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Google has confirmed a bug impacting how ads are served on Gmail desktop with Safari browsers. Google has confirmed a bug impacting how ads are served on Gmail desktop with Safari browsers. This is impacting only Google Ads that should be served in Gmail for users accessing their email using the Safari desktop browser. What is the issue. The issue seems to be an issue with displaying or serving the ads to this “significant subset of users” on Safari desktop while accessing Gmail. When it started. Google said this issue first started on Saturday…

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Mobile or online sports bets can be placed in New York beginning Saturday morning and with that Google Ads is adapting. New York state will begin allowing mobile or online sports bets to be placed beginning Saturday, January 8, 2022. With that Google has updated its Google Ads gambling policy to allow ads for sports betting from certified and state-licensed entities in New York State. This was confirmed by the New York State Gaming Commission yesterday and it goes into effect tomorrow at 9am local time. The announcement. Google posted the announcement saying…

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Google Ads was down Tuesday evening, impacting a large number of users. Users started experiencing issues with Google Ads Tuesday evening. The company acknowledged an issue impacting its users. We’re aware of a problem with Google Ads affecting a significant subset of users. Just under three hours later, the company said the problems was fixed. The problem with Google Ads has been resolved. We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience and continued support. The affected users are able to access Google Ads, but may not have access to…

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This overlapped other ranking updates and a Google map and local pack update design change. Google has confirmed that it ran a local search ranking update between November 30th and December 8th — it is calling the November 2021 local search update. Google said this update was about “rebalancing of various factors we consider in generating local search results.” Why we care. You may have noticed significant local ranking changes in the Google Maps and local pack results. This, along with the new local interface update, may have resulted in traffic changes to your…

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RankRanger and Semrush provided us with exclusive data breaking down the two product reviews updates we had this year. On December 1, 2021, Google began to roll out the second product reviews update of the year, the December 2021 product reviews update. This was at the tail-end of the November 2021 core update that finished rolling out the day before, on November 30, 2021 (note, this is an important point for this story). RankRanger and Semrush, two SEO toolsets, sent us data that showed that the December 2021 product reviews update was more volatile than the April…

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The new Competitive visibility report can help merchants get a more defined view of their reach across Shopping ads and free listings, who their competitors are and how visible their offers are compared to their competitors. Competitive visibility reports in Google Merchant Center are now available in open beta, Google has confirmed to Search Engine Land. The metrics within the reports include relative visibility, page overlap rate and higher position rate. Tip of the hat to Gianpaolo Lorusso for bringing this to our attention. A screenshot of the relative visibility report. Image:…

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The results from this data showed that this rollout hit hard within the first 24 hours of the announcement and then slowed fast. On November 17, 2021, Google began rolling out the November 2021 core update, this came about four and a half months after the July 2021 core update, which was a month or so after the June 2021 core update. So, we had a total of three broad Google core updates in 2021. We asked several data companies that track Google’s search results to send us impressions of this update. The…

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The rulings carry implications for other platforms currently under investigation, as well as class action-style lawsuits against big tech, respectively. The European Union’s General Court has rejected an appeal by Google and upheld a $2.8 billion fine against the company, originally levied in 2017 for favoring its own content in shopping search results. Separately, the UK Supreme Court ruled in Google’s favor in a 2017 class action-style lawsuit in which the company was accused of illegally collecting data on iPhone users. The EU’s General Court upholds $2.8B fine. In 2017, the…

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This rollout took about 8 days to complete – so check your rankings to see if you were impacted. The Google November spam update that began rolling out on November 3rd is now fully rolled out. Google has updated us 8 days after it first started to roll out that the rollout is complete. The announcement. Here is the announcement about the update from Google on Twitter: Impact. It is hard to say the full impact of this update, we feel this update “had legs” but you would have only noticed this update if…

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Maybe it is best to avoid link building and build a site that naturally gains links? When Google released the real-time Penguin algorithm update, which some SEOs code-named 4.0, back in 2016, Google told us this version devalues or ignores most spammy links. For the most part, Google’s Penguin algorithm no longer penalized for bad links because it would aim to neutralize the spammy links and just not count them, as opposed to penalizing for them. John Mueller, a Search Advocate at Google, said on Friday in a video question and answer…

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