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 is testing a new ad label header, it makes the ads stick out more. Google Search ranking volatility is still incredibly heated, even over a week after the core update finished. Google is sending out verification notices to Local Service Ads advertisers. Bing is testing a local pack with review source icons. Google AdSense is expanding auto ads to more languages. Google Search has a new video property for ineligible regions.
Google Search Ranking Volatility Still Heated A Week After Core Update
I sound like a broken record, but the Google Search ranking volatility is still incredibly heated and has not let down, even over a week after the Google August 2024 core update was completed on September 3rd.
Google Tests New Ad Label / Design That Makes Ads Stand Out
Google is testing a new ad label and interface that really make the ads way more noticeable in the Google Search results. The ad label still is a black sponsored label, but Google is testing it on a tall gray background, with subtitles like “promoted products” and “promoted results.”
Google Emails Advertisers On Local Services Ads Verification Requirements
In March, Google announced a new verification process for its Local Service Ads program. Well, now, Google has started to email advertisers that need to take the steps to verify their advertising accounts.
Bing Local Pack Tests Review Source Icons Instead Of Review Stars
Microsoft is testing adding the source of the reviews in the Bing Search local pack, instead of showing review stars. So if the Bing Search local pack is showing reviews from Yelp, it would show the Yelp logo, and if it is showing them from Facebook, it would show the Facebook logo.
Google Expands AdSense Auto Ads To French, Spanish, and Japanese
Google is expanding AdSense’s Auto ads to support French, Spanish, and Japanese languages. Previously, Auto ads were worked for English and German languages only.
Google Search Supports Ineligible Regions Property For Videos
Google Search now supports specifying where (which regions) a video is not allowed to be viewed in its video structured data and video SEO documentation. A new ineligibleRegion property was added to the Google video structured data documentation.
Google Chelsea Market Tile Backsplash
At the Google office in New York City, the Chelsea Market location, they have this kitchen area that has the old Google logo, with the location, Chelsea Market, tiled into the wall.
Check scores on perplexity!, Aravind Srinivas on X
Data suggests that if Google does not recrawl a URL after 129 days URL it falls out of the index, Mic King on X
Google Loses €2.4bn Appeal In E.U. Over Market Dominance, WebmasterWorld
On the video from O’Keefe Media Group: The claims here are completely false — they were made by a junior sales rep, secretly filmed while on a date, who has never worked on these topics. As we’ve shared before, we do not manipulate our products or m, Google Communications on X
GSC Issue, Reddit
You randomly stumble across a new website crawler / scraper service – it turns any website into a CSV file (just for sake of something to discuss, I don’t have one for you). Isn’t that cool?, John Mueller on LinkedIn
Industry & Business
Glean Technologies Value Hits $4.6 Billion in Funding Round With DST, SoftBank, Bloomberg
Google signs carbon removal deal with Holocene, Axios
Google’s AI Will Help Decide Whether Unemployed Workers Get Benefits, Gizmodo
Google, explained: How it dominates the sell side of advertising, Check My Ads
News Corp would have lost $9 million in 2017 by ditching Google ads, ex-exec testifies, Reuters
Sergey Brin says he’s working on AI at Google ‘pretty much every day’, TechCrunch
Why Google is supporting Holocene’s Direct Air Capture project, Google Blog
Links & Content Marketing
Local & Maps
Mobile & Voice
SEO
PPC
Other Search
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