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 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 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.…

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 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.…

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 …

Today is Thanksgiving in the United States, so I was planning on not posting anything – since most of you just want to enjoy your time with your family. But I felt I needed to (1) showcase the Thanksgiving Doodle …

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

There is some speculation within the SEO and search community that Google’s search results have recently become more personalized and tailored. This is based on people comparing the search results to being logged into Google and signed out of Google.…

Google Ads has a new column named “conversation started” for message assets, like WhatsApp messaging, through Google Ads. Clicking on a WhatApp button in Google Ads will trigger the “conversation started” metric in Google Ads.…

Two years ago, we saw Google playing videos, mostly YouTube videos, in an overlay that really gave almost zero incentive for the searcher to click over to the YouTube page. The issue is that you don’t get the subscribe or …

Google has slightly updated its Google crawlers and fetchers documentation to say that it will pick the protocol, HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2, that “provides the best crawling performance” for Googlebot. In fact, it may even switch protocols between sessions, if it …

Google is testing swapping out the blue buttons within the local pack with gold buttons. In this example, the blue call phone icon is now in a gold color, on dark mode.…

A couple of weeks ago, we spotted Google testing large thin fonts for the search results. Now I am seeing Google testing large thick and chunk fonts for its search results.…

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

The Google November 2024 Core Update launched two weeks and a day ago, and it should be confirmed as done rolling out any minute now but starting yesterday, we are seeing a spike in Google search ranking volatility. It was …

Google announced it will be testing more changes for the Digital Markets Act (DMA) in Europe to try to help airlines, hotel operators, and small retailers and not just “large online travel aggregators and comparison sites” the search company said. …