Google Ads Activates Real Time Alerts Feature & More
Google Ads added a few new features yesterday including real-time alerts, improvements to draft campaigns and easier access to make new campaigns and view disapprovals. The most exciting new feature is the real-time alerts.
Do SEOs Trust SEO Sources – Good Polls
Cyrus Shepard posted a series of excellent pools on Twitter with a nice number of responses. The polls asked various questions around if you trust various sources of information on SEO.
Google Yogurt Doodle Honors Stamen Grigorov
Today’s Google Doodle honors Stamen Grigorov, the man who discovered Lactobacillus bulgaricus bacillus, which is why we have yogurt today. Stamen Grigorov is a Bulgarian physician and microbiologist who was born 142 years ago today on October 27, 1878 …
Google Tests Green Bubble Header Display In Search
You know when Google shows you a colored header background in search for some queries? Well, Google is now testing a different interface for that where the header is a white background but instead Google uses buttons in bubble format that are colored.
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Google Local Product Carousel Display Bugs
It seems Google has another bug, this one is with how Google displays some products on the Google local panel. Claire Carlile posted some examples of the product carousel showing a product carousel that looks like it is missing information. Others are…
Google: Suspension Of Request Indexing Unrelated To Indexing Bugs
As many of you know, Google suspended (temporarily) the request indexing feature in Google Search Console. This came during the time Google had numerous ongoing indexing issues with search. Google has fixed those indexing issues but the request indexi…
Microsoft Bing May Be Having Search Indexing Issues
Over the past few weeks, I have been seeing some reports that Microsoft Bing is having their own indexing issues. Meaning, Bing is not indexing pages like it use to for its search engine. Some thought it had to do with CloudFlare being blocked, but i…
Google Easter Egg For Brazilian Soccer Star Pele
If you search for [pele], the name of one of the best soccer players in history, in Google Search and scroll to the footer, you will see a new Google Easter Egg. The pagination feature turned into a soccer ball and goal and green and yellow colored le…
Google Local Wait Times Seems Fixed
A couple of weeks ago we reported how the wait times that Google displayed in the local and maps results for restaurants were wrong. It showed long wait times for places that had zero wait time. Now, it seems to be resolved.
Google Package Tracking API Now Only Accepts POST Requests
POST requests make sense for packing tracking, you know, because of definition of postal. Okay bad joke but it is true, Google’s package tracking API is now only accepting POST requests. Google updated its documentation to say “Google Package Tracking…
Google: There Is No Optimal Number Of Links On A Page
In continuation of Google saying they have a stupid high limit on the number of links it can extract from a page, Google is also saying there is no optimal number of links you should have on a page. Google’s John Mueller was asked about it and he respo…
Vlog #91: Mike Blumenthal Importance Of Review Attributes & Content Generation (Part Two)
In part two (see part one here) with Mike Blumenthal we started off talking about reviews and review attributes. He doesn’t believe SEOs understand how important reviews are. It is not just about getting more good reviews…
Google: Translating Content, Don’t Forget To Translate Title Tags
Danny Sullivan from Google issued a PSA yesterday afternoon saying that if you translate your content on your web pages, do not forget to also translate the title tags as well. In addition, do not forge to translate the meta tags, structured data and o…
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Passage Indexing, Indexing Issues Resolved, Core Update Status & DOJ Sues Google
It has been an interesting week at Google, from being sued by the Department of Justice for anticompetitive practices to passage indexing questions and clarity. I first talked about how Google’s new Passage Indexing is really Passage Ranking…
Google Ads, I Mean, AdWords Turns 20 Years Old
As I tweeted this morning, we have a special design theme up on this site for the 20th birthday of Google Ads – AdWords. Google Ads posted a #20stories20years tweet to celebrate the birthday and share some stories.
Google Adds Shopping Features For Advertisers & Searchers
Google has added a bunch of features to Google Ads and Shopping right before the holiday shopping season. Features like price tracking, price comparison and other features around shoppings getting a good price on what they want to buy. Plus, feature…
Live: Google Maps Square Pins For Ads
In June we reported that Google will be launching new map pins for advertisers. These pins are squares and they are called “promoted pins.” Andy Simpson spotted one in the wild but supposedly they have been live prior, I just have not seen them.
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GoogleBot To Help Chrome Detect & Block Abusive Notifications
Google announced on the Chrome blog that it will be adding an additional security feature to reduce notification content and is triggered by sites that have a history of sending messages containing abusive content. GoogleBot will be helping Chrome with…
Google Talks Rendering, Indexing, SEO & Developer Relations, Conferences & Bitcoin Scams
In the latest version of Google’s Search Off the Record podcast with John Mueller, Gary Illyes and Martin Splitt. They spoke about a ton of topics including rendering, indexing, SEO and developer relations, the unconference and next conference and jus…
Google: Crawling Doesn’t Mean Indexing, Indexing Doesn’t Mean Ranking
This is probably SEO 101 but often even those who do SEO every day, they are so in the weeds that the basics kind of slip away. Martin Splitt of Google summed it up by saying just because Google may crawl a page, it does not mean that page will be in …