Daily Search Forum Recap: September 20, 2024

Here’s a recap of what occurred within the search boards in the present day, by the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and different search boards on the internet.

Google is placing overview and menu descriptions beneath images in native listings. Google is inserting blue map pins with location names within the search end result snippets. Google Advertisements had enhanced conversion protection knowledge. Bing is testing a searches you might like widget. Bing Locations has a brand new help type. And I posted the weekly search engine optimisation video recap.

Search Engine Roundtable Tales:

• Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Ranking Volatility Spikes, Search Console Bug, Search App Stalled, Google Ads News & Business Profile Suspensions
  
  One other week and extra Google Search rating volatility, in truth, it has not calmed however we noticed much more spikes in the midst of this week. Google Search Console might have a bug with product snippets reporting. Google…
• Google Blue Map Pin & City Name On Search Results Snippets
  
  Google is now exhibiting a blue map pin with a metropolis title beneath a few of the search end result snippets. This appears to be rolling out now and appears to be new. It exhibits you if a particular web site is close to you or in a particular metropolis, I feel.
• Google Reviews & Menu Descriptions Under Local Photos
  
  Google is now exhibiting evaluations and menu descriptions when searching images on a Google Maps, Google Enterprise Profiles itemizing. So if you scroll by images, Google will present this content material beneath the photograph for some listings.
• Google Ads Gains New Options On Enhanced Conversion Coverage Data Page
  
  Google has added a set of latest filters and a web site solely report within the Enhanced Conversion Protection knowledge web page/report. This may be discovered within the Google Advertisements console beneath the Enhanced Conversion Protection Knowledge web page.
• New Bing Places Support Contact Form
  
  Microsoft might have up to date its Bing Locations help contact us web page. The brand new web page requires you to authenticate your self, then decide your area, earlier than filling out the shape. The shape could be reached over right here.
• Bing Searches You Might Like Box
  
  Microsoft is testing new sections within the Bing Search outcomes named searches you may like. This will present up as a field with search refinements between a set of search outcomes or as trending searches on the precise hand facet of the search outcomes.
• Google Neon Sign – Rock Stage
  
  Here’s a spot on the Google workplace in Zurich, Switzerland the place bands can play. There’s this neon Google brand signal within the background, with musical devices on the stage.

Different Nice Search Threads:

• “Helpful”, to not helpful, to helpful, to not helpful… all in the space of a year. This is so confusing, and Google really need to sort this out because there isn’t a lot independent sites left anymore, and I know many, Brandon Saltalamacchia on X
• First time I’ve seen Gemini sending a good amount of traffic to one of my recent blog posts, Invoice Hartzer on X
• Getting bombarded by flags for “Unreliable Claims” anytime we try to post keywords from Ads Editor, Greg on X
• More about AI Overview tracking in GSC: I’ve explained before that it’s a maddening adventure trying to track AI Overviews in GSC. Well, here’s another maddening example. The site ranks in the AI overview (which would show up as posi, Glenn Gabe on X
• We have just updated our marketing landing page with a nice overview of some of Bing’s main features like the emerging Bing generative search powered by LLMs, as well as Images and Image Creation, News, Travel, Maps, Shopping, Safe Se, Jordi Ribas on X

Search Engine Land Tales:

Different Nice Search Tales:

Analytics

Trade & Enterprise

Hyperlinks & Content material Advertising

Native & Maps

• Android Auto adds NACS charger support for EVs, 9to5Google
• Booking.com’s price curbs on hotels may hinder competition, EU top court says, Reuters
• Here’s how Google Maps incident reports will work on Android Auto, 9to5Google
• Maps, AI, Open Buildings, Geospatial analysis, dataset, Google Weblog
• New Policies & Shady Review Schemes: Is Google Helping or Hurting?, BrightLocal
• Startup Founded by Ex-Google Exec to Use AI to Forecast Weather, Bloomberg

Cellular & Voice

search engine optimisation

PPC

Different Search

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