Lost 100% of ranking just in USA after HCU
Got hit by the HCU with no attraction on Google News at all
Lost 100% of ranking just in USA after HCU
Got hit by the HCU with no attraction on Google News at all
Google Ranking Teetering In & Out Over Weekends – Bug Or Edge Of Quality?
Google Search seems to be ranking some websites just fine during the weekdays and then removing that ranking over the weekends. It seems to be focusing heavily on non-standard TLDs, you know, those new vanity TLDs that you can make up. I am just not s…
Google Circle To Search & Upgraded AI-Powered Multisearch
Google announced two new search features, the first being circle to search and the second is AI-powered multisearch experience. Both seem like upgrades to Google Lens, let me take you through both.
Google Tests Search Result Snippet Product Listings & Local Images
We have seen Google show product images in snippets in many variations over the years. Now Google is at it again but not just with products but also local listings. The weird thing is that these listings go to product listing pages and not the products…
Report: Bing Gained Less Than 1% Market Share Since Adding Bing Chat
It has been just about a year now since Microsoft launched Bing Chat (now known as Copilot) and Bing’s market share has only grown less than 1% according to StatCounter. Most of you may not be surprised, since our poll shared shortly after Bing Chat l…
Google Search To Show More Third-Party Comparison Websites In Europe
Google announced it will be making changes to its search results to comply with the new regulation called the Digital Markets Act (DMA). This will result in some Google vertical search units being removed and third-party comparison site units being add…
How to Maximize Brand Visibility With Employee-Generated Content
Discover the power of employee-generated content and how to harness it to boost your brand visibility.
Google’s video search update: What’s new?
In December 2023, Google rolled out a significant update to its rules and guidelines concerning video indexation and rankings. The landscape has shifted, and it’s crucial for webmasters to adapt to these changes for optimal visibility in Google search results. What changed? In the past, any page with a visible video to Googlebot-video and appropriate […]
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Is Google Search Is Getting Worse? German Study Published Says Kinda
A study released by the Leipzig University, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar and ScaDS.AI in Germany asked if Google Search is getting worse. The 16 page paper, downloadable as a PDF over here says that Google has slightly improved in some areas but there is still a lot of spammy content within Google Search.
Advertisers & Agencies Frustrated With Lack Of Google Ads Support
Advertisers and agencies seem beyond frustrated by the lack of support from the Google Ads support team. Nicola Agius covered it incredibly well, she said, “Google Ads customer service has plummeted to an unacceptable all-time low, according to search …
Google On Text Within Images
A recent post on Reddit asked about the impact of having a website where most of the text was within images. Would Google be able to read the text, what is the SEO impact and would the text rank in the search results?
Google Search Not Showing News Boxes For Some Election Queries
Google Search may not be showing news boxes, like top stories, for some election types of queries. So if you search for [iowa caucus] or [2024 United States primary elections] and others don’t seem to trigger news boxes.
Bing Tests Shadow Effect On Mouse Over Search Result Snippets
Microsoft is testing a new style for when someone hovers their mouse cursor over a search result snippet in the Bing Search results. Bing will add a shadow effect to that snippet on hover over.
What to Do With Aging Local Business Content: Review, Update, and Re-promote!
Instead of seeing the benefits of your past hard work evaporate over time, discover how to keep your older content working for the local business you’re marketing.
Search Bing & Google At Same Time With Microsoft Edge
Did you know that you can search both Bing and Google (or other search engines) at the same time using the Microsoft Edge browser? Well, you can.
Google Search Console 404 Error Report For /1000 URLs Spike
I am seeing an unusual number of complaints around the reported 404 errors within Google Search Console reporting. This is specific to your URLs having /1000 appended to the end of the URL.
Bing Unchanged Despite Copilot Pro Paid Release
Microsoft released Copilot Pro, a premium paid version of its Copilot service, formerly known as Bing Chat. But that doesn’t mean Bing Search or Bing Chat is getting worse, Bing will stay the same, said Mikhail Parakhin from Microsoft.
Google Ads Gains New Campaign Level Headlines & Descriptions Options
Google Ads is either beta testing or slowly releasing a feature to let you add three campaign-level headlines and two campaign-level descriptions. You can also schedule the headlines and descriptions to run at certain times or stick them on specific p…
Google Tests 5 Product Results Instead Of 4 In Shopping Grid
Google is testing showing one more product in the product grid layout. Google is testing showing five products across, instead of four products across.