Google Search seems to be testing adding stock tickets with the stock price of public companies mentioned in the articles Google is showing in the top stories section. So right above the listings of articles in the top stories section, Google shows one or more stock tickers if the article mentions that company. Here is […]
Last November Google introduced a new catchall search spam policy named policy circumvention. That spam policy was listed to be able to take action on sites that bypass the other Google spam policies through other means. Well today, Google has updated that spam policy to simplify the wording based on user feedback of the policy. […]
It is somewhat satisfying to see non-SEOs dig deeper into how search is changing at Google and Bing and to hear the concerns they have about these changes. We covered your concerns as SEOs and publishers a week ago but now the big publishers are voicing their concerns around AI-search and what it means for […]
Look what Google is up to this time! The company will raise the level of interactivity of Google Maps through immersive vision. The new features are called Immersive View and Live View and are built with advanced artificial intelligence, Street View data and aerial imagery. But, stay calm! In this article I will try to […]
In part one, we go through Jeff Ferguson’s long history in search marketing. In part two, we pick up with him starting his own agency. Then in part three, we talk about the state of SEO studiesand we end in part four with the zero-click study and how the future of SEO looks. We spent […]
Google is testing a “trending” label in the people also ask box in the mobile search results. I guess it shows trending searches in the category of what other people are asking about that query. I cannot replicate this but Vijay Chauhan spotted this and posted a videocast of this on Twitter. Here is a […]
I am seeing signs of another Google search ranking algorithm update just a few days after the February 4th Google search ranking update – Both of these have not been confirmed by Google. This February 8th and 9th Google update may be even stronger than the previous update. I probably should have covered this yesterday, […]
What an insane week between the AI announcements, algorithm updates, content, and so much more. I start off talking about Google’s Bard announcement and a bit about the Paris announcement two days later. But Microsoft Bing stole the show with their demo of how Bing incorporates ChatGPT into Bing Search – it’s impressive. In fact, […]
Google now can show you a Merchant Center with Google Business Profile status dashboard in the search results. This is similar to how Google shows you local business profile in searchalso similar to the Search Console dashboard other Google Ads summary box in search. This was spotted by Shameem Adhikarath and posted on Twitterhe said, […]
Google’s Danny Sullivan reiterated that when it comes to AI content, Google is fine with it, as long as the content is useful and written for people. If you are using AI to write spam, then that is against Google’s guidelines. But Google also added a new section to the people-first content section on “who, […]