A Twitter poll by Natalie Mott showed that almost 80% of SEOs do expect to see some traffic lost when managing a site migration. There were over 1,300 votes on this poll, which is a lot for an SEO Twitter …
Google Search Local Business Listing Tests More About Button
Google seems to be testing a new button in the local business listings, the local panel, that has a “more about” button. The button drives someone from the web search version of the local listing to the more detailed overview …
Google Offers Carousel In Search Result Snippets
Google Search has a carousel, which may or may not be new, that shows categories of offers from a merchant as part of the overall snippet. The carousel is beneath the main snippet and sitelinks (if available) and shows a …
Reaction Towards Google Killing Google Analytics 3 For Google Analytics 4
So Google is doing away with Google Analytics 3, aka Universal Analytics and you will all have to switch to Google Analytics 4, aka GA 4. Universal Analytics properties will stop processing new hits on July 1, 2023. That means …
Google Officially Announces Search Central Virtual Unconference – April 27th
I was a bit too eager in reporting the dates for the Google Search Central Virtual Unconference the other week. Google changed the tentative dates on the registration page to now show that the event takes place on April 27th …
Google Search Ranking Update Weirdness On March 11th
For the past few days I have been debating if I should cover what may have been a Google search ranking update that ticked off on Friday March 11th. There was super unusual update like chatter in the WebmasterWorld forums …
Google Image Search Lens Tests Search, Text & Translate Options
In 2018, Google added a lens button to the mobile search image results. That eventually came to desktop as Google more tightly integrated Lens into Image Search. Now we are seeing Google test options for search, text and translate using …
Google Adds Business Profiles Managers Controls In Web Search
Google continues to move more and more business editing features and controls to the web search results and outside of the Google Business Profile Manager (formerly Google My Business manager). Now you can also manage the managers and those who …
Google Search Settings Not Sticking; Dark Mode Sees The Light
There are numerous complaints in the Google Search Community Forums that the Google Search settings are not sticking. The most obvious example is when you have the dark theme set and Google toggles you to the light theme. But other …
Refine This Search & Broaden This Search Now Live In Google Search
After the announcement in September at Search On and months and months of testing, the Refine This Search and Broaden This Search features are fully live in US English Google Search results. This is not to mean the Things To …
Daily Search Forum Recap: March 15, 2022
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.
Reviews are dropping out like crazy from the local business listings in Google……
Google Search Console URL Inspection Tool Not Fully Fixed Yet
Two weeks after Google first confirmed an issue with the Google Search Console URL Inspection Tool, it is still not fully fixed. I will say that while I do see random complaints about the tool erroring out, I have not …
Google: We Don’t Use User Engagement As A Search Ranking Factor
Google’s John Mueller said again that Google Search does not use “engagement” as a factor for ranking or other purposes in Google Search. Google Search does not know if your web page has a high or low level of user …
Google Hotel Listings Attribute For Free Or Discounted Accommodation For Ukraine
Google has added a new attribute for some hotel listings to specify if they offer free or discounted accommodations for people displaced from Ukraine. This is a special attribute titles “accommodation for Ukraine” in the Google hotel listings.
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