Google Business Profiles Now Allows Bulk Managing Special Hours
Google has added a method to bulk manage the special hours for all the businesses you manage in Google Business Profiles. You can easily copy special hours from one business listing to others.
Google Search Tests Frequently Saved Label On Local Results
Google Search is testing the frequently saved label not just in the main search results but also on the local results, the places section, of the Google Search results.
Google Search Ranking Volatility Spiked Friday Jan 24 Through Weekend
Google Search may have pushed some unconfirmed Google search ranking algorithm update or tweak around Friday, January 24th. I briefly mentioned this on my Friday video but I felt it was worth kicking up here as its own story.
Yahoo Search AI Chat Expanded & Adds AI Answers To Search
Yahoo is continuing its AI Chat features within Yahoo Search, while also incorporating AI Answers into its search results. The AI powered answers and chat seemed to be powered by OpenAI.
Bing Tests AI Answers Sources Section In Carousel View & Videos
Microsoft Bing is testing placing the sources section of its AI Answers in a carousel view, instead of a list view. This let’s you scroll through the sources as opposed to just seeing them below in a list view.
Bing Tests Black Organic URLs & Green Sponsored URLs
Microsoft is testing different colored URLs for its organic (free) results and its sponsored (paid) results. The organic URL slugs are bold black colored and the sponsored URL slugs are bold green colored.
Google Search Tests Jobs At Similar Employers
Google is testing a new job carousel in the search results titled “jobs at similar employers.” This likely pulls from the Google Jobs postings schema and more but it can come up if you are just searching for products from that company.
Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Search Volatility, European Manual Actions, Quality Raters Updated, Bing Hides Google & Yahoo AI Chat
Google search ranking volatility is heated this week, but some of the tools are having issues tracking them. Google is sending out penalties, manual actions…
Google Search Quality Raters Guidelines Gain 11 New Pages
On Thursday, January 23rd, Google updated its search quality raters guidelines PDF document. The last time Google updated this document was for the March 2024 spam update changes, over ten months ago. This update seems to focus on on spam and adds som…
New Google Ads Performance Max Features
Google announced a number of new Google Ads Performance’¬’ Max’¬’ features with the aim to provide advertisers with more control, transparency, and actionable insights within Performance Max campaigns, the company said. These include updates around m…
Google: Spammers Encourage You To Waste Time Disavowing Links
Google’s John Mueller said that when it comes to disavowing links “it’s in a spammer’s best interest to encourage others to spend time on it.” Why? Because Google has said there is little reason to disavow links, unless you have a manual action or kno…
Google Ads To Drop Certification For Some Advertisers & Reorganizes Verification Docs
Google Ads has made two updates around advertiser verification recently. One, in some countries, Google will no longer require certification for some advertisers. Second, Google has updated and reorganized the Google Ads Advertiser Verification docume…
Bing Tests New Local Pack Design With Blue Backgrounds
Microsoft is testing a new local pack design and layout for Bing Search local pack results. Bing is placing these blue boxes, either below the map, to the right side, including different numbered variations.
Google Expands Site Reputation Abuse Enforcement To Europe
Google looks to have expanded its enforcement of its site reputation abuse policy to European regions this week. Google began enforcement in the US back in May but Google seems to have issued a ton of these manual actions (manual penalties) to European…
Yahoo Search Tests AI Chat
Yahoo seems to be testing AI Chat within its search results. The chat feature loads on the right side for your query. You click on it and it loads an AI chat bot.
Tested: Google Page Annotation Opt Out Does Work
Google is still testing its offensive page annotation feature in the Google iOS app still, but the good news is that the opt out feature does indeed work. Yes, it takes about a month, but if you opt out, Google will stop showing page annotations on you…
Google Removes Breadcrumb From Mobile Search Results Snippets
Google has removed the breadcrumb from the mobile search results, leaving only the domain in the search result snippets. The desktop search results will continue to have the breadcrumb and domain in the snippets.
Bing Tests Real Estate Search Menu Filter
Microsoft is testing a new search filter menu option that lets you filter by real estate results. This shows up in the normal search menu below the search box.
Google AI Overviews Come To Circle To Search
Now when you use Circle To Search in Google, Google can now return AI Overviews to those results. Google said they are “expanding AI Overviews to more kinds of visual search results for places, trending images, unique objects and more.”
Google Search Ranking Volatility Heated Starting On Jan 20th
We may be seeing more Google search ranking volatility start to get heated starting this weekend, through January 20th and 21st (and maybe today). Some of the Google tracking tools are having issues tracking these changes but some are not. But I do s…