Google AdWords Doesn’t Rank Expanded Text Ads Better Than Standard Text Ads
As you know, Google AdWords started rolling out expanded text ads last month. But Google said the AdWords ranking algorithm will not treat expanded text ads any better than standard text ads.
Cassie from Google said so in a Google AdWords Help thread…
Google: No Plans To Build A Mobile Interstitials Testing Tool
As you know, Google announced a new penalty coming at the beginning of the 2017 year for downgrading intrusive mobile interstitials. Yesterday we asked…
Google Search Console Index Status Report Coming Back To Life
Earlier this week, we reported that the Google index status report was broken and not updating for many in the Google Search Console set of tools. Supposedly it was an issue for weeks before I even reported it…
US National Parks Google Logo Celebrates 100 Years
Today on the Google home page is a video Google Doodle, aka logo…
Poll: Should Google Build A Pass/Fail Mobile Interstitials Testing Tool?
Google announced they will be penalizing sites that have intrusive interstitials on mobile. But Google said there are types of interstitials that do not trigger the penalty and types that do…
Google Titles In Snippets Gone Awry
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been hearing rumblings across the community about the Google search results not working as expected. Specifically how the titles are showing wrong, invalid or weird information…
Yelp’s Stoppelman Really Not Happy About Google’s Interstitials Penalty
Pretty much everyone who does a search in Google on their mobile device and clicks on a Yelp listing and does not have the Yelp mobile app, is a frustrated user. Why…
Google Home Services Ad Testing Carousel Layout On Mobile
In September, Google added home services ads to the AdWords offerings. Since then, the design has changed for the ad format over the past several months.
Now…
Google: 410 Response Codes Don’t Generally Cause Indexing Issues
Google has said time and time again that 404s are normal, they don’t cause penalties or indexing issues. But a similar question came up about 410s…
Bing Ads Opens Expanded Text Ads To All Customers
As you know, Bing Ads announced back in June they are going to go with expanded text ads. Well now Bing has opened up expanded text ads to all customers, they said in a blog post yesterday.
Like Google AdWords…
Google To Drop Mobile Friendly Label But Not The Ranking Factor
Google announced yesterday that they are dropping the mobile friendly label from the mobile search results. Let me be crystal clear, like I was yesterday…
The Google Intrusive Interstitials Mobile Penalty Coming January 10, 2017
As I reported yesterday on Search Engine Land, Google announced they are launching a new search algorithm penalty, to demote mobile pages that have “intrusive” interstitials that get in the users way…
Google Support Rel Canonical For PDFs
The other week we reported that Google doesn’t support real canonical for image search. But Google’s John Mueller clarified this morning that they do support it for PDFs in web search. He also added…
Google Keeps On Testing Card Style Layout
Back in May, we reported Google testing a card style layout for their search results. We reported it other time as well, and also back in 2013.
But now it seems more and more people are seeing the card layout at Google…
HireMoz.com Web Portal Showcases Some Of Those Who Were Laid Off By Moz
Moz did massive cuts last week, where 28% of their staff, or over 60 people…
Google ** To Find Local Web Sites In Google?
A Reddit thread has one person who spotted that if you search for [**] in Google, Google will primarily show you local web site.
I tried it myself and it looks legit…
Google Doesn’t Follow Links In SVGs
Although Google began crawling and indexing SVGs back in 2010, Google does not follow any links within the Scalable Vector Graphics. SVGs, Scalable Vector Graphics…
Google AdSense Drops Ad Limit Per Page Policy
Over the past 12 hours, I received a few emails and notifications from AdSense publishers that Google seems to have dropped the ad limit per page policy. In the past…
Only Seeing One Organic Listing In Google; Likely A Bug.
Every now and then, I see someone complain that Google is evil because they are only showing one organic result for their query in the search results. The organic result is surrounded by four AdWords ads on top and three ads on the bottom…