For most web savvy users, checking the URL to ensure that it is a legitimate google.com URL is pretty standard, and ensuring that everything before the first / looks legitimate. Many phishers and hackers use URLs like www.google.com.someotherurl.com/blahblah.html to disguise links (for reference, the bolded part shows the true domain – the google.com part of […]
Archives for October 25, 2016
Google’s Manual Actions Not Showing Up In Google Search Console
If you are waiting for a manual action to show up in Google Search Console, you might be waiting a bit. There is currently an issue where manual actions are not showing up as expected. The issue seemed to start on October 19th, so just under a week ago, when there seemed to be an […]
Using Strikethrough Text on Google AdWords Ads
While advertisers have not been able to use emojis in AdWords ads for some time now, it seems there is another eyecatching way an advertiser can play with the look of their ads – this time by using strikethrough text. Here is how it appears in the search results. First, as it appears in the […]