Google AdSense Matched Content Being Shut Down On March 1, 2022
Google announced that it is shutting down the AdSense Matched content ad unit types beginning on March 1, 2022. This is due to “decreasing usage of the content promotion service” and “positive customer feedback and performance results from the ads-onl…
Google Ads Sports Betting Ads In Florida No Longer Allowed
Google Ads posted an update that you a no longer to promote sports betting services or ads in Florida using the Google Ads platform. Google said this is effective as of today, November 24, 2021.
Bing Finally Launches Page Insights Lightbulb Search Results Feature
After several months of testing variations of what Microsoft Bing is calling “Page insights” – it is finally live. The lightbulb and page explorer snippet tool is now live for all to play with.
Google Local Business Photos Lead To Blank Images On Desktop Search
If you go to Google Search on desktop and type in some local businesses, then click on the first photo in the local knowledge panel – Google will load a black or blank photo. It is some sort of weird bug that I’ve seen happen since this past Saturday n…
Googlebot Slow Crawling The Web From November 11 – November 17?
Olivier Papon from Seolyzer, a log analysis toolset, reported the other week that Google seemed to slow or stop crawling most of the web between around November 11 and November 17th. I did ask Google about this but have yet to hear back. It seems Goog…
Google Shopping Results Display $0 Prices With Monthly Fees
Did you know that the Google Shopping results can show products with $0 prices? That is, I think, if there is a promotion for let’s say a monthly ongoing fee – such as charging $0 for an Apple Watch if you enroll in a monthly service fee with a phone …
Google Generally Has Different Crawl Capacities For Your Images Hosted On A CDN
Google’s John Mueller confirmed that when it comes to sites that host their images (or likely other files) on an external CDN, like we do here, Google will have a separate server capacity (maybe crawl budget) for your domain versus the domain of the CD…
50% Of SEOs Not Seeing Impact From Google November 2021 Core Update
Marie Haynes posted a Twitter poll (which I reshared a couple times yesterday) asking what you (mostly SEOs) are seeing five days into the Google November 2021 core update. About 50% of those who responded said they are not seeing much from this updat…
Google Search Console New Design Interface Now Live
This morning at about 5:30am ET, the Google Search Console team rolled out a new facelift and design for Google Search Console. The new design, according to Google’s Daniel Waisberg is “much cleaner.” Google said the design aims to improve “accessibil…
Google Sort By Date For News Is Buggy
Danny Sullivan, the Search Liaison at Google Search, confirmed there is a bug with the sort by date feature in the Google Search news tab. Danny said on Twitter “if you’re searching with date restriction in news tab, we found a bug we hope to fix soon…
Google Ads Mobile App Gains Performance Insights, Review Search Trends & Create Campaigns
Google has added a few new features to the Google Ads mobile app. The new features work on both the iOS and Android app and include that you can see more explanations with Performance Insights, review Search trends and create campaigns.
Google: We Don’t Hold A Grudge For Technical Issues
Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that Google Search does not hold a grudge for SEO technical issues you have on your site. When you fix those issues and Google reprocesses the affected pages or site, things should return back to normal.
Google Structured Data Markup Helper Is Outdated
In 2013, Google launched its Structured Data Markup Helper tool to help site owners mark up their content with structured data without having to know how to code. Well, the tool is outdated, as you’d imagine. Even Caio Barros from Google confirmed th…
Vlog #147: Bryan Cush On Health Consumer Searches, Doctors With The Same Name & Health Brand Defense
In part one, Bryan Cush, the co-founder of Tidal Health Group, and I spoke about how to use health data for content and search marketing and in part two we dug into using medical databases…
Daily Search Forum Recap: November 19, 2021
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.
Check out the video this week…
Google Ads Insights Report Gains Demand Forecasts, Consumer Interest, Audience Insights & More
Google announced a bunch of additions coming to the Google Ads Insights reporting. These include demand forecasts, consumer interest insights, audience insights, and change history insights and auction insights. Google said this is to help advertiser…
Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google November Core Update, Google Ads CPC Bug, SiteGround’s Googlebot Issue & Snowden on Google
What a week – Google actually launched a broad core update days before the big online holiday shopping season – the Google November 2021 core update is live and rolling out. I share my thoughts on the timing, the release, more on core updates and the i…
You Can Opt Out Of Google Read Aloud Via nopagereadaloud Meta Tag
Google added to its help docs an explanation on how to opt out of Google Read Aloud with a meta tag, although the meta tag is not new. Google also clarified in those help docs the crawling behavior of the user agent.
Google Search Console User Permissions Bug & Some Performance Report Delays
Google has confirmed a bug with some users not seeing the users and permissions in Google Search Console. There are also complaints about the performance reports being a bit delayed, which has been ongoing for some time.
Google Tests Lens Button In Search Bar On Mobile Search
Google is testing adding the Google Lens button in the mobile search results bar. This camera icon, Google Lens logo, would trigger your camera to come up and you can then search by taking pictures.