Craig Hordlow

It was a pretty busy week, but to start off, I posted my big monthly Google webmaster report – catch up there on the month. Google released the June 2021 core update on June 2nd…

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The New York Times published a story on how Google has been working on and continues to work on algorithms aiming at preventing sites that extort people from ranking well in Google Search. The Google Predator algorithm (which I am …

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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 doesn’t like the idea of ranking its search ranking factors – no …

Google has announced less than 12 days before the event kicks off that they are bringing back the Google Search Central Unconference. It is on June 21st at 3PM UTC (11am ET) and you can register over here.

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Google has released version 8.0 of the Google Ads API that includes a ton of new features including cross-account bidding strategies, label retrieval, CallAdInfo support, cart data support for conversions, smart campaign support and much more. Version 7.0 was released …

Google was asked in what case will Google not select an exact match of a keyword versus a close matching keyword in the campaign. PPCGreg who asked this on Twitter said he is “seeing a growing number of instances where …

Here is a good line from Google’s John Mueller who responded to someone asking for less algorithmic updates; he said “here’s a secret: there will never be stability, unless someone turns off the internet.”

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It has been almost three years since Google rebranded Google AdWords to Google Ads and still almost half of us still refer to it as AdWords or Google AdWords and not Google Ads. I’ll be honest, I call it Google …

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Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that it is a bad idea for Google to try to rank its ranking factors. To say content is more or less important than links, or to say one search ranking factor is more …

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…

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Google has added support to mark a product as back ordered for its product rich results. You can now set the availability property with a BackOrder value to communicate to Google Search that the item is back ordered.

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To double check, Glenn Gabe asked Danny Sullivan of Google if there was a product reviews update that happened at the same time or so as the June 2021 core update. The answer from Danny Sullivan of Google was no, …

Google’s John Mueller was asked if templated content above the fold can rank in Google Search, where the unique content is below the fold. John Mueller said “the important part for us is really that there is some amount of …

Google has posted that it may begin to start automatically adding location extensions to some of your Google Ads. Google wrote this in a Google help document saying “if you have not added locations to your account, Google Ads may …

Google said that if you don’t need an XML sitemap file anymore, all you need to do is delete the sitemap file from your server and CMS. There is not much more you need to do after that, just delete …