Microsoft Advertising this week announced in its August roundup it launched Target impression share bidding, Integral Ad Science (IAS) protection, new automated extensions, labels for account organization and changes to unified accounts. …
Month: August 2021
Google Core Updates Can Sometimes Impact Image Search & Local Search
Danny Sullivan of Google confirmed on Twitter that core updates can sometimes impact both image search and local search results. This comes after Danny said that local updates don’t impact local results. But now he is saying “it depends” and …
Microsoft Bing Search Let’s Chat Feature
Microsoft Bing seems to be testing a new chat feature in its search results. Sunny Ujjawal posted a screen shot of this on Twitter, that I cannot replicate. Bing pops open a chat box on the right side of the …
Google: If You Remove A Part Of Your Site, The Site Will Rank Differently
Here is one of those classic John Mueller responses, where the Googler said “So, asked differently, if you remove a part of your website, will that website rank differently? Yes, of course it will. It’s a different website afterwards.” Classic.…
Daily Search Forum Recap: August 3, 2021
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today… …
Google: You May Get Some Ranking Benefit If Someone Steals Your Original Images
Gary Illyes of Google was asked if someone steals your original image, makes no changes to it, and they embed it on their own site, can the original image holder benefit from that. Gary’s short answer was no, but he …
Google Adds New Guidelines To Math Solver Markup Help Documentation
Google has added technical, content, and quality guidelines to the Math solver guidelines help documentation. The company also removed solution page markup instructions. …
Bing Did You Know Box In Search Results
Microsoft Bing has a box and section in its search results named “did you know.” It seems Bing shows more study help sections in this box. Frank Sandtmann, a German based SEO, sent this to me but I can replicate …
Google: Coming Back In Search Is Faster Than Dropping Out In Search After Downtime
John Mueller of Google said on Reddit the other day that generally speaking he has seen that it is faster for sites to return to the Google search results after experiencing site downtime than it takes for the pages to …
Poll: SEOs Split On How They Will Nofollow Sponsored Links
Aleyda Solis posted a Twitter poll last week after Google published its suggestions around the link spam update and nofollow vs rel sponsored attributes. The poll showed that SEOs are very split around how they will or will not handle …
Why Is There No Discover Data In Google Search Console API? There Is No Query.
The Google Search Console Performance report API does not include Google Discover data. We’ve known that for a while. But the question is why? John Mueller of Google said the reason is “partially because there’s no notion of “query”.” …
Google Removes The Rich Result Type From The Performance Reports
Google has removed the generic rich result type from the Google Search Console performance reports and API. Google told us this was going away back in May and today it is now officially gone. …
Daily Search Forum Recap: August 2, 2021
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today… …
Google Merchant Center Will Enforce Accurate Manufacturer Part Numbers (MPN)
Google announced that it will begin enforcing that Google Merchant Center merchants use Manufacturer Part Number (MPN) and accurate ones. Google said starting in August of 2021, item-level warnings for “Incorrect product identifier [mpn]” will be issued on the Diagnostics …
Google On Web Workers / WebAssembly & Google Search
Another super interesting and totally geeky aspect to the latest Search Off The Record podcast was Martin Splitt of Google giving a master class on Web Workers and WebAssembly. Specifically how they work and how Google Search thinks about them.…
