Google Search Console API To Support 24-Hour Hourly View
Google Search Console’s API will soon add support for the 24-hour hourly data view, plus, this will give you access to not just the past 24 hours but the past 8-days by hour.
Google’s Mortgage Calculator Hasn’t Worked In A Week
About a week ago, if you searched for mortgage related math questions in Google Search, Google stopped giving you the answer. Google first introduced its mortgage calculator features a decade ago but suddenly the features disappeared last weekend.
My Takeaways From Google Search Central Live NYC 2025
Google hosts events around the world for SEOs, content creators, webmasters, site owners and marketers named Google Search Central Live. They’ve been doing it for years and I’ve attended many over the years. This is the first time the event was held i…
Daily Search Forum Recap: March 20, 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 admitted that if searchers don’t use your page in the search results…
Microsoft Confirms Schema Helps Its LLMs (Copilot) Understand Your Content
There is a big debate in the SEO community on the topic of schema markup and LLMs. Do LLMs like Microsoft Bing’s Copilot, Google’s Gemini, OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Perplexity and others use schema markup and structured data in any way. Fabrice Canel, Princip…
Google Drops Review Counts For Non-Shopping Results
Google seems to have dropped showing the number of reviews are on a page, the review count, next to the review stars, for non-shopping/e-commerce pages. Google Search is now showing rating review values when using AggregateRating mark-up.
Google: If Searchers Don’t Use Your Page In Search It May Be Removed
Google admitted in a video published on its own Search Central YouTube channel that if searchers do not use your page(s) in the search results, those pages may stop showing up in the search results. Martin Splitt said this in a recent YouTube short he…
Bing Buy Now Button Goes Directly To Checkout
Microsoft Bing’s shopping carousel results have a “buy now” button that now links directly to the checkout page of the merchant. So when you click on buy now, it adds that item directly to the cart of the merchant’s website.
Google Business Profiles Fixed The Reverification Bug
Last week, Google sent out a bulk load of reverification requests to Google Business Profiles. Well, according to Google’s Rick Saxe, it was a bug and the bug should be fixed as of the past day or so.
Bing Webmaster Tools Down Has Been Down Hours
Bing Webmaster Tools has been down and/or loading incredibly slowly for the past couple of hours. SEOs began noticing this since around 11 am ET and as of the time I posted this story, it is still down or barely loading.
Google Confirms Volatility Prior To March 2025 Core Update Was Not That Core Update
Google has confirmed that the volatility we all saw prior to the official announcement of the Google March 2025 Core Update was not related to the March 2025 Core Update. This is something we expected Google to confirm, as I’ve asked Google this quest…
Google Tests AI Overviews In Middle Of Search Results Page
Google is testing moving the AI Overviews from the top position of the search results page (also known as position zero), to the middle of the search results page. We saw Google test this with featured snippets over the years, so it makes sense Google…
Google Expands Health Overviews & Adds What People Suggest In Search
Google said it is expanding its AI Overviews and Knowledge Panels to offer more medical and health related answers. Plus, those are being expanded in more counties and languages. Also, Google launched a new “What People Suggest” search feature that sho…
Bing Webmaster Tools Copilot Feature Opens Up To All
Microsoft has opened access to the Copilot feature within Bing Webmaster Tools. I played a lot with it when I was in the limited beta in December and it is a cool nifty feature to use, but I am not sure how critical of a feature it is.
Bing Webmaster Tools Search Performance Reports Get Compare Filter
You can now compare date ranges of data directly in the Bing Webmaster Tools Search Performance reports without having to export it to a third-party tool.
Microsoft Tests 9 Ads & Only Bing Free Search Results On Same Page
Microsoft was caught testing way too many ads on its Bing Search results page. I saw 9 ads and only two organic/free listings on the page for a query on [garage door repair].
Google Tests AI Search Options Beyond AI Mode
Google Search seems to have accidentally leaked its various AI Search options and features, that go beyond just AI Mode, which it recently launched. 47 different AI Search options are shown including Info Sleuth, Allium, QTalk, MedExplainer, Fantasy S…
Daily Search Forum Recap: March 18, 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 is testing adding links to AI Overviews that generate clicks, but these links go to Google Search…
Google Tests Links In AI Overviews To More Search Results
While Google keeps saying it values publishers and knows how important it is to link to publishers and site owners from Search and AI Overviews, well, it is just as important for Google to link to their own search results for AI Overviews. Google is te…
Google Ads Images Double Expand Swipe Carousel
Google Ads is testing the ability to not just expand the images in the ad carousel but expand it again. So you can double expand the images and swipe through them either as smaller images or as larger images.