Google Tests Scrollable Search Ads Categories
Google is testing a search ad product carousel format that has these sub-categories that scroll as you swipe through the carousel of products. This format looks familiar but I cannot find any coverage of this new look, so I am covering it now.
From AI to social search: Key takeaways from BrightonSEO
Ash’s take: Scaling with AI, migrations, and overcoming implementation blockers Senior SEO Consultant, Ashleigh Noad attended several AI-focused talks. She found particularly valuable a session led by Michal Suski, the Head of Innovation at Surfe…
Daily Search Forum Recap: October 29, 2024
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 AI Overviews are now rolling out to over 100 countries…
Google AI Overviews Rolling Out To 100+ Countries & Billion+ Users
Google announced it is rolling out AI Overviews in Google Search to over 100 more countries, making it available to over one billion users and in all supported languages. This is the biggest expansion of AI Overviews yet, which was previously availabl…
Google: Doubtful You’d See Big Ranking Drop Over Core Web Vitals Issues
Google’s John Mueller said it again, he said on LinkedIn, “We’ve been pretty clear that Core Web Vitals are not giant factors in ranking, and I doubt you’d see a big drop just because of that.” Google has been saying Core Web Vitals are important in ge…
Google Tests Frequently Saved Label On Search Result Snippets
Google is now testing a “Frequently saved” label on the search results snippets. Previously we’ve seen you’ve visit often labels, for you labels, preferred source labels and other labels in the search results.
Google Tests New Local Places & Compare Sites Interface
Google is testing a new “all places” and “compare now” interface to see businesses and third-party comparison sites outside of Google Search. This is something Google launched in the European regions but now some are seeing this in the US with this ne…
Bing Recommends Against Batch Mode For IndexNow
With the new Bing Webmaster Tools recommendations section, we are learning more about what Bing Search likes and dislikes. One of the things Bing does not like is when a site using batch mode, or batch URL groups for IndexNow. Bing says it can cause se…
Google Ads Raise Your Budgets Recommendation Gains Information
Google has updated the “Raise your budgets” recommendation within the Google Ads recommendations with more details and tips. I mean, no one wants to raise their budget unless they can make more money, so having more details on why you should raise you…
Regarding traffic drops in health care industry
facing issues in health care industry?
Google Search Downgrading Rankings Of Content Starkly Different From Main Content
Google is now saying it has ranking systems that “aim to understand if a section of a site is independent or starkly different from the main content of the site. This helps us surface the most useful information from a range of sites.” This is the reas…
Google To Sunset Call Ads; Migrating To Responsive Search Ads
Google Ads will be sunsetting call ads sometime next year and will be migrating those to responsive search ads. Google wrote, “Call ads are being upgraded to responsive search ads to enable new features and simplify asset creation and management.”
Google Business Profiles Testing Reviews Within Photo Carousels
Google is now testing showing reviews within the photos carousel within a Google Business Profile listing. So when you scroll through the photos for a business, Google can also show review snippets.
Google Search Snippet With Mentioned Products Carousel
Google is testing showing a carousel named mentioned products, that can be displayed under a search result snippet that shows the products mentioned in that search result. This came up for Reddit results, in the Discussions and forums section in Google…
Google Updates URL Structure, Favicon & Adds Google Trends Docs
Google has added a new search document on Google Trends while also making some small updates to the URL structure, best practices documentation, and favicons documentation. Google has been doing a lot of videos around Google Trends, so the new document…
Google Business Profiles: Answer Questions About Your Inventory
Google Business Profiles may now ask you to verify your information about your store inventory within the Products section of your profile. Google will ask “Do you sell these products in-store?”
Overcoming implementation blockers: how to get buy-in for SEO in 2025
The vicious cycle of implementation In our most recent interviews, we heard the same story over and over again. A pattern emerged, and it’s a vicious cycle. 1. The rate of implementation slows down Organic campaign activity begins to decline, wit…
Google Search Console Performance Report Showing Almost No Data Today
Google Search Console’s performance report seems to have a bug where it is showing almost zero data for today. I can replicate this across numerous Search Console properties, so maybe something is stuck with Search Console right now.
Google Search Ranking Volatility Again On October 26th & 27th & 23rd & 24th
While I was offline, it seems we had two bouts of Google Search ranking volatility, one starting around Wednesday, October 23rd and 24th, and then again in the past 24 hours, starting on October 26th and 27th. I mean, this is a lot of the same as my pr…
Traffic drops: Google forced to pay out ?2bn
Business disappeared from the internet