Google AdSense Updates Search Style Ad Extensions
Google AdSense announced it is changing how some ad extension settings work for search styles for AdSense for Search. This change is happening on June 23, 2022.
Alexa Rank Still Alive Despite Shutting Down
Despite Alexa.com formerly shutting down on May 1st and the web site saying it was retired, the backend APIs and tools seems to still work. Not that any of that matters for SEO but I found it interesting, nevertheless.
Google Ads Adds New Audience Targeting & Reporting Features
Google Ads emailed some advertisers earlier this week about three new audience targeting and reporting features. Here is what is new:
Google Ads Smart Display Campaign and Optimized Targeting Changes
Google posted in the Google Ads community forums about upcoming changes coming to Display Campaigns. Google said these changes are for simplifying campaign creation and management. Also Optimized targeting is now set as the default targeting method wh…
Google May 2022 Broad Core Update Is Live – What We Are Seeing Now
Google Search has started to roll out the first broad core update of the year, the May 2022 broad core update. It started on May 25, 2022 at about 11:30am ET and will now roll out for the next couple of weeks.
Google Lens In Chrome Sticks In Same Browser Tab
I love Google Lens, I assume most of you do too or you haven’t really tried it. And now Google Lens got a bit easier to use if you are using Chrome, Google’s browser. You can now right click on an image and search with Google Lens and the results will…
May 2022 core update releasing for Google Search
Several times per year, we make substantial improvements to our overall ranking processes,
which we refer to as core updates. Core updates are designed to increase the overall
relevancy of our search results and make them more helpful and u…
May 2022 core update releasing for Google Search
Several times per year, we make substantial improvements to our overall ranking processes,
which we refer to as core updates. Core updates are designed to increase the overall
relevancy of our search results and make them more helpfu…
Google Ads CPC Bug Inflates Click Prices By 300%+
Google Ads posted about a bug that impacted some non-US campaigns cost per click (CPC) prices. Specifically that the CPCs were inflated. Some advertisers are reporting inflation numbers over 300 or 400 percent.
Report: Google Showing More Search Results With FAQ Rich Results
RankRanger is reporting that Google is now showing FAQ rich results in the Google search results five percentage points more often. The data shows Google is showing these FAQs for over 27% of queries, up from about 22% just days ago.
Google Analytics 4 Doesn’t Support Google AMP Yet
For those of you still using Google AMP, like myself, did you know that GA 4, Google Analytics 4 and Google AMP do not play nicely together. GA4 still does not officially support AMP pages and we don’t know if or when GA4 will support AMP.
Google Ads News From Google Marketing Live – There Is A Lot…
As you may have known, Google Marketing Live was yesterday – it is the day Google Ads announces a bunch of new features, resources and tools now and for the future. Some of what was announced we saw early, like the swipeable shopping ads and others we…
Bing Tests Branded Sidebar Navigation Tool
Microsoft Bing is testing a branded side bar explorer bar on the left side for some branded queries. I was able to replicate it in Safari on Mac but not on Chrome yet. Basically if you search for brands, some will show a sidebar that replicates the si…
Screenshots Now In The Google AdSense Policy Center
Google AdSense said it can now show you screenshots of your issues in the AdSense policy center. “To make it easier to determine what to fix when you have a policy issue, we’re introducing screenshots to the Policy center,” Google wrote.
Google Search Explore Outfits & Shop Similar
Google’s search results keep getting more and more visual and with this newish Explore Outfits and Shop Similar box, we now see super large images that slide into other images. Here is a GIF of it in action, I personally was not able to replicate this …
Google Updates Video Best Practices For Thumbnail Transparency Guidelines
Google has added one line to its video best practices document explaining that you should have at least 80% of your thumbnail pixels have little or no transparency to enable video indexing.
Google Search Algorithm Update Tremors & Instability Continues…
So last Monday, we reported about a Google search ranking algorithm update that touched down on May 16th – the 6 month or so anniversary of the last confirmed Google broad core update. Well, that unconfirmed Google update continued on throughout the r…
YouTube SEO in 5 minutes
We’ll start with a brief summary of YouTube ranking factors. Next, we’ll make a best-guess assessment of how they break down from a practical standpoint. YouTube ranking factors There are two core overarching groups into which YouTube ranking factors fit: relevancy and authority. Relevancy Transcripts and Visuals YouTube and Google have two main tools for […]
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Daily Search Forum Recap: May 23, 2022
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.
Google is into its grid layout…
Google Search Grid Format Visual Design On Desktop
It looks like Google is testing the more visual grid format design that was officially launched on mobile, now on desktop Google Search results. This typically comes up for product queries and such and it is now being tested on Google desktop search.
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