Daily Search Forum Recap: January 7, 2025
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.
Microsoft is trying to trick Bing users to thinking they are using Google…
Google Search Console Performance Reports Now Exports Hourly Data
Google now added the new 24-hour hourly data from the performance report in Google Search Console to the export functionally. So now you can export hourly data, the most recent data, from Google Search Console’s performance report.
Report: Google SPN Placement Have A 37% Lower ROAS vs Google Search
Google Ads SPN, search partner network, has a 37% lower ROAS, return on ad spend, for shopping campaigns on Google Ads when compared to Google Search ads, directly. Mike Ryan wrote this on LinkedIn, saying, “SPN is a budget buy. It doesn’t convert as w…
Google Vehicle Ads Gains Date First Registered Attribute
Google has added a new attribute to its vehicle ads product attributes. The new attribute is [date_first_registered], the date of when the vehicle had its first registration date with the public authorities or government.
Google Tests People Also Ask & People Also Search For Refinements
Google is testing new search refinement options to let users expand their queries for the people also ask and people also search sections of the search results. We’ve seen numerous variations of this over the years but here are new ones.
Microsoft Tricking Bing Users To Thinking They Are On Google
About a month ago, a reader sent me a screenshot of Bing showing this weird search box on its page after you search for Google. I thought it was some weird Microsoft Rewards promotion and took it at that and moved on. I was wrong, tons of publications …
Daily Search Forum Recap: January 6, 2025
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.
There may be a large Google local search ranking update going on right now…
January 2025 Google Local Ranking Update (Unconfirmed)
There are reports of a major local search ranking change with Google Maps and Local Search results. The reports of this local search algorithm update started to funnel in over the weekend, with some saying they saw local listings rankings drastically c…
Google Discover Feed Showing More Sources For Stories Within Cards
Google is showing now sometimes showing more than one source for a story in the Google home page, Google Discover, feed. This can show up in a carousel format or a stacked format, just beneath the main story in your Discover feed.
Google: URLs Provide Minimal Additional Signals For Search Engines
The topic of URLs for SEO and ranking is one that has been around since search engines first existed and 25+ years later, it is still a popular topic. Google has said time and time again that keywords in URLs don’t offer a significant ranking boost for…
Google: Core Updates Do Not Impact Site Name Changes
Google said that core updates should have no impact on a site name in the Google Search results being updated or changed. When asked, John Mueller of Google wrote, “That shouldn’t be related to a core update.”
Blank Screenshot In Google Search Console URL Inspection Tool May Be Fine
Did you ever run the Google Search Console URL inspection tool, and click on the view crawled page link, and then see a blank screenshot under the screenshot tab? It might not be an issue, says Gary Illyes of Google. As long as you see the HTML you wan…
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Daily Search Forum Recap: January 3, 2025
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 says you do not need a blog in 2025…
Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google New Years Ranking Volatility, 2024 Algorithm Updates, Gemini In 2025 & More
It’s the new year and why should that mean that Google Search calm down at all, in fact, it has been heated all holiday season, through New Years. I posted the 2024 Google algorithm update infographic. I also posted the January 2025 Google webmaste…
Google What People Are Saying Expandable Carousels
We’ve seen various flavors of the what people are saying sections in the search results before. We’ve even see Google use AI to return results within them. But it seems this expandable carousel format is live in the mobile Google search results now.
Google Ads API Does Not Currently Support Placement Exclusions For PMax
The Google Ads API currently does not accept or support placement exclusions for Performance Max campaigns. This is also the case even if specified at the account level, Michael Cloonan, a Google Ads API specialist, wrote.
Google: Adding Country Codes To URLs Won’t Help For SEO
Google’s John Mueller said that simply adding country codes to your URLs won’t result in “any change at all” for regional ranking reasons. He added, changing your URLs will result in “temporary fluctuations” because of the URL change but it won’t help …
Google: Startups In 2025 Don’t Necessarily Need A Blog
A Redditor posted a question asking if startups in 2025 need a blog. This was posted in the SEO section of Reddit, so John Mueller replied by just saying “no.” I guess a startup does not “need” a blog for SEO purposes, it is not a requirement.
Bing Tests Arrow Buttons For Sitelinks Like Google
Bing is now testing placing these arrow buttons, in a circle button format, next to the sitelinks. This is something Google has been testing on and off for some time in their search results as well.