Google E-Commerce Cards With At A Glance Label Text
Google has these e-commerce or product cards that show up at the top of the search results. Now, Google is testing labeling them with not just the product category name but also now with “at a glance” added to the name.
Microsoft Advertising Target CPA and Target ROAS Going Away On August 4th
Microsoft Advertising will soon retire Target CPA and Target ROAS as a standalone bidding strategies. Instead, those bidding strategies will be merged with Max Conversions and Max Conversion Value. This will happen on August 4, 2025, said Navah Hopkins…
Google Ads Bans Tablet Presses Ads
Google will soon ban ads for tablet or pill presses; they will be added to the list of dangerous products or services. Ads for pill presses, tableting machines, dies, molds, stamps, punches used for creation or imprinting of pills and tablets will not …
Google June 2025 Core Update Is Rolling Out – What We’re Seeing So Far
Google officially announced the rollout of the June 2025 core update yesterday at around 10:37 am ET. This core update is expected to take about three weeks to roll out. Google said this “is a regular update designed to better surface relevant, satisfy…
New Google Search Console Insights Report
Google has relaunched its Search Console Insights as a standalone tab and report within the main Google Search Console tool. Previously, Search Console Insights was its own sub-reporting tool and now, it is part of the main Search Console site.
Cloudflare To Block AI Crawlers By Default & Pay Per Crawl Model
Cloudflare, a company that powers about 20% of all web pages on the web, has announced it is now blocking AI crawlers by default. Plus, it is offering a new model to allow AI services to pay content creators to crawl their content, named Pay Per Crawl.
Who Ate The Bing Search Results
Here is a weird bug with Bing Search – if you search for the term [ate], there are no search results. All you get are AI Answers at the top and maybe an interesting reads box, then there are related searches.
Google AdSense New Privacy Law & Opt-Out Mechanism
Google AdSense has added new universal opt-out mechanisms and privacy controls due to new laws they must adhere to. These go across several US states.
Google Promotes AI Mode With Animated Google Doodle
Google is promoting AI Mode with an animated Google Doodle on its home page, in some countries. The Google home page logo, animated and clickable, takes you into a search for AI Mode. It also has a Google-colored gradient to the top of the search resu…
Google Supports Fewer Structured Data, Not More Like Promised
The other day, I complained that Google told us we’d have more core updates, more often. Well, Google also said they would support more structured data, and Google did the complete opposite of that.
Microsoft Removed Over One Billion Ads & 475,000 Advertiser Accounts
Microsoft released its Microsoft Advertising trust and safety report, which revealed it removed or restricted over one billion ads. The company also suspended over 475,000 advertiser accounts over the year.
Google Tests AI Mode In Chrome Search Bar (Desktop & Android)
Google is testing showing the ability to search in AI Mode within the Chrome search bar on desktop and Android devices. This is obviously being tested both in the US and in India, where AI Mode is available.
PSA: Fan Out Queries Are Not In Google Search Console
Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been hearing buzz that some think that Google Search Console will show the “query fan-out” queries in Google Search Console. It does not, Google Search Console at best will show you the query used by the searcher, no…
New Google Ads Broad Match Experiments Testing
Google is reportedly rolling out a new way to conduct broad match keywords experiments and A/B testing. Google wrote this “new approach is aimed at delivering faster results and reducing some of the common experimentation errors, by diverting traffic a…
Google Ads API Outages and Slowness; Microsoft Ads Warns About Google Imports
Google Ads is experiencing some technical difficulties, although their ad status dashboard indicates that all is currently fine. The issue is somewhat significant in that even Microsoft Advertising is warning that you should manually update your Micro…
Heated Google Search Ranking Volatility On Saturday June 28th
On Saturday, June 28th, it appears that another significant Google Search ranking update occurred, although Google has not confirmed it. There has been significant search ranking volatility and chatter within the SEO industry over the past 24 hours or so.
Daily Search Forum Recap: June 27, 2025
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’s head of search, Liz Reid…
Google AI Overviews Tests Showing Site Names
Google is testing adding the site name next to the link icons in the AI Overviews within Google Search. This makes it much more likely for searchers to click on the links and click over to the source of the information.
Search News Buzz Video Recap: Where The Google Core Updates, Web Is Thriving & AI Index Freshness
Another week and more Google search ranking volatility hits, this time on June 25 and June 26. Google promised more core updates, more often, but that did not happen. Google’s Nick Fox says he questions the AI Overview click studies and says the we…
Head Of Google Search, Liz Reid, On Ads & SEO With AI Search
Liz Reid, the head of Google Search, spoke with Reed Albergotti of Semafor, on Google’s push towards AI Search. The interview was conducted weeks ago at Google I/O but was just published this week. It is worth a read but I wanted to highlight the SEO c…