Bing Colorized Backgrounds For Search Ads & More

Microsoft is testing or rolling out colorized background patterns for search ads, shopping search ads. Frank Sandtmann, a German based SEO, notified me of this, he saw it in the Bing Image search results but I see them in the main Bing web search results.

from Search Engine Roundtable https://ift.tt/XNDweHr

Google Shopping Search Might Not Support Excluding Keywords

Google Search has long supported excluding words from your search by adding a minus sign before the word in the search box. But there are numerous complaints that this does not work in Google's Shopping search results.

from Search Engine Roundtable https://ift.tt/NeO8dlJ

Google Shopping Adds Short Title Attribute

Google Merchant Center has added support to Google shopping feeds for a short title attribute. You can use the short title [short_title] attribute to briefly and clearly identify the product you're selling, Google said.

from Search Engine Roundtable https://ift.tt/7yldrem

Google: URL Inspection Tool Referring Page Not Really Important

Google's John Mueller said the URLs listed in the "referring page" section of the URL Inspection Tool is not really important. It is just a technical thing showing which URL(s) Google first discovered the page. It has not quality indication and not something to be concerned with, according to John.

from Search Engine Roundtable https://ift.tt/RHZ8rkW

Google Chrome T-Rex Dinosaur Beanie Winter Hat

from Search Engine Roundtable https://ift.tt/TSr8Ygq