Google updates crawlers and user-triggered fetchers documentation
With that, Google expanded how Google products are affected by each crawler and gave robots.txt examples for each crawler.
Google Updates Google Crawlers & Fetchers Docs With Affects & Snippets
Google has completely reorganized its crawlers and user-triggered fetchers documentation. It used to be all on one page and now it is in several pages. Most of the changes were just moving content around but Google did add sections for what product ea…
Google Reviews Restrictions For Business Profile Policy Violations
Google has posted a new document about the way Google may apply restrictions to your Google Business Profiles over review or other policy violations. In the document, Google wrote that it takes “take fake and/or incentivized reviews and ratings on busi…
Google Asks On Social If You Will Use Gemini AI For SEO
In one of the more disassociated social posts Google has made in a while, Google’s Small Business account posted a poll asking if you will use Gemini, Google’s AI models, to help with your SEO, to help boost your search rankings.
Google Search Tests Recent Posts Carousel
Google Search is testing a new recent posts carousel in the desktop and mobile search results. This carousel can show YouTube videos, TikTok videos, Reddit or other “hidden gems” of sorts.
CPCs keep increasing – here’s what you can do about it by CallTrackingMetrics
Thrive amid rising CPCs: Focus on optimization, diversification and insights to spend smarter and achieve your digital marketing goals.
New Search experiences in South Africa: Badges and refinement chips
We’re sharing more information about our new search experiences in South Africa, and how South
African platforms can express interest and participate.
Data Visualization Tips & Tricks: What Not To Do!
The data we deal with has such immense complexity built into it (across metrics, methodologies, sources), the business itself is so complex (no more just run ads on TV, wait for people to walk into our stores), any analyst has to strive to simplify complexity every day. Hence, one thing our community has in common […]
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Google Search App Stopped Working Last Night
The Google Search App stopped working last night for a few hours. Google was quick to fix it in the middle of the night but by then, hundreds, if not, thousands of complaints flooded the support forums and social media.
Google Ads bug hits GCLID conversion tracking
Advertisers may lose critical insights and optimization opportunities due to a Google Ads issue affecting GCLID offline conversion tracking.
Daily Search Forum Recap: September 13, 2024
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.
Google Ads is launching confidential matching…
How to create images and visuals with generative AI
Say goodbye to repetitive stock photos. Embrace AI-generated images with tools like ChatGPT and Grok, evolving your visual content creation.
Key SEO, UX and CRO tips to boost brick-and-mortar retail sales
Bridge the gap between online and offline shopping experiences. See how SEO, UX and CRO principles boost in-store conversions.
Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Ranking Volatility, Apple Intelligence, Navboost, Ads, Bing & Local
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Well over a week after the Google August 2024 core update finished, we still have a ton of volatility. Apple Visual Intelligence was demoed at the Apple event this week…
How to handle negative Google reviews: Remove, respond, recover
Frustrated with negative reviews from unreasonable customers? Here’s how to respond to negative Google reviews related to your business.
Google Ads Introduces Confidential Matching
Google Ads announced what it calls “confidential matching.” Confidential matching is a “way to securely connect your first-party data for our measurement and audience solutions,” Google said. And it will be used on Google Ads in numerous areas.
Google Tests AI Overview With Small “More” Link
Google is testing removing the large “show more” button and replacing it with a small “more” link at the bottom of the AI Overview snippet. Also, the AI Overview header and Gemini logo at the top left is being removed, or at least being tested being r…
Complaints On Google Ads Search Partners Network Fraud
I am seeing a spike in complaints from the PPC community around there being an increase in fraudulent traffic from the Google Ads Search Partner network. Many have seen an unusual spike in fraud from that network in the past week, say some advertisers.
Google Testing For Reference Search Box
Google is testing a new search box named “for reference” which is placed under a set of search results and contains more news articles related to the query. This seems similar to some other features Google has tested over the years.
Google Tests Search Result Snippets Without Breadcrumbs
Google is testing showing search results snippets without the breadcrumbs in the URL section of the snippet. Google has tested removing URLs and breadcrumbs completely before, but now Google is testing removing just the breadcrumb and leaving the URL.