Google AdSense has added three new settings to Auto optimize feature in your optimization experiments. These new methods include select traffic, block a style and block an experiment. …
Month: August 2021
Google Ads Product Carousel Tests Green Discounted Prices
Google is testing highlighting a discounted price in a green font in the Google Ads shopping/product carousel. This was spotted by Jackson Lo last week and he shared this screenshot of it on Twitter. …
Google Ads Adds More Custom Columns For Reporting
Two weeks after Ginny Marvin of Google asked what additional custom column metrics you’d like to see in Google Ads, Google has announced the addition of four new metrics. They include Search impression share, Click impression share, Display impression share …
Google Ads Conversion Value Rules For Smart Bidding
Google announced a new method for smart bidding controls named conversion value rules. Google now allows you to adjust conversion values based on characteristics like location, device, and audience. …
Vlog #134: Paul VanHevel and Lily Ray of Amsive Digital On Fixing Sites After Google Core Updates
So you may remember Lily Ray, she was on vlog number two where I went to her office in NYC and spoke about SEO topics at her company named back then Path Interactive. Well, post vaccination… …
Daily Search Forum Recap: August 20, 2021
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’s Danny Sullivan said again that personalization is used in a super light …
Google Has No Plans To Separate Out Control Of Indexing For Discover or Top Stories
Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that the search company has no plans to separate out indexing and visibility controls specifically between Google News, Search, Discover or Top Stories. If you are in Search, you can be in the top …
Cross-language Results Google Search Console Performance Filter
Google has a new (I think new) filter in the Google Search Console Performance report named Cross-language Results. I have never seen this filter, but I suspect this is related to if Google Search will take other languages, translate them …
Poll: How Many SEO Projects Lead To Successful Outcomes For Clients
Aleyda Solis ran a super interesting poll on Twitter asking SEOs about their SEO project success rate. She asked “what percentage of the SEO Processes/Projects/Initiative that you work at end up having the “agreed/expected outcome” & are seen as a …
Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Ranking Update, Pages Dropping In & Out, Big Publishers Benefit & Author URLs and Rankings
This week, we had not just one, but two different unconfirmed Google search ranking algorithm updates – one on Saturday and one on Wednesday. Google said the link spam update that was suppose to be done rolling out about two …
Google Search Tests Suggested Channels Box
Google seems to be testing a new feature in the Google search results named “suggested channel.” I personally cannot replicate this but he is a screen shot from Jonas Sickler on Twitter who spotted this last week. …
Google: Personalization In Search Is Extremely Light & Rare For Ranking
Google’s Danny Sullivan confirmed, again, that personalization in Google Search is an “extremely light” ranking signal. In fact, he said personalization is “fairly rare” to be used for ranking purposes. …
Daily Search Forum Recap: August 19, 2021
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. On Wednesday, as I hinted to yesterday… …
SEO Concerns If Agency Threatens To Delete Your Site
We have seen lots of SEO threats in the past, mostly around negative SEO but I have not seen one threaten to delete a whole website. Someone went to Twitter asking for advice from Google on how to deal with …
Google Replaces Knowledge Panels Feedback Link With Report Link
Google has replaced the “feedback” link we’ve seen on knowledge panels in Google Search with a “report” link. It is a small, subtle change but I guess Google felt “report” means a lot more to someone trying to change a …