Google has released the 2023 Google Ads safety report sharing that Google has removed 5.5 billion ads, suspended 12.7 million advertiser accounts, restricted over 6.9 billion ads, and restricted ads from showing up on 2.1 billion publisher pages. That is about 6% more ads removed, 90% more suspended advertiser accounts, restricted 60% more ads, and … Read more
Google is changing the Google Assistant, removing and changing dozens of features that some of you may have become accustomed to. Google said these changes are aimed to “focus on quality and reliability,” adding it will “ultimately make it easier to use Assistant across devices,” the company wrote. With these changes, Google also has laid … Read more
When Google first launched its Search Generative Experience, it labeled the “end” **** of the program as December 2023 for US users and February 2024 for India and other countries. Well, now that end **** was removed from the Google Search Labs interface. Here is what it looked like before: Here is what it looks … Read more
Earlier this week, Google removed its Robots.txt FAQ help document from its search developer documentation. When asked, John Mueller from Google replied to Alexis Rylko saying, “We update the documentation from time to time. Feel free to submit feedback if you feel something’s missing. Robots.txt is definitely still a thing.” The Robots FAQ document lived … Read more
Google has confirmed that it has removed event rich results from showing under search result snippets. This was confirmed at the Google Search Central live SEO event in Zurich today by Ryan Levering of Google during the Q&A session. What happened. Over the past few weeks or so, some SEOs started to notice that the … Read more
In a recent announcement, Google has made a significant update that has caught the attention of SEO professionals and website owners alike. They’ve completely removed How-To Rich Results, a feature that has been a part of Google’s search landscape for a while. While the schema for How-To Rich Results can still be used, it no … Read more
This morning, we are seeing significant movement with the Google search results ranking and algorithm. Twitter blocked unregistered users from seeing tweets, which blocked Googlebot and resulted in huge drops in Google Search traffic but a few days later, Twitter fixed it. Bing Chat improved its efficiency and dropped latency by 25%. OpenAI disabled the … Read more
September 19, 2016 | Posted by Shay Harel Late last week our SERP Feature tool tracked an odd shift in the number of Image Boxes appearing on Page One of the SERP. Taking place on the desktop SERP (to the exclusion of mobile), that little row of pictures, known commonly as Image Box fell from showing … Read more
September 27, 2017 | Posted by Shay Harel Dearly beloved we are gathered here today, on Google’s very own birthday, to announce the departure of the Search Box SERP feature from the face of the earth. In less dramatic terms, Google has removed its Search Box feature from the SERP on both desktop … Read more
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There aren’t many topics in SEO as controversial as disavowing links. Ever since Google introduced the ability to disavow links, there has been a ton of confusion about how to use the disavow tool, what types of links should be disavowed, when to ignore the disavow tool altogether, and more. Then add third-party tools that … Read more
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