As many of you know, there was a pretty massive one indexing issue impacting new content in Google Search most of Friday, July 15th, but that was pretty much isolated to that Friday. Now, I am seeing signals of a Google search ranking algorithm update on Saturday, July 16th. Are the two related? It is […]
Google Shopping results have shown top highlights for products for some time but now it seems Google is testing showing the number of available product highlights in the carousel of product results in Google Search. Shameem Adhikarath posted a number of examples of this on Twitterthis one shows the number of specific product highlights, aka […]
Google is testing a new format for destination queries that not only shows things to do but now showed this story format “Discover” section. Google embeds stories from TikTok, YouTube, Facebook, and possibly other platforms for this section. I personally cannot replicate this, but Saas AK shared a video of this in action on Twitter […]
This could be a big help in developing new creative assets for your ad campaigns. Today, Google has announced that its Ads Creative Studio tool is now available to all businessesproviding a streamlined way to construct new ad content from your existing assets. Initially launched in beta mode last yearAds Creative Studio enables advertisers to […]
We had more volatility from Google Search on July 10th. Google shows half the number of people also ask boxes in the search results. Google Search Console anonymizes many queries, so it is not very rare. Google Search Console is rolling out the video indexing report slowly. Google Search Console has a bug with desktop […]
What’s the first thing you do when looking for a new restaurant, dog groomer, or anything else? Google it, of course. But how do those businesses show up there? Answer: By creating a free Google Business Profile (formerly known as Google My Business). Why is Google Business Profile so powerful? It’s simple: Customers see your […]
There is a confirmed indexing issue in Google Search prior to 7 am ET this morning. None of the articles I posted this morning on this site are showing yet in Google Search, even when I search for it by the exact title or do a site command. Google is not indexing new, freshly published, […]
So while Google Search is currently having massive indexing issues, the Google Ads advertiser console is having issues loading ad spend and other data. Google confirmed the issue saying “affected users are able to access Google Ads, but may not have access to the most recent data.” Google is currently investigating the Google Ads issue, […]
Google is testing adding a videos section to the popular products feature in Google Search. Personally, I do not yet see this, but Punit shared screenshots of this on Twitter. Here is a screenshot but I embedded his tweet below with more screenshots: Google added “Video” section on organic Popular Product List pic.twitter.com/PxvJldj8F4 — Punit […]
Google has updated the user agent string for the AdsBot Mobile Web crawler. Google said if you hard-coded the old user agent string, you will want to make sure to update that in your code. This was updated in the Google crawler documentation. The new user agent string for Google AdsBot Mobile Web is: Mozilla/5.0 […]