Google has done something unusual, it has removed one of the confirmed data anomalies notes about a search features bug, and added a new note confirming a bug with Google Discover logging resulting in a data drop in the Search Console Discover performance reports on October 23rd. As a reminder, Google posted on October 28th […]
Google has confirmed a delay with the Google Search Console API being a bit more delayed than normal. Daniel Waisberg from Google said the “delay was caused by processing issues, and should be back to normal in the next few days.” In addition, this delay only “affected only full data,” he added, so the fresh […]
Google is showing a green leaf label that says “pre-owned” on Google Shopping results, which I guess are pre-owned. This shows both in the desktop and mobile Google Search shopping results. Google originally announced this label a couple of months ago but this has not been in the search results yet, that is until now. […]
Google has been busy, on Friday morning, November 4th, I started to see new signals of another Google search ranking algorithm update. Over the next 24 hours, those signals escalated and while Google has not confirmed there was an update, there are signs for sure that there was a Google search update. The update also […]
Google’s John Mueller said that if you make your content creation decisions based off of keyword search volume lists, then those pieces of content will be mediocre, at best. John said on Twitter “don’t focus on keywords & “search volume” lists like this, they’ll lead you into mediocracy.” What John is saying is that if […]
Microsoft Bing seems to be testing animated ads in the Bing image search interface. The ads look like an interactive banner ad of some sort, based on your query. Frank Sandtmann, a German-based SEO, sent me a GIF of this in action. Please note that I cannot replicate this but here is the GIF that […]
Google is now redirecting some (or all) of those trying to edit their business profiles in the Google Business Profile manager to the Google Search interface. You can still manage to get in there but on first click, you are taken to Google Search to manage your business. This is now happening to me as […]
To start things off, I quickly covered the monthly Google webmaster report. Google also had some big unconfirmed update on or around October 28th. Google confirmed a search bug with top stories and search features starting on October 18th through October 28th. I provided one example of one site that got slammed by the Google […]
Google Search, for some videos, allows you to click an expand icon on some videos it shows you in the search results. That expand button will then overlay a larger playable video with more details. I think this is new, Punit said it is a test, but it seems to be fully live for me, […]
Google has finally added the Google Lens button to the Google.com homepage search bar. Rajan Patel from Google announced this quietly on Twitter saying the Google homepage, which rarely changes, has changed and pointed at the Google Lens button. This comes after bringing the Google Lens button to mobile search in 2018 and desktop image […]