Google Ads Google Analytics Bulk Linking
Google Ads is testing a new bulk linking option to attach your Google Analytics account to multiple Google Ads accounts. Google has this new prompt that says “Save Time with Bulk Linking” and Link with more Google Ads accounts.
Bing Tests Open Sitelinks Button In Search
Microsoft Bing is testing an open button that says the site domain and when clicked, shows you sitelinks from that domain on the right side. You can then close out the sitelinks, if you want, or click on them.
Bing Tests Image Section In Shopping Panel
Microsoft seems to be testing a new image section in the Bing Search shopping panel. Sometimes Bing will add a section at the top of the page for shopping results, here is an image section within that panel.
New in the Yoast SEO Bulk Editor: filters, focus keyphrases, and AI drafts
The Yoast SEO Bulk Editor already gave you one place to update titles and meta descriptions across your whole site. Now it does much more. This release adds focus keyphrases to the editor, new search and status filters, a dedicated view for every content type, and AI-drafted metadata with Yoast SEO Premium. In short: you […]
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Google: We Send Billions Of Clicks To Websites Weekly Through AI Search
Nick Fox, Google’s head of search, said on Friday that Google’s AI Mode and AI Overviews – its AI search features – send billions of clicks to websites every week. He said Google Search overall is still sending billions of clicks daily, is only seei…
Google Warns Not To Uninstall/Reinstall Google & YouTube Shopify App
Google has updated us on the Google and YouTube Shopify app issue with uninstalling and reinstalling the app. In short, do not do it, do not uninstall and reinstall the app. Google said it will handle the API transition for you. If you do uninstall and…
ChatGPT Showing Two Ads In Footer Of Results
OpenAI seems to have started to show two ads in the footer of the ChatGPT responses. Generally, we have only really seen one ad from one advertiser. Sometimes we’d see two ads from a single advertiser. But now we are seeing examples of two ads from two…
Google Content API Extended Access Form Now Available
As many of you know, the Google Content API for Shopping is being replaced by the Google Merchant API by August 18th. Google has opened up a request form to ask Google to give you an extension on the August 18th deadline.
Google Warns Not To Place AI Labels On Corners Of Images
Google updated its use AI content labels help document, which it first created on July 9th when it announced it will label ads created or edited with AI. The update now says that when you add your own labels to image assets, you should not place labels…
What Types of Publishing Business Models Will Remain Profitable?
I thought the prior Google Gemini answer was decent, so tried my luck with a bit harder of a question: Historically successful online publishing enterprises like IAC (rebranded as People Inc) have struggled in recent years as the big web players like G…
Google Search Ranking Volatility This Weekend – Around July 18th
Google may have released yet another unconfirmed Google search ranking update this weekend. I am seeing some signs of ranking movement from the third-party Google tracking tools and the SEO chatter spiked a bit this weekend.
Google Search Ranking Volatility This Weekend – Around July 18th
Google may have released yet another unconfirmed Google search ranking update this weekend. I am seeing some signs of ranking movement from the third-party Google tracking tools and the SEO chatter spiked a bit this weekend.
Where SEO is Headed According to Google Gemini
As a thought experiment, I uploaded all the ancient copies of the Google remote rater guidelines I could find to Google’s Notebook ML, then asked it a series of SEO-related questions.
The future-related query was: given the trends discussed in these d…
Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google 7/11 Update, Bing Penalties, Google Images, AI Overviews AI Images, Google Ads Updates, ChatGPT Ads Features & Apple Maps
This week, we saw some Google Search ranking volatility around July 11th, so I called it the 7-Eleven update. Bing said it does not do one-off search penalties because it is not scalable. Google Images celebrated its 25th anniversary…
Google Ads Making Broader Smart Bidding Updates? Google Says No.
The PPC community has been going wild over the change that is coming to Google Ads around bidding for campaigns limited by budget on August 18th. There is some belief that this is going to be a broader smart bidding update than what Google communicated.
Did Google Maps Turn Off OpenTable Reservations?
Google has removed its help document named “Make OpenTable reservations in Google Maps” yesterday. It looks like that implies that Google Maps removed the integration it has with restaurant listings and making reservations with OpenTable.
Google Renamed NotebookLM Useragent To Google-GeminiNotebook
As many of you know, Google has user-triggered fetchers including Google-NotebookLM. But with NotebookLM being renamed to Gemini Notebook, Google had to update the user agent name of Google-NotebookLM to Google-GeminiNotebook.
Google StoreBot Accessibility Issues Help Document Updated
Google has updated the help document named How to fix: Google StoreBot crawler can’t access your in-store product page. The document has a number of big updates with a lot of clarifications including the user-agents, checking robots.txt, blocking IP ad…
Bing Tests Black Magnifying Glass Icon In Search Bar
Microsoft Bing is testing using a black colored magnifying glass in the search bar and box. This is instead of a gray or black outlined icon, the test is a fully colored in icon.
Google: Discovered vs Crawled Not Indexed Quality Issues & AI-Generated Content
Google’s John Mueller and Martin Splitt spoke about the Google Search Console indexing report in its latest Search Off the Record podcast. One item was on how quality issues, including low-quality AI-generated content, can result in those pages not bei…