Google has been placing images and product images in the search results for a while and been testing on and off showing them in the desktop results. But over the past few days, more and more are seeing product images …
Month: November 2021
Google Ads Customer Match Available To More With New Preview Tool
Google announced that Customer Match is now “widely available” and also a new preview tool to help you figure out errors or issues with using the tool. Google is opening Customer Match to “all policy compliant advertisers” with more than …
Daily Search Forum Recap: November 15, 2021
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today… …
Google Merchant Center Now Allows Medical Test Kits
Google has updated its Google Merchant Center policies to allow the sale and listing of medical tests kits in both the paid and free Google Shopping search results. This includes at-home results or lab results and over-the-counter test kits. …
Google Shopping Ads Bug Causes CPCs To Skyrocket
Friday evening, Google Ads had a bug of some sorts that caused the cost per click (CPC) prices to skyrocket on many Shopping Ad campaigns. Google confirmed the issue on Saturday afternoon and resolved it going forward. The company promised …
SiteGround Sites Begin To Return To Google Search After Crawling Bug
Sites hosted on SiteGround last week found themselves not being crawled by Googlebot, Google’s crawler. The issue seemed to have been an DNS issue between the provider’s partners (AWS) and Google according to the hosting company. The DNS issue was …
Google Confirms Again, Bolding Words Does Help With SEO
Google’s John Mueller confirmed again that bolding words and “important points on a paragraph” does help with SEO and rankings. But it is all relative, if you bold everything on the page, then it doesn’t help, John explained. …
Google Chart Teetering On The Edge Of Core Web Vitals Field Data
Ever see a chart in your page experience report or core web vitals reports that shows core web vitals data and then doesn’t and then does again? If you do, you are not alone, it means you are “teetering on …
Vlog #146: Bryan Cush On Health SEO with Schema, Structured Data & Google E-A-T
In part one, Bryan Cush, the co-founder of Tidal Health Group, and I spoke about how to use health data for content and search marketing and in part two we dug into using medical databases, local search and E-A-T & …
Daily Search Forum Recap: November 12, 2021
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today… …
Google November Spam Update Rollout Completed After 8 Days
It took about eight days for Google to rollout the November spam update. This update targeted content spam efforts that went against Google’s webmaster guidelines. It seemed to have a more significant update than the previous spam updates. …
Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google November Spam Update Done, Google Tests IndexNow, Googlebot IP Addresses and More
I start off announcing the winner(s) of the Squid Game contest I had last week. Google finished the rollout for the November spam update after 8 days. That Google November spam update seems to be big, at least… …
Google Logo Structured Data Supports ImageObject Type
Google added to the help documentation for the logo schema/structured data that you can now use ImageObject type to specify an organization logo. This is in addition to just the URL type. …
Google On The Future Of SEO
Here is a fun podcast from Googlers John Mueller, Gary Illyes and Martin Splitt on the future of SEO. The group spoke about HTML, JavaScript, web app, structured data, crawling and machine generated content and learning. In short, it didn’t …
Google Search Scroll To Text For Sitelinks
Google now has the scroll-to-text feature for sitelinks in the Google Search results. Google launched these with featured snippets in 2020 but has been testing it since 2018, and it seems to now work for some sitelinks. …