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Microsoft Bing opens Content Submission API as beta This not only helps expedite indexing but also bypassing crawling, reducing server resources necessary for being indexed by Microsoft Bing. Barry Schwartz on May 6, 2021 at 6:03 pm Bing announced the Content Submission API is now in more of a public beta phase after being in private beta for over two years now. The Bing Webmaster Team said now, in addition to the URL submission API, it now gives publishers and site owners “the ability...

Also, Google released its webspam report for 2020 and the new Google Ads API Barry Schwartz on April 30, 2021 at 10:00 am More Search Engine Land’s daily brief features daily insights, news, tips, and essential bits of wisdom for today’s search marketer. If you would like to read this before the rest of the internet does, sign up here to get it delivered to your inbox daily. Good morning, Marketers, let’s talk about the cycle of spam and why some of you may be led down the wrong p...

Google released Google Ads API version 7.0 This is an upgrade from version 6.1.0 which was released on April 10, 2021. Barry Schwartz on April 29, 2021 at 8:26 am More Google has released a new version of the Google Ads API. This is version 7.0, which is an upgrade from version 6.1.0 which was released on April 10, 2021. What is the Google Ads API. The Google Ads API lets you programmatically interface with your Google Ads accounts so that you can automatically bring in reporting to your...

Google webspam report: 60% increase in spam detection The 2020 webspam report from Google said the company detected 40 billion pages of spam every day, that is up from 25 billion in 2019. Barry Schwartz on April 29, 2021 at 9:24 am More Google detected 40 billion pages of spam every day in 2020, which is up from the previous year by 60%. These 40 billion pages included hacked sites, deceptively created sites, and other forms of web spam, scams and fraud. Google announced its new webspam...

Google lets you report an indexing issue US users can now communicate to Google if you have indexing issues that you cannot figure out. Barry Schwartz on April 28, 2021 at 1:50 pm Google has added a new feature to report an indexing issue directly to their search team. You can access this feature in the footer of URL inspection help document and indexing coverage report document. Google is “currently piloting this in the US only and it should be fully available to all in the US within ...

Google officially dropped Q&A on Google in search results The Google Question Hub is not affected by this and will remain active according to Google. Barry Schwartz on April 25, 2021 at 12:22 pm More Google has confirmed with Search Engine Land that it is doing away with the Q&A on Google search feature. This launched initially in India for searchers there in 2019 and now Google is telling those who submitted questions or answers that it will be going away. A Google spokesperson told us...

Let’s get things straight with the Google page experience update; Friday’s daily brief Also more on the Google product reviews update rolling, local car inventory displaying and soft 404s seem resolved. Barry Schwartz on April 23, 2021 at 10:00 am More Search Engine Land’s daily brief features daily insights, news, tips, and essential bits of wisdom for today’s search marketer. If you would like to read this before the rest of the internet does, sign up here to get it delivered ...

Google local car dealership inventory search results Google seems to be getting into the local car inventory space with a new search service. Barry Schwartz on April 22, 2021 at 8:11 am More Google appears to be testing local car and auto dealership inventory in search results. The company has not commented on this news yet but you may be able to access local automobile inventory in the US by visiting google.com/local/cars. What it looks like. When you visit google.com/local/cars, you’...

Google product reviews update is done rolling out Google did say while it is fully rolled out, the caveat is there may be "some edge case lingering." Barry Schwartz on April 22, 2021 at 1:49 pm More Google has now completed rolling out the product reviews update that first began rolling out two weeks ago today, Danny Sullivan of Google told Search Engine Land. “Caveat is with any update, you can still sometimes have some edge case lingering,” Sullivan explained. “But effectively do...

Google product reviews algorithm update was big but not like a core update, say data providers Here is a roundup of the impact of Googles most recent algorithm update that touched down on April 8, 2021. Barry Schwartz on April 20, 2021 at 9:49 am More On April 8, 2021 Google released a targeted search algorithm update named the product reviews update. That update, according to Google, should be finished rolling out by this week, since it was a two-week rollout period. The thing is, it lo...