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    Advertisers & Agencies Frustrated With Lack Of Google Ads Support

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    by rustybrick
    Jan 17, 2024
    Advertisers and agencies seem beyond frustrated by the lack of support from the Google Ads support team. Nicola Agius covered it incredibly well, she said, "Google Ads customer service has plummeted to an unacceptable all-time low, according to search marketers."

    Google On Text Within Images

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    by rustybrick
    Jan 17, 2024
    A recent post on Reddit asked about the impact of having a website where most of the text was within images. Would Google be able to read the text, what is the SEO impact and would the text rank in the search results?

    Google Search Not Showing News Boxes For Some Election Queries

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    by rustybrick
    Jan 17, 2024
    Google Search may not be showing news boxes, like top stories, for some election types of queries. So if you search for [iowa caucus] or [2024 United States primary elections] and others don't seem to trigger news boxes.

    Bing Tests Shadow Effect On Mouse Over Search Result Snippets

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    by rustybrick
    Jan 17, 2024
    Microsoft is testing a new style for when someone hovers their mouse cursor over a search result snippet in the Bing Search results. Bing will add a shadow effect to that snippet on hover over.

    Daily Search Forum Recap: January 16, 2024

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    by rustybrick
    Jan 16, 2024
    Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web...

    Google Search Console 404 Error Report For /1000 URLs Spike

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    by rustybrick
    Jan 16, 2024
    I am seeing an unusual number of complaints around the reported 404 errors within Google Search Console reporting. This is specific to your URLs having /1000 appended to the end of the URL.

    Bing Unchanged Despite Copilot Pro Paid Release

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    by rustybrick
    Jan 16, 2024
    Microsoft released Copilot Pro, a premium paid version of its Copilot service, formerly known as Bing Chat. But that doesn't mean Bing Search or Bing Chat is getting worse, Bing will stay the same, said Mikhail Parakhin from Microsoft.

    Google Ads Gains New Campaign Level Headlines & Descriptions Options

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    by rustybrick
    Jan 16, 2024
    Google Ads is either beta testing or slowly releasing a feature to let you add three campaign-level headlines and two campaign-level descriptions. You can also schedule the headlines and descriptions to run at certain times or stick them on specific positions.

    Google Tests 5 Product Results Instead Of 4 In Shopping Grid

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    by rustybrick
    Jan 16, 2024
    Google is testing showing one more product in the product grid layout. Google is testing showing five products across, instead of four products across.

    Google Knowledge Panel Timeline Interface

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    by rustybrick
    Jan 16, 2024
    Google has this timeline view for some knowledge panels in the mobile search interface. It seems related to the notable moments card we saw years ago, but this is in a timeline view.