Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today……
Day: October 28, 2024
Google Search Snippet With Mentioned Products Carousel
Google is testing showing a carousel named mentioned products, that can be displayed under a search result snippet that shows the products mentioned in that search result. This came up for Reddit results, in the Discussions and forums section in …
Google Business Profiles Testing Reviews Within Photo Carousels
Google is now testing showing reviews within the photos carousel within a Google Business Profile listing. So when you scroll through the photos for a business, Google can also show review snippets.…
Google To Sunset Call Ads; Migrating To Responsive Search Ads
Google Ads will be sunsetting call ads sometime next year and will be migrating those to responsive search ads. Google wrote, “Call ads are being upgraded to responsive search ads to enable new features and simplify asset creation and management.”…
Google Search Downgrading Rankings Of Content Starkly Different From Main Content
Google is now saying it has ranking systems that “aim to understand if a section of a site is independent or starkly different from the main content of the site. This helps us surface the most useful information from a …
Google Business Profiles: Answer Questions About Your Inventory
Google Business Profiles may now ask you to verify your information about your store inventory within the Products section of your profile. Google will ask “Do you sell these products in-store?”…
Google Updates URL Structure, Favicon & Adds Google Trends Docs
Google has added a new search document on Google Trends while also making some small updates to the URL structure, best practices documentation, and favicons documentation. Google has been doing a lot of videos around Google Trends, so the new …
Google Search Console Performance Report Showing Almost No Data Today
Google Search Console’s performance report seems to have a bug where it is showing almost zero data for today. I can replicate this across numerous Search Console properties, so maybe something is stuck with Search Console right now.…