off

Google limits access to news content in Canada

Google confirmed this test will impact 4% of Canadians. It’s similar to what Google did in Australia in 2021. Google is conducting a small test where the search company is blocking news content in Google Search for fewer than 4% of Canadian users for the next few weeks. A...
off

Google is now allowing products in all countries to use a single Merchant Center feed

The new feed labels will be rolled out over the next couple of weeks and give advertisers more control of their campaigns. The Google Merchant Center has introduced a new feed label for advanced users that removes the concept of one target country being the primary country for a...
off

Google Search Console reported pages as being indexed when they were not indexed

This affected “many” Google Search Console properties, so make sure to check your reports in the next couple of days. Google said there was a bug with its coverage report in Search Console where Google reported pages as being indexed, when in fact, they were not...
off

Google Ads restored after morning outage

Google Ads was out for 3 hours, leaving advertisers unable to manage campaigns. Update. According to Google, the issue has been resolved. Original post. Happy Monday! The Google Ads dashboard may be down for some users. The Google Ads Status Dashboard. The Status Dashboard...
off

What is Google’s Looker Studio and how you can use it

Looker Studio lets you create branded data visualization reports and dashboards. Here’s everything you need to know to get started. Analytics has always been a challenge for marketers. Data can be confusing, overwhelming and, difficult for the ordinary human to understand...
off

Google Business Profiles to stop allowing price ranges on products on February 15

Also, Google will no longer support custom call to actions. Google Business Profiles will only allow product pricing when the price is a single price, not a range of prices, starting on February 15, 2023. Also, Google said that it will no longer allow custom call to actions in...
off

Google has updated its prohibited practices to include “Linked account suspensions”

Removing or unlinking the suspended Google Ads account from your Merchant Center account won’t unsuspend or resolve your Merchant Center account issue. Google has a new issue status in Merchant Center. This new issue status is a clarification of our existing enforcement to...
off

What is helpful content, according to Google

Google is about to launch its helpful content update. So what exactly is helpful content? Here’s what Google has told us. Google’s new helpful content update is meant to reward content that is written for humans. So how exactly does Googe define “helpful content”? In short,...
off

Google shut down Duplex on the Web

Google has also retired the DuplexWeb-Google web crawler. Google has shut down Duplex on the Web and has retired its web crawler, DuplexWeb-Google. Google posted a notice of this in this help document saying “Duplex on the Web is deprecated, and will no longer be supported as of...
off

Google has updated its Unavailable Video policy

Updated technical requirements for Unavailable Videos have been rolled out, along with quick fixes. Google updated its policies for the Unavailable Videos Section of the Google Ads Technical Requirements Policy. The update explains additional reasons why a video ad may not serve....