Daniel Waisberg and Maya Mamo from the Google Search Console team published a blog post named Google Search Console Insights behind the curtains. This document, according to Daniel Waisberg, has new details on how Google “handles the data was not out there” before. As an FYI, Google officially launched Search Console Insights in June after

Google listed a boat load of changes it is making around children and search and ads. Google Ads will restrict ad targeting of children 18 or under by age, gender, or interests. Google Search and Assistant will automatically enable SafeSearch for children 18 or under. Google announced a bunch of changes here: Google Ads Changes

Ginny Marvin from Google asked that if you want additional custom column metrics in your Google Ads report, that you let her know on the AdsLiaison account on Twitter. Ginny wrote “Is there a Custom Column metric you’d like to see added? The team is working on an update and open to suggestions.” Here is

Here is a photo from before Google I/O this year, which was a super limited audience, at the Google office. They hired a firm to create this I/O designed flower bed and do some of the creative direction for the outside event. Here is that photo above from Instagram but here are more photos from

For the past few weeks or so, I have been hearing complaints from SEOs, mostly in private forums, about Google having weird indexing issues. The issues are not persistent, in that a new page is indexed, then drops out of the index, then indexed again, then drops out and then back again. It is like

Google said it has recently added the author.url property to the Article structured data documentation. Google said this “url property helps Google disambiguate the correct author of the article.” But it seems Google added a number of author based properties to the document recently, not just author.url. If you compare the document from June or

Google is now requiring some businesses to add a physical address and not be a service area business in Google My Business. Google told Stefan Somborac that this is a “new feature is an automated, anti-spam protection designed to reduce category misuse across millions of business profiles.” There have been complaints about this on Google

Google, after a false start, announced the release of version 1.7 of Google Ads Editor. Google Ads Editor 1.7 brings Hotel ads, easier downloads, YouTube audio ads, lead form extensions, additional recommendation types and the deprecation of Showcase ads, plus more. This release comes after version 1.6 released last April. In version 1.7 include: (1)

Google has updated the structured data testing tool page to a page that instructs the user to either go to the rich results testing tool on Google or the schema markup validator on Schema.org. Google announced this change over here saying “the Schema Markup Validator has stabilized, and Google now redirects the Structured Data Testing