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. Google’s November 2024 core update did not yet finish and we passed the …

Happy Thanksgiving and Black Friday! The Google November 2024 core update is not done rolling out yet – it should have been. And yes, we are still seeing heated volatility throughout this week, even today. Google warned….…

Google has updated its Google Business Profiles guidelines to say that businesses associated with products or services that require the customer to be a certain minimum age are not permitted as service-area businesses without a storefront.…

Google has launched a new report form in Google Maps to “report business conduct.” Specifically, this form is to report businesses that offer incentives in exchange for reviews, or pressuring people to leave reviews.…

Google told us that the Sitelinks search box would stop working within Google Search on November 21st. Well, it finally stopped working a week later on November 27th, in the afternoon.…

Google is testing displaying a button in Google Search to load more ads. The button reads, “More sponsored results” and when clicked, it can load more ads, if Google has more to serve.…

Bing Webmaster Tools shows search data for Bing Search and Yahoo Search but not OpenAI’s ChatGPT search feature. I actually forgot that Bing Webmaster Tools has Yahoo Search data but that was the deal when Yahoo closed Site Explorer in …

Google’s John Mueller said he was generally in favor to the idea of giving prior notice to receiving a manual action, but he said “it’s challenging.” John then explains that Google’s search algorithm try to reward sites, while also negating …