Well, this last February 2023 product reviews update has been pretty volatile, and we’ve seen some significant ranking changes and the chatter within the SEO community has been pretty wild. This product reviews update seems to be much more widespread than previous product review updates and some SEOs think something is off with this update. […]
The Bardogs Zurich folks, some sort of weightlifting performers, put on a show the new Google Zurich office. Here are some photos I found on Instagram of this. This post is part of our daily Search Photo of the Day column, where we find fun and interesting photos related to the search industry and share […]
Did you know that (1) over 50% of the Google search business goes through an Apple device and (2) Google also gives Apple a share of the Chrome iOS (and Mac) revenue as well? Danny Goodwin at Search Engine Land covered a report from The Register that says both these nuggets, plus more. A court […]
Google has updated the site move related search documentation this week. It seems like most of the changes were mostly about simplifying things around site moves, removing some content, clarification and so forth. Gary Illyes said on mastodon“just cleaned it up; it collected a lot of potentially unnecessary sentences over the years. And we linked […]
Google’s John Mueller was asked if it would help with web rankings in Google to embed reviews from sites like Facebook, Bing, Google, etc., on your website. John said no, not for web search, and he also warned us about not using structured data on those third-party site reviews. In short, using reviews collected by […]
The Google Maps app for Android seems to add a new tab to manage your business profile(s). The tab shows a store icon with the word “Business” below it. Clicking it, lets you manage your Google Business Profile listing directly in the app. Now, you can manage your business profile in the Google Maps app […]
Google Ads announced Four new features coming soon to Performance Max, including campaign-level brand exclusions, page feeds, video creation tools, more experiments, and more reporting. Ginny Marvin, the Google Ads Liason, said on Twitter, “you likely saw account-level negative keywords started rolling out next month for brand suitability & other purposes.” Here is what is […]
So much to discuss this week in the SEO video recap – just so much. Let’s start with a new confirmed Google update, and the February 2023 Google product reviews system was updated to support more than just the English language. Google updated its help documentation to say the helpful content system update now can […]
Google Search Console pushed out a security control update that reworked how the user and permissions management works. This is to bring over the old Webmaster Tools version to the new Search Console, and Google will sunset the old version in the coming months. The new functionalities added to Google Search Console’s user and permissions […]
Google has updated its favicon search developer documentation to now say that you don’t need to host the favicon in the same domain in order to be eligible for a favicon in Google Search results. Google removed the line, “the URL must be in the same domain as the home page.” Here is a screenshot […]