Google posted an updated policy update in the Google Merchant Center section for a new “linked account suspension.” In short, this impacts a suspended Google Ads account linked to your Merchant Center account. Google posted, that they have updated its abuse of the network policy. Google wrote, “We’ve updated our prohibited practices to include a […]
Google is now testing showing the services listings, the different services a business offers, on the desktop local and maps interface in a business profile. Previously this only showed up on mobile, but now it can show on desktop (I don’t see it yet but some do). Amy Toman spotted it the other day and […]
Google announced that the Insights page in Google Ads has gained four new features including new search terms insights, asset insights, audience insights, and change history insights. Google said it released these insights to help you have more “successful” campaigns “this holiday season and beyond.” Search Terms Insights Search terms insights let you see what […]
Sometime in the past couple of months or so, Google added a notice after you upload photos to your Google Business profile that the photo is being processed. It may even add a label on top of the photo to say the photo is “pending” approval.” This was spotted by Mike Blumenthal over the weekend, […]
The Google search quality raters guidelines were updated and updated in a big way, with a new E added on to EAT. Google is adding experience on top of expertise, authoritativeness, and trustworthiness. Google said that trust is the most important of all four elements here. Adding an E, led to the document getting 9-pages […]
A couple of months ago, Google switched the search ads label from “Ads” to “Sponsored.” Now, Greg Finn noticed that the ads in the Google Discover feed and Google Discovery Ads label also changed from “Ads” to “Sponsored.” So, the logo near the ad is an eye-catcher… Hey posted on Twitter saying, “Spotted: Change in […]
This was a busy week, and I honestly thought it would start to slow down, but I was wrong; I’m wrong a lot. Google launched another algorithm update, the December 2022 link spam update, which it baked into SpamBrain into the update. Google also released a large update to the Search Quality Raters Guidelines, adding […]
Google recently added a new option to the Google Business Profile settings to remove that business profile. It is named “Removed Business Profile” and will allow you to mark a business as closed or permanently remove the business. I think I saw this last week but I had no idea it was new, but Claudia […]
Google began rolling out a revised link spam update on December 14, 2022, named the December 2022 link spam update. This update is new in that it uses SpamBrain AI to “detect both sites buying links, and sites used for the purpose of passing outgoing links,” and not just “detect spam directly,” Google said. The […]
I always wondered why Google had status dashboards for hundreds of other products across Gmail, Drive, Google Ads, etc., but not for Google Search – its most important product/service. But that all changed today when Google launched its Google Search Status Dashboard report. Today, Google launched the Google Search Status Dashboard report at status.search.google.com. This […]