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Google Ads is sending emails out to some advertisers offering to pay them $100 in Google Ads credits for enrolling in automatically applied recommendations. The response from the PPC community…
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Google has updated the client libraries and code examples for the new Google Ads API version 12, which was released a couple of weeks ago.
We had yet another biggish unconfirmed Google search ranking algorithm update on November 4th and 5th. Google also removed the annotation about the search features bug and added a Discover…
Microsoft is testing the AI chat bot feature at the top of the Bing Search results. We have seen the let’s chat feature from Bing for a while now but…
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Google’s John Mueller said that some old links to old websites may be irrelevant links, at least from a Google Search and ranking perspective.
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Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…
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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…
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,…
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Google has updated the sitemap section of the localized pages search help documentation to say that “Child elements don’t count towards the URL limit for sitemaps.”
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Google is updating the GA4 custom report builder with the ability to add dimensions and metrics that are important to your business. The post Google Allows Custom Dimensions In GA4…
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Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…
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Google Search Advocate John Mueller shares an easy way to deal with negative SEO attacks, such as competitors building spammy links to your domain. The post Google’s John Mueller On…
YouTube Shorts are now available in a television-optimized format for connected TVs. The post YouTube Shorts Now Available On TV appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
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Google has moved the lyric details from the main middle section of the Google Search results to the right side panel. Well, for most queries, but not all.
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Google’s local listings show for some listings the number of reviews left by a specific reviewer in a particular location. So if a specific person left 15 reviews and those…
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Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…
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Microsoft Bing seems to be testing animated ads in the Bing image search interface. The ads look like an interactive banner ad of some sort, based on your query.