Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today……
Day: November 10, 2022
Google Ads Reach Planner now forecasts Video Action campaigns
Advertisers will now have the option to select “Action – Online Conversions” as a goal when setting up your plans in Reach Planner and can also add Video Action Campaigns to existing plans. What is the Reach Planner. The Google …
How To Track Offline Conversions From Your Google Ads via @sejournal, @timothyjjensen
Offline conversion tracking could help improve your PPC efforts. Learn the three ways that you can start incorporating offline conversions in your Google Ads account. The post How To Track Offline Conversions From Your Google Ads appeared first on Search …
New Netflix Ads Tier Comes With An Unpredictable Price via @sejournal, @brookeosmundson
After receiving consumer pushback from raising its subscription prices, Netflix rolled out its newest tier: Basic with Ads, in November 2022. The post New Netflix Ads Tier Comes With An Unpredictable Price appeared first on Search Engine Journal.…
YouTube has expanded its comment translations and smart replies
YouTube has just announced an expansion of its comment translation tools, as well as broader access to Smart Replies, its streamlined, template response option which allows fast replies on videos. Comment translations. Last year YouTube announced the availability to comment …
YouTube has launched a global Target frequency feature
YouTube now has a global Target frequency goal option for video campaigns. The new goal allows advertisers to select a frequency goal (up to four per week), which YouTube will optimize towards. What YouTube says. “Now advertisers can select the …
3 simple steps to automating content creation for businesses by SE Ranking
All parties involved in the content creation process know just how much time, effort and financial resources go into it. Writing a piece of content with a chance of ranking at the top of the search results takes up a …
Mastodon Is Using Rel Noreferrer On Outbound Links Causing Visits To Appear As Direct Traffic In Google Analytics
Mastodon is surging with Twitter in chaos, but traffic from the social network will be hard to track. That’s because Mastodon is using rel noferrer on outbound links causing visits to appear as Direct Traffic in Google Analytics.…
Google Removes Search Features Bug Confirmation & Replaces It With Google Discover Search Console Reporting Error
Google has done something unusual, it has removed one of the confirmed data anomalies notes about a search features bug, and added a new note confirming a bug with Google Discover logging resulting in a data drop in the Search …
Google Search Console API Delay Confirmed, To Be Fixed In Days
Google has confirmed a delay with the Google Search Console API being a bit more delayed than normal. Daniel Waisberg from Google said the “delay was caused by processing issues, and should be back to normal in the next few …
Google Search Console reporting bug with Discover performance report
Google has posted about another data issue with the Search Console reports, this one impacted the Discover reporting in the performance report section on October 23, 2022. This was a data logging issue that only impacted reporting, the Google Discover …
Are you using an accessibility overlay to help disabled users? Don’t!
It is estimated that around 61 million Americans live with a disability. This represents about 18% of the total population of the United States as of the 2022 Census. Viewed another way, that 61 million figure would represent the …
Google rolls out Ads Editor v2.2 with optimized targeting, 11 other features
Google just announced the rollout of Ads Editor v2.2. This version adds 12 new features and also eliminates one. Let’s take a look. Asset library The new version includes added support for enhanced leveraging of images in asset libraries. It …
Google Can Pass PageRank From HTTP To HTTPS URLs With Redirects
Yes, Google can pass PageRank and other link signals from an HTTP non-secure URL to HTTPS secure URL through redirects. John Mueller from Google said this is how Google does canonicalization and that there is “no special “security dust” involved.”…
Bug: Google Ads Disapproves Ads For Using The Word “Get”
Yesterday, a number of advertisers were asking why there Google Ads were being disapproved. The disapproval was due to the ad using the word “get” in the ad text and extension. It turned out it was a bug, a weird …
Google: Sites With Good Category Pages Don’t Need Internal Search Results Indexed
Generally, Google says you should never let Google index your internal search result pages. But John Mueller of Google said you shouldn’t even be considering going against Google’s advice here, if you have good category pages, you won’t even need …