Tag Archives: Google

Google Says EEAT Is Not A Rating Issue Nor A Factor That Components Into Different Components

We’ve covered Google saying E-E-A-T is not a ranking factor too many times here but have we covered EEAT not being a thing that factors into other Google ranking factors? That is what Google’s Search Liaison, Danny Sullivan said the other day on X. Danny Sullivan wrote, “It’s not a ranking factor. It’s not a […]

Google SGE Testing Eradicating Side Carousels

Google seems to be testing removing the side carousel in the SGE, Search Generative Experience, interface. The side carousel generally shows the card answers on the right side of the desktop SGE results. It seems Google is testing not showing those cards on the side panel. This was spotted by Jakub Landa, Bartosz Goralewicz pinged […]

Google Testing Blue Shaded Search Bar Headers That Stick

Google Search is testing various shades of blue for its search header, including a sticky version that, um, sticks as you scroll down the search results. Here are various screenshots from a few folks that I found on X over the past several days. Khushal Bherwani spotted this blue sticky header and posted this screenshot […]

Google Business Profiles Adds Activities & Events In Dashboard

Google has added the ability to add activities and events to the Google Business Profiles dashboard. This is a quick form to add upcoming events or activities to your business quickly. Here is where you can highlight activities that you run that may direct more people to your venue. This was spotted by Mike Blumenthal […]

Google-Extended Bot Token Does not Have an effect on Google Search

Google has made an update to its Google-Extended section of the Google crawler (user agent) search documentation to change the references of “Bard” to “Gemini” because of the product name change. Google also clarified that Google Extended has no impact or effect on Google Search. Google added this new line that reads, “Google-Extended does not […]

Google Drops Web Stories From Images & Carousel View & Updates Function Availability

Google has updated its Web Stories documentation to explain where Web Stories can show in search. Google said Web Stories no longer will show up within Google Image Search, the carousel view and made some changes to where these Web Stories show within Google Search. Google wrote, “Web Stories don’t appear in Google Images anymore, […]

Google Replace Brewing, High quality Enhancements Nonetheless Coming, Rating Confusion & Bing Deep Search

For the original iTunes version, click here. This week we covered a new possible Google search ranking update that started brewing on Wednesday, February 7. Google’s Danny Sullivan said again, search quality improvements are coming in the near future. Google said it will clarify E-E-A-T and its search quality raters. Google explained the differences between […]

Google Search Rating Algorithm Replace February seventh and eighth

I am seeing signs of a new Google search ranking algorithm update brewing. It started yesterday, Wednesday, February 7th, and is going into today, Thursday, February 8th. There is an increase in chatter within the SEO industry and also some, not all, of the tools are showing spikes in volatility. This is all while we […]

Google Search High quality Enhancements Coming In Close to Future

For the past few months now, Google has been saying there are big improvements coming to address some of the search quality issues we’ve all been seeing in the Google Search results. Danny Sullivan, Google’s Search Liason, wrote yesterday that these improvements “are on the way in the near future.” Lily Ray spotted some concerning […]

Google Says Rating Signals & Components Are Like Gas, Whereas Programs Are The Machines That Use The Gas

Danny Sullivan, the Google Search Liaison, gave a good analogy of the differences between ranking systems, ranking signals and ranking factors. He said signals and factors are the same, the “signal/factors are like fuel; systems are the machine that uses them,” Sullivan wrote. Danny Sullivan explained that at Google, “We use signal and factor fairly […]