Enhanced features include smart replies, visual product carousels, custom welcome messages. Google Messaging has been a better idea than experience, perhaps until now. The company announced that it was upgrading the capabilities of messaging for enterprises in Maps and Search. New and Read More
Google to see first U.S. revenue decline, including paid search, says forecaster
Google is predicted to see a 7% drop in paid-search revenue, driven primarily by a loss of travel ad spending. Google’s net U.S. ad revenue will decline this year by 5.3% according to eMarketer’s newly revised digital ad forecast. That’s Read More
Google’s shocking ad ban [It’s clickbait]
We’ll save you a click. Google’s banning click bait ads. Sorry, you’re going to have to stop using “You won’t believe what happened” or “Click here to find out” copy in your Google ads. Google’s suddenly not down with clickbait. Read More
Exact match? Our contest to rename it for Google is sealed with an -ish
Though it was hard to see Matchy McMatchFace miss the boat, we do have a winner in our bid to rename the search company’s not-so-exact match. The votes are in! We put a call out last month for suggestions to give exact Read More
Google explains why syndicators may outrank original publishers
How to ensure your syndicated partners don’t outrank you in Google. Last week we reported that Google has updated its algorithms to give original reporting preferred ranking in Google search. So when John Shehata, VP of Audience Growth at Condé Nast, a Read More
Google apologizes for rel=next/prev mixup
Google suggests webmasters, developers, and publisher continue to use rel=prev/next for other reasons outside of Google indexing purposes. Google confirmed yesterday that it hasn’t supported rel=next/prev for years. Google admitted that it was an oversight, a mixup. It removed support but Read More
Google postpones Google Partners program changes slated for June
The new badge requirements will not go into effect until 2021 due to COVID-19 disruption. In February, Google announced sweeping changes to the requirements for agencies to qualify for the Google Partners badging and certification program. Those new requirements were set to Read More
Google Search Console reports may have changed
Google’s AMP, Mobile Usability, Speed, all rich result reports have been updated. Google has updated many of the reports within Google Search Console to “cover a smaller number of pages, in order to provide better performance in Search Console,” Google wrote. Read More
Google May 2020 Core Update rolling out
This is the second Google core update of 2020. Google announced it is rolling out a new core update, the May 2020 core update, Monday. This is the second core update of the 2020 year, the first one was the January 2020 core Read More
Google Search Console reports may have changed
Google’s AMP, Mobile Usability, Speed, all rich result reports have been updated. Google has updated many of the reports within Google Search Console to “cover a smaller number of pages, in order to provide better performance in Search Console,” Google wrote. Read More