Google Ads is introducing new metrics to provide advertisers with enhanced insight about the exact location where ads appear on the search results page. They have stated that the metrics…
Google posted in Google My Business Help forums that they will separate addresses and service areas for local service businesses. The Google My Business team mentioned that from now on…
Google is including functionality to click-to-message ads and offering attribution and bidding capabilities to enable retail advertisers to follow store visits which have been garnered through online activities. The features were among the updates which have been announced at SMX East in New York City yesterday.
Google is sending a new kind of notification to website owners with verified properties on Google Search Console. These new messages update the owners about web pages which load very slowly. Google has also launched an update named Google speed update with the main aim to reduce SERP of slow loading websites.
Danny Sullivan, Google’s Search Liaison has published a number of tweets on new updates to search algorithms. Quite a number of website owners and SEOs have come across the rise and fall in search traffic over the last couple of weeks. This has caused speculation regarding what is exactly happening on Google’s search algorithms. Given below is a short summary of what Sullivan tweeted.
Google has created numerous third-party apps and services to enhance the online experience of users.
However, the success of these apps and services depends on the awareness of users that their data is safe and developers following established norms. Over the last few years, Google has consistently strengthened policies and controls to respond to day to day internal reviews, feedback from users and changing presumptions related to data privacy and security.
Google has altered the length of posts which are published by Google My Business to 1500 characters. Earlier, length of Google My Business posts was based on words rather than characters. Google needed at least 100 words per post and a maximum of 300 words. But now there is probably no minimum length for Google My Business posts.
Google seems to have extended title lengths in search result snippets as per a new report.
RankRanger’s tracking tools demonstrate that the average length of page titles in search results has increased on an average from 55 to 83 characters. Here is RankRanger’s tweet from last week-
Google’s Danny Sullivan affirmed that an algorithm update had taken this place last week. He stated-
“Our core algorithm is updated all the time. For major updates, we’ll continue to share about those on @searchliaison, as we have been. We haven’t had a major update of that nature, but we did have a smaller one this week.”