Google Analytics Makes Privacy Changes To Google Ads Search Queries Report
Google announced that it is making changes, for privacy reasons, to the Google Ads Search Queries report in Universal Analytics and the Google Ads query, First user Google Ads query, and Session Google Ads query dimensions for your explorations in Goo…
Google Labor Day Logo 2022
Today is Labor day in the United States and in Canada and to celebrate the laborers’ work and contributions to their states, Google has a Doodle. The Doodle showcases plumbers, farmers, painters, bakers, handy workers, and delivery folks.
Search News Buzz Video Recap: Weak Google Helpful Content Update, Links In Search Algorithms, Google Ads Glitch & More
This week, again from Jerusalem, I spoke about this weird rollout for the Google helpful content update…
SiteGround Now Hosting Bill Slawski’s SEO By The Sea For Free
As many of you know Bill Slawski passed away in May. But earlier this week, Bill’s treasure trove of content covering search patents and more at SEOByTheSea.com went offline. The issue appeared to be that the billing was not paid, but when it was brou…
Google Search Tests Explore Brands With & Without Product Images
Google is testing a search feature for more product and e-commerce features, this one is titled “explore products.” The explore products feature comes with product images and without product images.
Google Provides Examples Of How To Improve Your Meta Descriptions
Google has updated its meta descriptions help documentation to provide five examples of how to improve your meta descriptions. This was added yesterday, plus Google did some formatting updates to the page.
Google Can Crawl Site Sections More Frequently & Determine Quality By Section
Google’s Gary Illyes said on the last Search Off the Record podcast that Google can crawl certain sections of your site more frequently and also infer the quality of certain sections of your site differently.
Dual Google People Also Ask Results In Different Languages
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.
Google Isn’t Done Rolling Out The Helpful Content Update
We keep watching to see if this Google helpful content update is making some sort of dent in the rankings but so far, we are not seeing massive, Panda-like, ranking changes due to this update. No fear, Danny Sullivan said yesterday it is not yet done …
Google Ads Confirms Bug With Share & Auction Insights Reporting
Google’s AdsLiaison, Ginny Marvin, has confirmed a bug with Share and Auction Insights reporting for Google Ads Search campaigns starting on August 29th. Ginny said this is just a reporting issue and “doesn’t impact ad serving or automated bidding str…
New Google Ads Conversion Value Rules Features
Google announced new functionality within Google Ads to apply rules to specific store visits or store sales conversion categories. It is called conversion value rules, and it lets you adjust your conversion value reporting and Smart Bidding optimization.
Google: Growth Of Microdata Is Fairly Stagnant
Ryan Levering who has been with Google for over 11 years working on structured data said on Twitter that the “growth of microdata is fairly stagnant.”
Google May Remove Word Count From Search Console News Article Content Errors
Google Search Console has a Google News specific article content error named “Article too short.” In that section it offers a recommendation to “make sure your articles have more than 80 words.” Google’s Danny Sullivan said they may remove that referen…
Google Learning Video Structured Data Docs Breaks Out educationalLevel
Google has updated the Learning video structured data documentation to add the full list of supported academic values for educationalLevel. It now lists out the values per country, since each country has its own academic system.
Google’s John Mueller: No Recent Search Algorithms Focused On Links Outside Of Webspam
Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that he is not aware of any recent search algorithm update that focused on links, outside of webspam algorithms. He said this when someone asked how relevant links will be in the future to Google’s ranking algorithm.
Google Adds Products Section To Business Profile Guidelines
Google has added a new section for products to the Google Business Profile guidelines. The section says “If you run a retail business, you can show nearby shoppers what you sell by adding your in-store products to your Business Profile at no charge.”
Google Search Browse Places Feature With Swipeable Cards
Google is testing a “browse places” search feature where it shows you place cards that you can swipe through and then click on. It is kind of like a new local pack grid view for restaurants, kind of…
Google “See Results About” Goes Missing On Mobile Search
On August 17th, Google seems to have removed the “see results about” disambiguation search feature from the Google mobile search results. They still show on desktop but on mobile, it is gone.
Did Google Remove The Maps Review-Gating Policy?
Chris Silver Smith noticed how Google has updated its Google Maps contributed content policy and removed a line that prohibited review-gating. The line that was removed was “don’t discourage or prohibit negative reviews or selectively solicit positive…
Google Promotes Search Console Insights In Some Google Accounts
Molly Youngblood posted some screenshots on Twitter showing how Google is pushing her to check out Google Search Console Insights with a little banner that reads “New: Get insights about your site content.” When she clicks on her account icon, it bring…