How often have you had to use a program or third party extension to check or choose a color? Google is solving some of the pain involved by adding a new color picker directly to the search results. Just search for “color picker” to bring it up directly in the search results. You can pick […]
Bing Adds Facebook Posts to Brand & Business Knowledge Panels
Bing has begun showing the latest Facebook posts in the knowledge panels in the search results. This adds freshness to the knowledge panel by showing recent content that brand has posted to their official Facebook page. Bing will show the latest Facebook posts in a card style, showing up to two of the most recent […]
Google & Bing Increase Size of Sitemap Files to 50MB
Bing has announced a change to the sitemap file size limit, increasing it from 10MB to 50MB. Google has also confirmed they are honoring the new sitemap size increase too. It is important to note that the change doesn’t increase the actual number of URLs in the sitemap file. That is still limited to 50,000 […]
Bing Adds Instant Messenger & Chat to Local Business Results
Bing has added a new feature that allows searchers to connect to the chat or messenger feature for local businesses. This makes it easy for searchers to find the chat feature for any business, saving them hunting around on the website to find it. Here is what it looks like when linked to their own […]
Bing Now Shows Holiday Hours for Local Businesses in Search Results
Bing is finally showing holiday hours in their local pack and local business knowledge panel results. They began showing up yesterday to show holiday hours and closures for Thanksgiving Day. They are also detailing special hours for events such as Black Friday. Here is how it looks showing holiday closures in the local pack: And […]
Bing Ads Launches New Black Friday Flyers Carousel
Bing Ads has launched a new design of their Black Friday flyers carousel this year. This new carousel gives searchers quick access to Black Friday flyers from well known brand advertisers. These flyers are paid ads, but unlike last year’s flyers which were done through Flipp, these flyers are from the brand advertisers directly. Here […]
Bing Search Will Not Do Mobile First Search Index
Some have been wondering if Bing would follow in Google’s footsteps and do a Mobile First Index, similar to what Google recently announced. Google will be changing their desktop index to one where they index the mobile version of a website, in order to serve mobile users – which now account for more than 50% […]
Bing Testing New Mobile Style Local Pack on Desktop
Bing is testing a new style for their local pack on desktop, and it definitely looks styled like what you would see on a mobile pack. Here is how it looks on desktop: Here is how that query normally looks on desktop: The new version does make the website much more visible and “clickable” for […]
Bing Testing Site Name Only With No URL in Search Results
Bing is testing out something interesting – instead of showing the URL of the site, which is pretty standard across search engines, they are showing the company/brand name only. Here it is in action: I couldn’t replicate it in the English results. It isn’t clear if it was only for Microsoft URLs. This test is […]
Bing Ads Upgraded URLs Now Available for Easier Tracking Management
Good news for those Bing Ads advertisers who are reluctant to change tracking parameters. Bing Ads is now supporting upgraded URLs, which separates the landing page URL from the tracking parameters appended to the URL, so changing parameters will no longer cause any ad serving delays while waiting for the ad to be re-approved. There […]