Google: MCC AdWords Accounts Not Safe From New Keyword Planner Restrictions
As you know, Google AdWords is restricting the keyword data found within the keyword planner tool for advertisers who have low ad spend. Some thought that MCC (my client center) accounts were immune from this restriction…
Google Local Pack Tests New Design
Sergey Alakov posted screen shots on Twitter of Google testing a new design for the local pack.
The most obvious change in the design is a big white space and line separator between the web site icon and the directions icon…
Google AdWords Adds Open In Report Editor Feature
Kim Clinkunbroomer shared a screen shot on Twitter of a small but really cool new feature added to the AdWords reports that lets you open a report in the AdWords Report Editor instead of just downloading the report or opening it in Google Sheets…
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United Airlines Employee May Have A Role In Matt Cutts Helping Webmasters With Google
The last company I would have thought been any type of influence on Matt Cutts wanting to spend time helping webmasters with their Google questions would have been United Airlines.
But in a Quora thread, Matt Cutts, who is now with the U.S…
Google To Support Schema.org Version 3.1
In the Google+ hangout from Friday morning at the 28:45 mark into the video, John Mueller said Google is indeed working on supporting the latest version of Schema.org…
Google Testing AMP For Web Pages In Live Results
As you know, Google said they will be expanding AMP beyond news stories but also into all types of pages. But they did not give a timeline…
Google AdWords Quality Scores Reports To Show Null Values
Google quietly announced on Google+ that starting September 12, 2016 the Google AdWords report may start showing null values in the quality score columns when the keywords are new or have insufficient impression or click data…
Google Keyword Planner Removes Valuable Data For Potential Advertisers
Remember last Tuesday we reported that Google Keyword Planner Showing Data Ranges For Advertisers Without Campaigns – in short, they were showing less traffic estimate data to some advertisers. I was hoping it was a bug, but it was not…
Google Tests People Also Ask Carousel On Desktop
A month ago, we reported how Google was testing a carousel for the people also ask feature on mobile searches. But today Google seems to be testing it also on desktop.
Did Google Boosts HTTPS Ranking Signal? Nope But More HTTPS Results In Top Ten.
Both RankRanger and Mozcast are showing a nice uptick in the number of HTTPS results in the top Google results…
Google Adds JSON-LD Breadcrumbs Support
John Mueller of Google confirmed this morning on Twitter that Google now supports JSON-LD format/schema for breadcrumbs.
Currently, the documentation for breadcrumb schema makes no mention of JSON-LD, but John Mueller said that will change…
The AMA With Google Brain Team Teaches Us Google Won’t Talk About RankBrain
As you know, Google hosted an AMA with the Google Brain Team yesterday on Reddit and I went through the 742 comments in the thread to pull out any references to search, RankBrain or rankings and honestly…
Google: You’ll Almost Never Restore Your Rankings To Previous State After Penalty
Google’s John Mueller said in a Google+ hangout this morning at the 8:09 mark that after you “recover” from a penalty, “it’s almost never going to be that we will just restore the previous state” of your rankings you had prior to the penalty…
Google: Sitemaps Don’t Help With Rich Snippets
In the Google+ hangout this morning a typical question around why isn’t Google showing rich snippets for my site when the tool shows everything is valid came up. A typical question and we know Google doesn’t show rich snippets for many sites because i…
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google BlogDash Penalty, AdWords Interface & Local Pack Ads
This week, I test out my new Mevo camera from LiveStream, let me know your thoughts. Google penalized the BlogDash network for link schemes. Googleâs new AdWords…
Google Tells Techmeme “Were Sorry” Regarding False Positives In Search Console
A couple days ago, I reported how the founder of Techmeme was complaining about the false positive errors on Google Search Console around hacked spam…
Google: No Problem Having Downloadable PDFs That Match Your Web Content
This isn’t a new topic, we covered PDFs and duplicate content before, but this morning John Mueller was more specific.
On Twitter John Mueller of Google said that if you offer a PDF download link that lets users download the web content they are looki…
Old Google My Business Business Hour Format No Longer Supported
In November of last year, Google posted that the old business hours spreadsheet format will no longer be supported. Well, that officially went through on on August 8, 2016. If you are using the old spreadsheet format…
You Can Now Opt Out Of Trending Searches In The Google Search App
Back in April, Google began showing trending searches in the autocomplete search box within the Google Search App. It is cool, but tapping in the search box to see trending searches, is not always that relevant and many searchers didn’t want to see it…
Bug: Google Search Console Links to Your Site Shows No Data Available
There seems to be a bug with the Google Search Console’s Links To Your Site report where many are saying it shows “no data available.” In fact, I am able to replicate it on many Google Search Console profiles I have in my account…