Google integrates seller and product ratings in Shopping Ads
Google is displaying seller and product ratings in Shopping ads, allowing brands to showcase both store reliability and product quality.
Topic: Review
How to extract GBP review insights to boost local SEO visibility
Gain a competitive edge by extracting actionable insights from your – and your competitors' – Google Business Profile reviews.
Reddit shown excessively in Google product review search results, study finds
Google has a severe diversity issue in Search results as Reddit absolutely dominates the Discussions and forums SERP feature.
Google November 2023 reviews update now done rolling out
This update will be the last time Google has confirmed a reviews update.
Google releases November 2023 reviews update
This is the third reviews update of the year and the last reviews update Google will likely confirm.
Ecommerce brand debuts AI-generated product review summaries
Using ChatGPT, retailer Newegg now highlights pros and cons, plus summaries of customer reviews on product pages.
Amazon is testing AI-generated summaries of product reviews
Amazon has confirmed the test, which pulls in a summary of positive and negative feedback about products.
Google’s April 2023 reviews update was more volatile than the previous product reviews update, data providers say
This update was more widespread than previous updates because it targets more than just product reviews.
Google releases April 2023 reviews update
Google is no longer just looking at product reviews. Google's review system is now evaluating reviews about services, media and other topics.
How to create review content that’s helpful for users and Google
Nine best practices for creating high-quality product reviews that deliver the most value to shoppers and get visibility on search engines.
Google February 2023 product reviews update more volatile than previous updates, say data providers
Semrush compared the sixth release against the July 2022 version, while Rank Ranger compared it against September 2022 data.
Google February 2023 product reviews update is finished rolling out
This update took 14 days to fully roll out and is now complete.
Google releases February 2023 product reviews update
This update brings new languages to the product reviews update including English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Russian, Dutch, Portuguese, and Polish.
Google adds more example categories of sites that may be impacted by the product reviews update
Three new examples were added to the how to write product reviews Google help document.
Google September 2022 product reviews update rollout complete
This update impacted English-language product reviews and overlapped with Google's September 2022 core update.
Google releases September 2022 product reviews update
This is the fifth Google product reviews update that comes out about a month after the last update.
Google to release August 2022 product reviews update in coming weeks
The fifth version of the Google product reviews update will be rolling out after the helpful content update.
Google July 2022 product reviews update is finished rolling out
It took only six days to roll out, we expected it to take at least 14 to 21 days to roll out.
Google releases July 2022 product reviews update
This update, the fourth Google product reviews update, will take 2-3 weeks to roll out.
Google March 2022 product reviews update is finished rolling out
Almost three weeks after Google launched the 3rd version of the product reviews update, it is now done rolling out.
Google releases March 2022 product reviews update with additional ranking criteria
The new product reviews update looks for in-depth analysis, actual product use, unique information and comparable product coverage.
Google December 2021 product reviews update is finished rolling out
Google has confirmed this update is now complete - days before the Christmas holiday.
Google’s December 2021 product reviews update was bigger than the April product reviews update, say data providers
RankRanger and Semrush provided us with exclusive data breaking down the two product reviews updates we had this year.
Google December 2021 product reviews update is rolling out now
The update will take about three weeks to fully rollout, Google said.
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."
Google announces product reviews algorithm update
Google has released a new quality algorithm update that promotes outstanding product reviews.
New Google Shopping program enables customer photos to show with their product reviews
The feature is rolling out now and available through a handful of reviews partners.
Google updates mobile product knowledge panels to show even more info in one spot
The real estate-heavy panels on mobile encompass multiple product images, more review sources, videos and, of course, Shopping ads.
Google’s manual action penalty this weekend was over free product reviews
The mass Google manual actions for outbound links was related to the warning Google gave a few weeks ago around bloggers giving links in exchange for free products or services.
Google Showing Reviews Snippets About Products In Knowledge Panels
Quotes pulled from reviews provide feedback on specific product features.
SearchReviews: A Search Engine For 40 Million Reviews (And Counting)
SearchReviews has just launched a search engine with more than 40 million reviews in its system, and plans to hit 100 million reviews by the end of 2011. Those 40 million reviews cover about four million products and come from more than a thousand sites such as TripAdvisor, Amazon, Zappos and others. Those are impressive […]
58% Of Americans Research Products Online: Pew Study
U.S. adults are going online more frequently to search for information about products and services. According to a new report from the Pew Research Center, 58% of Americans conduct such research online “at least occasionally.” That’s up from 49% who said the same thing in 2004. When applied strictly to the Internet-using population in the […]
Google Product Search Gets Review Summaries & Big Picture “Gallery” View
Google Product Search is rolling out three new features today, a new shopping “OneBox” that features popular products in certain categories of searches, a summary of product reviews and a “gallery” view option of products. Popular Products OneBox In the “normal” shopping OneBox, Google lists a variety of products along with an estimated price and […]
Shopping Engine Wize Relaunches To Align Product Research With Word Of Mouth
What amazes me is that in more than a decade no “brand” has really emerged in shopping search. What do I mean by “brand”? I mean a site that’s top-of-mind for consumers, trusted and that they navigate to directly for products and product information. One could say that the exceptions to this are Amazon, eBay […]
Smarter’s Product Video Reviews
Smarter’s video product reviews are a very entertaining and useful product research tool. As Smarter’s product evangelist Paul Willmes said, “the reviews are by people who actually own [the product] which makes it more real. It makes the opinion more valuable, like a friend giving you advice.”
Summize: Using Heatmaps In Product Search Results
I wrote earlier this week about Wize a shopping comparison engine that aggregated millions of reviews to compile a “WizeRank” for each product, based on the total number of positive, neutral or negative reviews found on the web. Today Alex Iskold over on ReadWriteWeb takes a takes a look at Summize, a shopping search engine […]