Google Search no longer shows home activities after launching the feature just under four years ago. Google has pulled down the home activities structured data from its search developer documents last ***** and wrote, “The home activity feature no longer appears in Google Search results.” Home activities showed searches local activities they can do near … Read more
LinkedIn has confirmed it will stop allowing advertisers to target users based on data gleaned from their participation in LinkedIn Groups, following pressure from European regulators over potential violations of the Digital Services Act (DSA). Why it matters. The move comes after a coalition of civil society groups filed a complaint with the European Commission … Read more
Google has removed the How-to enhancement report from Google Search Console. When Google stopped showing how-to rich results in the search results, it said it would keep the reports “for the time being,” I guess that time has been completed. As a reminder, in August 2023, Google announced it would do away with How-to rich … Read more
Google’s AI Overviews now appear less than 15% of the time, according to a new analysis. The drop. Here’s a screenshot showing the data: The data was shared with Search Engine Land by enterprise SEO platform BrightEdge and its BrightEdge Generative Parser, which has been tracking and monitoring SGE and AI Overviews since late last … Read more
It seems Google has fully removed the number of results found, the results count, from the Google Search results page. It was removed from the Google Search Generative Experience last June and Google has been testing removing it for ages but not it seems fully gone. Update; it appears to still be on the page … Read more
According to data from GS Statcounter, Google’s search engine market share has fallen to 86.99%, the lowest point since the firm began tracking search engine share in 2009. The drop represents a more than 4% decrease from the previous month, marking the largest single-month decline on record. Screenshot from: https://gs.statcounter.com/search-engine-market-share/, May 2024. U.S. Market Impact … Read more
In a Google Office Hours podcast, Google’s Gary Illyes answered a question about 404 Page Not Found errors that coincided with a drop in rankings. Fake External 404 Errors There are probably many reasons for 404 errors created by bots. One reason for those error responses could be that they are originating from automated scanners … Read more
Many Google AdSense publishers have been reporting massive declines in their earnings and RPMs (page revenue per thousand impressions) since late February. This comes a couple of weeks after we reported that the switch from CPC to CPM bidding in AdSense did not negatively affect publishers’ revenue. There are many threads of complaints from AdSense … Read more
Google has removed the phone number for the hotel panel and hotel panels in the search results. To be clear, the normal local listings, like pizza shops and so forth, do have the phone numbers but not the hotel listings for some reason. This seems to have started yesterday, Tuesday, March 19th. Lluc B. Penycate … Read more
As Google continues to roll out massive updates, you may be looking to diagnose drops in organic traffic. A great tool to start with here (particularly if you’re in the NeverGA4 crowd or your GA4 reports just aren’t adding up) is Google Search Console. Google’s released a surprisingly useful guide of their own on this … Read more
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