Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google November Core Update Continued, Search Console Redesign, Crawling Bugs & Google Ads Credits
Happy Thanksgiving – we had a surprise from Google again, where the second wave of the Google November 2021 core update happened on Wednesday and Thursday – yes, the busiest time for online shopping. Prior…
Google Search Console Crawl Stats Data Bug Missing Two Days Of Data
Google has another bug, this time with Google Search Console’s crawl stats report. The report has a gap in the data, missing data on November 19th and November 20th. Google’s John Mueller confirmed the issue and said on Twitter the team is working on a…
Google Issued Credits For Shopping Ads CPC Bug
Remember the Google Ads bug where CPC, cost per click, prices soared out of control on a Friday night? Well, about two weeks later, Google started to issue credits to those accounts that were impacted by the bug.
Google: A Mix Of Positive & Negative Reviews More Trustworthy
Google has updated the Google Business Profiles Get Reviews help document to explicitly say that having a mix of positive and negative reviews are more trustworthy, than I guess just all positive reviews. Joy Hawkins spotted this and posted on Twitter…
Google November 2021 Core Update Tremors On Thanksgiving
We are seeing big volatility again in the Google Search results as of yesterday and today, which might be the tail-end of the November 2021 Google core update. Yep, talk about timing – the Black Friday shopping is in high gear today and tomorrow.
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Google Hanukkah Decorations Are Live For 2021
I’ve been checking for the past week, multiple times per day, and just now, Google has launched the Chanukah/Hanukkah decorations for the 2021 season. Chanukah starts this Sunday night, so I was expecting it to come soon and it is here.
Google Image Search Tests New Related Image Carousel
Google Image Search on mobile is testing a new related images carousel feature for image previews. This was spotted by Brian Freiesleben and posted on Twitter yesterday.
Google Confirmed Crawling Bug But Said There Were No Negative Effects
Google’s John Mueller confirmed Google had a crawling issue – specifically saying “crawling for the caches had slowed down for some sites.” Google said it was fixed “a while” ago and added that “it wasn’t widespread, and that there were no negative ef…
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.