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Google did say while it is fully rolled out, the caveat is there may be “some edge case lingering.” Google has now completed rolling out the product reviews update that first began rolling out two weeks ago today, Danny Sullivan of Google told Search Engine Land. “Caveat is with any update, you can still sometimes have some edge case lingering,” Sullivan explained. “But effectively done,” he said when it comes to the rollout of this new Google search ranking algorithm. The confirmation. Here is the tweet from Danny Sullivan when I asked him…

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Google changed how it counts impressions for image search in the performance reporting, you may notice a drop in impressions. Google said on April 6, 2021 it made a change to how it reports within Google Search Console’s performance report for image search impressions. This change is a reporting only change and there was no impact to your actual rankings in Google Search. What changed. Google said it “improved the algorithm for counting image impressions in Search results.” That basically means the math it uses to display impression metrics in the performance report…

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Google explained it “will continue to prioritize pages with the best information overall, even if some aspects of page experience are subpar.” Google updated its FAQs around the core web vitals and page experience update. This page is accessible in the Google support forums and was initially posted in December 2020 but was updated today with a lot more details. What is new. Well, there is a lot new here compared to the original version. You can compare the old to the new by scanning both documents. Malte Ubl, Technically…

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After much confusion, Google explained why it send out these notifications and what your next steps should be. Earlier this week, Google sent out a notice through Google Search Console with SharedArrayBuffer warnings to site owners. And honestly, it caused a huge amount of confusion and concern amongst those who received it. Today Google published a blog post with clarifications around why Google sent out the message and what site owners can do to address the potential issue. Google defines SharedArrayBuffer. Google has defined what a SharedArrayBuffer is by explaining, “SharedArrayBuffer is a…

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Google opens the door to more hotels by offering free hotel listings, separate from paid results. Just like it did with Google Shopping and also with Google Flights, Google announced it is now opening up free listings within Google Hotel search. There is a new section in Google Hotel search for “all options” that is below the paid results, that shows unapid listings from hotels and travel companies. Free hotel listings. “We’re improving this experience by making it free for hotels and travel companies around the world to appear in hotel booking links, beginning this week…

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Make sure not to miss the new more visual changes in Microsoft Bing Search, the new Google My Business reports and the Google Ads mobile app notifications. Search Engine Land’s daily brief features daily insights, news, tips, and essential bits of wisdom for today’s search marketer. If you would like to read this before the rest of the internet does, sign up here to get it delivered to your inbox daily. Good morning, Marketers, do your Google rankings feel rocky? It is me again, Barry, the one obsessed with Google algorithms. Over…

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Now, advertisers can see Display ads alongside search and YouTube. Google has added Display ads to its Google Ads attribution reporting as an open beta, the company announced Thursday. Last year, the company streamlined its attribution reporting and included YouTube ads to it, also in beta. How to opt-in. Eligible advertisers can opt-in to Display ads in attribution reports by going to the Measurement > Attribution section of Google Ads. After opting in, Display ads will be shown in all attribution reports, along with search ads (including Shopping), and, if they have opted into it, YouTube ads. The reports. Attribution…

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After several months of testing, Google has officially launched this new label that shows how many years your business has been in operation. Google quietly announced that the “years in business” label is now live for businesses that want to display how many years they are in business within the Google Search local pack. What it looks like. Here is a screen shot of my business, RustyBrick, showing the 25+ years in business label in a local pack listing within the Google Search results: How do you get this label. Google said you need…

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Google said this is just a reporting change and the change you see in crawling is not reflective of any change in search results. Google has posted an update on its new crawl stats report saying “the crawl stats report has increased its reporting coverage for additional types of crawls.” This means you may see an increase in the number of crawls reported for your site but this is just a reporting change – there is no direct impact in search. Crawl stats report. Google, back in November 2020, launched the new crawl stats…

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After a few years of testing Google Question Hub India, Indonesia and Nigeria – it is now available in the United States. Google Question Hub, accessible at questionhub.withgoogle.com, is now open for US-based publishers to sign up for. In 2018, Google launched Question Hub in regions where the company found it did not have enough content in its search index to answer searchers’ questions. Google then started showing this box to searchers last year but told us it was for COVID related queries, but it was much broader than COVID queries. What is Question Hub? Google says “Question Hub…

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