For the past 24-hours or so, the Google keyword planner tool within Google Ads has been broken. It is giving people errors and showing “no data” found responses. It shows the error “something went wrong – please try again.” This has been going on for about 24-hours now and trying again does not work. Please

Google Ads seemed to have a bug last week with Google Shopping in some regions, like the UK, but I think others, where the shopping listings were not showing up. Some advertisers were claiming drops in their listings from showing up by over 90%, yes, 90% impression drops for Google Shopping campaigns. This issue seems

Keyword research is something we’ve all heard plenty about, but do we really know how to do it? As every keyword research tool has their own set of tips and tricks to get the most out of the platform, we’re going to start off with some general theory. Then, we’ll take a look into how

We cover tons of Google changes here, from user interface changes to ranking changes – most of which Google does not announce or confirm. But yesterday, Google said it made 4,500 changes in 2020 to Google Search. That is 12.5 changes per day or over 17 changes per work day in 2020. I guess COVID

 GUESTS & RESOURCES Episode Overview: Jordan Koene, SEO Strategist and Advisor to Searchmetrics, joins Benjamin Shapiro for a deep dive into the recently announced Google and Shopify integration. What benefits does the merger pack for Google? Want to have more influence in the eCommerce scene as an SEO? Read our blogpost on eCommerce SEO

 GUESTS & RESOURCES Episode Overview: Today, Jordan Koene, SEO Strategist and Advisor to Searchmetrics, and Ben Shapiro continue their conversation on the Google and Shopify partnership. What does the integration mean for data exchange? And what is the value of this for Shopify? Want to have more influence in the eCommerce scene as an

Here is a still photo from a video John Mueller of Google made of his Arduino binary USB keyboard. John said if you prefer binary, you can use this binary keyboard to type. It might take longer than a normal keyword but hey. You can read more on his personal blog over here. Here is

Google AdSense has added three new settings to Auto optimize feature in your optimization experiments. These new methods include select traffic, block a style and block an experiment. (1) Select traffic: This setting lets you select the percentage of your users that you want to show optimization experiments to. For AdSense for content, Google recommends

Google is testing highlighting a discounted price in a green font in the Google Ads shopping/product carousel. This was spotted by Jackson Lo last week and he shared this screenshot of it on Twitter. Here is what I see for the same query, nothing in green but a crossed off price showing the discount: The

Two weeks after Ginny Marvin of Google asked what additional custom column metrics you’d like to see in Google Ads, Google has announced the addition of four new metrics. They include Search impression share, Click impression share, Display impression share and all phone call metrics. Ginny posted on Friday on Twitter “Advertisers can now make