Google Updates Search Console To New Item Classification System via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

Google’s John Mueller said on Reddit this morning that the page experience update that incorporates core web vitals is more than a tie breaker ranking signal. He said “it is a ranking factor, and it’s more than a tie-breaker, but it also doesn’t replace relevance.”

Google is testing search refinement bubbles and selectors in the people also ask area of the search results. So the people also ask box comes up and then you can refine those options by clicking on the search refinement bubbles.

YouTube is now allowing sports betting ads to serve on the masthead as long as the ads comply with the related gambling and games policy. Recent masthead updates. Additional masthead updates were released in June for alcohol and prescription drugs. Full-day masthead reservations were discontinued and replaces with more targeted options. The new CPM option allows mastheads to be more accessible to a broader market of advertisers.  Read the announcement. You can read the announcement from Google here. Google’s guidelines for advertising sports and gambling can […]