and Future Of Structured Data With Google Search
Lizzi Sassman and Martin Splitt brought on a special Google guest on their Google search off the record podcast to discuss structured data. The guest is named Ryan Levering who has been with Google for over 11 years working on structured data.
Search News Buzz Video Recap: Massive Google Ranking Fluctuations, New Google Multisearch, Ad & Analytics Latency & Local Search News
This week, I posted the monthly Google webmaster report – got to say, it was a super busy month – so catch up there. Google’s product reviews update, the tail-end, may have heated up in a big way, I covered that in a lot of detail…
Daily Search Forum Recap: April 7, 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.
For the past couple days now, it seems many but not all…
Google Expands Automotive Search Comparisons?
Google may have expanded the search capabilities of the automotive and car search features. We covered last year a bunch of search tools for finding cars on Google Search. Now Google seems to be tweaking those to show more comparison views and featu…
Bing Tests Explore Images Sidebar Menu
Microsoft has been busy testing variations of explore features in Bing Search. Here is one showing a side bar menu that expands and when clicked on, takes you into Bing Image Search.
Real Time Google Analytics Latency Issues Complaints
Over the past day or so, there have been numerous complaints about Google Analytics real time analytics having serious latency issues. Some are saying the charts will show little to know traffic and then all of a sudden spike to show a tremendous amou…
Google Search Removal Cancelations Take Hours To Process & That’s Fast
Google redid their removal tool in Google Search Console in 2020 but the tool has generally always been quick. John Mueller of Google said in the past that it takes less than a day and that it is very quick. So one person tested it and said it took on…
Google AdSense Makes User-based Ads Control Available To Authorized Buyers
Google AdSense made a small change to the user-based ads controls within Google AdSense. Now instead of it just being applied to Google Ads and Display & Video 360 ads, it is now also for Authorized Buyers.
Google: Thin Content Issues Are Site Specific, Not Always Page Specific
Google’s John Mueller was asked about thin content issues on the last webmaster hangout and John explained this generally applies to the site as a while and not a page by page basis. So it seems a site in general can be labeled as having thin content …
Google Maps With Deeper iOS Integration, Toll Prices & Traffic Lights/Stop Signs
Google Maps announced a bunch of updates for the iOS and Android app including the prices of tolls, displaying traffic lights and stop signs on the map and additional iOS integrations. These are also rolling out on Android Auto and CarPlay.
Google Ads Latency Issues Started On April 1st
Last Friday, about five days ago, Google confirmed there were some latency issues with the Google Ads console. It was specific to the Responsive search ads (RSAs) ad review process. But still, five days later, it is not resolved.
Google Does Not Care If You Outsource Content As Long As It Is Quality
Google’s John Mueller was asked if it matters if your publish content written by outsourced resources versus in-house resources. John said it does not matter, Google does not differentiate between outsourced content versus in-house content. For Google…