Google AdWords Emailing Advertiser: Made For Mobile.
The other day, Google emailed me on my AdWords account that “35% of people who saw ads for your ‘RustyBrick’ campaign were on smartphones…
Google AdWords Tests Percentages Instead Of Stars For Reviews
Peter Lavelle from Pure FX informed Search Engine Land that Google AdWords is testing showing percentages instead of X out of five stars for the AdWords reviews extension.
So in this example, when he searched for [foreign exchange] in Google UK…
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Google AdWords Express Advertising Dashboard Broken
Several Google AdWords advertisers who leverage the AdWords Express ad system are reporting in a Google Advertising Help thread that the numbers on their dashboard are off.
Instead of showing any numbers, it shows zeros. It shows “0 views, 0 clicks….
Google: Disavow Links File Needs To Be On Canonical Version For Manual Actions
John Mueller in the Friday morning’s Google Hangout on Google+ said at the 54 minute mark that if you get a manual action and you want to submit a reconsideration request…
Google: There Is No Penalty For Not Linking Out Externally
I am not sure where these myths come from…
Google: Short Articles Won’t Penalize Your Site; Think About Users
Google’s John Mueller covered lots and lots of myths this past Friday in the Google Hangout on Google+. He said at the 34:37 minute mark that having short articles won’t give you a Google penalty. He also said that even some long articles can be confu…
Maybe Why Google Dropped Authorship As A Ranking Signal?
Now, I do not know if authorship was ever a ranking signal but I assume Google tested it to see if it should be. And we now know Google said it is safe to remove authorship…
Google Search Console Bug Reverified Email Bug; Google Says Don’t Panic
This morning I woke up to dozens of reverification notices from Google Search Console for dozens of different profiles…
Google: We’re Always Updating & Improving Our Search Algorithms
As you know, we cover more Google updates, both confirmed and unconfirmed than anyone else. In fact, I get beat up when I covered unconfirmed updates…
Google: Contact Information On A Web Site Is Not An Organic Ranking Signal
In a Google Hangout this morning on Google+, Google’s John Mueller said at the 43:45 mark that Google doesn’t use contact information on a web site, i.e. if they have it or not…
Google : No Need To Disavow Links That Are No Longer Relevant To Your Site
Google’s John Mueller had a lot to say this morning, he said basically, you should only disavow links when they are really problematic. If they are not relevant anymore…
Google: Penguin 4.0 Still Has Not Launched
Every day, I get at least one question about the status of the Penguin update. Well, John Mueller in this morning’s Google Hangout on Google+ said at the 55 minute mark that it still has not launched. He added…
Google Now On Tap Now With Translation, Discover & Barcode Search
Google added three new features to Google Now On Tap, which works on Android devices running Marshmallow or higher…
Google Sandwiches In First Result For Some Queries
Google is now sandwiching in some of the first search results between two line separators. Google has used line separators in many ways in the search results but now they seem to be doing it for highly relevant queries…
Nettie Stevens Google Doodle: The XY Sex Chromosomes
Today on Google’s home page is what looks like a scientist looking through a microscope at XY chromosomes. It is Nettie Stevens 155th birthday, she discovered the sex chromosomes, XY.
She was born on July 7, 1861 in Vermont and passed at the age of …
Google Keyword Planner Estimates Are Based On Ads Not Organic Search
There was some confusion about where the Google Keyword Planner tool gets their estimates. Is it based on organic searches or does Google only look when there are ads available for those keywords. The answer is…
Google Tests Dropping Results Estimate?
When you do a search on Google, at the top, under the search box, it normally shows how many results Google was able to find. For example, a site command for [site:www.google.com] returns “About 71,000…
Google: Search Engines Tend To Not Support Pages Dependent On Hashtags
John Mueller at Google said in a Google Webmaster Help thread that if your page load is dependent on the hashtag being triggered then you need to consider that many search engines do not support it. This isn’t a new SEO tip…
Google: Breaking Head Section Can Make Hreflang Unrecognizable To Google
Google’s John Mueller said in a Google Hangout on Google+ last Friday that sometimes when href lang doesn’t get picked up, it might be that the header section of your HTML is broken…