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J Turnbull posted a poll on Twitter asking SEOs if COVID changed how you do SEO. Like any SEO poll, the results were somewhat mixed. But of the 259 responses (not a ton), 52.5% said no, COVID did not change …

Google Ads seems to have launched a redesign for the campaign set up form/wizard. The new interface moves the steps from the top to the left hand side bar, and takes you through a new step by step process to …

Google is testing a number of additional carousels in Google Search. These carousels are titled “research,” “people also shop” and “similar products.” Here are screenshots and screencasts of these in action from those who spotted them. …

Google Ads seemed to have a bug last week with Google Shopping in some regions, like the UK, but I think others, where the shopping listings were not showing up. Some advertisers were claiming drops in their listings from showing …

We cover tons of Google changes here, from user interface changes to ranking changes – most of which Google does not announce or confirm. But yesterday, Google said it made 4,500 changes in 2020 to Google Search. That is 12.5 …

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

Last week we were the first to report on the change Google made around its titles in the Google search results. In short, Google seems to be showing less titles from the title tags than it did the week prior. …

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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. …

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. …

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 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. …

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… …

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 …

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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 …