Google AdWords Payday Loans Ban Now Goes Into Effect?
In may we reported Google AdWords is banning payday loans and other high interest and risky loans from advertising on AdWords. But July 13, 2016, the date it would go live…
Google: Your Placement Won’t Drop If Your Competitor Keeps Reporting You As Spam
Google’s John Mueller answered a question on Twitter on spam report. The question was what happens when a competitor of yours continues to report your site as spam. John Mueller implied you do not have to worry…
Is The New Google Analytics Design Rolling Out Now?
A couple weeks ago, we reported that some users were seeing the new Google Analytics design. It was a cleaner look as we described back then.
Well, now not only am I seeing more and more users reporting this…
Google AMP Ads: A4A
Google announced this week they have published the AMP version of how they should handle ads on AMP, also known as A4A…
Bing Ads With Ad Rejection Exceptions On Ad Group Level
Bing announced you can now request ad exceptions on ad rejections on the whole group level…
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Maps Algorithm Update, AMP Results, AdWords Update & Bing Growth
This week in search I cover an update on the Google Maps algorithm where they show fewer and fewer results. I also show how there was/is a bad searcher experience with Google local knowledge box and SinglePlatform…
Bad User Experience: Google Local Box Links To Empty SinglePlatform Page
Eric Wu started noticing many local knowledge box results on Google link to URLs that have little to no information provided by SinglePlatform. He posted a screen shot on Twitter which I can replicate…
Google Launching Speed Test In Search Results
Three weeks ago I reported Google was testing a speed test feature in their search results, like Bing launched earlier. But now, it seems I am able to replicate this myself in some browsers…
Twitter Lets Users Apply For Verified Accounts; Mine Took Hours
Twitter announced the other day that they are now allowing anyone to apply to have their accounts verified. Before, there was no way to get request to be verified on Twitter – you just had to wait or know someone. Now…
Google AdWords New Imported Call Conversions
Google announced that advertisers can now import their call conversion data into AdWords starting today – well, it is rolling out over the next few weeks…
Google AdWords To Add Cross Device Conversion Column By Default
Google announced that starting after August 16, 2016, all new AdWords accounts will include cross-device conversions in the Conversions column by default.
Previously, this was a setting your can turn on or off but now, by default…
Google My Business Spreadsheet Import Import Summary Screen
Google My Business added a useful and graphical import summary screen for businesses that upload their listings using spreadsheets in bulk form…
Bing Doing Well: Revenue May Hit $5.3 Billion With 43% Growth
Microsoft announced earnings last night and i focused in a bit on their search specific numbers.
There weren’t many blurps about it in the specific release besides for “search advertising revenue increased $514 million or 54%…
Google Flight Results Now Show Sponsored Box With Images
I believe normally when you search for flights in Google, you get a sponsored box that shows a grid of airline choices with a date selector. It then takes you into the Google Flights/Travel experience…
Google Releases AMP Case Study But Here Are My Results
So yesterday, Google released a case study for the AMP site based on the Washington Post stats. So I wanted to take a look at traffic using Google Search Console and share my results with you…
Google AdWords Admin Alerts & Administrative Owner Access Controls
Google announced on Google+ that they added some higher level administrative features for those advertisers/agencies that manage multiple AdWords accounts. They added notifications and Administrative Owner access for manager accounts…
Google Mobile Site Clinic Tomorrow At 10:30am ET
Andrey Lipattsev from Google announced on YouTube and Google+ that they are offering a mobile site optimization clinic tomorrow at 10:30am ET (New York time). To participate…
Google Maps Showing Fewer Business Listings In Map Results
On Friday, I reported about the compression and hyper localization of the google Maps results. Well, it has been a few days and it has not changed…
Google AdWords Price Extensions
Google announced a new AdWords ad extension for showing off your prices for your more popular services.
Google calls them price extensions and they showcase your business’s offerings in detail…
Google Featured Snippets: Bullet vs Table Form
@ChrisRussell shared an example of a featured snippet in Google that is in the form of a nicely structured table. That isn’t new but I wanted to show you how quickly featured snippets not only come and go for specific sites or queries…