Google AdWords Also Testing Orange Ad Label
Google this week has been busy testing new colors for the ad label. Last year they went from yellow to green with the ad label. This week we spotted Google testing green outlined ad labels and also a black ad label…
Google Horizontal Scrollable Local Pack Ads
Google seems to be testing yet another format for the local pack ads. @SilverbackStrat shared a screen shot with me showing a local ad pack which looks like the AMP carousel. A horizontal scrollable set of cards that you can scroll or flick to get mo…
Bessie Coleman, First Female African American Pilot Very Own Google Doodle
Today on the Google home page in the United States is a special logo, aka Doodle, for Bessie Coleman. Bessie Coleman was the first female pilot of African American descent and was also the first African American woman to hold a pilot license…
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Google AdSense Stats & Earnings Reports Currently Broken Today
If you login to your Google AdSense account this morning, at least right now, you will see you have zero earnings. As you dig deeper, you will see Google is reporting zero pageviews, clicks, RPM, CPC, impressions and zero data across the board for all…
The Google Spinner In Search
you do a search in Google for [spinner], Google will show you an interactive spin wheel. This works…
Google Search Console Warnings For Infrastructure Updates
If you login to your Google Search Console account and view many of the reports in there…
Google Disabled 1.7 Billion Ads & Kicked Out 200 Publishers In 2016
Google released their bad ad report for 2016, telling us they “took down 1.7 billion ads that violated our advertising policies,” which was more than double the amount from 2015…
Is Google AdWords Testing Black AdWords Ad Label Now?
Yesterday we reported Google was testing a green outlined ad label. This was a change from the full green ad label from the yellow ad label.
Shortly after, Elzer Ramos posted on Twitter that he saw the ad label in black…
Google: The Site Command Not Ranked In Any Defined Order
Google’s John Mueller addressed a question we covered a couple times in the past. How does Google order the results they show for a site command. So you do a site:www.mydomain.com in Google and it normally returns your home page and then all the othe…
Bing Ads Automatic Imports With Google AdWords Live
Bing Ads announced a new feature that lets you automatically import your Google AdWords data into your Bing Ads campaigns. It is called “automatic imports” and it is basically a one way sync from Google AdWords to your Bing Ads campaigns…
Google Search Asking Searchers About Their Trips
Dharmi Gohil shared a screen shot with me on Twitter of a new type of feedback box in the Google search results. This was not about rating how happy you were with the search results but asking about someone’s trip to a hotel…
Google: AMP Not Ranking Factor But If AMP Page Is Canonical, It Will Be Used For Site Quality
John Mueller addressed two different questions around AMP in the past 24 hours or so. The first, he said AMP is not a ranking factor…
Google: We’re Done With Big Numbered Penguin Releases & Updates
Gary Illyes from Google posted on Twitter that Google is now done with numbered Penguin releases. He said “we’re not planning more numbered releases for penguin…
Google Testing Green Outlined AdWords Ad Label
As you know, last year, Google switched the AdWords ad label from yellow to green – well, maybe Google is bored with the green now.
Matthew Barnes spotted Google testing the ad label in an outline green…
Google Maps Labels Today’s Events On The Map
Google Maps seems to now be labeling upcoming events in your local area with a “today” label. Max Minzer spotted this and posted about it on Google+…
Google AdWords Call Reporting Now In India & South Africa
Google announced both on Google+ and Google AdWords Help forums that advertisers in India and South Africa can now do call reporting.
Google said…
Google Update Brewing? Chatter & Tools Point To Algorithm Update
Over the past 24-hours, the ongoing WebmasterWorld thread has seen an uptick in chatter around ranking and traffic changes from Google. Plus, many of the tracking tools that have updated for the day are showing signs of a Google update…
Google Logo Honors Ed Roberts, The Activist
Today on the Google home page in the United States is a special Google Doodle, logo, for Ed Roberts. He was an American activists who fought for the right for those who were disabled.
He was born on January 23, 1939 and at the age of 14…
Google Adds Book Previews Now On Mobile Search
Google has brought their book search book preview feature from desktop to mobile search…
Google Search Testing Box Layout Design Again
Google has been testing since 2013 but has done so more often in 2016.
Now, in 2017, it looks like Google is pushing the box/card layout design for search again. I have had close to 20 people email, tweet at me…