Search Engine Roundtable

Google's new spam algorithm update also introduced new spam policies including the upcoming site reputation abuse policy that won't go into effect until May 2024. Google has confirmed it will fig...

https://www.seroundtable.com/google-site-reputation-abuse-spam-37231.html

Google launched the style recommendations with thumbs up and down buttons not long ago after testing it in January. Now Google is showing this thumbs up and down buttons in the product grid searc...

https://www.seroundtable.com/google-product-search-thumbs-up-down-37222.html

Google has a similar products section and carousel for Google Ads sponsored listings. We have seen similar products and similar shopping related results from the organic / free listings but now I...

https://www.seroundtable.com/google-ads-similar-product-carousel-37212.html

Google has clarified in its image search help documentation that images are only extracted from the src attribute of img tags in Google Search. This is not new, but Google decided to update its d...

https://www.seroundtable.com/google-search-images-src-attribute-37232.html

Google AdSense announced a new auto ads format named "Ad intents." Ad intents places links and anchors showing organic search results with ads into existing text and pages on your site related to...

https://www.seroundtable.com/google-adsense-new-ad-intents-formats-37233.html

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today...

https://www.seroundtable.com/recap-04-15-2024-37230.html

Recently, we covered some of Google's rationale for ranking forums like Reddit and Quora so well in the Discussion and Forums box for many queries. Just a few days ago, we covered how I was sad t...

https://www.seroundtable.com/google-defends-statements-search-quality-37226.html

Nilay Patel, editor-in-chief of the Verge posted a new article with the intent to both rank for in Google Search, as well as mock Google for how he can game Google's search rankings using AI-gen...

https://www.seroundtable.com/google-responds-verge-mocking-search-rankings-37228.html

On Friday, Google responded to a pending bill in the California state legislature, the California Journalism Preservation Act (CJPA), that would require Google to pay a link tax to publishers by ...

https://www.seroundtable.com/google-threatens-california-drops-links-37227.html

Google gives every hostname its own allocated crawl budget. So that means each domain, subdomain, etc has its own unique crawl budget.

https://www.seroundtable.com/google-allocates-crawl-budget-by-hostname-37224.html

Many Google AdSense publishers have been reporting massive declines in their earnings and RPMs (page revenue per thousand impressions) since late February. This comes a couple of weeks after we r...

https://www.seroundtable.com/google-adsense-publishers-rpm-decline-37221.html

As I mentioned briefly in my Friday video recap, I was starting to see renewed chatter on Friday morning around more Google search ranking volatility. I spotted some renewed chatter that lead thr...

https://www.seroundtable.com/weekend-google-core-ranking-volatility-37225.html

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today...

https://www.seroundtable.com/recap-04-12-2024-37220.html

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 lo...

https://www.seroundtable.com/video-04-12-2024-37219.html

Google once again said that its indexing systems are completely independent of its ranking updates, like the core update. Gary Illyes from Google said indexing, canonicalization, and those types ...

https://www.seroundtable.com/google-indexing-core-updates-are-independent-37215.html