~80% Feel Google’s March Core & Spam Updates Won’t Reduce Low-Quality Search Results
I ran a poll asking my X/Twitter followers if they think the new Google March core and spam updates will reduce unhelpful content from showing up in the search results by 40%? About 80% of the 1,XXX votes said no, they don’t think it will reduce the l…
Does Google Search Know What Is Reliable Information
Danny Sullivan, Google’s Search Liaison, was asked does Google currently validate/verify if information or data within content, is accurate, correct, true or even “commonly accepted”. In which Sullivan replied it isn’t a simple yes/no response, Google …
Google Maps Hides Views Counts On New Reviews
Google is no longer showing the number of views a review gets on Google Maps. You will be able to see the older reviews view-counts for now but the new reviews are not showing those counts.
Google Search Console Recipe Rich Results Report Updated
Google has updated the recipe rich results report within Google Search Console. Google also cleaned up some of its recipe structured data documentation. You may see an increase in warnings for your Recipe items related to the reporting update.
New Site Level Approvals For AdSense for Search (AFS) Sites
Google is getting serious with where their ads show since all the bad PR and now Google AdSense is requiring new site-level approval process for AdSense for Search (AFS) sites. This started on March 4, 2024, but Google didn’t announce it until yesterd…
Microsoft unveils new tool to make cross-border advertising easier
Feed Labels will start rolling out in mid-March to simplify the process of running ads in multiple countries for retailers.
Meet Our MozCon 2024 Community Speakers
Thank you to everyone who submitted pitches to speak at MozCon! After much deliberation, we settled on two community speakers that we’re confident are going to be a great addition to the MozCon Stage. Ready to meet them?
LinkedIn restores service after global outage
More than 48,000 reports of issues have been registered on Downdetector, with users impacted globally.
Daily Search Forum Recap: March 6, 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.
I have a deep dive into the new Google March 2024 core update…
TikTok faces fresh calls for potential ban by U.S. Senators
New legislation could require ByteDance, TikTok’s owner, to sell the app within six months or face a U.S. ban.
TikTok expands monetization opportunities and rewards for creators
The platform is encouraging content creators to post longer, higher-quality videos to increase user engagement
Google Search turned off some event rich results
Google says you may see a drop in clicks and impressions for your event search appearance reported metrics in your performance report.
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Google March 2024 Core Update Rolling Out – It’s A Big Core Update
Google announced the March 2024 core update has now started to roll out and that this core update will take up to a month to fully roll out because it has updates to a few systems within the core ranking system. Google’s Helpful content system is now a…
Google March 2024 Spam Updates Rolling Out – Scaled Content, Expired Domain & Site Reputation Abuse
Google is rolling out its new March 2024 spam updates accompanying the very big March 2024 core update and three new spam policies. The new spam updates kick off this week and target scaled content and expired domain abuse, plus other spam, while givin…
New Bing Webmaster Tools IndexNow Insights & Top SEO Insights
Microsoft updated Bing Webmaster Tools to build out the IndexNow reports, now named IndexNow Insights, add new Top SEO Insights to the main page and also cleaned up the side bar navigation within the tool. Plus, Fabrice Canel announced how IndexNow has…
Google Search Quality Raters Guidelines Untrustworthy Pages Section Updated
Google has updated the Google search quality raters guidelines untrustworthy pages section. The previous version was 168 pages and not it is 170 pages and that previous version was released last November 2023. This update is probably to fit the change…
Search Console: Google Search Changes How Event Rich Results Appear
Google posted a notice in the Google Search Console data anomalies section that “Google Search has changed the way event rich results appear in Search results.” This was dated March 4th and onwards.
Bing Deep Search Now Live Again
Microsoft has relaunched Bing Deep Search today after pulling it offline after a failed initial launch. Now the Deep Search link comes with a disclaimer “GPT-powered results takes ~30 secs.” But it does seem to work better than my last test.