Tag Archives: Reviews

Google Product Critiques Volatility, Native Search Rating Replace, New Search Options, MUM & BERT Expands and Search Console News

This was a busy week and I drove out to visit Greg Finn and friends in Buffalo, I helped co-host the Marketing O’Clock show and record some vlogs for the channel – so check out Marketing O’Clock on YouTube and your favorite podcast player. We are finally seeing ranking volatility in the search results related […]

Volatility For The March 2022 Google Product Reviews Update

Earlier this week I reported that we were not seeing huge changes yet for the March 2022 Google Products Reviews update. Well, it seems like some of the tools and a number of SEOs are now noticing larger changes specific to sites that would match the product reviews categories. I am seeing some more chatter […]

Google Product Reviews Update III Is Not That Enormous But

So far, I will say that the Google Products Reviews update version 3, the March 2022 version, is not that huge. That is, not that huge compared to the previous product review updates or core updates. Some would say this update is a mild update, again, so far… I’ve been closely following the forums and […]

third Google Product Evaluations Replace, Spring Replace, Google Knowledge That May Shock You, Google Ads Updates, UI Assessments & Extra

This week was pretty busy, we had the third Google product reviews update and I go deep into this algorithm update. We saw what I called a Spring 2022 Google search update, Google did not confirm it and it was unrelated to the product reviews update. Google released some data on how search improved, how […]

March 2022 Google Product Reviews Update Rolling Out

Google is rolling out its third version of the product reviews update, named the March 2022 Product Reviews Update. The previous two versions were the April 2021 Product Reviews Update and the December 2021 Product Reviews Update. The March version was updated to incorporate more signals and criteria in this niche ranking algorithm. Google started […]

Google Search Film Opinions Panel Now Full Width

Rajan Patel, the VP of Engineering at Google, confirmed with me that Google has rolled out full width movie reviews. So when you search for a movie name and add on “review” to your query, Google will show a full width review panel in web search. This was spotted by Steph on Twitter who told […]

Google Local Critiques Going Lacking Over The Previous Week?

There are tons and tons of complaints over the past week or so of reviews not posting or going missing in the local maps business listings. In short, people are leaving reviews but they are not showing up in the local and maps interfaces on Google. If you go to the Google Business Profile forums […]

Google requires each product and auto markup for opinions in Google Search

Google has updated its Structured Product Data help docs to state that you need both the product and the car structured so that Google can show ratings and review snippets when searching car search results. Google said: “Currently, the car is not automatically supported as a subtype of the product.” “So for now, if you […]

Product opinions, native replace, Search Console, bugs and extra

Usually December isn’t that busy because people go on vacation and all. But the last month has really not been that quiet. We had enormous volatility in the Google ranking We had one confirmed for most of the last month three-week rollout of Product reviews updated in December, Google confirmed a local update and much […]

Top presentation instruments for design groups to optimize opinions

For designers and creative teams, presentations can be made make or break even the best projects. When done right, an effective presentation can inspire an entire room, convince potential customers to buy a little-known product, motivate an audience, and even change people’s perspective. Fortunately, there are tools out there to help you and your team […]