Google Discover is an especially important source of organic traffic for publishers. This personalized feed, available within Google’s mobile app and mobile search homepage, offers users an engaging experience by recommending relevant content, even before they know exactly what they want to search for. Google Discover is one of the fastest-growing sources of traffic for … Read more
Google has stopped showing Web Stories in image search, the carousel view in Google Discover, plus the grid view is now a carousel view in the Google search results. Plus Google made some other availability changes to Web Stories. Announcement. “To make sure our documentation aligns with how the feature appears in Google Search. Web … Read more
Google is showing a “viewed” label on product results that you recently viewed or visited within the Google Discover feed. Google has also launched the “you visit often” label a month or so ago and sites you previously visited in October 2022, so it is not surprising to see something similar on product listings. This … Read more
Just in case SEOs aren’t busy enough, Google is keeping us all on our toes with more core algorithm updates than ever. Just as we recovered from 2022’s Helpful Content Update, 2023 came in with a bang, giving us the February Product Reviews update and the March core update following closely behind. You can bet … Read more
Google Discover seems to be adding a label that reads “in case you missed it” to some older stories. We know Google Discover can show old stories but now they are labeling some with “in case you missed” it over the title and image. This was spotted by Khushal Bherwani who posted this screenshot on … Read more
Researchers tested multiple ways to optimize a website for AI search and discovered exactly what to do in order to boost visibility. They successfully increased visibility of smaller lower ranked websites by 115%, giving them the ability to outrank larger corporate sites that normally dominated the top of the search results. The researchers observed that … Read more
Google’s core updates have often resulted in a traffic increase or decline for some websites. However, after the latest updates and possible bugs in Discover, publishers have noticed an unprecedented drop in website traffic and visibility in Google Search. Reports from various sources indicate that these changes have led to dramatic consequences, with some sites … Read more
On Friday, Google’s Search Liaison, Danny Sullivan, said you can reply to a thread on X or post a help thread in Google’s forums to let him know about sites that saw a significant drop in Google Search, Google Discover and Google News traffic recently. It also seems that Lily Ray is building a Google … Read more
Google Discover added products or e-commerce sections about a month ago. But now it seems Google is adding both pricing details and discounts to those product/e-commerce Discover results. Glenn Gabe spotted this and posted some screenshots on X: Glenn wrote, “Now I’m seeing an expansion of the product cards that have been showing up. They … Read more
Last *****, Google confirmed a bug with the Google October 2023 core update that impacted Discover traffic for “some sites.” The bug was started on October 5th and lasted through October 31st. Google wrote, “On October 5, we found a bug with how our October 2023 core update was applied to Discover. As of October … Read more
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