Google Ads Adds Image Extensions, Responsive Ad Features, New Layouts & More
Google Ads has added a bunch of features and announced a bunch of new features according to their announcement yesterday. Google added image extensions beta program, a responsive search ad features to highlight your sales, promotions and shipping offe…
Google Removed Twitter Results From Search
As you probably all know, Twitter has been hacked in a big way yesterday. In short hackers pushing a crypto scam hijacked Twitter accounts for Bitcoin, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Ripple, Binance, Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Apple, and many more. …
Google: Remove A Lot Of Pages From Your Site, Remove The URLs From Your Sitemap
John Mueller of Google said it is a good idea to remove the URLs of pages you remove from your web site from your XML Sitemap file. He said “if you remove or change a lot of pages on your site, it’s good to reflect that in a sitemap file.”
John Mueller On Google Rants On Ranking Factors
Google’s John Mueller, Gary Illyes and Martin Splitt released another podcast this morning. This one they covered a bunch of topics including rendering with SEO but also John Mueller kind of had a rant on ranking factors. It is fun to listen to, so I …
AdSense For Search To Display Google Shopping Ads
If you run AdSense ads on your site and you have AdSense for Search, where you use Google AdSense to monetize your search results – Google may start to show Shopping Ads in those search results. This requires no code changes on your part and will begi…
Google Shopping Actions Disallows Downloadable Software CDs & DVDs
Google at the end of this month, end of July, will start to disallow marketing of downloadable software CDs and DVDs through Google Shopping Ads. This does not include video game DVDs, those will still be allowed.
Google My Business Will Notify Business Of Listing Suspensions
Google will soon begin sending email notifications to businesses when their business listings or accounts are suspended with Google My Business. Until now, if your listing is suspended, you won’t know about it until you login to Google My Business to f…
Google Books Ngram Viewer Gets Fresh Data Through 2019
The Google Books Ngram Viewer, a tool that shows you how often phrases occur in books over time, now shows data through 2019. In short, this tool displays a graph showing how those phrases have occurred in a corpus of books. Previously, it showed data…
Google: Links From Lower Quality Sites To Your Site Doesn’t Necessarily Hurt
Let’s say your site has a DA of one billion and you get a link from a site that has a DA of 999,999,999, which is obviously less than one billion – can that hurt your Google rankings? In short, does getting links from pages that are lower quality than…
Google Discover Help Document Updated With E-A-T Mentions & More
Google has updated the help document on Google Discover. It has been almost completely revamped but one of the more interesting areas of the update is the section added to E-A-T. I mean, we know Google Discover can be impacted by Core updates in a bi…
New Google Shopping Ads Policy Against Phishing & Scamming
Google has updated its Google Shopping Ads policies to add two new “unacceptable business practices.” These include (1) scamming users by concealing or misstating information about the merchant’s business, or product, or service and (2) offer destinati…
Google: Links Placed Without Your Input Is A Good Thing
Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that links placed without any input by you is not a bad thing, often he said it is a good thing. John wrote “just because links are placed without your input doesn’t make them bad (it usually makes them good, eve…
Google: Make Your Site Architecture Easy & Interesting
Google’s John Mueller said the way to make your site architecture and navigation easy and interesting is to make a “smart site structure.” This will not only help GoogleBot find your content and more interesting pages but also help users navigate and …
Vlog #75: Purna Virji On Search Accessibility & Inclusion & PPC Automation
Purna Virji is the Senior Manager of Global Engagement at Microsoft Advertising, won the US Search Personality Award and is one of the most kind people in the industry. Her job is to share new technology at conference and events with…
Google Tests Bold & Large Ad Titles In Snippets
Google is testing not just large titles for grouped snippets but also large titles that are fully bolded for Google Ad results.
Google: JavaScript Redirects Not A Good Idea
Gary Illyes from Google said it is probably not a good idea to use JavaScript redirects. This was specific to redirecting users based on their location to a country specific version of the page. But Google has said before that server side redirects a…
Google Search Has No Plans On Supporting Service Workers & Here’s Why
Martin Splitt from Google was asked on Reddit “are there plans to support service workers?” This would be specific to Google Search supporting it. Martin responded that no, Google has no such plans. He then went on to explain why Google has no plans o…
Google Ads No Longer To Allow Intimate Partner Surveillance Products & Services
Google Ads and Google Merchant Center has updated its Enabling Dishonest Behavior policy to include not allowing you to advertiser products or services that perform intimate partner surveillance. This includes spyware and other technology that can con…
Search Buzz Video Recap: Small Google Ranking Update, Image Search Knowledge Panels, Structured Data Testing Tool & Google Ads
This week we saw signs of a smaller Google search ranking algorithm update – it was not huge but it seemed to impact a smaller set of niches. Google’s John Mueller said “it would be wrong to say all link building is bad.” Google said spam reports are n…
Google Clarifies Structured Data For Multiple Items On A Page
Google has updated the structured data policies page, specifically the section on having multiple items on a page with structured data. It added whether you nest the items or specify each item individually.