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Google Discover Changes “More Recommendations” Label To “More Products”

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Google Discover Changes "More Recommendations" Label To "More Products"

In March, I wrote a post about a button labeled “More recommendations” being surfaced in Google Discover. The call to action would show up after researching products in Google Search and would lead to a “Task Dashboard” containing a boatload of content that helps users continue researching products (including articles, video, product comparison functionality, and more). It’s like a Google Shopping Assistant.

In my post I explained how Google was tying Search with Discover from a shopping perspective, and then driving users back to Search to complete their shopping journey via the task dashboard. We know Google has pushed a ton of shopping features in the SERPs recently and the change from “More recommendations” to “More products” is a simple, yet important one in my opinion. It signals that Google is working to become even more of a shopping assistant.

“More products” in Discover: A Google Shopping Assistant

As you can see below in the screenshots, when tapping “More products” in Discover, I’m taken to a task dashboard that first provides updates based on products I’ve been researching (including price drops where applicable). Note, Chrome will be providing price drop functionality soon (but that’s for another post).

First, here is what I see in Discover:

More products button in Google Discover

Which takes me to a “task dashboard”. Also notice sharing is disabled (for now)…

Task Dashboard in Google Discover

Then there’s a section titled “Continue researching” with more product pages in the list. And below that there are “Suggested articles” which should be very interesting for affiliate marketers out there. Many of the pages I see listed there are “best X category” pages that contain product reviews (and affiliate links).

Continue researching section in Discover's task dashboard.

After that, there is a section labeled “Continue browsing”, which contains products I have viewed, along with similar products that Google thinks I would like. Also, you can compare those products right in the task dashboard (which leads to a fresh SERP comparing the products). Yes, a fresh SERP.

Continue browsing section in Discover's task dashboard

And finally there are videos based on the products I was viewing and People Also Ask. Again, your “Task Dashboard” aggregates various types of content and functionality to assist with your shopping journey.

Purchasing via Google: The one step that’s missing (for now)…

With “More products” functionality, Google is providing a ton of information to help users make the most informed shopping decision possible. But, there is something missing – you can’t purchase there (yet). If Google provided purchase functionality right from your task dashboard, it could help with every aspect of the shopping cycle (and not just the research phase). Google Shopping already has the ability to purchase via Google, so it wouldn’t be a stretch to see this added in your task dashboard. Time will tell.

Also, I explained in my post from March that Google could tie Search with Discover (via “More products”), and then combine that with Journeys in Chrome. If Google did that, we could very well see a new SERP feature labeled “More products” that takes you to your task dashboard for researching products (while you are in the search results).

One thing is for sure, Google is driving forward at a fierce pace with shopping features and functionality in the SERPs (and now Discover). I’m eager to see where all of this leads. And I’m sure Amazon is too. 🙂

Source: www.seroundtable.com

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Most SEOs Believe Google’s November Core & Reviews Updates Will Complete In December

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The Google November 2023 core update and Google November 2023 reviews update are still both rolling out, and we have no estimated time of when they will finish rolling out. Both are well past their estimated two-week rollout period. I ran a poll yesterday asking SEOs when they think it will be done, and most said in December and not in the next few days left of November.

The poll had just under 600 votes in 24-hours and 79% said the update will be completed in December and 21% said in the last days remaining in November. I posted the poll on X – here it is:

Personally, I thought it would be done by now and I still think it will be done in the next day or so – but I am wrong a lot. 🙂

I do hope it is done today so they can roll out the Christmas holiday update (kidding…).

Forum discussion at X.

Update: I’ll have a story tomorrow but at least one of the updates is done in November:



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Google Search Console Was Down Today

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November 28, 2023

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Google Search Console seems to be down right now. If you try to access it, you will get a 500 server error. I suspect Search Console will be back up shortly but right now, if it is down for you, you are not alone.

Update: At 8:52 am ET Google Search Console is back, the tool was offline for about 50 minutes.

Google’s Daniel Waisberg is 100% aware of the issue. He responded to some posts about the issue, saying, “we’re working on it.” John Mueller from Google is also reposting Daniel’s posts on X.

Here is what it looked like when you tried to access it while it was down:

Gsc 500 Error Down

Search Console went down at about 8 am ET and returned at 8:52 am ET.

Here are the posts on X from Daniel Waisberg of Google on this issue:

Who knows, maybe we will have a new Search Console feature when it returns?

Here are some of the complaints:

Update: At 8:52 am ET Google Search Console is back, the tool was offline for about 50 minutes.



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Google Testing New Flight Prices Rich Result?

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November 27, 2023

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Google may be testing a new type of rich result for flight prices. This test shows a section under the flight search snippet that contains the dates, trip details and price.

This was spotted by Antoine Eripret who was able to trigger this numerous times, over numerous days, while in Spain. Here is his screenshot he posted on X:

Google Flight Prices Rich Result Test

He also posted this video of this in action for me:

Google Flight Prices Rich Result Test

Recently Google told us not to put flight prices in titles because those prices change too quickly. Maybe Google is testing updating those prices in more real time through the use of structured data and is thus more confident to show them as rich results and not title elements?

I don’t think Google officially supports flight schema but maybe they will soon?

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