I believe one of the most searched on phrases at Google.com is the term [Google]. Well, the number one searched on phrase at Bing.com, Microsoft’s popular search engine, is also [Google]. …
Year: 2021
Google: When Redirecting For Geotargeting, Do Not Redirect Googlebot
Google’s John Mueller issued a PSA, public service announcement, the other day on Twitter saying not to redirect Googlebot when using geotargeting redirection techniques. I mean, he said if you do this, it might cause big indexing issues for Google …
Google Ads Launches Offline Conversion Import (OCI) Helper
Google announced a new tool to help you import your offline conversion data into Google Ads. Yes, this is about giving Google your first-party data so you can do better targeting and to help you measure your offline conversions. …
Google Search Drops Support For Internet Explorer 11 And So Can You
Malte Ubl, a Technically a Software Engineer at Google, announced on Twitter that Google has finally dropped officially support for Internet Explorer 11 IE11. He said “Google Search ended support for IE11 in its main product.” …
Vlog #140: Charley Spektor On Keyword Opportunities In Google Search Console & Pillar Pages
In part one, we spoke about Charley Spektor’s background and the joys of working on the Home Depot project and link building around that. (0:34) Discovering New Keyword Opportunities In Google Search Console: …
Daily Search Forum Recap: October 1, 2021
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today… …
How to Handle the Anxiety of Show Reopenings
So the light is turning green, but at what cost? Industries are attempting to resume activity as normal, albeit this return is widely varied across the board. The only common variable seems to be that this “go ahead” we’ve been …
Google Ads Gains New Budget Reports
Google announced new budget reports for Google Ads. Google said these new budget reports will “help you visualize monthly campaign spend behavior.” You can visually see how daily budget changes affected performance and monthly spend limits. …
Google Says URL Case Applies To Robots.txt Directives
We’ve known for like two decades that Google does and can treat the same URL but with different cases differently. So domain.com/Apple vs domain.com/apple can be seen by Google as different URLs. But Google seems to be stricter about this …
SEOs Noticing Google Search Console Crawled, Not Indexed Errors Even When Indexed
Lily Ray posted on Twitter that many SEOs are noticing this and posting about it on Twitter with “many examples of URLs in GSC’s “Crawled, Not Indexed” report (with recent crawl dates) that are, in fact, indexed URLs.” There are …
Google Ads Sexually Explicit Content Policy Seen As Egregious Policy Violations
Google Ads, starting on December 1, 2021 and scaling up enforcement by January 2022, will see its sexually explicit content policy violations updated to egregious policy violations. That means ads that are found to violate the sexually explicit policy can …
Search News Buzz Video Recap: Bigger Google Algorithm Update, MUM & More Google Updates, Number Of Ranking Signals & Google Turns 23
Google had an unconfirmed but pretty big Google Search ranking algorithm update on September 24th and 25th. Google hosted its big search event called the Search On event… …
Google Hotel Listings Gain Eco-Certified Badges
In July we reported that hotel listing can now add their sustainability and eco certifications to their listings in Google My Business. Well, now, Google is showing the eco-certified green label in the hotel listings in Google Search. …
17 CD Baby Artists Nominated for the 2021 Latin Grammys
The independent artist’s flag has been planted on the Latin Grammys for some time now. And year after year, artists without major labels guarantee their place in the biggest Latin music awards stage in the world. These numbers are …
Daily Search Forum Recap: September 30, 2021
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today… …