Sep 2024
19 Sep

Google is now testing out the Top Quality Store badge on desktop for organic listings. The TQS badging test dates back over a year for standard organic listings on mobile, with it only recently starting to surface in desktop results.

Jul 2024
25 Jul

Google is now testing social media videos appearing in brand knowledge panels. The section is titled ‘Videos from’, featuring videos published to Instagram, TikTok and more. The knowledge panels also feature the Seller Rating and Top Quality Store feature, which also appears to have rolled out internationally.

Sep 2023
10 Sep

Google now looks to have rolled out Seller Ratings for organic listings on mobile in the US. This test dates back to June of 2021, with the display that Google has stuck to for launch not looking too different to the original test. Google has since done various bits of testing with different displays for Seller Rating reviews and Top Quality Store labelling.

Aug 2023
21 Aug

In a continuation of recently testing related to Top Quality Store’s on Google, another mobile test has appeared which only features a Google Shopping icon beside the Site Name. Different to the other tests, this icon does not link anywhere.

08 Aug

Similar to the string of tests that appeared in June, Google is now testing a ‘star store’ label and icon for stores that meet the Top Quality Store requirements. This same round of testing includes a more simple variation and another variation with the Top Quality Store text.

Jun 2023
15 Jun

Google is now doing heavy testing across various eCommerce category pages on mobile, showing various tests that we have seen in different forms. An article I wrote in 2021 features similar tests related to the seller rating treatment, with the latest examples showing a top quality store tag based on this feature, a seller rating count (along with a combination of the two), a clearance sale tag, along with the pricing overlay test that I’ve documented in more recent times.