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Google has announced a new AdSense ad unit named related search for content pages. The feature embeds ads that displays search terms related to the content of the pages your users are reading. …

Microsoft announced the expansion of Microsoft Advertising in 29 new countries. This expansion goes across Europe and Africa, with reach to 19 new languages. Microsoft estimates this brings the reach of the ad network to 41 million consumers, making 400 …

I am seeing tons of reports over the past 24 hours of complaints around mass disapproving of ads and suspensions of accounts within Google Ads. Some are specific to being disapproved around “government documents and circumventing systems.” …

Google’s John Mueller said that your SEO is not impacted by the way you implement your analytics software. That is assuming you don’t implement it in a way that blocks crawling and indexing, he added. …

Ginny Marvin, the Google Ads Liaison, confirmed some time ago that for the Google Ads machine learning models to work faster (and probably better) Google would need a minimum of 15 conversions in the last 30 days. She added that …

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 Search Console crawl stats report is missing some data… …

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It looks like there is a missing day, a data gap, in the Google Search Console crawl stats report. I am personally missing Tuesday, February 8th crawl data but it seems others are missing February 9th. …

On Friday, February 11th, Google confirmed an issue with the Google Ads reports where there was a delay in reporting a portion of conversions using Data Driven Attribution (DDA). Google has fixed the issue and has or is currently working …

Google announced that it has is releasing more features to potentially show more ad extensions including sitelinks, callouts, and structured snippets. This includes a way to review and manage automatically created extensions and Google’s machine learning showing extensions in a …

Google seems to be testing really large sitelinks for some Google search ads in the mobile search results. We’ve seen larger sitelinks several months ago, but here it is in virtually the same size as the top part of the …

Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter “more content definitely does not mean more traffic.” Meaning, writing more content does not always translate to more traffic, espesially from Google Search. …

In part one we spoke about how Brian Wallace of NowSourcing got into infographics, how it is not just about links but much more and some cool scores he had with them. In part two… …

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

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There have been some recent complaints that Google Ads is creating and picking its own videos for your Performance Max campaigns. Alex van de Pol wrote on Twitter “Note if you do not add video assets yourself in the performance …