It looks like Google has given its Googlebot crawler a brand new iPhone. If you track Googlebot visits to your site, or emulate one to “view as Googlebot” for testing purposes, you should be aware that Googlebot has a new iPhone user-agent to reflect the iOS 8 from iOS 6 difference. The new iPhone Googlebot […]
Archives for August 21, 2015
Google Analytics Asking for User Feedback
Google Analytics seems to be the latest Google product to ask for feedback from its users. When I logged into Google Analytics this morning, I got this pop-up layover on the bottom right of the Analytics screen, this led to a series of questions about the product, satisfaction level, and how they could improve upon […]
New Automated Extensions for Google’s Product Listing Ads
Just in time for the holiday advertising ramp up, Google announced automated extensions for Shopping campaigns in Adwords, officially known as Product Listing Ads. Automated extensions will be replacing promotional texts in PLAs. Promotional text was used to include additional ad copy in a PLA. These promotional texts are entered into Adwords manually. We have […]
Facebook Allowing Animated GIFs in Ads & Boosted Posts Test
It seems that auto-play video ads aren’t the only thing that will be annoying Facebook users. Facebook is now allowing businesses to post animated GIFs in both ads and boosted posts. Facebook actually began to allow animated GIFs for personal Facebook users, however most people aren’t aware that Facebook made the change in May. Facebook […]