Google research: PPC ads drive 50% incremental clicks In 2012, Google released a study, Impact Of Ranking Of Organic Search Results On The Incrementality Of Search Ads. It looked at whether clicks from organic search results substituted for ad clicks when PPC ads were turned off. Google found...

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More sites move to Google mobile-first indexing In 2018, Google announced it had enabled mobile-first indexing for more websites. This was the first time Google had confirmed it was moving a large number of sites to this mobile-first indexing process. Google told us in October 2017 that a limited number of...

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Google Panda patent granted In 2014, a patent (Ranking search results) written by Google’s Navneet Panda and Vladimir Ofitserov – possibly describing the Google Panda algorithm update, or parts of it – was granted. However, the fact that Google was granted this patent didn’t necessarily mean it was...

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Google Search Console to show event rich results errors for missing locations 2022: Google Search Console’s rich results report could now show you more warnings for event structured data markup if the event is missing a location. Merchant Center can now be linked to Google Analytics 4 2022: Plus,...

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rel=next/prev was not found on Google. That’s an error. In 2019, we learned Google had stopped supporting the rel=next/prev markup it had introduced in 2011. Worse than that, Google hadn’t been using it for indexing for a “number of years,” according to Google’s John Mueller. All the while,...

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Google Business Profiles new emergency help attributes for Ukraine support 2022: Google also added hotel attributes to define if hotels offered support to those displaced from Ukraine. Brands, especially restaurants, need FAQs and ‘coronapages’ fast 2020: It was critical that precautions being taken were discoverable in search results. Video: Martha...

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Google blocks 3.1 billion ads in a tumultuous 2020, says annual Ads Safety Report 2021: The report listed misinformation around COVID-19 and the political climate, as well as ad fraud, as top concerns. Schema.org adds coronavirus-related structured data types in version 7.0 2020: “SpecialAnnouncement” and “eventAttendanceMode” could help businesses...

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Google Univeral Analytics: The beginning of the end In 2022, Google announced its plan to deprecate Universal Analytics on July 1, 2023. (That’s 106 days from today.) Previously processed data in Universal Analytics will be stored for at least six months after the deprecation date. Why was Google...

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Google rolls out Search Ads 360 integration for Google Analytics 4 2022: Integrating enabled advertisers to see sessions, users and conversions within the context of dimensions such as source, campaign, medium and default channel grouping. Google refine this search and broaden this search now live in search results 2022:...

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Google publishes video of search quality meeting In 2012, Google shared a video from one of its search quality meetings – something that few outsiders had ever seen. Google annotated the video to make the conversation more understandable to the general public, as well as explain more about...

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