Google May Be Testing The Ad Label & URL Under Ad Headline
Google may be testing placing the black Ad label and the URL of the ad under the ad title/headline but above the ad description. This was reported to me on Twitter and no, I cannot replicate, but I can see Google testing this – why not.
Microsoft Advertising Launches Health Status Dashboard
Microsoft announced the launch of the Microsoft Advertising “health blog,” which really looks like a monitoring dashboard for the uptime and system status of the Microsoft Advertising applications, platform and APIs. You can access it at status.ads.mi…
Google: Why You See Portions Of Your Site Go Up Or Down After Algorithm Updates
Google’s John Mueller said in a video hangout last week at the 37:02 mark that you can see parts or portions of your web site go up or down after an algorithm update. The reason for that is that some of Google’s algorithms not only try to look at the “…
Google: Core Updates & BERT Are Unrelated & Different
I was asked to find out if the Google Core updates and Google BERT are related at all, if they have anything to do with each other. I’ll be honest, I was surprised by the question – I mean, there relation is they are both in Google Search. But BERT i…
Google Request Indexing Tool Back After 69 Day Outage
69 days after Google has “temporarily” disabled the request indexing tool in Google Search Console, Google has finally reenabled it. You can access the tool within the URL Inspection tool. Google said on Twitter “we’re glad to announce that ‘Request …
Google: Passage Indexing Has Not Rolled Out Yet
There has been a lot of speculation that passage indexing is live in the Google search results. I personally have not seen any evidence of that yet but still, I miss a lot of things. I asked Danny Sullivan of Google last night if it rolled out yet and …
Google Ads Estimated List Size Now In Audience Manager
Google has added the the estimated list size directly in the Audience Manager within Google Ads. Google said the “previously, you were only able to see estimated list sizes for your similar audiences when applying them to campaigns.”
Google On Why It Won’t Reverse The December 2020 Core Update
There are some SEOs that are asking Google to reverse the December 2020 Google core update. Truth is, it is very common to see this reaction after every single core update. Google’s John Mueller first response was “nah, sorry” when he was asked about …
Google Guaranteed Offering Discounted Pricing
Justin Sanger posted on Twitter that he is now noticing for those customers of his who are in the Google Guaranteed beta, that Google is offering discounts. The example he showed revealed a $101 discount for paying for the year, so instead of $600, the…
Not All Google Search Algorithms Are Suitable For Machine Learning
While Microsoft seems to have gone all in on machine learning in Bing, Google has seem not to. Even when we are about to skip over to 2021, John Mueller of Google said on Twitter “there are always so many algorithms in play; some are more suitable for…
Does Google Disallows Rich Results On Adult Web Sites?
Google’s John Mueller said that he does not believe that rich results would work in Google Search for adult oriented web sites. But if you read the guidelines for rich results, only the critic review and product rich results specifically say adult web…
How Long Do Stories Last On Google Discover
Ever wonder how long an article or story typically lasts on Google Discover? What is the average stickiness of a story displaying on Google Discover? Valentin Pletzer told me he measured 6,000 URLs and found that 6% last for only an hour but 61% last f…
Google Local Panel Ad For Lawyers Test
Google has been showing some ads in a local panel listing for years now, even sometimes showing a local listing with a competitors ad smack on top of it. But Ben Fisher said he has spotted, for the first time, an ad on a lawyer’s local listing in the …
Vlog #99: Joe Beccalori On What Has Changed In SEO Over The Years
Joe Beccalori is the CEO of Interact Marketing, as you know, first I spoke to his employee Anthony Church and now this conversation is with Joe. Joe lived not far from me back in the day, so that is our non-SEO connection. He first started…
Google Logo For The Winter Solstice & Great Conjunction
Today, Google has not just the change of seasons logo for the winter season in the Northern Hemisphere and the summer season in the Southern Hemisphere but also one for the great conjunction – all in one. The great conjunction is a conjunction of the …
Google Search Streamed 3D Content Including Cars
Rajan Patel, VP of Engineering at Google leading teams working on Lens, AR, and Consumer Shopping, announced on Twitter that you can now see cloud streamed 3D content in Search on Android devices. You can now see “cars in high fidelity and with a set o…
Google Search Popular Products Review Slider
Brian Freiesleben found another new Google user interface test (I believe), this is a new way of visualizing the review attributes within the popular products section of the Google search results. They put the review attributes into this slider, like a…
Google Local Meshed Throughout Web Search Results
Niki Mosier spotted something that was previously pointed out to me but I thought then it was a bug. But it is not a bug, I see it myself. Google is meshing the local features in the Google web search results. Basically, you get a local panel, then a section for reviews, then the popular times, then a section for Q&A and then the web results.
Does Google Ignore Portions Of Your Site For Accessing Quality? It’s More About Indexing.
Generally SEOs tend to believe that Google determines the quality of a site based on all the pages on the site, not just portions of those pages. So if you have a very low quality section on your site, it can hurt the rest of your site. Google has ev…
Google Search Console Update On Request Indexing & Disavow Tool Issues
As you know, Google Search Console has some things up in the air around broken or temporarily not functioning features. You know about the ongoing request indexing tool being offline for now 2 months and 7 days. Also the validate fix tool being offli…