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The program will give publishers an opportunity to monetize their most engaged users. Google has just started testing a new rewarded ad beta program for publishers to serve their players long-form, playable ads. How it works. As described by WebmasterWorld.com, “The Rewarded Ad Gate beta program will give you an opportunity to monetize your most engaged users. If a user frequently visits your site, you’ll have a way to collect additional ad revenue.” 1. The Rewarded Ad Gate will be displayed to a visitor on their fifth-page view of each month.…

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Jerry Dischler becomes the new head of Google Ads, Gomes takes over Google Education, while Google veteran Jen Fitzpatrick takes on engineering. Google announced several major personnel changes Thursday. They involve search, engineering and ads and the internal promotion of some Google veterans to new roles: Prabhakar Raghavan, Jerry Dischler, Jen Fitzpatrick and Ben Gomes. Ben Gomes moves from Search to Education Gomes isn’t leaving Google; he’ll be taking on a new role connected to various Google education and learning initiatives: Google for Education, Google Scholar and education search, as well as Google Arts…

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Multisearch for food, Google Lens translation, AR beauty and shoes, Maps live view search and more. Google has announced a boatload of new search features across Google Search, Google Lens, Shopping and Maps all aimed at bringing search to more users in more helpful ways. These improvements cross over Multisearch, Google Leons, Google Shopping and Google Maps. Note that some of these were announced at the Search On event a few months ago. Find food through Multisearch See a food dish you think looks tasty and it makes you hungry? Well, now…

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Yep, it is all about the Page Experience update and core web vitals when it comes to Google’s ranking alogrithms. In the history of Google page speed ranking algorithms, we had three different announcements. Most recently we had the page experience update from 2020 that uses core web vitals, in 2018 we had the Google page speed update, and then in 2010 we had the Google site speed update. Google only uses core web vitals. Google’s John Mueller confirmed on Twitter that Google now only uses the most recent update for page speed ranking, specifically the page…

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After about a month, Google has finally fixed the bug where query data was not showing in Universal Analytic’s Search Console query report. Google has fixed an issue where the Search Console query report in Google Analytics 3, aka Universal Analytics, was not populating. The data stopped coming in as of October 1st but the other day, Google fixed the issue and backfilled the data in the report. I have verified, the data is now fully populated in the Search Console queries report in Universal Analytics 3. What was the issue. Google…

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Google said this it to make the ad label more distinguishable from the organic search results. Google is rolling out a new search ad label, replacing the black “Ad” label with a new bold black text “Sponsored” label. This is rolling out in conjunction with the new site names and larger favicons in the mobile search results, Google announced. What is looks like. Here is a screenshot of the new bold black “Sponsored” text ad label for the Google Ads: Why the change. Google said this is to help “make sense of the information…

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The attribute can show when listings appear in Search and Maps and is part of several initiatives aimed at supporting Black business owners. Verified Google My Business profile owners in the U.S. can now add a Black-owned business attribute to their listings. Business attributes are highlighted as icons when customers view a business’ profile on mobile, as shown below. The new Black-owned business attribute. Source: Google. Why we care Google said it has seen “a surge in online searches for Black-owned businesses” in recent months — a period in which the Black…

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This should help sites that were mistakenly removed from Google search rectify the issue sooner. Let’s say your site was flagged by Google search as having a security issue, be it malware or maybe your site appeared to be hacked. Google is now testing a feature to let you request that Google review the site and the specific security issue if you think Google mistakenly identified your site as having such a security issue. The announcement. “We’re piloting a new reporting system beginning with security issues,” Google said on Twitter. There is…

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This is the fifth Google product reviews update that comes out about a month after the last update. Google released the fifth version of the Google product reviews update on September 20th at around 4 am ET, this one is named September 2022 product reviews update. Google told us a couple of weeks ago to expect this update, which is unusual in terms of being so soon after the most recent product reviews update, which was the July 2022 product reviews update. This is the fifth product reviews update, a search ranking algorithm update targeted…

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Of countless Google algorithm updates introduced over the last decade, here are the ones that changed SEO forever. Google claims to update its search algorithm several thousand times per year. In the absolute majority of cases, Google algorithm updates are too small to notice. But, every once in a while, Google introduces a change so fundamental, that it disrupts the way we do SEO forever. In this post, we will be counting down eight of the most critical search algorithm changes. We will look into why these updates were introduced, how they…

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