Google is making changes to their Safe Browsing filter so that more users will see warnings alerting users that a site has been compromised or is using unsafe practices that could cause harm to the user’s computer, such as malware, ad injectors, phishing and unwanted software downloads. Last year, we announced our increased focus on […]
Google AdWords Launches New Display Tab With Summary Feature
Google AdWords has quietly launched a new display tab in Adwords. It now has an additional section called “Summary” which features user-friendly and interactive graphs. It contains a snapshot overview that is represented on the graph below it. Clicking on another performance data points changes the data in that graph and all of the charts. […]
How Would You Improve Google Search Console Messaging?
How would you improve the messaging in Google Search Console? Or what would you love to see added or removed? Google is looking for feedback about what you would like to see changed with the messages within Search Console. Mariya Moeva, a Google Webmaster Trends Analyst, has posted a survey for webmasters that asks for […]
Google Analytics Working on Referral Spam Solution
Annoyed at all the spam referrals in Google Analytics telling you to buy followers or download website buttons? Google Analytics is working on a solution to the problem. At Mozcon today, Adam Singer from Google Analytics confirmed that they realize the spam referral issue in Google Analytics is an issue and they are working on […]
Google Search Console Making Changes to Whom Receives Site Messages
Google Search Console is making some changes in the coming weeks to whom exactly will receive site related emails about issues or problems. When the change comes into play, only direct owners of the site in question (child sites) will receive the emails, not owners of parent sites as well. For consultants who might only […]
Google Adding Lottery Numbers Featured Snippets
Google is starting to display lottery numbers in the search results as a featured snippet at the top of the search results. Pedro Dias posted this screenshot on Twitter and Google+. This doesn’t seem to be active in the US or Canada as of this writing, but it could be rolling out across languages. This […]
Google Sending Hreflang Implementation Warning Notices in Search Console
Google is sending out error messages to users for incorrect implementation on Hreflang through Google Search Console, warning webmasters if they have made mistakes while implementing it on a site. Dan Sharp, the Founder & Director of Screaming Frog tweeted one of the warning emails. The warning is fairly standard about possible hreflang issues that […]
Google Adds New Options When Closing Mobile Ads
Google announced had they were making changes to mobile ads to reduce the liklihood that people would accidentily “fat finger” an ad while trying to close it. And now we have seen how they are putting this into action. Here is an ad how it normally appears, with the X to close. But after it […]
Google Testing 4 Line Description Snippets in Search Results
Google is testing out longer snippets in the descrption for some Google search results, giving some results 4 lines of description over the standard two lines that you see in the majority of results. While Wikipedia triggered the first 4 lines of description as information sites, as you can see with the Hobbycraft result, commercial […]
How to Properly Format Last Modified (lastmod) for XML Sitemaps
If you have a burning desire to properly format last modified (lastmod) time for xml sitemaps, you are in luck because Gary Illyes from Google has posted everything you need to know in order to format it properly. Illyes commented on StackOverflow how to do it properly, also mentioning that it is mostly ignored by […]