Google seems to be testing showing a new search box in the Google Search results for a summary view of your Google Ads. The box is named “Your Google Ads Summary” and shows a preview of your ad that is active and explains that “your ads can show for this search.” I have never seen […]
Yesterday morning, Google fixed the validate fix button and rolled out the more simplified coverage report statuses. With that, Google also added a way to filter the report by resubmitted pages and a new source column. There are two newish items in this report, outside of the invalid or valid / indexed or not indexed […]
In part onewe learned about Sarah Burke, the Data and Analytics Manager at Cypress North. We also spoke about some of the differences between Google Analytics 4 and Universal Analytics 3. Here we talk about the benefits of Google Analytics 4. Some of the benefits of Google Analytics 4 include: Cross-domain tracking is better Bot […]
Google has re-enabled the validate fix feature in Google Search Console just now. It was not there a couple of hours ago and has not been working since the beginning of this month but now it is back. Here is a screenshot of Google no longer showing the notice that it does not work and […]
Google Images at images.google.com now uses Google Lens when you click on the upload a photo icon. This has been coming for a long long time and is finally fully here. 9to5Google first reported this and I see it live as well. go to images.google.com and click on the lens or camera icon. Here is […]
We know that each XML sitemap file can contain a maximum of 50,000 URLs but what is counted as the 50,000 URLs? John Mueller was asked if Google counts both the location URL and the alternative URL in the 50,000 limits. John said on Twitter it is just the location URL. As Google ,“All formats […]
One of the oldest myths in the Google SEO verse is that clicking on your search results in Google Search will help you rank better. Google does not and has never used click data for ranking purposes (with the exception of a short period of Google+ data being used in Google Search). The question someone […]
Google has added a label on the Google Guaranteed Local Service Ads reviews to say the reviews are not guaranteed. This I guess comes as no surprise with all the Google Local Service Ads spam and junk we have been noticing recently. Curtis Boyd spotted this new disclaimer that reads “Reviews do not constitute a […]
Google loves to test new designs and interfaces for the sitelinks it shows in the snippets of its search results. This one shows larger rectangular curved buttons under the snippet to the sitelink. This was first spotted by Quentin Aisbett on Twitter who shared this screenshot: Brodie Clark noticed some more variations and posted those […]
Google launched new features in search, one where Google is using MUM to give featured snippets a consensus – it’s pretty cool. Google also released new features about this result and expanded content advisories in search. Google Search broke this week, really badly, causing a lot of indexing issues with pages dropping out of the […]