Tag Archives: Search

SEM & SEO

Google Heated Core Replace Accomplished, Spam Replace Accomplished, Twitter/X Blocks Bing, Paywalled Content material, search engine optimization, PPC, Ads & Local Search

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20
Oct

For the original iTunes version, click here. This week, we covered that the Google October 2023 core update is done rolling out; it was a super and incredibly heated core update. Google also finished rolling out the spam update this morning, and the overlap is upsetting. X/Twitter is now blocking Bing Search, Bingbot, from crawling. […]

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Google “Shop All Deals” Banner In The Search Results

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20
Oct

Google is testing placing what looks like a banner ad in its own search results. It says “Shop all deals” and takes you to a query for “shop deals” but not with the original query you entered. It is pretty wild that Google is doing this, I mean, this is one of the biggest search […]

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Twitter (X) Blocks Bing Search

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19
Oct

X, well, Twitter.com, is now blocking Bing Search, specifically Bingbot, from crawling and accessing content posted on Twitter.com, on the X platform. Twitter specifically added to its robots.txt file a directive to disallow Bingbot from crawling the content on its platform. Here is a screenshot of its robots.txt file: This was spotted first, I believe, […]

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Google Provides Vehicle Itemizing Structured Data With Search Console Reporting

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18
Oct

Google has new structured data markup for car dealerships, it is called vehicle structured data. You can use it to communicate to Google information about your new car listings for improved visibility within the Google Search results. Google said this is only available right now for US and US territories but do show up both […]

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Google Search Trending Seller Icon

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15
Oct

Google has a new “trending seller” icon for some product results in the search result snippet. This shows an arrow trending up icon next to the words “trending seller” below product results. This was spotted by Ethan Lazuk and he posted this partial screenshot on X: Ethan wrote, “Noticed a “Trending seller” icon for a […]

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Google Search Eliminated Indented Results

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15
Oct

Google has stopped the indented results, something Google has been doing for well over a decade. Instead, Google will just list out the result it would have indented in the main results and not indent it under that main result. Danny Sullivan, Google’s Search Liaison, confirmed this on X saying, “We stopped doing “indented results” […]

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Google Search Product Images Check Clickable Links

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14
Oct

Google is testing having links overlay, like watermarks, on product result images. I can replicate this on some browsers, but not all, so it looks like a test where Google can see if searchers are clicking on the link within the image or not. This was spotted first by Khushal Bherwani, who posted about this […]

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Google Search People Icon In Autocomplete Search Bar

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14
Oct

Google Search seems to be testing adding a people icon in the search bar, auto-complete search bar. I am told the people icons only show up when in the perspectives filter, but I personally cannot replicate it yet. This was spotted by Khushal Bherwani and he posted this on X: Here are more screenshots from […]

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Google Search Generative Experience Now Can Create Images & Textual content

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14
Oct

Google has upgraded its Search Generative Experience to create images and text, not just give you answers and show you images or content from others. Google said SGE can now help with “creating an image that can bring an idea to life, or getting help on a written draft when you need a starting point.” […]

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Google Search Ranking Heated Volatility, Google Ads Serving Bug, SGE Lite & Extra

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13
Oct

For the original iTunes version, click here. This week, we saw the impact of both the Google October 2023 spam update and the Google October 2023 core update with some really heated volatility. The day before, we saw some sites compiling their spam sites were no longer in the index. Google Ads had a long […]

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