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Daily Search Forum Recap: February 23, 2022

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3 months ago

February 24, 2022

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 has started to roll out the desktop version of the Google Page Experience Update – big whoop. Google Merchant Center has a new “shopping experience scorecard” and if you prove that you provide excellent customer experience, Google may give you a boost and more visibility in Google Shopping. Most advertisers said that Google Ads CPCs costs are up this year compared to last. Google AdSense publisher reports seem off, the homepage report is showing much lower earnings than the other reports. Microsoft Advertising launched dynamic descriptions ad texts for DSAs.

Search Engine Roundtable Stories:

Other Great Search Threads:

I feel a @gregfinn Hulk moment coming on 🙂 -> Microsoft Ads announces auto-apply recommendations “By default advertisers will be opted in to auto-apply for all the 5 recommendation types” Although you can easily opt-out, rece, Glenn Gabe on Twitter

Having links between the language versions of a site / page seems like a baseline usability element. That’s something I’d always recommend. I would not rely on hreflang to enable crawling of inte, John Mueller on Twitter

How AI works in everyday life | Google AI, Barry Schwartz on Twitter

I’m so very sad to hear about the passing of @aperfectcircle0 host of the CMO Asia Podcast 😢 I had the wonderful opportunity to meet him at Shenzhen in 2019 at an event, spent the day sightseeing with ot, Aleyda Solis on Twitter

It’s possible to rely on a single source of traffic with SEO too though. IMO it’s critical to plan accordingly & diversify. Search can & does change over time; don’t make your site subject of the next., John Mueller on Twitter

The Microsoft Bing team continues evolving search to be more relevant, visually immersive, and inspirational. Check out some of our new experiences across Bing that help you find ideas and information quickly and intuitively., Jordi Ribas on Twitter

There is no generally valid answer to that question, sorry., John Mueller on Twitter

Search Engine Land Stories:

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Google Ads Testing Replacing Ad Label With Sponsored Label

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May 20, 2022

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Google Ads Testing Replacing Ad Label With Sponsored Label

Google Ads is testing replacing the “ads” label with a “sponsored” label again. And just so you know, Google in 2010 replaced the “sponsored” label with an “ad” label until this day. Yea, sometimes we do see “sponsored” labels in Google Search but not for the normal search ads – those have been labeled “ads” for the UK and US regions for a long time now.

I personally cannot replicate this but Bastiir posted some screenshots of this on Twitter:

Test: Sponsored label in Google Search:

Normal: Ads label in Google Search:

Here is another full size screenshot you can click on to see the “sponsored” label:

Here are more tests:

Here’s an interesting test. Google is currently showing new ad label variations on mobile, now with the words ‘advertisement’ and ‘sponsored’. This is matched with another URL + favicon test from March – lots going on here. More info: https://t.co/j6IUtkSa1z pic.twitter.com/FLSnZcmzWc
— Brodie Clark (@brodieseo) May 17, 2022

I personally like the “sponsored” label, makes it feel more luxury. 🙂

Forum discussion at Twitter.

Update: Google has now confirmed this as a test and sent Search Engine Land this statement:

This is part of a series of experiments to help users more easily identify the brand or advertiser associated with the Search ads they may see for a given query. We are always testing news ways to improve the experience for users on the search results page, but we don’t have anything specific to announce right now.

Source: www.seroundtable.com