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Here is a photo from Brett Axler, a Technical Integration Lead, Project Manager at Google, who said he is back at work. I get that he should be wearing a mask at the office but a hard hat? It does look like he now works in a construction zone, so I guess it all makes […]

Google Ads now allows you to exclude data from your smart bidding to prevent conversion tracking issues. Google said “to make it easy for you to prevent these technical issues from impacting Smart Bidding, we’re introducing data exclusions for Search, Shopping and Display campaigns.” This helps ensure that with Smart Bidding in Google Ads you

You don’t have to worry about email spam getting you in direct trouble in Google web search. Gary Illyes from Google confirmed that Google won’t take action in web search, through a manual action in Search Console, if you get caught spamming folks via email. Gary wrote on Twitter “the WebSpam team is only looking

Google has a neat interactive knowledge graph box or panel for searches done on various amendments within the Constitution of United States of America. A lot of people now are searching for the 25th Amendment, which is about the removal of the sitting President of the United States and this is what Google shows. Google

Google has been teasing us for some time about new performance metrics to replace or add-on to the Google My Business insights. Now I am seeing a new section in the Google My Business dashboard that says “Your metrics will move to a new-look report. Search queries are visible, and more metrics will be added

I posted the monthly Google Webmaster Report for January 2021, it is a good place to catch up on the past month of SEO stuff. I am seeing some early signs of another unconfirmed Google search ranking algorithm update. Google Question Hub has launched to US publishers, it is a pretty cool way to come

I am seeing some signals and signs of a Google search ranking algorithm update touching down in the past day or so. The chatter is limited but it is there and it is unusual. The tools, most of them, are showing big shifts in the Google organic search rankings. The chatter began around late last

We’ve covered here numerous times that Google Ads (formerly AdWords) spend has no impact on your Google organic web search rankings. In fact, we just covered that a search engineer said he has personally launched organic features that negatively impact ad revenues for the company. I’ll get into the history of Google’s comments on ads

I am not sure why I am sharing this but it looked interesting and colorful, so I shared it. It seems like this is from some old conference, maybe a weird looking Google booth with wooden slats, pipes and more. I found this on Instagram but it is a popular photo found on many sites

Back in October 2020 businesses could add health and safety information to their Google My Business profile. Shortly later Google began testing displaying them in the local panel for those businesses. Now the desktop interface has changed a bit that it can overlay the information in a pop up dialog menu. Andrew Bullimore spotted this