Google Search Lets You Try On Makeup Like Lipstick & Eyeshadow
Google announced a new augmented reality feature that is now supported in search – trying on make up. Since people really don’t want to try it on in a store, Google Search lets you try it on virtually in the search results.
Google: We Do Not Prioritize Crawling, Indexing Or Ranking By Platform
Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that Google Search does not prioritize crawling, indexing, or ranking by platform used. So if you use WordPress, Wix, Movable Type or something completely custom – Google won’t really directly care.
Google Antitrust Lawsuit Over Advertising Practices
You all know I hate writing about legal topics in search but I need to at least document these big ones here. And there is a lot going on. A lot of it is around alleged anti-competitive practices, with Facebook, hurting the advertisers on their platf…
We’re Not Done Yet: Another Google Search Ranking Update – 8th Day
There seems to be significant SEO community chatter along with most of the tracking tools showing big volatility in the Google search results in the past 24-hours. This comes just a day or so after Google confirmed the December 2020 core update is done…
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google December Core Update Done, Google 8th Day Update, Structured Data Tool Sticking & Search Snippets That Expand
This week was again another busy week in search. Google has confirmed that the December 2020 core update is officially done rolling out and guess what, it looks like our site has recovered with this update…
Google My Business Video Maker Is Okay But Not Great
Google launched a free and easy to use video maker tool within Google My Business. The videos come out okay but it wouldn’t be something I share on my home page of my web site. But that being said, it is something maybe some small businesses would sh…
Share A Story About How Bill Slawski Has Helped You
Bill Slawski recently had a medical issue, specifically a Brain stroke, where he needs to relearn how to walk and conduct certain motor functions. To many of us in the SEO industry, Bill has been our teacher, our professor, our mentor, that not only e…
Google December 2020 Core Update Is Complete
Google has finished rolling out the Google December 2020 Core Update on December 16th. It began rolling at around 1pm ET on December 3rd and took 13 days to fully roll out, which is just about the two-week timeframe Google has given us for the core up…
Explanations Added To Target CPA Campaigns On Search To Google Ads
Google announced that it added explanations to Target CPA Campaigns on Google Search within the Google Ads console. Google said “with this update, you can view the reason for significant changes in cost and conversions for Search campaigns using Target…
We Recovered With The Google December 2020 Core Update
Now that the Google December 2020 core update is officially done rolling out, I am confident to say that it looks like this site, the Search Engine Roundtable, has recovered after being hit by the May 2020 Google core update. I am seeing upticks in G…
Google Tests New Local Pack User Interface Buttons
Google is testing more changes around the local pack in the search results. On desktop, Google is testing using round buttons as opposed to square buttons. On mobile, Google is testing bubble designs for the tabs, instead of simple text with underlines…
Google Maps Local Listings Adds Web Search Results
Google is now showing web search results when you are viewing a local listing in Google Maps. For some reason I thought Google was doing this years and years ago but I cannot find a story I wrote about this (if you find it, let me know in the comments)…
Microsoft Bing Launches Holiday Recipe Search Results
Jordi Ribas, the Corporate Vice President of Microsoft Bing, posted about the new Microsoft Bing recipe result experience. He said he is “extremely proud of the Bing recipe team’s hard work on the new recipe search query experience – and just in time f…
Google Structured Data Testing Tool Moving To Schema.org; SEOs Now Happy
In July 2020 we reported that SEOs were not happy that Google was going to deprecate the Structured Data Testing Tool. Well, Google heard that loud and clear and announced that it will instead not deprecate the tool but migrated it off Google and onto…
Google My Business Call History Report Shows Answered & Missed Calls
In October we saw Google testing a feature called Preview Call History that shows you recent calls made to your business through Google Search and Google Maps. Now folks are seeing this report live in Google My Business under business.google.com/calls/…
Google Search Console Temporarily Disables Issue Validation
If you login to Google Search Console and check out the coverage report, you will see a notice about another feature that Google has temporarily disabled. Google posted “issue validation is temporarily disabled due to upcoming changes in the report.”
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Google 2020 Holiday Decorations Are Live For Christmas, Chanukah & Kwanzaa
Google now has all of its holiday decorations live for the 2020 year-end holiday season. We saw the Chanukah decorations go live a week ago because Chanukah already started but now the Christmas and Kwanzaa decorations are live as well.
Google: Our Core Updates Goes Out To Full Index, Page By Page
Google’s Danny Sullivan said that when it comes to Google Core Update, it “is core to all the content in our index,” he said. He said the core update “goes out to the entire index, page by page.”
Bing Webmaster Tools Begins Microsoft Clarity Integration
Microsoft has integrated its new analytics tool, Microsoft Clarity, with Bing Webmaster Tools. Microsoft Clarity user behavior analytics tool that helps you understand how users are interacting with your website through features such as session replays…
Google Tests Expandable Descriptions / Snippets In Search
Yesterday we reported how Google was testing dynamically expandable images below snippets. Now I am seeing reports of Google testing expandable text descriptions in the snippets. Here is a GIF of it in action from Jordan Long on Twitter.