Google: SEO Is All About Not Requiring Search Engines To Read Your Mind
John Mueller of Google had a nice one liner that I thought would be useful to highlight here. He said on Twitter “SEO is all about not requiring search engines to read your mind.”
Google Tests Short Videos On Desktop Results
Google Search is now testing displaying the short videos we spotted on mobile almost a year ago, on desktop search results. I personally cannot replicate but Brodie Clark spotted it and shared this screenshot on Twitter.
New: Google Merchant Center Allows One Feed For All Countries
Google announced that you now only need a single feed to push all your products to Google Merchant Center no matter how many countries you support. Previously, you had to push a feed to show in one of two country groups, now you just need one feed.
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Google To Ban Climate Change Deniers Advertisers & Publishers
Google announced that starting on December 6, 2021 it will ban and prohibit climate change deniers from advertising or being publishers or creators on its network. Google said it is “announcing a new monetization policy for Google advertisers, publishe…
Google Search Console Core Web Vitals Report Adds Granular Scores
In May 2020, Google added a core web vitals report (to replace the speed report) in Google Search Console. The report now seems to show more granular scoring data on a URL group basis under the “example details” section on the right bar after you clic…
Google AdSense To Move To First-Price Auction – Expect No Impact
Google announced that by the end of the year, Google will move AdSense from second-price to first-price auction. Google said they expect this to have a neutral impact on AdSense publishers’ earnings overall.
Possible Google Search Ranking Update On October 6th & 7th
There were some signs of a possible Google search ranking algorithm update that touched down on October 6th, spiked a bit more on October 7th and is fizzling out today, October 8th. The tools are not as insane as with this past weekends update but ther…
Search News Buzz Video Recap: Weird Google Search Updates, Facebook Outage, Google Link Scheme Penalties, Sustainability at Google & More
This week, I started off with the big monthly Google webmaster report – it is a good way to catch up or remind yourself of what changed. Google Search had this really weird Google Search update this past weekend…
Google Search Console Rich Results Status Reports Gets More Actionable Errors
Google has added some detail to the Search Console rich results status report errors. These new details include five new errors plus better details across many error types that should be “more actionable” according to Google.
Google Tests Vertical Line Sitelinks
Google is testing yet another format for its Sitelinks for both the organic search results and the search ads. These are Sitelinks in a vertical format with a line going from the top down.
Microsoft Advertising New Credit Card Ads On Bing
Microsoft announced it has a new ad format on Bing Search using the Microsoft Advertising network. The new format is called credit card ads and is now an open beta that you credit card companies can use to advertise on Bing.
Google AMP Links In Search Not Working In iOS 15 – Fix On Way
Google confirmed that there is a bug with AMP URLs not working on Google Search with iOS 15. If you’ve upgraded your iOS device, iPhone or iPad to iOS and click on a link from Google Search – you won’t be taken to the AMP URL, if there is one. Not at…
Google Local Pack Offer Label Attribute
Google is testing a new icon or label attribute in the local pack for “offers.” The icon looks like a price tag label you see in stores and next to it, it reads “offer.” It shows the offer listed by the business in its Google My Business listing.
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Google Search Featured Snippets Full Width Design
Google Search is testing an updated design interface for featured snippets. You can see that the featured snippet goes across the full width of the layout, when it normally cuts off at the end of the search box.
Sustainability With Google Initiative: Eco-Friendly Map Routes, Flights With Carbon Emissions & More
This morning, Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Google, announced a slew of initiatives that Google is taking to make their efforts more sustainable and eco-friendly. This includes new features in Google Flight Search, Google Maps and also across Nest, their …
Google Tests Search Refinements In Autocomplete
Google is testing placing those search refinement bubbles directly in the Google suggest autocomplete. Shalom Goodman spotted this and posted a screenshot on Twitter showing this in action.
Google Hints It Will Penalize Interlinked Link Schemes?
Google’s John Mueller posted a cryptic tweets this morning with a dark photo with the date, October 6, 2021 imprinted on an object. John’s tweet says “A system of sites interlinked.” To me, this says Google has claimed interlinked sites as a link str…
Google Tests Five Results In The Local Pack – A 5 Pack
Google is possibly testing the local pack in a five pack form, with five local results. The local results box is known as the three pack because it has shown 3 results since 2015 but we’ve seen Google recently test this five pack, also a two pack and a…
How Google Search Handled The Facebook Outage
Yesterday, as everyone knows, Facebook was offline for several hours, leading to huge financial loss for the company and its partners and a lot of disruption in your day-to-day lives when it comes to using WhatsApp, Facebook or Instagram to communicate…
Google Ads Keyword Planner Tool With Trending Data
Google is testing showing trending keyword data on the keyword planner tool. You can see from Arbab Usmani’s screenshot on Twitter that Google added two columns; three month percent change and three month trend type to the chart.