I am seeing a significant increase in chatter from within the SEO community around a possible Google Search ranking algorithm update. While most of the tracking tools have calmed, except for Semrush and Mozcast, I am seeing a big spike in SEO chatter yesterday and into today. We all know how intense and volatile the […]
Over the past few days I’ve seen reports of Google Search testing more visual elements. These visual elements are across featured snippets, top stories, products and likely more. Here is what I found, all of which are tests, because I cannot replicate any of these search features and design layouts in any browser I’ve tried. […]
Google announced that the self-upgrade tool for “upgrading” your Google Ads to Performance Max campaigns is now available for Dynamic Search Ads (DSA) campaigns and Google Display campaigns. Dan Taylor, the Vice President, Global Ads at Google, wrote on Twitter, “Search and Display advertisers continue to see new opportunity through Google’s Performance Max, and now […]
For the past few months, Google’s search results have been very volatile, but over the past couple of days, it seems at least to some rank-checking tools, the volatility is cooling and calming. I should note that I did see a spike in chatter over the weekend about movement from within the SEO community, so […]
Google Search is testing a new carousel search feature that shows products from EnergyStar.gov and Energy.gov, governmental websites, on products that you can buy to save with tax credits from the government. This was spotted by Khushal Bherwani, who posted a screenshot of this in action on Twitter. I should add that I tried to […]
Google has removed the related search operator from its “overview of Google search operators” help documentation. The related search operator would show you pages that are related to a specific URL. It still seems to work for me, but it was removed from this help documentation page. This is what it looked like a month […]
A month ago we saw Bing Chat testing visual search. Well, now it is available for all who want to snap a photo or upload an image to Bing Chat. Bing announced“Visual Search in Chat lets anyone upload images and search the web for related content. Take a picture, or use one you find elsewhere, […]
Google Search is testing boxed-in favicons for snippets. That is, instead of the favicon as is, Google is placing them in a square box. We previously saw Google putting these favicons in a circle. Now, Saad AK spotted them boxed-in and posted this screenshot on Twitter: Here is what I see: Here is the circled-in […]
Some of the Google Search rank checking tools are so far off their scales that they look broken to me. Did Google’s insane volatility break the automated Google Search volatility tracking tools? I mean, the Google search ranking rankings have been so heated over the past few months, with this weekend having even more volatility […]
I often post about Google ranking volatility and Search ranking algorithm updates but I rarely post about them on a weekend. But I just had to this Sunday morning; the tools are literally all reporting massive and explosive volatility this weekend and the SEO chatter is also very high. I know we just reported one […]