Google Recommends Not To Use Double Slashes In URL Path
Google’s John Mueller said it isn’t recommended to use // – double slashes – in your URL path. He said generally if browsers can handle it so can Googlebot. But he said on Twitter “// is generally considered a bad practice though, since what it’s rea…
Google My Business Adds Adds Video Conferencing Integration
Google My Business has added a new option that says “Connect in real-time, with video.” It says you can “grow your business and reach more customers, when you use video conferencing providers.” Then a “set up” button to start to configure it.
Google Ads More Than Triples The Conversion Categories
Google Ads announced yesterday it went from 6 conversion categories to 19 conversion categories, if you know math, that is more than three times. Google said “starting today, you can group your conversion actions in 19 different categories such as “ad…
Google Local Listing Shows 20 Years In Business
Google is now showing for some business listings in Google Maps and Local how long the business has been in operation. I don’t think I’ve seen this before and I cannot replicate this on other businesses but John Lavapie posted a screen shot of it on Tw…
Google Local Panels Order Pickup Button
Google is more often showing the “order pickup” button on some local listings where the restaurant or business offers curbside pickup. Sergey Alakov shared the screen shot below of this in action but Google has been collecting this data for a couple m…
Google: We Don’t Have A Concept Of Toxic Domains
Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter “we don’t have a concept of toxic domains.” It was in a reply about a third-party SEO tool saying some of the links to his site are low quality and maybe toxic. Google said previously most site do not have toxic …
Google Ads Location Extensions Now Faster
Google announced that within Google Ads it is now much faster and easier to set up your location extensions. You can now set up location extensions faster by selecting your locations from a curated list.
The New Microsoft Advertising Is Rolling Out To All
Last October, Microsoft announced a major redesign for its Microsoft Advertising platform. Ten months later, Microsoft said “the redesign is now rolling out to all advertisers within the next several weeks.”
September 2020 Google Webmaster Report
It was an interesting month for Google Search. We had a confirmed Google search glitch that had a huge temporary impact on the Google rankings and search results. SEOs are bracing themselves for the next core update. Google Search Console launched I…
Google Ads Search Terms Report To Hide Some Searches
Google Ads is posting a notice in the Google Ads console telling advertisers that it has updated the search terms report to only include search terms that were searched by a significant number of users. Essentially, you won’t be able to use this repor…
Google Ads Tax Ad Increase 2% In UK & 5% In Turkey & Austria
Google sent out emails to advertisers yesterday based in the UK, Turkey and Austria that it will begin charging more for its ads there to cover for taxes. Google will be raising the price for its Google Ads by 2% in the United Kingdom and by 5% in Tur…
Google Indexing Issues Rumblings But I Cannot Replicate
Over the past 12 hours or so, really since last night, I have been hearing rumblings and chatter of Google indexing issues. Truth is, I cannot replicate the issues but it might not be occurring in the US but more so outside of the US in European region…
Google To Disallow Ads That Profit Or Blame Others For Sensitive Events
Google updated its Google Ads sensitive events content policy to prohibit ads that potentially profit from a sensitive event and ads that claim victims of a sensitive event were responsible for their own tragedy. This policy goes into effect on Octobe…
Googlebot Supports Brotli Compression
Gary Illyes from Google has confirmed that Googlebot does indeed support Brotli compression. Brotli is a data format specification for data streams compressed with a specific combination of the general-purpose LZ77 lossless compression algorithm, Huffm…
Bing Streaming Carousels Feature
Bing has this new, I think it is new, streaming carousel, for live video game or other video streams. The Microsoft Bing Developer Twitter account shared information on it saying the “streaming carousels let you easily search through the top live stre…
Google Local Panel Displays Descriptions & Links With Scroll To Text
Andy Simpson and Brodie Clark shared screen shots of Google showing descriptions and links in the local knowledge panel. I personally cannot replicate but in some cases the links themselves also do that scroll-to-text and highlight feature that we’ve …
Google Image Search Licensable Badge Now Live With Updated Search Filters
In February, Google added a new licensable badge for image search as a beta while it tested out new structured data markup. Well, now after months of testing, this new feature is live and images using this markup can see the licensable badge in the Goo…
Google My Business Requests Update Service Availability
If you login to your Google My Business listing, you may be notified by Google to click on the “Update Service Availability.” There Google is asking you to “let customers know that your business is open and which services you’re offering.”
Google My Business Attributes Now Displays Labels On Maps Desktop
Google is now showing the Google My Business attribute labels on the Google Maps desktop listings. Prior, Google showed them in the mobile result but now they can show up also in the Google Maps desktop panel for your local listing.
Google: We Do Not Index Links, We Index The Pages Between The Links
Google’s John Mueller clarified how SEOs should think about Google’s index and links on the web. He said on Twitter “we index pages, we don’t index links. Links are between pages.” That means, Google will index a page, that page may have links on it, …