Google Ads 3 Strike Bowling Automation For Removing Violating Ads
Google, the other week, announced a new simple Python script that lets advertisers with many keywords and ads simplify the tracking and removal of ad violations that might lead to more serious penalties with Google’s three strikes and you’re out policy…
Google: We Don’t Hard Code YMYL Categories Into Our Algorithm
Google’s John Mueller was asked if energy supply types of websites would fall into the YMYL, your money – your life, category and thus have to hold to a higher standard for E-A-T concepts. John said, he doesn’t have an “absolute answer” because Google…
Microsoft Advertising Partners With Shopify & Google Ads Partners With BigCommerce
Google and Microsoft announced new partnership deals on the ad side. Microsoft Advertising now partnered with Shopify to integrate your products on your Shopify with your ads on Bing Search. Google Ads partnered with BigCommerce to list your products …
Google: Trust Is Not A Matter Of Just Links Pointing To A Site
Google’s John Mueller said that when it comes to Google trusting a website, “when it comes to trust it’s definitely not a matter of just links that are pointing at a website.” He first said that trust is not something Google has a score for.
Google: We Don’t Classify Sites By Technology Platform Or Infrastructure
Google’s John Mueller said that the search engine does not classify the type of site you are based on the technology platform or infrastructure it uses. So if you use WordPress for your site, it doesn’t mean Google will say your site is a blog. If you…
Google: Author Not A Direct Ranking Factor
Google’s John Mueller said a bit ago in a video hangout that the author of an article is not a direct ranking factor. He said this when he was asked if it matters if you have a recognized and authoritative doctor write or review your medical content w…
Google: Sometimes Black Hat SEO Works & You Don’t Get Caught But…
Google’s John Mueller admitted on Twitter that sometimes black hat SEO and risky practices work and you don’t always get caught. But he added that sometimes you can get caught and “not getting caught doesn’t mean it works.” But he added building a bus…
Google My Business Crowd Attributes For LGBTQ+ Friendly & Transgender Safespace
Google My Business seems to have added a new business attribute named “crowd.” In this, you can mark you business as being LGBTQ+ friendly and a transgender safespace. We covered that Google showed the LGBTQ+ friendly on some businesses back in 2020 b…
Poll: Which Search Engine Can Compete With Google? DuckDuckGo, Bing, Brave Or Neeva
Brodie Clark posted a poll on Twitter that has about a thousand responses, asking “which search engine has the best chance of competing with Google over the next 10 years?” The search engine that got the most votes was DuckDuckGo, beating out Microsof…
Google Asks How You’d Use More Exportable Data From Search Console
Daniel Waisberg of Google asked on Twitter how would you use the data, if Google let you export more data from Google Search Console. Daniel wrote “Many people ask Google to expand the limits for exporting *Search performance data* (not talking about i…
Search News Buzz Video Recap: Frequent Google Algorithm Updates, Quality Raters Guidelines Updated, IndexNow With Bing & Yandex & More
First, sorry for the static in the beginning, it stops after 30 seconds. This week, we had another Google search ranking algorithm update to report on…
Microsoft Advertising Launches Health Insurance Ads
Microsoft Advertising announced a new ad format for Bing Search named health insurance ads. Microsoft said advertisers are already seeing a 4X increase in return on ad spend (ROAS) and lower costs per acquisition (CPAs) with this new format.
Google Tests Larger Font In Mobile Search Bar
Google is testing a larger font and larger search bar in the mobile search interface. This was spotted by Brodie Clark, who posted two images on Twitter. I made those images into an animated GIF so you can visualize the size difference between the two…
Bing Checks XML Sitemap File Daily
Fabrice Canel from Microsoft said that Microsoft tries to check your site’s XML Sitemap file one per day. He said on Twitter “we attempt looking at sitemaps once a day.”
Google: Buttons Are Not Links, Buttons Not Used For Crawling Purposes
Google’s John Mueller was asked if the button attribute is treated like a link attribute. The answer was a straight forward, “no.” John said on Twitter “buttons aren’t links and don’t inherently have urls attached to actions, so we wouldn’t use them …
Google: No SEO Benefit For Opening Links In Existing Or New Windows
Google’s John Mueller was asked if opening links in a new window versus the existing window (tab) would make a difference SEO or ranking wise in Google. John said no, there is no difference for ranking purposes.
Daily Search Forum Recap: October 20, 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.
Google has updated its search quality raters guidelines…
Google: Different Intent Content On A Page Basis Can Confuse, Not Site Level
Google’s John Mueller said when it comes to confusing Google around having different intent of content, it is more of an issue on the page-level and not on the site-level. John said “a lot of websites just have a mix of different kinds of content,” an…
Google Alerts Stopped Working For Several Days For Some (Now Fixed)
Google has confirmed an issue with Google Alerts where Google’s Danny Sullivan said “We’ve identified an issue that’s prevented Google Alerts from operating properly. We’re working to resolve the issue quickly.”
Google Analytics Bug Results In Unrecoverable Data Loss On October 18th
Google Analytics had a bug that resulted in about an hour of lost data on October 18th. That data is unrecoverable and you should note, maybe with an annotation, that there was a glitch resulting in less data being collected by Google Analytics.
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