Google May 2022 Core Update Not Done Yet…
Today is officially day 14 since the May 2022 core update first started rolling out and it does not seem to be done rolling out yet – it is not complete. Google’s Danny Sullivan said last night “We’re not there yet.” I asked Google’s John Mueller this …
New Google Ads Travel Features: Business Profile Hotel Rates, Feedless Onboarding & Travel Goals With Performance Max
Google announced last week a bunch of new travel ad and local features. These include the ability to add hotel rates directly on Google Business Profile, “feedless onboarding” for Google Hotel Ads, and Performance Max that use travel goals.
Google Expands Browse By Search Features: Material, Product Line & More
Google seems to have expanded the browse by feature to let you browse search results for products by material, product line and more. We’ve seen many variations of this before – so this might not be new but it is nice to see Google probably dynamically…
Google Title Link Algorithm Update For Multi-Language Or Transliterated Titles
Google announced that it made an algorithmic adjustment (it thinks for the better) for how it decides to display title links for those pages that use multi-language or transliterated (scripted) titles. In short, if your title tag does not match the co…
Google: Don’t Put Your Company Name In Blank Image Alt Text
Most sites I know do not fill in their image alt text for many images. I know a lot of SEOs work on this task but sometimes it is a lot of work. One SEO said his client wants to take a shortcut and autofill any blank alt text with his company name. Jo…
Google May 2022 Core Updates Continue But We’re Probably At The End
Google’s May 2022 core update is now just about 13 days in, we expect Google to say the update is now rolling out sometime in the next 72 hours or so. But till then, it does seem like the tremors have continued, with big spikes on Sunday, June 5, 2022…
June & May 2022 Google Webmaster Report
Some how, I forgot to post the Google webmaster report last month, so this one will be a bit longer as I am combining the June and May Google webmaster report in one big report. Sorry for missing that report, but here is the catch up. The big items for…
Vlog #176: Alcides Aguasvivas On Starting An Digital Agency During College, 18 Years Later
Alcides Aguasvivas is a co-founder of Pix-l Graphx, he has been running the company for 18 years now and they are based around the corner from my office in Rutherford, New Jersey. He is most passionate about search…
Google Will Not Let You Create Or Edit Expanded Text Ads Soon
As we reported last year, Google Ads will be dropping support for expanded text ads in 2022. Starting June 30, 2022, you will no longer be able to create or edit your expanded text ads. Your existing expanded text ads will however continue to serve.
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Google Ads Automatically Created Assets Beta Feature
Some advertisers are seeing in the Google Ads console a beta feature named “automatically created assets.” This feature allows Google to generate headlines, descriptions, and other assets using your content from your landing page, domain and other ads…
Google Merchant Center To Opt In All To Automatic Item Updates For Condition On June 26th
We covered this news back in April, but as Kirk Williams posted last week, some of you may have forgotten. In short, Google Merchant Center will automatically opted everyone in to the new automatic item updates for condition on June 26, 2022.
Google Tests Search Filters On Left Side Bar
We recently spotted Google testing the search bar navigation on the left hand side and now Google is testing different search filters on the left side bar. These are for product related queries that let you filter by feature, brand, department, size, e…
Daily Search Forum Recap: June 3, 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.
Microsoft’s IndexNow, after much hesitation…
Programming Note: Offline For Shavuos 5782
This is a programming note that I will be completely offline for the holiday of Shavout/Shavous, from Friday night June 3rd through late Monday night June 6th. Any stories published here will be scheduled and written beforehand and not posted live…
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Google: You Don’t Have To Resubmit Your Page For Indexing Each Time You Update It
Google’s John Mueller said when it comes to reindexing and resubmitting your web pages to Google Search – Google does it on its own. You do not need to resubmit your pages each time you update the content, Google will figure it out.
IndexNow Coming To Yoast SEO Premium
Despite Yoast’s founder, Joost de Valk, being super unimpressed with IndexNow, the Microsoft backed indexing initiative, Yoast will be adding support soon for IndexNow in Yoast SEO Premium.
Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Core Update, Nofollow Links, Rich Results & Apple Search Rumors
This week, we dove more into the Google May 2022 broad core update, stories of those hit, how Google looks at the data prior to the rollout and more. Google also hinted that useful nofollow links, despite the policy change in 2019…
Google Shopping Ads Loyalty Program Feature Live?
At Google I/O the company announced a new Shopping Ad feature to showcase your loyalty programs directly in Google Search. Well, that feature might be out in the wild now, for Target and other retailers.
Google AdSense To Test Chrome’s Topics API Starting July 1st
Google announced that starting July 1, 2022, Google AdSense will begin testing the Chrome’s Topics API for ad requests on a “small percentage of traffic.” The Topics API was announced early year as a replacement for the flopped FLoC Google cookie repla…
Google’s John Mueller: It’s Easier To Stop Buying Links Than Maintaining Your Disavow File
Google’s John Mueller has one of his good one liners again. An SEO named Sara Taher asked him for his “thoughts on people updating the disavow file everyday?” John responded “It would be easier to stop buying links /shrug.”