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.
Top SEO Tips for 2025 — Whiteboard Friday
With the new year underway, you may be wondering what strategies you should implement for maximum SEO success in 2025. Chima’s got you covered! In this week’s episode of Whiteboard Friday, she talks through her six top SEO tips for this year, which inc…
HCU/SPAM/CORE Google Algorithm Impact Analysis Part 1 – The Victims
As many of my 20K social followers on Linkedin and X can attest to, I’ve been looking at the carnage caused by Google’s HCU and accompanying SPAM and Core updates and how specifically HCU and SPAM have impacted small,, independent publisher…
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…
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…
Google Clarified Site Reputation Abuse Policy & Manual Actions
Google has updated not just its site reputation abuse policy for clarification purposes, Google also updated the manual actions section for site reputation abuse. Again, these are just clarification changes, and as Google put it, “it include guidance …
Google Clarified Site Reputation Abuse Policy & Manual Actions
Google has updated not just its site reputation abuse policy for clarification purposes, Google also updated the manual actions section for site reputation abuse. Again, these are just clarification changes, and as Google put it, “it include guidance …