For the original iTunes version, click here. This week, we covered that the Google March 2024 core update is still rolling out 38 days later, but we saw more volatility this week. Just a reminder that the Google helpful content update no longer exists. Gary Illyes from Google again says core update and indexing … Read more
Website loading times are gradually improving, but a new study shows significant variance in performance across sites and geographic regions. The study from web monitoring company DebugBear examined data from Google’s Chrome User Experience Report (CrUX), which collects real-world metrics across millions of websites. “The average website takes 1.3 seconds to load the main page … Read more
Over the past few weeks, Google’s Search Liaison, Danny Sullivan, has been replying to complaints about some examples of search results being not just low-quality but also potentially harmful and dangerous. The sad part to me is that a couple of years ago, this was not the case with the Google search results (for the … Read more
Microsoft is testing removing the estimated number of search results count in the Bing Search results interface. This comes after Bing began testing removing the cache link from the search result snippets. Google has tested this numerous times over the years, both in SGE and not. This one was spotted by Frank Sandtmann who posted … Read more
Have you ever noticed that some of your website pages show up in Google’s search results that you don’t want your visitors to see? It happens! It could be an old page you’ve deleted or one containing outdated information. Maybe it’s some personal photos or confidential business documents you no longer want to be exposed. … Read more
I thought I’d share some thoughts on why we may be seeing Reddit ranking for so many search queries. I think it’s mostly related to the value that Reddit gives in training Gemini on how people talk. This tweet by Mordy Oberstein got me thinking. He searched for “What Reddit on the SERP means for … Read more
Since before last year’s holiday season, we have been seeing a “Shop All Deals” banner-like ad in the Google Search results for e-commerce and other queries. Boyd Norwood from nozzle.io looked at their data and found that this banner shows up 40-50% of the time over the last four or so months. He looked at … Read more
Bing is testing removing the cache link from its search results. This is something Google tested for a few months prior to officially dropping the cache link from its search results back in January. Now Microsoft is making the same move with its search engine, Bing. Here is what I see (notice now arrow down … Read more
Google is testing showing four images, instead of three images, in its search results. This is a small change but it does give more publishers a chance to show their images on the first page. This was spotted by Khushal Bherwani who shared some screenshots on X: This is what I see: Khushal posted more … Read more
Google is testing labeling product images in the product grid search results with a label that says “product.” I am unsure if this is Google mislabeling the percent discount tag and sticking “product” there instead or if this is a real feature test. I mean, we’ve seen Google label image search with product labels but … Read more
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