Google Ads Bans High Fat Sugar Salt Food & Beverage Targeting Minors In UK & EU
Google Merchant Center posted a new policy that prohibits advertising and promoting High Fat Sugar Salt (HFSS) Food and Beverage (F&B) ads for minors in the United Kingdom and European Union. Again, this is only in the UK and EU and only when targeting minors.
Google Ads With Larger Sitelinks Block Design Also
A few weeks ago we reported that Google was testing a new layout and design for Sitelinks. The Sitelinks were larger and more block like designed. Well, Google is also testing this same design for Google Ads Sitelinks, which I guess makes sense.
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Chrome Tests Side By Side Search & Journeys; Browser History With Search
Google’s beta version of Chrome is testing two new search features; one is side by side search and the other is Journeys. Journeys is being tested in Chrome Canary on desktop and the side panel on the Chrome OS Dev channel.
October 2021 Google Webmaster Report
This month, we had the big Google Search On event where Google touted how it will be using MUM in more places in Google Search, plus a bunch of other big announcements, so check that out. We also had several unconfirmed Google Search algorithm updates…
Google: When Redirecting For Geotargeting, Do Not Redirect Googlebot
Google’s John Mueller issued a PSA, public service announcement, the other day on Twitter saying not to redirect Googlebot when using geotargeting redirection techniques. I mean, he said if you do this, it might cause big indexing issues for Google Sea…
Google Ads Launches Offline Conversion Import (OCI) Helper
Google announced a new tool to help you import your offline conversion data into Google Ads. Yes, this is about giving Google your first-party data so you can do better targeting and to help you measure your offline conversions.
Google Search Drops Support For Internet Explorer 11 And So Can You
Malte Ubl, a Technically a Software Engineer at Google, announced on Twitter that Google has finally dropped officially support for Internet Explorer 11 IE11. He said “Google Search ended support for IE11 in its main product.”
Huge Google Search Ranking Algorithm Update On October 2nd & 3rd
I know I sound like a broken record but yet again, we have another unconfirmed Google search ranking algorithm update over the weekend. This one is off the charts, huge, massive, and all those fun adjectives, according to the tracking tools. The week…
Vlog #140: Charley Spektor On Keyword Opportunities In Google Search Console & Pillar Pages
In part one, we spoke about Charley Spektor’s background and the joys of working on the Home Depot project and link building around that.
(0:34) Discovering New Keyword Opportunities In Google Search Console:
Google Is The Number One Search On Bing
I believe one of the most searched on phrases at Google.com is the term [Google]. Well, the number one searched on phrase at Bing.com, Microsoft’s popular search engine, is also [Google].
Google Hotel Listings Gain Eco-Certified Badges
In July we reported that hotel listing can now add their sustainability and eco certifications to their listings in Google My Business. Well, now, Google is showing the eco-certified green label in the hotel listings in Google Search.
Google Ads Gains New Budget Reports
Google announced new budget reports for Google Ads. Google said these new budget reports will “help you visualize monthly campaign spend behavior.” You can visually see how daily budget changes affected performance and monthly spend limits.
Google Says URL Case Applies To Robots.txt Directives
We’ve known for like two decades that Google does and can treat the same URL but with different cases differently. So domain.com/Apple vs domain.com/apple can be seen by Google as different URLs. But Google seems to be stricter about this rule when it…
SEOs Noticing Google Search Console Crawled, Not Indexed Errors Even When Indexed
Lily Ray posted on Twitter that many SEOs are noticing this and posting about it on Twitter with “many examples of URLs in GSC’s “Crawled, Not Indexed” report (with recent crawl dates) that are, in fact, indexed URLs.” There are lots and many of me to…
Google Ads Sexually Explicit Content Policy Seen As Egregious Policy Violations
Google Ads, starting on December 1, 2021 and scaling up enforcement by January 2022, will see its sexually explicit content policy violations updated to egregious policy violations. That means ads that are found to violate the sexually explicit policy…
Search News Buzz Video Recap: Bigger Google Algorithm Update, MUM & More Google Updates, Number Of Ranking Signals & Google Turns 23
Google had an unconfirmed but pretty big Google Search ranking algorithm update on September 24th and 25th. Google hosted its big search event called the Search On event…
Google Knowledge Panel Categories Change Based On Query
Did you know that the categories or buttons Google shows at the top of some knowledge panels are query dependent? Meaning that the categories and the order Google places the buttons can dynamically change based on the query the searcher entered into G…
Google Products Rich Results Search Console Report Now More Granular
Google has said that the Google Search Console rich results report for product structured data now provides more granular levels of errors. Google said starting September 29th, “Search Console now provides more granularity in error reporting for Produc…
Bing Search Mysterious Red Dot Near Shopping Tab
Microsoft Bing seems to be testing this mysterious red dot in the search bar navigation, near the shopping tab. I was able to replicate this and honestly, I do not know what this does, but here is a screen shot.
Google: Directory, Article Submission & Bookmarking Links Are Against The Webmaster Guidelines
Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that directory submissions, article submissions and bookmarking links are generally against Google’s webmaster guidelines. He said they are generally seen by Google as artificial links and thus you should likely av…