Google Ad Grants Deactivations Spike; Reactivation Requests Necessary
Michelle from the Google Ad Grants team confirmed in a Google Ads Help thread that Google has recently deactivated a nice number of Google Ad Grant accounts before the big charity season because of compliance issues. There is now a backlog for Google …
Google Doesn’t Care If You Copy Legal Disclaimers & Privacy Policies
Google’s John Mueller responded that it’s no problem for Google if you copy a legal disclaimer or privacy policy you used on one of your web sites and gave it to another web site. I mean, think about it, do you want your legal disclaimers to rank well…
Google Ads Has New Ad Metrics To Help Clarify Ad Positions
Google is rolling out four new ad metrics to help clarify the position of the ads displayed in Google search. The new ad metrics are Impression (Absolute Top) % and Impression (Top) % and Search (Abs Top) IS and Search (Top) IS.
Google: Don’t Use Different Title Tags For Mobile & Desktop Pages
Do you know of web sites that use a strategy of showing a different title tag on the desktop version of a page, compared to the mobile version of that exact same page? Well, John Mueller of Google had to take a step back when someone asked about doi…
Google Discover More Places Surges In Google
Google has a feature to discover more places for some local intent queries. According to RankRanger, the feature exploded in terms of how often it is shown, starting on October 24th. In the US, it increased by almost 130%, from about 3.5% of queries …
Google: You Cannot Opt Out Of Mobile-First Indexing
Google’s John Mueller stated the obvious, that you cannot opt out of the new mobile-first indexing process. John said on Twitter “Nope. The world has gone mobile already, we’re just catching up” when asked about if there was an opt out.
Google Creepy Search Algorithm Update Continues With Stronger Volatility
Earlier this month we reported about a Google algorithm update that happened Halloween night through November 1st and seems to be continuing on all week long. It is a creepy update that seems to be gaining momentum as the days go on.
Google Doodle To Go Vote: Where Do I Vote #ElectionDay
If you go to the Google home page today you will see a Google Logo, Doodle, that says “Go Vote.” When you click it, it takes you to a query for [Where do I vote #ElectionDay] and then lets you enter your home address to get your voting location and ho…
Google Releases Lazy Loading SEO Help Guide
As expected, probably sooner than expected, Google has released a version one of their lazy loading guide for SEO. Martin Splitt from Google shared the news on Twitter saying “wanna get a glimpse on the first version of the lazy-loading SEO docs we’ve…
Google: Higher Page Count Means Nothing For Search Rankings
Google’s John Mueller said on Reddit that higher page count “means nothing” for ranking higher in Google. He said, in fact, he has seen case studies from the SEO community where reducing the number of pages results in overall better rankings in Google…
Google: Stop Singling Out RankBrain, Search Is More Complex Than One Thing
I love it, Google makes a big deal of RankBrain back in 2015 and since then has been trying to get SEOs to focus on other things, outside of RankBrain. I mean, Google is right – SEOs should really not focus on RankBrain. It is a query interpretation …
Google Local Maps Follow Button Is Out
A couple weeks ago, Google announced a new feature in Google Maps and Local to follow a specific location or venue. The feature now seems to be rolled out and you can see it by searching for your favorite place to eat, shop or whatever. When you clic…
Google My Business Future Opening Dates For Businesses That Did Not Open Yet
A couple months ago we reported Google was testing future open dates within Google Maps listings and Google My Business. Well, this weekend, Google officially announced it in the Google My Business Help forums. Allyson Wright, Community Manager, Googl…
Google Separates Out Addresses & Services Areas For Local Service Businesses
Last week we reported Google was dropped addresses for some local service businesses. Well, Google posted over the weekend in the Google My Business help forums that they went ahead and separated out the addresses and service areas for these local ser…
Google: No Ranking Benefit In Using Separate Google Search Console & Analytics Accounts
Google’s John Mueller said there is no ranking benefit in using different Google Search Console and Google Analytics accounts for each individual web site you manage. The topic came up before, as long as you are not spamming Google – there also is no…
Google Search Console Stats Within Search Results To Site Owners Rolling Out
A month ago we reported Google was testing showing a stats box in the search results from your Google Search Console data. It included showing clicks, impression and average position with some tips. It seems like as of this morning, it is now rolling …
November 2018 Google Webmaster Report
This past month in Google webmaster and SEO news was pretty busy. We had a Halloween search algorithm update that still seems to be creeping around. We also had another few updates including Google saying they are going to make tweaks to the news algo…
Day of the Dead Google Logo 2018
Today is the annual Day of the Dead holiday celebrated by people of Mexican heritage. It is a bunch of days where families remember those who have passed away. So Google posted a Google Doodle with candles, skulls and Googley colors to commemorate t…
Bing Ads Feature For Recurring Insertion Orders
Bing Ads announced a new feature that allows you to set up recurring insertion orders. That should help agencies and advertisers not forget to manually create IOs for their ad campaigns.
Google News Update Coming To Help Publishers Can’t Find Their Articles
Earlier this week, we reported about a number of complaints from Google News Publishers where they said it is hard for their content to be found in Google News. Google posted in the Google News Help yesterday that they plan on releasing an update to h…