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Google now shows vertical lines between the featured snippet text and the featured snippet images. This is on the full-width featured snippet, which has a horizontal line below the featured snippet, separating it from the main search results. Now Google added this vertical line. Here is what it looks like (click to enlarge): It is […]

Microsoft Bing is testing highlighting portions of the AI chat answer in blue, the one embedded in the Bing Search results. Bing Search started to test embedding its Bing Chat AI answers into the Bing search results two months ago and now Bing is testing highlighting part of the answer in blue. This was spotted

Google has added back the edit code button to the Rich Results Test tool. Ryan Levering from Google posted this news on Mastodon saying, “Excited for this new button in Rich Results Test that makes it easier to test fixes to live code.” ” I know a lot of people missed the Structured Data Testing

Google now supports the site names feature on subdomains, Google said subdomains on mobile devices is supported. Site names are still not supported on the subdirectory level. Google wrote on Twitter, “Site names are now supported for subdomains on mobile devices.” Google updated its site names help document to say they are supported for “subdomain

Do you want to rank for competitive terms without worrying about potential Google penalties? Then go white hat. In this post, you’ll learn what white hat SEO is, how it compares to black hat SEO, and how to implement a few white hat SEO tactics. White hat SEO refers to the use of SEO strategies, techniques,

Microsoft has doubled the character limit of Bing Chat from 2,000 characters to now 4,000 characters. This is still rolling out for some users, but I personally see it in creative and precise mode, not in the standard balanced mode. This was posted on Saturday by Microsoft’s CEO of Bing, Mikhail Parakhin on Twitter. The

Google is now testing displaying the 3D/AR or 360 product images on desktop. This was live for mobile search for a while but not Google is testing it on the desktop interface. Brian Freiesleben spotted this on Twitter, and Glenn Gabe was able to replicate it, although, I have been trying for days to replicate

I am hearing reports from SEOs that Google did another batch switchover from desktop-first indexing to mobile-first indexing for many sites. As you know, Google started the mobile-first indexing over six years ago but told us earlier this month that the process might be done in the coming months. Update: John Mueller of Google has

If 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 Urunuela first reported this on Twitter last week and I was