Microsoft Bing Explore This Page – Topics On This Page Widget
Microsoft Bing added (not sure how new this is) a feature named “explore this page” to its search results. When you click on the arrow to explore the page, an overlay box comes up in the search results showing you the topics you can find on that page.
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Google June 2021 Core Update Tremors But It’s Still Early
I was expecting as of this morning that I’d see significant signals that the Google June 2021 core update has landed. But at the time of posting this, I am not seeing “significant” signals of this, but I am seeing some less significant signals. Many,…
Google Knowledge Panel Showing Monthly Costs For Services Like SEO
If you search for [seo] and look at the knowledge panel on the right, you will see a section that says “Monthly cost: $2819 per month.” That links to an SEO company’s SEO packages page but it makes it looks like the monthly cost for SEO is that fee, no…
Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google June 2021 Core Update, News Trust Signals, UGC Penalties, CLS Metrics & Google Ads Cryptocurrencies
It was a pretty busy week, with Google releasing a new core update after not having one is about six months. This core update is named the June 2021 Core Update and Google said part two of this update will rollout next month…
New on Google Local Search Results Label
Google has launched a new label in the local search results, both the local pack in Google Search and in the Google local results in Google Maps. The new label reads “new on Google” with an announcement speaker blue icon.
Google My Business Removes Ability To Edit Or Create Short Names
In 2019, Google My Business added the ability for businesses to create short names – i.e. short URLs – for your Google business profile in Google Maps or Google Search. Well, Google said it will no longer allow businesses to create or edit their short …
Google Test Layouts For Local Panel On Mobile Search
Google seems to be testing a bunch of variations and adjustments to the local panel in the mobile search results. Amy Toman posted a few examples on Twitter, both video screen casts and screen shots.
DuplexWeb-Google – GoogleBot Crawler For Duplex / Google Assistant
Google added a support document for the web crawler Google uses for Duplex, its Google Assistant voice features that can have conversations with people. The bot’s useragent is named DuplexWeb-Google and is now part of the modern set of GoogleBot crawl…
Google Supports Six New Math Solver Problem Types Rich Results
Google has added six new supported math solver rich result problem types to its support documentation. The new types are arithmetic, eigenvalue, eigenvector, limit, statistics and system of equations. There are now 49 problem types supported in the mat…
Google Search Tests Learn More Instead Of People Also Ask
Valentin Pletzer noticed that Google has been testing replacing the “people also ask” header on the search feature with a “learn more” header. I shared his screenshot he shared on Twitter below. At the same time, I have been hearing reports that Goog…
Google Search Console Regular Expressions Gets Exclusions Support
Google launched the ability to use regular expressions to do advanced filtering in Google Search Console in April. But what was not supported was the ability to use regular expressions to exclude patterns in your filters. Google added support for nega…
Google June 2021 Core Update Is Live – So Far, We Are Not Noticing Much
The time has come – Google has finally released another broad core update – this one is named the June 2021 Core Update. This update started rolling out yesterday, June 2, 2021 and it came just about six months after the last core update, which was th…
Google To Allow Cryptocurrency Ads Starting August 3rd
Google announced that beginning on August 3, 2021 it will allow advertisers to use Google Ads to promote their Cryptocurrency Exchanges and Wallets in the United States. To do so, you need to be a registered financial company, comply with laws and comp…
Updated Cumulative Layout Shift Metric Is Live In Google Search Console
In April, Google updated how the Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS) metric within the core web vitals was calculated. In short, Google made the metric more beneficial to most sites, so your CLS scores may go up by themselves on June 1st.
Reverse Google Image Search And Google Lens Coming Closer Together
Rajan Patel, VP of Engineering at Google where he leads teams working on Lens, AR, and Consumer Shopping, told me that Google Image Search and Google Lens are coming “closer together soon.” This was after I failed at using a reverse image search featur…
Hey Google, Bring My Business Online Feature In Google My Business Assistant App
Google seems to have launched in Italy a new Google Assistant app for the Google My Business platform. This app lets you ask Google Assistant to bring your business online. All you do is say “Hey Google, bring my business online.”
Google Page Experience & Core Web Vitals Label/Icon – Will It Go Live?
It has been half a year since I saw Google test the Google page experience and core web vitals label or icon in the search results. Google’s latest messaging is that Google will continue to test it but made no promises that this label will launch. We…
Google Explains When To Delete Tag Or Category Pages
Google’s John Mueller was asked by an SEO named Promothash Boruah when is it safe to delete tag and/or category pages on your web site. John responded that you can remove those pages with no real impact on your organic search traffic if those pages ha…
Google News Article & Site Wide Factors Trust Signals
Google published its Google News transparency policy listing its principles behind these policies. Google said these policies help determine what is eligible to appear on Google News and other News surfaces, and they help ensure that Google is elevatin…
New Google Merchant Center Website Needs Improvement Policy Status
Google announced a new Google Shopping and Google Merchant Center policy update where sites that do not meet certain professional and editorial standards would have their accounts suspended. They will be notified with a “Website needs improvement” pol…