Bing Search Santa Hat Video Play Button Easter Egg
If you go to Microsoft Bing and conduct a search that triggers a video preview box to show up, there may be a little holiday easter egg for you. A Santa hat on the play button of the video that wiggles when you hover your mouse cursor over the video.
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Google Product Reviews Update Likely Will Expand To Other Languages
Google’s April 2021 and December 2021 product reviews update only targeted English language content. But John Mueller of Google said he suspects it will roll out to other languages in the future. He actually thought it did already but no, it did not….
Google Business Profile Products “Mark As Special” For Top Placement
Google Business Profiles (formerly Google My Business) seems to have added or is testing adding a new check box for products. There is an option named “mark as special” that will show that product at the top of the page in Google Search.
Poll Results: Did SEOs Work Over The Christmas Holiday Break?
With all the changes and updates Google made recently, I wondered if some SEOs felt they couldn’t take off over the Christmas weekend holiday. Google gave us permission to take off but did you? It seems like most of you did based on this very unscient…
Google Ads Past Violations Can Limit Your Ads
Shaun Elley posted a screenshot of one of his ads in Google Ads showing a status of “eligible (limited) policy (past violation).” This seems to mean that an ad you once had was disapproved because of a past violation but now that ad is not longer disa…
Google Search Console’s Link Report Not A Priority For Google
Google’s John Mueller was asked on Twitter why the pipeline to get data into the link report within Google Search Console seems slower than most the other reports. In short, John said that links is not an area they think SEOs should focus too much on a…
Google: Most Of Google’s Search Algorithms Work For All Languages But Not All
Did you know that most of the search algorithms Google launches work across all languages? There are exceptions, like when Panda first launched and the product reviews update and some others. Some launch first in some languages, like the English langua…
Google Keeps Track Of Algorithm Changes But It’s Hard To Use Even Internally
Alan Bleiweiss, a smart and fun SEO, asked John Mueller of Google if Google has a “Google Book of Secrets” where it stores all the algorithmic changes it makes in a single location. The short answer is, yes, Google does store all the changes it makes b…
John Mueller Of Google Providing Webmaster Support on Christmas Again
Google’s John Mueller again, actually since 2007, year-after-year, has jumped into the Google support forums and on social media to answer webmaster questions on Google Search. It is a tradition for him…
Google Search Won’t Rank Sex Toy Companies For G-Rated Brand Names But Google Ads Will For The Money
If you do a search in Google or Bing for [adam and eve] or [jack and jill], both very G rated phrases that also have very X rated companies behind it, you will get mixed results. On the Google Search organic results, by default, the sex toy companies …
Vlog #152: Colt Sliva On Entities, Python For SEO & Winning Over Developers
In part one, we spoke about how Colt Sliva became an SEO engineer and some topics around visualizing search graphs. In part two we spoke more about entities, python for SEO and winning over developers…
The John Mueller Meme Report 2021
Like last year, Google’s John Mueller put together a year end meme report of SEO for 2021. John said on Twitter “It’s time for the dreaded end-of-year reports. Here’s a compilation from the monthly internal reports that I put together. There’s more to…
Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Product Reviews Update Done Before Christmas, Lots Of Ranking Tremors & SEOs Working On Holidays
Happy holidays and merry Christmas to all of you, hope you are not watching this video on your break but if you are – you clearly love search…
Google Ads Serving Issue For Ads On Desktop Gmail
Google has a new serving issue with Google Ads that is impacting ad serving on the desktop version of Gmail. So if you are serving Google Ads on Gmail, your ads may not show to a “significant subset of users,” according to Google.
Daily Search Forum Recap: December 23, 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.
Most SEOs say they spend 25% or less of their time focused on link building…
Bing Shopping Buy Now Integration With Shopify & Ethical Shopping
Microsoft Bing announced it launched its Shopify integration by allowing a buy now from Bing Shopping and Bing Search to the Shopify site it is hosted on. Plus, a couple weeks ago, it launched a new Ethical Shopping hub in United Kingdom, which should …
Google Image Search Section For “Top Categorized Results” – Confused?
Google Image search on mobile has these labels for sections of the images it sometimes shows in the search results. A new label I have not seen before is showing “top categorized results.” I have no clue what that means – do you?
SEO Holiday Gift: Waking Up To $80,000 In New Traffic This Week
There is a Reddit thread I found via John Mueller that claims a site owner woke up to an additional $80,000 in monthly traffic. The person said that over the past several days his traffic skyrocketed 6,000 percent because his rankings for a very compe…
No, Google Doesn’t Use Google Analytics 4 For Ranking Purposes
Google’s John Mueller posted a very necessary clarification that Google does not use Google Analytics 4 for ranking purposes. Just like Google said countless times it does not use Google Analytics in its ranking algorithm, so to with the new Google Ana…
Survey Says: Most SEOs Spend Less Than 25% Of Their Time With Link Building
Yesterday, I posted a poll asking what percentage of your time as an SEO is spent doing link building. The Twitter poll has a ton of responses, over X, and it seems like the majority of SEOs spend less than 25% of their time focused directly on link b…