Bing Search Compact View
Microsoft is testing a new “compact view” in the Bing search results interface. It is a toggle you can turn on and off that makes the search results page, um, more compact.
Google Crawl Rate Setting Takes A Day To Work
Google’s John Mueller said on Reddit that if you want to slow Google from crawling your site (or speed it up), it can take about a day from when you set the crawl rate setting in Google Search Console for it to kick in. The official documentation kind …
Google Titles Are Changing In Search But For The Better?
About a month ago, Google made a change to the snippet titles it shows in its search results, then confirmed that change a week after it was launched. The SEO community went a bit nuts about the changes and Google said, hold on, we are listening, we w…
Google: Ignore Mobile Usability Issue Notices If You Pass Live Test
Google’s John Mueller said that if your page passes the live mobile usability test – that means you can ignore the Search Console notices of “new mobile usability issues detected for site.” So as long as you pass the live mobile friendly test, you are …
Google Merchant Center Unique Product Identifier Enforcement
Google announced that beginning on September 15, 2021 Google will enforce correct unique product identifiers (UPIs) for your products uploaded to Google Merchant Center, even for free listings. Google said it is “expanding this enforcement and applying…
Google: Smart Internal Linking Can Help Google Trust Your Site More
I found it super interesting to listen to a dialog between a new German startup and Google’s John Mueller. The conversation leads to John Mueller
Google’s John Mueller Explains Passage Ranking In More Detail
We’ve covered the topic of Google passage ranking with tons of articles over the past several months. But in this past Google video hangout with John Mueller, John explained in a nice way what passage ranking is all about.
Google Tests Larger Sitelinks Block Design Again
Google is testing a larger sitelinks layout block design again. Google tested tons and tons of sitelinks formats over the years including this one. It began testing this look again a few months ago but the tests seem to be increasing, maybe we will s…
Google: Site Quality Is Not About The Pages Missing From The Google Index
Google’s John Mueller explained that you really need to look at your site as a whole when determining if your site is quality or not. Do not simply look at the pages Google did not index or the pages Google does not show in the search results.
Google Embedding Links In Featured Snippets Again
It looks like Google is testing embedding links in featured snippets again. It is hard to find examples of this but Brodie Clark and a few others spotted some examples. We first reported on this last November and then saw it come back in January – an…
Google: content-visibility CSS Won’t Impact Google Search
Google’s John Mueller said that he does not believe that the new content-visibility CSS that modern Chrome browsers support won’t impact Google Search. It may impact the speed of your pages, that can impact your core web vitals but outside of that, it…
Google: Lead Gen Forms Or CTAs Can Sometimes Be Seen As Ads When…
Google’s John Mueller said that sometimes Google can treat a large lead generation form or call-to-action as an ad if the content on the page is not on the same topic as what is in the lead gen form or CTA. And when that happens, Google may say there …
Long Volatile Google Search Ranking Algorithm Update: 9/9 – 9/12
Starting Thursday, September 9, 2021 and going on through even today, September 13th, there has been a lot of chatter and volatility in and around the Google search results. It has not really cooled or calmed down, not yet, at least.
Vlog #137: Dan Sure On Using Buy Guides For SEO
In part one with Dan Shure we followed up on his previous advice around Google core updates and what you can do to improve your site after a core update. In part two…
Microsoft Advertising Optimization Score
Microsoft announced Optimization Score for the Microsoft Advertising platform. Optimization Score available on the Recommendations tab in the platform.
Microsoft Advertising Search Ads Get Disclaimers, Tests Video Ads & More
Microsoft Advertising, in addition to the optimization score feature, announced or pre-announced a number of advertising updates. These include disclaimers can now show in your ads, also there are new inline appeals for product ads and vertical-based …
Google: JavaScript Verification Still The Way To Go For Sensitive Pages
Back in 2008 Google’s Susan Moskwa said that when it comes to showing content to search engines but not all users because of either age verification detection or other requirements, often JavaScript verification is the way to go. The same is true toda…
Google Ads Search Terms Report Gains 6.5X More Query Data
Google announced that the Google Ads search term report now has, on average, 6.5 times more query data than since the company hide search term data back in September 2020. Google said “we’re able to show you more queries that meet our privacy standard…
Google My Business Removes Site Manager User Role
Google has now removed the site manager role or user rights level for Google My Business users. Now I see three levels; (1) primary owner, (2) owner and (3) manager. Google sent out emails notifying about the removal of the “site manager” role going …
Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Search Update 9/4, Bing Content Submission API, Recipe Rich Results & Google Ads Search Terms
This past Saturday, September 4th, there may have been another Google search ranking update. Microsoft Bing launched the content submission API out of beta. Google may automatically remove recipe rich results…