Google Ads API 2023 Release Schedule
Google has released its 2023 schedule for the Google Ads API. This includes the tentative dates for when various versions will be released and/or sunsetted for the Google Ads API.
Google: Searching Visually Is Rare In Many Areas
John Mueller of Google said on Twitter the other day that “in many areas, searching visually is rare.” Meaning, that most of your traffic likely does not come from Google Image Search or other methods of visual search, like Google Lens or Multisearch, …
Google Ads Apply A Recommendation As An Experiment In The Experiments Page
Google Ads announced that you can now apply a recommendation as an experiment in the Experiments page. This allows you to more efficiently “in as few as two clicks, you can set up an experiment where you compare your base campaign to a trial campaign w…
Daily Search Forum Recap: October 6, 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 Search Console’s Google Analytics 3 integration may be broken…
Google Ads To Update UK Financial Services Policy Update To Crack Down On Fraud
Google announced it is cracking down on more financial fraud in the UK by making updates to its UK Financial Services policy that will go into effect in December. Google said “we are announcing a significant additional measure to protect both consumers…
Multisearch Not Being Tracked In Google Search Console
Google Search Console is not currently tracking clicks or impressions for traffic sent through the new Google multisearch feature. Glenn Gabe confirmed this the other day by running some tests on a few of his client sites.
Google Review Guidelines Updated To Disallow Discouraging Negative Or Selectively Solicit Positive Reviews
Google has updated its Google Maps contributor guidelines to disallow “discouraging or prohibiting negative reviews, or selectively soliciting positive reviews from customers.”
Google Search Console Queries Report In Google Analytics Not Showing Query Data
There may be a bug with the Google Analytics and Google Search Console integration. The queries report within Google Analytics when you connect your Search Console profile, now shows “not set” for all query data. It is like Google pulled all the query…
Microsoft Advertising Gains Performance Max Import, Data Exclusion, Automated Extensions & More
Microsoft Advertising has announced a boatload of new features in its October 2022 release schedule. These include the ability to import your Google’s performance max data, new data exclusion features, more automated extension controls and much more.
Daily Search Forum Recap: October 4, 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.
Just a quick heads up, I am offline for Yom Kippur tonight/tomorrow, no stories will be posted on Wednesd…
Programming Note: Offline Wednesday For Yom Kippur 5783
This is just a programming note that I will be 100% offline starting Tuesday night (October 4th) through Wednesday night (October 5th) for Yom Kippur. I am not scheduling any stories on Yom Kippur…
Google Advice On When Copy Sites Outrank Your Original Content
Danny Sullivan from Google provided some advice and took some feedback on a specific example of when an original piece of research from a website was being outranked by a site copying its information.
Report: Unusual Spike In Google Business Profile Insights Traffic
There are some reports that in some industries, like the auto dealership industry, there is a bug with Google Business Profile insights reporting. There shows a large and unaccounted-for spike in traffic from Google Local and Google Maps for some of th…
Google Search Console Performance Report Missing Data On September 21st
Google has confirmed that some data may be missing in the Google Search Console Search Performance report on September 21, 2022. If you log in and view that report, you should see an annotation on that day, that explained more.
Wild Google Ranking Swings With Google Algorithm Updates
With all these different Google search ranking algorithm updates over the past several weeks, it has been a very busy time for SEOs. While most sites probably don’t see huge swings. Glenn Gabe documented a site that didn’t just see one big ranking cha…
Google: Anything That Talks About Link Juice Should Be Ignored
Google’s John Mueller said it again, he said on Twitter “anything that talks about “link juice” should be ignored.” Instead, he said you should “go and make awesome websites with content that’s useful and inspirational to real people.”
Vlog #191: Marguarite Humphrey On Content Development For Franchises
We learned about Maggie Humphrey in part one and what she did while working at DAC and in part two, we dig a bit more into content development strategies for franchises.
October 2022 Google Webmaster Report
Talk about a busy month, we didn’t just have one or two confirmed updates this past month – we had three! We had the helpful content update finish rolling out on September 9th, we then had the September 2022 core update kick off on the 12t, and then t…
Google Search “More Hotels” Grid Layout
Google Search now has a grid layout option labeled “more hotels.” This is even when Google shows the hotel listings sections, other hotel listings, explore more hotels, and now also this “more hotels” four grid layout.
Google Shopping Chat Feature On Product Results
Google Shopping seems to be testing or maybe has launched a new chat feature in the product search results. I personally cannot replicate this at the time I am writing this but Saad AK spotted this and posted a screenshot on Twitter.