This week, I posted the large Google webmaster report a bit late but then dug into the Google helpful content in a lot more detail, so check that out. Google updated the review type results in search which may impact your Search Console reporting. Google Analytics made changes to the Google Ads search query reports […]
Google has added a new section to its quality guidelines category named “Prevent abuse on your site and platform” yesterday. The content is mostly not new, it is mostly from a 2017 Google blog post on how to protect your site from user generated spam and has now been consolidated into the core documentation. Google […]
There seems to be a lot of confusion around the Google helpful content update and if it is “big” or not big. That all depends on if you were hit by it, if you were, oh boy is it really big for you. But in terms of how widespread it is, so far, it is […]
Google’s John Mueller was asked if a spike in crawler activity would be a sign that the helpful content update is rolling out. John said no, as expected because he said no to this question numerous times on previous updates. Here are the relevant set of tweets I am referencing here: No — 🖖 johnmu […]
Historically, I mean for over a decade, John Mueller was the single person answering questions from SEOs on the Google SEO office hours segment. Recently John announced changes to the format and it seems like once again, John is making changes to the format. The format is still not live and it seems to still […]
Google has quietly announced that on September 30th, Book on Google for flights will be discontinued in most countries or regions outside the United States. I am not sure why this is the case, maybe because there are just too many regulatory and monopolistic issues with the service outside of the US, and the ROI […]
Microsoft Advertising announced a lot of new features today including the ability to import from Pinterest, Google Import to for Performance Max campaigns, Microsoft Advertising Editor support for multimedia ads, cruise ads, tours, and activity ads now available, and subdomain support for dynamic search ads. (1) Pinterest Import – you can easily import campaigns from […]
Google Ads sent out emails on Friday to advertisers of a change coming to its policies starting in October 2022. The change says that if your destinations contain ad experiences that do not conform to the Better Ads Standards then the ad will be disapproved. I think this was sent to all advertisers because I […]
Here is a cool and blue-looking photo I found on Instagram from the Google Chicago office of a Doogler, a Google dog, in a blue Google cubbie. The post says “chi doogler today 📈 @lifeatgoogle.” Looks pretty chill… This post is part of our daily Search Photo of the Day column, where we find fun […]
Google seems to be testing or launching, showing dual people also ask boxes in the Google Search results. One people also ask box is in English and, in this case, the other is in Hindi. This was spotted by Chanda Verma on Twitter who posted this screenshot showing it in action (click to enlarge it): […]