November 2024 Google Webmaster Report: Super Volatility, Different Content, AI Overviews, Sitelinks & More

November 2024 Google Webmaster Report: Super Volatility, Different Content, AI Overviews, Sitelinks & More

While Google has yet to confirm a Google search ranking update, we have seen tremendous volatility in the Google Search results this month. Google did however confirm it can downgrade sections of content that is starkly different from the main content. We also posted an update on the helpful content update. Finally, Google did say … Read more

Video: Google Shopping Goes AI, Bing Webmaster Tools Updates & Semrush Acquires SMX & Search Engine Land

Video: Google Shopping Goes AI, Bing Webmaster Tools Updates & Semrush Acquires SMX & Search Engine Land

For the original iTunes version, click here. Yep, another week, more Google search ranking volatility to report on. Google released new shopping features including a new home page, a new researched with AI, more personalized results and deal-finding tools like price comparison, price insights and price tracking. Bing Webmaster Tools added more data, new … Read more

Bing Webmaster Tools Gets 16 Months Of Data, New Recommendations & Copilot Tools

Bing Webmaster Tools Gets 16 Months Of Data, New Recommendations & Copilot Tools

Microsoft has provided some new updates to Bing Webmaster Tools, including 10 months more of data for the search performance reports, an updated recommendations section, and a preview of Copilot tools coming to the toolset. 16 Months Of Search Performance Data Now when you go to the Search Performance report in Bing Webmaster Tools you … Read more

October 2024 Google Webmaster Report: Google Rankings, Spam Policies, Cache & More

October 2024 Google Webmaster Report: Google Rankings, Spam Policies, Cache & More

This month may have been one of the most volatile Google Search ranking months I reported about ever. Google completed its August 2024 core update, and then we had countless unconfirmed Google ranking updates, tweaks, or volatility – whatever you want to call it. I mean, it was a lot and it still seems to … Read more

September 2024 Google Webmaster Report: August Core Update, AI Overviews Updates & Monopoly Ruling

September 2024 Google Webmaster Report: August Core Update, AI Overviews Updates & Monopoly Ruling

It finally happened, we got a new core update, the Google August 2024 core update touched down on August 15th. It resulted in some movement with some of the sites that were hit by the September helpful content update and also many sad stories, including many sites that saw even more degradation in their search … Read more

August 2024 Google Webmaster Report: Super Volatility, Indexing Bugs, Autocomplete & Deepfakes

August 2024 Google Webmaster Report: Super Volatility, Indexing Bugs, Autocomplete & Deepfakes

Here is the big monthly Google webmaster report, where I catch you up on what changes with Google Search related to Google updates, ranking volatility, SEO, Search Console, UI changes, local and much more. This month we had intense ranking volatility all month, we had autocomplete updates, deepfakes algorithm changes and a big search indexing … Read more

Prompt injection added to Bing Webmaster Guidelines

Prompt injection added to Bing Webmaster Guidelines

Microsoft has added a new guideline to its Bing Webmaster Guidelines named “prompt injection.” This is to cover the abuse and attack of language ****** by websites and webpages. Prompt injection guideline. The new guideline was posted at the bottom of the current Bing Webmaster Guidelines. It reads: Prompt injection: Do not add content on … Read more

Microsoft Explains Why Bing Webmaster Tools Can Show A Clickthrough Rate Over 100%

Microsoft Explains Why Bing Webmaster Tools Can Show A Clickthrough Rate Over 100%

Did you ever sort the Bing Webmaster Tools clickthrough-rate column from highest to lowest and notice that you can see a CTR higher than 100%, I even see 300%. Well, Fabrice Canel from Microsoft said this is possible when a searcher clicks on your listing more than once from the same search result set. So … Read more

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