Today is Google’s official 25th birthday and to celebrate Google has a special Doodle that showcases some of Google’s early Google logos. It progresses to show you the old to the current official Google logos. Google wrote, “Let’s take a walk down memory lane to learn how we were born 25 years ago…” “Today’s Doodle … Read more
Google announced that Google Search Console will now show Google Merchant Center visibility issues and changes in new reports. There are two new reports, the first report shows when products stop appearing on the Shopping tab due to any issues and the second shows changes in clicks and changes ranking of products on Google Search. … Read more
Google is testing a new search snippet feature titled “mentioned in.” This feature adds a new section to a search result snippet that lets the searcher expand and see the websites on which this site is also mentioned. What it looks like. Here is a GIF of it in action provided by Brodie Clark: You … Read more
Google Images are now showing the site name, favicon and below that, a second line, for the page title that image is sourced from. Previously, Google showed just the image, then Google tested the site name and favicon but now Google is showing it all. Here is a screenshot of what I see in Google … Read more
An issue is causing too many ads to show at the top of Google’s search results. The issue. The search engine is showing five sponsored posts at the top of SERPs, when there should only be four, for some queries. For example: SERPs error. Marketers raised the ads display issue on X (the platform previously … Read more
Did you know that the new Google Search Generative Experience that launched to us a month ago shows nearby stores that have products in stock directly in the generative AI answer. This might not be new, but based on my early tests, I don’t believe I’ve seen Google SGE show “Stores,” and I definitely didn’t … Read more
Google has updated the Google Rich Results test to spell out that the test is coming from the Google URL Inspection tool. This update probably happened when added the new Google-InspectionTool useragent to the crawler list back in May. Now, Google spells it out, it says “Google Inspection Tool smartphone” and “Google Inspection Tool desktop” … Read more
In a Google SEO Office Hours, Google’s Martin Splitt answered a question about structured data validation and how Google’s validator can show different results than the Schema.org validator. Structured Data Validation Both Google and Schema.org offer tools for validating if structured data is correct. Google’s tool is called the Rich Results Test. Schema.org’s tool is … Read more
Creators earn the most from their brand partnerships on YouTube – more than Instagram and TikTok, according to a new survey. By the numbers. On YouTube, 6% of creators earned more than $10,001 per month – compared to 3% of Instagram creators and 2% of TikTok creators. 50% of YouTube creators earn more than $500 per … Read more
About a week ago, Google did its last batch of moving sites to mobile-first indexing and some mobile-friendly sites were still noticing their sites were being reported as being crawled using desktop indexing. It turns out, there is a reporting bug in Google Search Console that may show the wrong mobile indexing status for some … Read more
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