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    Daily Search Forum Recap: February 14, 2025

    rustybrick
    by rustybrick
    Yesterday at 7:00 AM
    Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today...

    Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Super Bowl Volatility, Reddit Blames Google, Search Is Faster & Reviews Bug Fix

    rustybrick
    by rustybrick
    Yesterday at 5:01 AM
    Google had some more ranking volatility around the Super Bowl weekend. Reddit blamed Google for not meeting its expected user growth. Google Search is now faster for some users. Google had a reviews count bug that it later confirmed and later fixed...

    Google Merchant Listing New Membership Loyalty Pricing Property

    rustybrick
    by rustybrick
    Yesterday at 4:51 AM
    Google has updated its Merchant Listing structured data documentation to now support, in beta, membership loyalty pricing property types. Google also updated the docs to provide more examples and instructions around active prices, sale prices, strikethrough prices, and member prices in JSON-LD.

    Google Article Links To Product Snippet Overlays

    rustybrick
    by rustybrick
    Yesterday at 4:41 AM
    Google seems to be adding links to review publishers when you hover over some of the product results, popular products, snippets. The links show only after the box expands, and it includes a snippet of content and then a link to the source.

    Google Dropped Minimum Required Budget For Local Service Ads

    rustybrick
    by rustybrick
    Yesterday at 4:31 AM
    Google seems to have removed the minimum required budget for Local Service Ads. It is not clear if this is intentional or a bug but the box to stop you from setting a budget too low, seems to not be there anymore.

    Google Ads New Performance Max Search Themes Indicator

    rustybrick
    by rustybrick
    Yesterday at 4:21 AM
    Google Ads has added to Performance Max campaigns, the search themes, an indicator to tell you what is driving a specific change in your ad performance. This shows a trend icon near the campaign and then shows you why it is performing, as it is.

    Bing Shopping / E-Commerce Card With Ads

    rustybrick
    by rustybrick
    Yesterday at 4:11 AM
    Remember the Bing shopping / e-commerce cards? Well, now it looks like Bing is putting an ad slot in them and labeled them as ads.

    Google: Google Reviews Count Bug Not Fully Fixed Yet

    rustybrick
    by rustybrick
    Yesterday at 4:05 AM
    Google has posted an update on the reviews bug we first reported on a week ago, that it later confirmed this past Monday and we saw a fix rolling out starting on Tuesday. The short, it is not yet fully fixed but it should be in the coming few days.

    Daily Search Forum Recap: February 13, 2025

    rustybrick
    by rustybrick
    Thursday at 7:00 AM
    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.

    Reddit blamed Google's search algorithms for not meeting its expected user growth - yea, no joke...

    Google Search Faster By About 60 Milliseconds

    rustybrick
    by rustybrick
    Thursday at 4:51 AM
    Google announced it is testing new pre-fetching methods that increase the speed (Largest Contentful Paint - LCP) of the first two results by 67 milliseconds and for the results after those by about by 9.5 milliseconds.