Author Archives: RANJAN TRUPTI

Google Search Algorithm Ranking Volatility May 22 & 23 – Not ConfirmedI am seeing signs of another unconfirmed Google search ranking algorithm update, this one kicking off on May 22nd and continuing over the next few days. This one is unusual in that I see significant chatter amongst the SEO community, but some of theContinueContinue reading “Google Search Algorithm Ranking Volatility May 22 & 23”

Bing Search Is The Default Search Engine For ChatGPTMicrosoft announced yesterday a lot of AI news, like Google Ads did, but the big news at least for us is that Bing Search is now the default search engine for OpenAI’s ChatGPT. “We are bringing Bing to ChatGPT as the default search experience,” Yusuf Mehdi, VPContinueContinue reading “Bing Search Now Default Search Engine For OpenAI’s ChatGPT”

Google Search Bug Resulted In Less Traffic To Video Content Between May 4-17Google Search had an issue with displaying video-related content in the search results. Google Search Console confirmed it had a bug with Google Search specific to video traffic in the performance report between May 4th and May 17th. Google seems to have resolvedContinueContinue reading “Google Search Bug With Video Content Drove Less Traffic To Video Creators”

Google Testing Colored Backgrounds For Shopping Ad CarouselGoogle is testing using different lightly colored backgrounds for the shopping ads carousel in mobile search. We saw Google testing lighter variations of this almost a year ago, some with gray shades and some with slightly colored shades. Now we are seeing Google test this with more boldContinueContinue reading “Google Tests Colored Backgrounds For Shopping Ad Carousel”

Unusual AMP Crawl Issues Reported In Google Search Console Starting May 12thIf you still use AMP on your site, then go to the AMP enhancements report in Google Search Console and filter by “crawl issues.” You may see a spike in the number of crawl issues reported on and going forward from May 12th.Lino UrunuelaContinueContinue reading “Google Search Console AMP Crawl Issues Starting May 12th”