Poll: Which Search Engine Can Compete With Google? DuckDuckGo, Bing, Brave Or Neeva
Brodie Clark posted a poll on Twitter that has about a thousand responses, asking “which search engine has the best chance of competing with Google over the next 10 years?” The search engine that got the most votes was DuckDuckGo, beating out Microsof…
Google Asks How You’d Use More Exportable Data From Search Console
Daniel Waisberg of Google asked on Twitter how would you use the data, if Google let you export more data from Google Search Console. Daniel wrote “Many people ask Google to expand the limits for exporting *Search performance data* (not talking about i…
Search News Buzz Video Recap: Frequent Google Algorithm Updates, Quality Raters Guidelines Updated, IndexNow With Bing & Yandex & More
First, sorry for the static in the beginning, it stops after 30 seconds. This week, we had another Google search ranking algorithm update to report on…
Microsoft Advertising Launches Health Insurance Ads
Microsoft Advertising announced a new ad format for Bing Search named health insurance ads. Microsoft said advertisers are already seeing a 4X increase in return on ad spend (ROAS) and lower costs per acquisition (CPAs) with this new format.
Google Tests Larger Font In Mobile Search Bar
Google is testing a larger font and larger search bar in the mobile search interface. This was spotted by Brodie Clark, who posted two images on Twitter. I made those images into an animated GIF so you can visualize the size difference between the two…
Bing Checks XML Sitemap File Daily
Fabrice Canel from Microsoft said that Microsoft tries to check your site’s XML Sitemap file one per day. He said on Twitter “we attempt looking at sitemaps once a day.”
Google: Buttons Are Not Links, Buttons Not Used For Crawling Purposes
Google’s John Mueller was asked if the button attribute is treated like a link attribute. The answer was a straight forward, “no.” John said on Twitter “buttons aren’t links and don’t inherently have urls attached to actions, so we wouldn’t use them …
Google: No SEO Benefit For Opening Links In Existing Or New Windows
Google’s John Mueller was asked if opening links in a new window versus the existing window (tab) would make a difference SEO or ranking wise in Google. John said no, there is no difference for ranking purposes.
Daily Search Forum Recap: October 20, 2021
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 updated its search quality raters guidelines…
Google: Different Intent Content On A Page Basis Can Confuse, Not Site Level
Google’s John Mueller said when it comes to confusing Google around having different intent of content, it is more of an issue on the page-level and not on the site-level. John said “a lot of websites just have a mix of different kinds of content,” an…
Google Alerts Stopped Working For Several Days For Some (Now Fixed)
Google has confirmed an issue with Google Alerts where Google’s Danny Sullivan said “We’ve identified an issue that’s prevented Google Alerts from operating properly. We’re working to resolve the issue quickly.”
Google Analytics Bug Results In Unrecoverable Data Loss On October 18th
Google Analytics had a bug that resulted in about an hour of lost data on October 18th. That data is unrecoverable and you should note, maybe with an annotation, that there was a glitch resulting in less data being collected by Google Analytics.
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Google Updates Search Quality Raters Guidelines On October 19th
After over a year of not having an update on the Google Search Quality Raters Guidelines – Google made several updates to the document yesterday, October 19, 2021. The last update was just over a year ago on October 14, 2020. The document this time ar…
Semrush: Google Search Algorithm Updates Are More Extreme This Year
Mordy Oberstein from Semrush came out with some data proving I am not insane or crazy, at least, when it comes to my reports on the Google search ranking algorithm updates. Yes, I have been reporting on these updates more this year than previous years,…
IndexNow – Ping Some Search Engines With URLs For Instant Indexing
Microsoft Bing and Yandex announced a new initiative named IndexNow that lets site owners ping IndexNow’s protocol to achieve instant indexing with the participating search engines. The participating search engines right now are only Bing and Yandex; …
Google Local Tests Purple Heart Label For Women Led Businesses
Google initially launched the “women-led” label in the local search results in 2018 with a women icon. Google seems to be testing replacing that icon with a purple heart. Saad AK and Colan Nielsen spotted this change and posted screen shots of it on …
Google Survey Asks You If You Want Ad Free Search Results For Paid Subscription
Can you imagine Google offering a monthly fee for using Google Search? Can you even imagine an option to remove the search ads in exchange for a monthly fee? I cannot and I’d be shocked if Google would ever launch a subscription model for Google Searc…
Frederic Dubut Leaves Microsoft After 8 Years Working On Bing
Frederic Dubut, the PM Lead for the Microsoft Bing Core Ranking team, has announced that after 13 years with Microsoft and over 8 years with the Bing team, he is leaving the company. He said “earlier this month, I closed the chapter on 13+ years at Mic…
Google My Business Attributes Replaced Led With Owned
Previously Google My Business had labeled the business attributes for women owned businesses as “women-led” and veteran owned businesses and “veteran-led.” Google now put them all in sync by labeling them as as “owned.” So now we have them as Black-ow…
Google Centerpiece Annotation: Primary Content Of Page & Site
Martin Splitt from Google explained the concept of centerpiece annotation, a term used in Google to define the primary content of a page or site. Martin said they are able to understand that a page’s primary topic is on A and the rest of the content o…