Google AdSense separates YouTube earnings into its own payments account
In addition to separate payment thresholds, the platform is also adding a dedicated AdSense for YouTube homepage.
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Google AdSense earnings report may be buggy
Google has not yet confirmed the issue but there are numerous complaints from publishers.
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BrightEdge acquires Oncrawl in enterprise SEO shakeup
Oncrawl will continue to run under BrightEdge’s umbrella. Here’s what the deal means to both companies and their customers.
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New Google Shopping experience scorecard
Those merchants who provide an excellent customer experience will see a boost in rankings and other visibility improvements in the Google Shopping tab.
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Google: URL Inspection Tool Referring Page Not Really Important
Google’s John Mueller said the URLs listed in the “referring page” section of the URL Inspection Tool is not really important. It is just a technical thing showing which URL(s) Google first discovered the page. It has not quality indication and not som…
Google Shopping Adds Short Title Attribute
Google Merchant Center has added support to Google shopping feeds for a short title attribute. You can use the short title [short_title] attribute to briefly and clearly identify the product you’re selling, Google said.
Google Shopping Search Might Not Support Excluding Keywords
Google Search has long supported excluding words from your search by adding a minus sign before the word in the search box. But there are numerous complaints that this does not work in Google’s Shopping search results.
Bing Colorized Backgrounds For Search Ads & More
Microsoft is testing or rolling out colorized background patterns for search ads, shopping search ads. Frank Sandtmann, a German based SEO, notified me of this, he saw it in the Bing Image search results but I see them in the main Bing web search resu…
Google Strengthens The Pirate (DMCA) Penalty Algorithm
Google sent a document to the U.S. Copyright Office that explains how Google’s DMCA update (aka the Pirate update) has been strengthened by (1) catching redirect schemes and (2) a site hit by this demotion on average sees a 89% drop in Google search tr…
Google page experience update for desktop now rolling out
As expected, Google is now rolling out the desktop version of the page experience update. This update should be fully rolled by the end of March 2022.
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Microsoft Advertising auto-apply recommendations out of beta, advertisers opted in by default
While opting in doesn’t increase your budgets, advertisers should opt out if they don’t want recommendations to apply automatically.
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Google’s Pirate Update can cause 89% drop in search traffic for offending sites
A recent document Google sent to the U.S. Copyright Office shows just how much being hit by the Pirate Update can sting.
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Microsoft Advertising rolls out dynamic descriptions for DSAs, which will become the default starting in April
Advertisers in sensitive verticals will remain opted out of this change for existing campaigns.
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How to improve E-A-T for YMYL pages
Learn what type of content Google considers to be “Your Money or Your Life” and where to focus your SEO efforts to improve Expertise, Authoritativeness and Trustworthiness for those pages.
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Google: Using The Indexing API Not For Jobs Or Livestreams Won’t Hurt Or Help
As you know, Google has an indexing API to expedite indexing of two content types. It is only designed to work for job postings and live streaming content – that is all. John Mueller of Google was asked if it can hurt if you try to use it for other co…
Google: No EAT Score But EAT Is Important & Indirectly In The Search Ranking Algorithm
It has been some time since I covered the topic of E-A-T (expertise, authoritativeness and trustworthiness) here. But John Mueller of Google was asked this on Friday at the 10:30 mark. John said that while there is no E-A-T score that Google uses, E-A…
Google On Pagination & The Value Of Showing Newer Content First
In this next question, Google’s John Mueller was asked about the downside of having newer content published at the end of your pagination set. In short, Google might not value that much the newer content when it is found deeper in your pagination set,…
Google: Web Stories Performance Not Indicative Of Overall Site Performance In Search
Google’s John Mueller said that the performance of your Web Stories in Google Search is not related to the overall ranking performance of your site in general in Google Search. He also added a side not that in general, Web Stories are hard to optimize…
Google: Standard Shopping Campaigns Will Continue To Be Supported
Ginny Marvin, the Google Ads Liaison, confirmed on Twitter that “standard Shopping campaigns will be supported for the foreseeable future,” she said. This comes after some Google Ads reps are reportedly saying that standard Shopping campaigns will be g…
Vlog #160: Brian Wallace On Promoting Infographics & What SEOs Are Missing
In part one we spoke about how Brian Wallace of NowSourcing got into infographics, how it is not just about links but much more and some cool scores he had with them. In part two…