Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.

Google has finally started to use MUM in search…

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Google is telling those who used the Google Ads API to make sure to migrate the Feed-based extensions to supported Asset-based extensions soon. I believe the deadline will be October 20, 2021. Also, Google announced the new {extensionid} ValueTrack parameter …

Google announced that it is changing the insufficient payment information for Google Merchant Center. Specifically Merchants will no longer be required to provide their accepted payment methods on their website to customers before the checkout process. This change began on …

Google has vastly expanded its help document on how various redirects impact your site’s performance in Google Search. The document even mentions “Crypto redirects” which to me seems like a new term but just means a way to communicate in …

Google announced that by the end of July 2021 it will be deprecating the broad match modifier (BMM) keywords. That means you will no longer be able to create new BMM keywords with the +keyword notation.

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Google announced yesterday one of, if not, the first, use case for MUM – Multitask Unified Model – in search. Google did tell us they will let us know when it is being used and here it is. They used …

SMS (a fancy term for text messaging) can be a really effective channel to market your music. If done well, marketing your music through SMS can help you communicate with more fans, more quickly, and more effectively. We’ll get into …

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web…

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Microsoft Bing has added some subtle effects to the search tools bar filters where you can filter the search results by news, images, videos, etc. When you hover your mouse over the options, Bing might color the background of each …

Last week, Google began showing non-AMP content in the top stories carousel in mobile search. This was as expected with the page experience update rollout. But Kyle Sutton posted on Twitter that in some cases Google may even show the …

Google’s Martin Splitt confirmed that having a hover over expandable text for navigational elements is not considered cloaking by Google. Martin said doing this is “Deffo not cloaking.”

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Google has confirmed that on June 28, 2021 it has released part two of the search “spam update.” Part two of the update started and completed on a single day, June 28th, like part one did on June 23rd. This …

Microsoft Bing has a new feature over the past couple of weeks that let’s you add or remove a language tab to the search bar. The tab may show up for you if there are two or more popular languages …

Google has added a help document that has shows how How HTTP status codes, and network and DNS errors affect Google Search. The page goes through each type of code and error and tell you how GoogleBot and Google Search …

Last December, Google told us they are retiring the Google AdSense link units, one of the early popular ad formats within Google AdSense. Google just announced the company has “now reached the final stage of that process” by “removing fixed-sized …