Google is clearly moving into the home service professionals recommendation space with a new advertising product called Home Service beta ads. Dr. Pete was the first one to spot these new ads, and then AdWords confirmed them. @BryantGarvin No, not the ad that @dr_pete had a screenshot of. This is a beta Home Service ad, […]
Does Google Focus More on High Search Volume Keywords for SEO?
Gary Illyes responded to an interesting question on Twitter which questions whether Google puts more focus on keywords with higher search volume over those keywords with a lower search volume. @Jonny_J_ No. — Gary Illyes (@methode) July 30, 2015 In some respects, I could see why some would think this is a possibility. After all, […]
Google Adds App Interstitials as Mobile Usability Error in Search Console
Google is taking the first step to reduce the number of app interstitials presented to mobile users when visiting a website. Starting August 14th, Google will begin treating webpages that serve users with a full page app interstitial as a mobile usability error in Google Search Console. August 14 Having a full-page interstitial popup on […]
Google AdWords Launches App Install Ads on Google Play
Do you have an app you would love to see advertised on the Google Play store? If so, you are in luck because Google AdWords has just launched Search Ads on the Google Play store. Google began testing the new ads on Google Play in February as part of a pilot program, but have now […]
More From Google on Blocked CSS & JavaScript Warnings
We have some more information about all those email alerts that Google Search Console sent to webmasters yesterday. How Many Messages Sent? If you were paying attention on Twitter, it seemed like everyone was getting these alerts. Google sent a lot fewer of them than they sent of those mobile friendly warnings a few months […]
How to Unblock All CSS & Javascript for Googlebot Using Robots.txt
If you have received one of the many warnings Google sent out about “Googlebot cannot access CSS and JS files” in your Google Search Console, there has been much confusion about how to ensure you are allowing Googlebot to crawl these blocked resources without potentially opening yourself up to security issues, as the commonly blocked […]
How to Find Blocked CSS & Javascript in Google Search Console
Have you received one of the new “Googlebot cannot access CSS & JS files” warnings but don’t know how to find out what has been blocked? Some will be for third party resources which Google has previously said webmasters do not need to worry about. While there are likely some false-positives, some of those are […]
New “Googlebot cannot access CSS and JS files” in Google Search Console
Google Search Console has begun sending out a brand new warning to webmasters who are blocking CSS and JavaScript on their websites. The new warning, also referred to as [WNC-658001] is send by both email and as an alert in Google Search Console for affected websites. Googlebot cannot access CSS and JS files on _____ […]
Google Ranks Desktop Content for Mobile But Check for Discrepancies
At SMX in June, Gary Illyes surprised many when he mentioned that Google still ranked the desktop page for their mobile search results. Maile Ohye later clarified that while they do rank desktop, they do run comparison checks to ensure the content “matches up” between the two, so that someone can’t be spamming mobile users […]
Yahoo Testing Ratings Only Ads in Search Results
Yahoo is testing an interesting way to display ads in their search results, with ads that are nothing more than the rating with the website name and a “Top Rated Sponsors” header in the sidebar. They only show up on the right hand sidebar of the search results and they appear above the “see more […]