Google notified some advertisers last ***** that they are expected to receive $16 million dollars and $6 million dollars in credits. I am sure others got similar astronomical credit notices. Don’t retire anytime soon, it is a bug, and Google will fix the amount if they have not done so already. This credit was related … Read more
Google posted a public service announcement saying you should disallow Googlebot from crawling your action URLs. Gary Illyes from Google posted on LinkedIn, “You should really disallow crawling of your action URLs. Crawlers will not buy that organic non-GMO scented candle, nor do they care for a wishlist.” I mean, this is not new advice. … Read more
Search is changing and TikTok is becoming increasingly popular as a means of seeking out information. Source link
Tuta Mail, a popular encrypted email service, complained to European Union tech regulators that Google dropped its rankings for all sorts of keyword phrases with the Google March 2024 core update. Tuta is upset they no longer rank for [encrypted email] after this update. Reuters reported “German email service Tuta Mail has complained to European … Read more
In 2022, Google brought back the Shabbat times to the one box or answer boxes in search. Recently, in the past month or so, Google also enabled Google Assistant to tell you when Shabbat starts and ends in a location. So if you ask the Google Assistant, “What time is Shabbat in [location] at [time],” … Read more
Google Ads mistakenly sent out an email telling some advertisers that their accounts had been suspended. The notification, which was triggered by a technical fault, was issued just hours before the Thanksgiving holiday, causing some marketers to “freak out”. Google confirmed the error shortly after and reassured advertisers to disregard the message. Why we care. … Read more
The debate over the significance of links has been a recurring theme in SEO. Recently, Google’s Gary Illyes has once again ignited discussions around the topic when he said that “people overestimate the importance of links,” and it hasn’t been in the top three ranking factors for some time. Such statements from Google have been … Read more
X, the company formerly known as Twitter, has started depreciating promoted accounts. Moving forward, advertisers will no longer be able to promote their brands in timelines using the ad format, which makes more than $100 million in global revenue for the platform Why we care. The removal of promoted accounts serves as a warning to … Read more
Are Google’s AI-generated summaries in their Search Generative Experience (SGE) interface unfairly stealing clicks from the website publishers who originally created those answers? This is the question everyone in SEO and digital marketing has been asking for a couple of months now. With Google’s latest update displaying links to SGE’s sources more prominently, now seems … Read more
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