Two years ago, Google made a new Google Merchant Center policy named Website needs improvement. Well, now free listings accounts with this issue status are still active, but their products have limited visibility on Google. Google posted that they have updated the Google Merchant Center Editorial & technical requirements policy and the enforcement for the […]
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This week, I published the monthly Google webmaster report – a great place to catch up on the Google news. Google may have done another algorithm update on July 5th and July 7th. Google created its own landing page for its algorithm update timeline. Google said course rich results require three courses to be eligible. […]
Google Ads has added the diagnostic insights on the Insights and Overview page of the ad console. Diagnostic insights help you identify common reasons why your campaign may not be serving or getting conversions. Google announced this saying the reason they added this was because “it can be difficult to identify and troubleshoot these issues […]
Over the past few days there has been some chatter within the SEO community about more Google search ranking algorithmic fluctuations and volatility. This comes after over a week of relative calmness in the Google search results. The chatter picked up in the WebmasterWorld and in the comments section from my last Google update story […]
Google is testing a new carousel in the mobile search results named “Highly rated by users.” This will show product results that have, um, high ratings from user reviews. Saad AK spotted this and posted a video on Twitterhere is a screen capture (yes, of course, I put the Casio watch int the screen capture): […]
Google is testing a new user interface for the “things to do” carousel. In this test, Google is overlaying the results on top of the search results, instead of taking you into a new page and set of search results. This was spotted by Khushal Bherwani who called this the Things to do carousel in […]
Here is a photo from Peter the Greeter at the GooglePlex in front of a “Be Colorful” sign that is super colorful with a lot of fun scenery around it. I assume this was for the Pride celebrations at the Google office. He shared this on Instagram. This post is part of our daily Search […]
Wishing you all a happy Fourth of July, as you can see, this site is all dressed up for the day (on desktop) and Google has their special animated Doodle. I’d embed the Bing theme but I was once threatened with a lawsuit for doing that (not by Microsoft but one of those image legal […]
Over the past few months Google has been auto-selecting background colors not just for image search results and not just for shading Google Shopping Ads but also for images added to the search result snippets in Google Search. Punit spotted this a few months ago and he shared a couple examples on Twitter that shows […]
Google has recently added a new “Discover” filter to the Google Shopping search side bar to filter shopping results by Black-owned, Latino-owned, Veteran-owned or Women-owned businesses. I think this was added at least a few months ago when Google added the smaller stores filter but I’m not 100% sure on timing. For some searches, you […]