Google Ads Imposes New Surcharges To Cover International Taxes & Fees
Google Ads emailed a bunch of advertisers yesterday morning about new surcharges to be added to your Google Ads bills for ads served in certain countries. Google has been doing this for some time but Google added a slew of new countries to the list tha…
Daily Search Forum Recap: July 27, 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 launched a new link spam algorithm update, reminded us about the nofollow attributes and warned us…
Google Publishes The Privacy Sandbox Timeline
On Friday, Google published a detailed timeline for the rollout of its Privacy Sandbox. Google said this “timeline reflects when we expect new technologies will be ready to support key use cases, so that Chrome can responsibly phase out third-party coo…
Olympic Athletes In 3D & AR In Google Search
Google now has some of the more well known Olympic athletes in 3D and AR (augmented reality) in Google Search. You can easily access it by going to Google.com on mobile or in the Google App and scrolling down until you find the “athletes in 3d” sectio…
Bing Search With Images From This Search Result Button
Bing has a search feature that lets searchers see relevant images from a search result for a specific query. There is an “images” button next to the search result snippet, that when you click on it, it pops up a carousel of relevant images from that s…
Assume The Google Page Experience Update Replaced The Old Google Speed Update
Google has launched numerous search algorithms around speed in the past. The question some folks have is does Google still use those old ones or does the new Page Experience Update replace those. John Mueller of Google said he would assume the Page E…
Google Link Spam Update Is Here
Google said it began rolling out a new algorithm update for Google Search named the link spam update. This update “is even more effective at identifying and nullifying link spam more broadly, across multiple languages,” Google wrote. It will roll out …
Google Clarifies FAQ Markup Should Be Visible On The Page Even Expandable Sections
On Friday, Google updated its FAQ structured data guidelines to provide examples around the guideline that reads “all FAQ content must be visible to the user on the source page.” The examples explain that it is okay to have the content in expandable s…
Gary Illyes From Google Mocks Core Web Vitals SEO Work
Gary Illyes from Google said on Twitter “I don’t know who needs to hear this but putting work in core web vitals doesn’t mean that the site can’t lose rankings over time.” He then added “I also washed my car hundreds of times and it still left me stand…
Google Tests Indenting Search Results From Same Domain
Google is testing indenting search results snippets from within the same domain name. So if Google shows two results from domain.com, it will show the first one and then under it, indent it a little under the one above it.
Google Ads Old Target CPA and Target ROAS Bid Strategies Going Away Soon
As Google told us in April, in the next couple of weeks, the the old Target CPA or Target ROAS bid strategies for standard campaigns are going away. Google said instead you can use the updated bid strategies by setting optional targets.
Unconfirmed Google Search Ranking Algorithm Update July 23rd & 24th
We may have had one of those smaller unconfirmed Google Search algorithm and ranking updates over the weekend. It may have started on Friday, July 23rd and spiked more on Saturday July 24th. I am also wondering if the fluctuations may be related to t…
Vlog #130: Udit Mhatre On SEO in India vs United States & Consumer Experience On SEO
Udit Mhatre is the Senior SEO Manager at DuMont Project…
Recap Of The Google Search Central Unconference 2021
A few weeks ago marked the second Google Search Central Unconference edition, almost a year after the first one took place (though most probably remember the first edition under a slightly different name, the Virtual Webmaster Unconference).
Google Review Snippets Missing From Search Results
Over the past couple of days, Google stopped showing review snippets, the stars under the search result snippets, for all queries. I did ask Google about this yesterday morning, as it really seems like a bug, but I have not heard back yet.
Google Question Hub Redesign & Features
Google Question Hub which has been in beta for years but officially launched earlier this year seems to have undergone a redesign. I am not sure when this happened but Eric Heiken noted it on Twitter and I think he is right, it looks new.
Some File Extensions Can Confuse Google Search
Technically, when it comes to using file extensions in your URLs, it doesn’t really make a difference which one you use for ranking purposes. .PHP, .HTML, .ASP, etc – it doesn’t matter. But if you use image based file extensions for web page based fil…
Google Shows Which Ranking Factors Resulted In A Page Ranking
Google is rolling out a new feature for the about this result overlay that actually tells searchers (and SEOs) why Google is ranking that page for that given query. Yes, Google is telling you which high level ranking factors are the reason this page i…
Google Removed A Soft 404 Classifier To Fix Some Deindexing Bugs
Google’s John Mueller said this morning that the Google Search team has removed a classifier it was using to determine soft 404s. As a reminder, a ton of sites were complaining about pages being deindexed and noticed a spike in soft 404s reported by G…
Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Shows Ranking Factors, Core Updates Impact PAAs, Redirected Signals Can Last Forever & AMP Icons Are Gone
Google is rolling out a feature to show in the about this result overlay why the company ranked that page for that query…