Google AdWords Report Editor Adds Additional Data Points
Google announced on Google+ that they added some data availability to the AdWords report editor. The new data attributes include data for shopping and video campaigns, as well as labels and final URLs…
Google Updates Feed Rules For Merchant Center
Google announced in the Google AdWords Help forums that they have updated the Feed Rules to give you more flexibility…
Google Spam & Paid Links Reports Are Reviewed Manually By Googlers
John Mueller responded to a question on Twitter this morning says all paid link spam reports are reviewed manually by humans at Google, i.e. Googlers.
John wrote, “these are reviewed manually” when asked about the paid link report he submitted…
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The Google Mobile Friendly Label Is Now Officially Gone
As you expected, Google was going to drop the mobile friendly label. Well, as of this morning, the mobile friendly label is officially gone.
Here is a screen shot showing the before and after…
New Version Of The Google Merchant Center Live
Google announced a newly designed Google Merchant Center. The new design also brings in more updates and features.
Google said the new version “offers the same functionality you’re used to…
Google Android Now Allows For Apps Search For Personal Content
Late yesterday, Google announced “in app” search for App Indexing on Android. It allows developers to integrate their apps to let Google index locally personal content within the app, to be surfaced on search on Android devices…
New Google AdWords Account-Level Sitelinks
Google quietly announced on Google+ a new version of sitelinks named account level sitelinks. What this means is that sitelinks can show with any of the ads in your account automatically…
Google Structured Data Tool Supports Schema v3.1
Just a couple weeks ago we reported that Google will soon support Schema version 3.1 with their structured data testing tool. Well, it seems as of yesterday…
Google Search Live Coverage Carousel Pilot; Is This The Real Time Index?
Aaron Bradley spotted and posted on Google+ that Google has opened up a pilot for the search live coverage carousel…
Google Tests Bringing Back Old Yellow AdWord Label?
Ruban notified me on Twitter that he is now seeing the yellow ad label back in the Google search results near the AdWords ads. Google has done away with the yellow color for the ad label back June 2016 after switching to the green ad label…
Google’s John Mueller: Requiring A Followed Link For API Access Is A Paid Link
John Mueller of Google was asked if requiring API users to give the API source a followed link is okay or not. John Mueller said that it is essentially the same thing as a paid link.
He said this on Twitter:
@jsilton That’s essentially a paid link…
The Deceased Leaving Negative Google Reviews?
William Rock posted in the Google My Business Help forums evidence that shows that deceased people are coming back to life to post negative reviews of businesses in their Google business listings…
Should Google’s Interstitial Mobile Penalty Hit AdSense’s Vignette Ads
Google announced their mobile interstitial penalty and a lot of discussion has been brewing about that penalty.
One person asked Google’s John Mueller on Twitter if the AdSense Page Level Ads will be hit by this penalty…
Google Intrusive Interstitials Mobile Penalty Is At The Page Level Only
The big news from last week was the new Google penalty coming January 10…
New Google Local Pack Design Now Live
A couple weeks ago we reported that Google was testing a new local pack design. Well, it seems like that design is now the new way forward for Google…
Google Updates Reviews Markup Guidelines Disallowing Marking Up 3rd Party Reviews
Mike Blumenthal posted on Twitter that Google has updated the local reviews guidelines for marking up reviews.
The new guidelines specifically disallows you from using 3rd party reviews, found on other sites…
Google Testing Roboto Fonts In Search Again
Over a year ago, Google was caught testing roboto font in the search results snippets. Well…
Google: Panda Roll Outs Continue But Not All Take 10 Months To Cycle
It has been some time since we mentioned anything related to Google Panda and John Mueller answered two questions on the topic in the last Google Hangout on Google+ from this past Friday morning.
Question One: It took 10 months for Google to launch th…
Why Did Google Add Solitaire & Tic-Tac-Toe To Search Results?
Yesterday Google announced they added two popular games directly to the search results. You can now play solitaire and tic-tac-toe directly in the Google search results.
Try it by simply going to Google on desktop or mobile and search for [tic-tac-t…
Google My Business Enables Accept OR Discard Updates For Individual Fields
Google quietly posted on the release notes for Google My Business that you can now accept or discard Google updates for individual fields in bulk for your Google My Business listing.
The updated help document details the steps for doing this on deskto…