Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…

For the past four months, Google has been overcounting mobile Page Experience data, the company said. This happened between June 29th and November 1st. Google said that starting on November 1st, you should see the page experience report and performance report show accurate numbers going forward.

Google Ads had a wide spread bug or glitch where ads were not showing due to a bug with some sort of location targeting setting. There are dozens of complaints about the ad preview tool showing a notice for ads saying “an ad isn’t showing now” due to the “search location doesn’t match this campaign’s location targeting setting.”

Google is piloting a new method to reach out to a person for help related to Google Search Console domain verification and user management issues. This is an extension of the reporting tool for indexing issues that Google said worked well.

Google has updated its video best practices search help documentation to add a section about creating a dedicated page for each video. Google said “to give your videos maximum exposure, create a dedicated page for each video.”

Google announced that the Performance Max campaigns, which launched as a beta a year ago, is now available to all advertisers. Plus, Google said they “will also become the next generation of Smart Shopping and Local campaigns, which will both upgrade to Performance Max next year.”

It is that time of the month again where I post the monthly Google webmaster report. This past month was filled with several unconfirmed Google updates – no I am not crazy. Google told us Penguin not only ignores spammy links but also can distrust the whole site…

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…

Google announced a few new Google Ads features aimed at helping you manage your conversions and drive performance. This includes new conversion goals, tag assistant support for conversion troubleshooting and new explanations for Target ROAS and Maximize conversion value.

Google is testing yet another format for the snippet tags or labels in the search results again. We saw tests and flavors of this back in 2021, 2019 and 2017 and here is yet another one.

Google posted a new blog post that they “uncovered an opportunity to improve your job posting pages.” I just find this to be a weird way for Google to write about this topic. In short, Google wants you to put more details in the description section of your job postings structured data.

Did you know that you can reach the maximum number of allowed appeals for your Google Ads? Eric Heiken posted about it on Twitter and asked “Google Ads has a maximum limit of appeals. It’s unclear if this is a permanent limit or if there’s a cool-down period.”

Marie Haynes posted another Twitter poll asking has your site ever been negatively affected by a Google core update? With 266 votes in, which is not a huge number, it shows that most SEOs have been negatively affected by a Google core update.

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…