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For the past several weeks, publishers have been complaining about an issue with Google AdSense reporting that their Google AdSense ads have been getting zero clicks. This has become known as the 0 clicks bug. There are numerous threads about this issue, but the big one is this Google AdSense Help Thread that documents a […]

What a busy week, we had Google confirm it is working on an all-new search engine that uses AI and Bard. There is no ETA for when that will go live, but in the coming months, we will see more minor updates to Google Search to embed AI throughout; this is code-named Magi. Google’s April

Here is a photo of someone who received a gift from Google of a Google Maps lapel pin. It probably makes for a great lapel pin but I don’t see where you can buy one yourself. I see a Google Maps pin patch and then several lapel pins but not of the Google Maps pin

Google has added a new crawler to its list of Google Crawlers and user agents, this one is named GoogleOther. It is described as a “generic crawler that may be used by various product teams for fetching publicly accessible content from sites.” For example, it may be used for one-off crawls for internal research and

Google Bard is rolling out an update to make the draft responses more distinct from each other, while Bing Chat has rolled out cleaner and nicer formatted math formulas. Bard More Variety To Drafts Google wrote, “When you view other drafts, you’ll now see a wider range of options that are more distinct from each

Google has launched some goodies for news publishers, including a new Reader Revenue Manager within the Google Publisher Center and a Subscribed content report in Google Search Console. Google announced this on Twitter saying, “We’re happy to update that Search Console is launching a new rich results status report, “Subscribed content”, to help Reader Revenue

In the coming months, Google will deprecate the page experience report within Google Search Console, the mobile usability report, and the mobile-friendly testing tool. The core web vitals and HTTPs report will remain in Google Search Console, Danny Sullivan of Google announced. Google somewhat clouded this announcement in the news of the helpful content guidance

I find myself going back to traditional search over asking AI-based search for answers, and I was curious if I am alone or not. So I created a number of polls on Twitter asking if search marketers are using AI-search or traditional search more and if so, are they using ChatGPT, Bing Chat or Google

Yesterday, Google announced it made some changes to its guidance around what makes content considered helpful, including adding in good page experience to the equation. Google also made some other changes to this document, which I will detail below. Google’s creating helpful content guide added a new section for page experience and wrote: “Provide a