Google AdSense To Penalize/Remove Ads From Pages Vs Whole Site
Google announced this morning they are making two changes to the AdSense product. (1) Enabling the ability to remove ads on a page-by-page basis when that specific page is in violation. (2) A new AdSense policy center so publishers can learn more abou…
Google: We Do Understand Our Highly Complex Algorithms
Google’s John Mueller said it is not true that Google’s own engineers do not “know the exact composition of their highly complex algorithm.” Many folks in our industry, including myself…
Google Tests AdWords Ad Car Stack Format
Chris Smith spotted one of those ongoing Google AdWords user interface tests on mobile. This one shows the ad with a local extension ad format test. On the left of the ad extension box are three links stacked on top of each other and then on the right…
Google Tests Dropping The Featured Snippet Result From Core Results?
Jennifer Slegg wrote this morning that Google has dropped the second version of the listing for sites that are in the featured snippet. Meaning, if you have a URL in the featured snippet at the top of the page, Google won’t show it again on that page….
Google’s Mother’s Day Logo In Cactus Plants
Today is Mother’s Day in the United States and some other countries and to celebrate, Google has a special Google logo, a Doodle, for the day.
This Doodle shows a larger cactus planting the seeds for a new cactus and then taking care of the baby cactu…
Google AdSense Reissue Check Issue Larger Bug
Rachel from the Google AdSense team posted an update in the Google AdSense Help thread less than an hour ago that using the reissue check feature in Google may be having issues…
Google Merchant Center Bug: Unexpected Image Processing Errors
For the past few days, Google Merchant Center has been plagued with a bug named unexpected image processing error. This started back on May 9th and is still an issue a few days later…
Google: Not Trying 404 Pages Isn’t A Sign Of Crawl Issues
The other day I reported that Google Crawls 404s After Other Pages So No Crawl Budget Is Sacrificed…
Google: Geotargeting Promotes But Hreflang Does Not Promote A Site/Page
Google’s John Mueller answered a geotargeting and hreflang question in the Google Webmaster Help forums…
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Spammy Vs Unnatural Links, 404s With Crawl Budget & More SEO & PPC
I apologize if it doesnât seem smooth, I was testing a beta version of the camera software. This week in search…
Bing Ads To Stop Supporting Creation Of Standard Text Ads On July 31st
Bing announced that starting July 31st, 2017 they will stop supporting the creation of new and editing of existing standard text ads. Advertisers will only…
Google Now Helps You Find Events
Google has added a new search feature to their mobile user interface to find events both locally and by type and by date. For example, if I search for [seo events] on mobile, I get a listing of upcoming SEO events…
Google Maps Ads Are Popping Up Now?
Joy Hawkins, one of the niche local SEOs in our field, posted on Twitter that she saw on Google Maps that Google automatically popped up an ad on the map for a local result…
Google Crawls 404s After Other Pages So No Crawl Budget Is Sacrificed
Everyone knows, Google from time to time will try crawling 404s – it is normal and expected. But does that impact your crawl budget…
Google: You Can Get Unnatural Links From Good Sites & Natural Links From Spammy Sites
Yesterday we reported that there is a difference between links from spammy sites and unnatural links. So it got a lot of people thinking about that, whereas many SEOs try to remove links that are on spammy sites – not all of those links are unnatural….
Google AdSense Ad Balance Feature Will Collapse Unfilled Ad Units
In the beginning of this year, Google AdSense announced a new feature named Ad Balance that lets you controls help you reduce the number of ads you show to users, specifically the ads that earn you the least revenue…
Google AdWords Has Removed The CPC Bid Cap On Enhanced CPC
Google AdWords has quietly made a change to how they handle ECPC, also known as enhanced CPC. Previous…
Google Search Console API & Web Total Numbers
Yesterday we reported that the data that comes out of the web interface and API for Search Analytics within the Google Search Console are the same for the most part…
Google: There’s A Difference Between Links From Spammy Sites & Unnatural Links
Did you know getting links from spammy sites is different from getting unnatural links…
See Spikes in 404 Errors In Google Search Console? It’s Normal.
Ever see a spike in the 404 errors reported in Google Search Console’s crawl error report? Espesially from URLs that have been 404ed for ages…