Tag Archives: Google

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

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06
Feb

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 […]

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Google Would not Say Core Web Vitals Are A Search Rating Issue

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05
Feb

Google’s Danny Sullivan said on Friday, “We don’t confirm any of the things [page experience or core web vitals] as a direct ranking factor.” He added, “But to reiterate we look at many things not one thing and even the one thing might not be a direct ranking factor.” “It doesn’t say it is a […]

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Google Maps Testing AI Generated Answers For Local Guide Questions

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05
Feb

Google announced it is testing generative AI technology to answer local specific questions within Google Maps. “Starting in the U.S., this early access experiment launches this week to select Local Guides, who are some of the most active and passionate members of the Maps community,” Google wrote. Google’s language models can now analyze Google “Maps […]

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Google Search Stores Filter On Cell

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04
Feb

Google Search on the mobile interface can show a store button with an arrow on it, that if you click on it, it overlays a filter to filter results by specific retailers and merchants. The store filter in general is not new, we’ve seen it before with the shopping mobile filters, but the way this […]

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Google Testing Double Line Sitelinks For Search Ads

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03
Feb

Google seems to be testing two lines of text for sitelinks within the mobile search ads interface. So yea, double-line sitelinks in the search ads in the Google mobile search results. This was spotted by Shameem Adhikarath who posted an example of this on X – here is that screenshot: I don’t believe I’ve seen […]

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Google Search Indexing Points, Recipe Bugs, INP CWV, Storm Coming & Extra Search Information

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02
Feb

This week, we covered another Google Search indexing issue, plus this ongoing issue with recipes in the Google Search results. I suspect we will soon have a very big Google Search ranking update – a storm is coming. The cache link is gone, and Google told us yesterday that the cache functionality will fully disappear […]

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Google Core Web Vitals To Get Interaction to Next Paint On March 12

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01
Feb

Google has announced that March 12, 2024 will be the official date for when Interaction to Next Paint (INP) will replace First Input Delay (FID) as a Core Web Vital metric. We knew it was coming in March but we didn’t have the specific date until now. Google wrote: We’re announcing that INP will officially […]

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Google Search Related Categories Nearby

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31
Jan

Google has a newish section named “Related categories nearby” that shows you various categories of products, when you click on the categories, it then shows you local stores nearby that sell it and other products in the shopping results. This is what it looks like: Khushal Bherwani spotted this and posted about it on X, […]

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Google Launches Clippable Coupons – Low cost Wealthy Outcomes

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30
Jan

Google may have officially rolled out and launched the clippable feature for product snippets. We saw variations of this in the product results before and I thought it went live earlier but maybe now it is officially live? Brodie Clark, with much confidence, said on X that now the feature is live in the US. […]

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When Is The Subsequent Confirmed Google Search Rating Algorithm

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30
Jan

It has been almost 12 weeks since the last confirmed Google search ranking algorithm was released. That was the November 2023 reviews update. Before that was the November 2023 core update. Since then, we have had plenty of unconfirmed Google updates (or ranking bugs), but none have been confirmed. We know Google is working on […]

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