Google Tests Review Carousels & Blocks For Product Queries
Google is testing (I think again) review carousels and block units in its search results for product queries. A number of SEOs spotted these coming up over the past week or two, and they basically show product review content in a separate section withi…
Google Tests Review Carousels & Blocks For Product Queries
Google is testing (I think again) review carousels and block units in its search results for product queries. A number of SEOs spotted these coming up over the past week or two, and they basically show product review content in a separate section withi…
Google Shopping Refinements With & Without Product Ratings
Google Search is now sometimes showing the ability to filter products in its search results by product rating. I am not sure if this is new or not, but I cannot replicate this but some are seeing the product rating filter/refinement option when searching.
Google Tests New Shopping Search Filter On Mobile
Google is testing a new filter for its shopping results in the mobile search results. Instead of showing a single filter menu, Google is showing a product image carousel line first and then a filter menu for additional search filters.
Google Ask For Me – Calls Businesses For Costs For You
Google has a new Search Labs feature named Ask for me. Ask for me will have Google call businesses for you, to figure out the cost of the service and when it can be scheduled for you. It is like that Duplex feature we saw years ago, where Google would…
Daily Search Forum Recap: January 30, 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 search ranking volatility seems to be spiking once again…
Google Search Ranking Volatility Heats Up January 29 & 30th
Google Search ranking volatility spiked and heated again over the past 24-hours or so. I am seeing renewed chatter spike up yesterday, January 29th and continue through today. I am also seeing that some of the tracking tools are showing an increase in…
Google Maps Service Area Business Access Request Link
Did you know there is a quick way to directly generate an access request for Service Area Businesses in Google Maps? This is apparently not so new but also not widely known.
Google: Why 100 Negative Keywords For Google Ads PMax Campaigns
Ginny Marvin, the Google Ads Liaison, explained why Google is only letting you add up to 100 negative keywords to your campaign-level negative keywords within your Performance Max campaigns on Google Ads.
Google Business Profiles Gains Batch Price Editing & Moving Menu Items
We recently covered how you can now drag and drop menu items for your restaurant in your Google Business Profiles. But Google also seemed to add the ability to move menu items between sections of your menu and the ability to batch edit pricing of menu …
Google AI Overviews Go Deeper With Gemini 2.0?
In early December, Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Google, said Google is starting to test powering AI Overviews with Gemini 2.0. Well, we may be starting to see some of that in the wild, with much deeper and detailed AI Overviews and citations.
Microsoft Bing Advertising Revenue Up 21%
Microsoft reported its second quarter 2025 earnings and it showed that its search and advertising revenue was up 21%. The previous quarter it was up 18%, then 19% but before than it was 12% and 8% – so things are looking more positive.
Google Expands Site Reputation Abuse Enforcement To German Sites
Google has once again expanded the reach of its site reputation abuse policy, beyond the US enforcement from from May and beyond limited European regions last week – we are now seeing enforcement in the massive German market.
Google Search Console Reports Latest Update In 30 Minute Intervals
Google may have pushed some improvements to the reporting system within Google Search Console. Now Google can show how soon the report was updated within a 30 minute interval. So instead of showing last updated 3 hours ago or 4 hours ago, as an example…
Google Ads Clarifies Docs Around Placement Exclusions After Confusion
Earlier this month, the Google Ads industry had a lot of confusion around if and in what cases the Google Ads API accept or support placement exclusions for Performance Max campaigns. Well, Google’s Ginny Marvin clarified this the other day in an email…
Google AI Overviews Now Providing Programming Help
Google AI Overviews, even when not signed into a Google Labs project, is providing coding and programming examples and help. This started sometime yesterday, I believe, and before, I believe you had to opt into a Search Labs experiment to trigger this.
Google: SEOs Can Spot Made For Search Engine Content Quickly
John Mueller from Google noted that he finds it “interesting” how those who spend time in our industry “can often recognize made-for-search-engine content fairly quickly.” Meaning, we are good at seeing a piece of content on the web and knowing if it w…
Google Ads New Used Since Column For PMax
Google Ads is testing adding a new column to its Performance Max reports named “Used Since.” This column is visible on the asset level and it shows the date an asset was added.
Google: Merging Content More Challenging Than Site Moves For SEO
John Mueller from Google said that merging content is always more challenging than a basic site move. Meaning, when you take a look at your content on your site and decide to merge a bunch of the content into fewer URLs, that takes longer for Google t…
URL Is Unknown To Google In Search Console Means URL Has No Priority
Gary Illyes from Google said that if a URL has a status within Google Search Console as “URL is unknown to Google” that means that URL is really unknown to Google and has zero priority within Google Search systems.