Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today……

Google is always looking for ways to get their advertisers to spend more. Well, now a new notice to increase your budget says that other advertisers in your region are spending more, so you should too.…

Google Analytics added Merchant Center recommendations directly to the recommendations section within Google Analytics. Google said these recommendations will “alert you to issues preventing your products from being approved in Google Merchant Center.”…

Google is testing yet another format for its AI Overviews. This one looks like Google is grouping answers for a more generic query into multiple categories of responses. Google is placing them into these card blocks, that can either show …

Google is updating its Google Ads Misrepresentation – Misleading Ad Design policy to have stronger and clearer enforcement over ads that use buttons that are deceptive and unclear. Google wrote, “ads that make it difficult for the user to understand …

There are a number of cases where sites hit by the expanded Google site reputation abuse policy, where Google issued a number of immediate manual actions, are moving the directories that were hit to a new location on the domain …

Danny Sullivan, Google’s Search Liaison, has finally explained why it has made it harder to find the results count when doing a Google Search. He said it can be a distraction and is something that researchers are focused on, when …

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 Search Console’s indexing report is backed up and delayed by 7 days. …

I don’t think this is super new but did you know Google Search can show people also searching images, not just people also ask, not just people also search. And when you click on the “people also searching images” option, …

Martin Splitt from Google replied to a question on LinkedIn about what we should be concerned about when it comes to rendered and indexed. One of the questions was about network requests. Martin replied, “maybe number of network requests a …

Google is testing a new format for the Things to know section where instead of showing the results in a list view, Google is showing them side-by-side.…

Google Search Console’s indexing reports, the page indexing, etc, are often not super up-to-date, but now we hit a 7-day delay, where the report has not been updated in a week now. This report is useful to see if the …

It took some time, but Google’s November 2024 core update started to really heat up over the last weekend, it should be done soon. Google expanded its site reputation abuse policy in a big way and many large sites……

Similar to the Amazon-style Google product search result carousel snippet, we are seeing other variations of it. This shows products from the retailer; within the search result snippet, you can swipe through it as a carousel.…