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Google has a bug in Google My Business when you try to verify or update an address. The form seems to bug out and show a blank screen. So if you need to update or verify your business address, you will be out of luck until Google fixes the issue. This was first reported to […]

Here is a new question I have never seen asked before; does Google downgrade the search rankings of web sites that receive FTC warning letters about their medical and health content. The answer is no, not that I know of, but it is interesting that someone asked the question. Daniel Dessinger a writer at the

Google has launched global availability its property promotion ads within Google Ads hotel campaigns. Google said this is “an ad format that helps advertisers reach users who have not yet identified the exact hotel they would like to book.” Property promotion ads are displayed in the Google search results for geographical locations, “allowing advertisers to

In 2018 I spotted a photo of a message left by an outgoing Googler. This Google employee left a note for her colleagues on her last day of working at Google. She wrote “Goodbye Suckers” on the whiteboard and signed it. It could have been an inside joke for her coworkers or maybe she was

Here is a photo from about two years ago of a paint club painting on the rooftop of the Google Dublin office. I embed the other photos from Instagram below, but I assume those who paint found find painting on this rooftop inspirational? They wrote “With a view like this how could you not be

Alan Kent, Developer Advocate at Google, posted a lightening talk on the Google YouTube channel around how to get your products in search. This can help e-commerce sites get more visibility and sales from Google Search. None of the information in this video is specifically new but it is a great overview where Alan goes

Ahrefs published a study a few months ago that I have not reported on. The study’s main thing was that “94.3% of pages out of roughly two million pages didn’t get even a single visitor from Google.” The bigger stat in that study to me was that “66.31% of pages don’t have even a single

Last night, Google responded to the zero click study that said 65% of searches end up without a click. The Google blog post basically summed up what I wrote (thanks for the link) but added some data. The truth is, Google just gave us a few nuggets of informaton but it is really not enough.

Microsoft has published its version of the ad quality year in review 2020. Microsoft said it suspended about 300,000 advertising accounts in 2020, which was up 30% from 2019. It removed 1.6 billion “bad ads” and rejected about 21 million ads in accordance with its sensitive advertising policy. It also removed 270,000 sites from its

Google seems to be showing a new radio button selection filter for the image search drop down filters. As you can see from the screenshot below, when you click on a filter option, it shows the option but also a circle to select it. The interesting part is that you cannot select multiple filter options