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Ritu from PageTraffic is a qualified Google Ads Professional and Content Head at PageTraffic. She has been the spear head for many successful Search Marketing Campaigns and currently oversees Content Marketing operations of PageTraffic in India.

Google’s AMP(Accelerated Mobile Page) team has launched a new feature named Render on Idle. It has been specifically designed for increasing ad impressions per page by speeding up ad load when an ad is increased ad impressions per page by speeding up ad load when a user doesn’t take action on any user.

Render on Idle is available to publishers who are using DoubleClick AMP ad tag or any ad network which implements Fast Fetch, an AMP-specific mechanism which lowers the likelihood that users will see empty ad slots for allowing ad requests to happen since page count is rendering. Ads render just before the ad slot is in view.

The AMP team has stated that publishers testing the feature has seen an increase in impressions per page and offers just .5% increase in clicks and viewable queries by being able to provide ads when a user’s browser is idle with Render on Idle. Publishers who are sensitive to viewability rate need to set data-loading strategy for keeping current viewport offset & disable idle render.

In a webmaster Hangout, Google’s John Mueller discouraged the use of Google Search Console’s URL Submit Tool. He also mentioned interesting facts about how Google indexes websites. He suggested interesting ways to ensure that new content is crawled properly and indexed first.

John Mueller addressed the common problem of Google not picking up content as promptly as a publisher wants to. He blamed publishers for this problem. If Google isn’t indexing your content, then it isn’t Google fault. It is the publishers fault in case it isn’t indexed and the publisher needs to find out the reason why it’s not being indexed.

John Mueller provided a number of suggestions for identifying the reasons behind Google not indexing content and provide solutions to ensure Google indexes it.

Google has updated search results pages by adding breadcrumbs to the page’s top. These breadcrumbs are initiated by informational search queries and come with images. The new search display update is a unique step through which Google displays search results. This change is being considered as Google’s mobile first version which is evolving.

Redefining Google’s mobile first index

Google has been shifting to a mobile first index and this has been clearly understood that it will give precedence to sites which perform well in mobile devices. It is moving to new ways of displaying information which are suitable for mobile devices. The breadcrumb SERPs are considered a part of the transition to SERPs. There has been no official announcement regrading breadcrumb search results. The results have been displayed for searchers only.

Google has come up with two new tools which are aimed to assist webmasters to make their websites faster-Impact Calculator and Speed Scoreboard.

Speed Scoreboard

You can compare the speed of your mobile page with that of other companies using Google’s Speed Scoreboard tool. It has the ability to analyze speed of numeerous websites from 12 nations. Using this tool is as effortless as entering an URL. You can start off by submitting your URL and then the other URLs with whom you want to compare it. This tool will arrange the URLs and their related in a list. An example is given below:-

Google has concetrated on getting website owners and markters to enhance mobile site experiences over the last couple of years. At the Mobile World Congress recently held in Barcelona, they announced the release of two new mobile benchmarking resources for assisting in the effort. They are a conversion Impact Calculator and a new Mobile Scoreboard.

Both these tools aim to offer marketers clear visuals to assist them to get buy-in from stakeholders for investing in mobile site speed. The Mobile Scorecard tracks data of Chrome User Exoperience for comparing speed of numerous sites on mobile. This is the same database of latency data from Chrome users which Google strated to use in its PageSpeed Insights Tool since January. Google has stated that Mobile Scoreboard can report on numerous websites from 12 countries.

Google has rolled out a new design for the Keyword Planner tool. This tool seems to be migrating to the new interface of Google AdWords. The tool looks more presentable and now matches the new AdWords interface which was launched recently. The tool now has a streamlined design and will enable advertisers to take make the best use of updated features to look for new keyword ideas and acquire keyword statistics and forecasts for campaigns on search network.

Google seems to be making an overhaul of AdWords Keyword Planner in the new AdWords interface. Workflows in new KeyWord Planner are far more organized in comparison to the older version. It utilizes Google’s Material Design which matches the new AdWords interface. The bet indication of the new approach is visible from the start screen. The old version had multiple options & links. The new start screen on the other hand focuses on two options: “Find new keywords” and “Get metrics and forecasts for your keywords”.

Keyword ideas

Keyword ideas chart in the new Keyword Planner shows total monthly search volumes as in the older version. However, it also shows mobile search volume in the in the main chart. In the old version of Keyword Planner, mobile search volume is only available from drop down menu of Search volume trends.

Google’s Gary Illyes has stated that a substantial number of sites will migrate to mobile first index in the next month & half. He also announced Google’s upcoming plans for mobile-first index.

The last official announcement from Google about mobile-first indexing was during last summer, when Google’s John Mueller stated it was rolled out for individual sites which were ready. They initially planned to ensure that all sites migrated to mobile-first index by the start of 2018. However, the goal hasn’t been met.

Google has also stated that it won’t announce when migration to mobile-first index is complete. But after Illyes’s keynote at Pubcoin, it has become clear that the new index might never be rolled out for all sites.

Google has discontinued its support for news meta keywords tag. They introduced the new meta keywords tag particularly for news publishers in 2012 and discontinued supporting it a few months ago. Since Google didn’t announce about this change, publishers have continued using it. Usage of news meta keywords tag won’t help Google to understand the content of your news. This is because Google ignores it in the same way they ignore normal meta keywords tag. Though keeping them on pages is fine, Google doesn’t use it for Google News as it used to.

Yet another innovative approach that was updated months ago by Google to provide an incredible means of learning for people who want to dig deep into the information about a particular name or subject but at present it still belongs to the very new category. Moreover google brings out the very new ‘Google Trending Panel’ that helps in setting a different standard for the quick knowledge grabbing.Well, if you ask me what else is there with this topic,have a look at the below points.