Daily Search Forum Recap: October 22, 2024
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…
Find out about the latest changes in Google’s leadership team and the potential implications for its strategy and direction. The post Wrong Direction: Google’s Leadership Shakeup Long Time Coming appeared first on Search Engine Journal
Google announced that it is adding new features for travel search ads through integration with travel feeds. This will allow ads to show hotels, prices, dates, ratings and images in hotel ads. Plus, Google is testing things to do, car rentals and events formats.
Google is deprecating the ten-year-old Sitelinks Search Box. It is going to start to disappear from the search result snippets starting on November 21, 2024
Google seems to be testing showing search ads that you can click to watch a video. We saw something like this back in 2018, but this shopping ad has a video play icon on it, and when you look at it, it then changes to a “watch” icon.
There are reportedly at least five bugs within the Bing Webmaster Tools API and the corresponding documentation. The bugs range from setting country and regions to site move requests, plus bugs with the overall API documentation.
Google Ads has changed how Performance Max and regular Shopping campaigns work within the same account. In short, Performance Max won’t take priority over Standard Shopping campaigns when they are both in the same ads account.
Microsoft is adding new AI features to Bing Search named AI-enhanced summaries. These can show up in the knowledge panel section, and say the “summary was generated by Al from multiple online sources. Find the source links used for this summary under “Based on sources.”
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John Mueller’s answer about the ideal length for content challenged SEOs to rethink their content strategy. The post Google’s Answer on Ideal Content Length for SEO appeared first on Search Engine Journal