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 […]
Google AdSense Publishers Required to Add EU User Consent Policy to Sites
If you are using Google AdSense and serve any visitors from the European Union, you are now required to ask those visitors permission to use their data. You have probably all come across instances where you see something asking you for permission for cookies on the top of a website, something that is especially common […]
Google Manual Actions Issued for Image Mismatch Including Hotlink Prevention
If you have suddenly noticed many of your images suddenly being dropped from the Google Image Search results, Google has been issuing manual action penalties for the little known “image mismatch” manual action. While the manual action targets those who are displaying different images on the site to users when compared to the images shown […]
Google Product Listing Ads With “Price Drop”
Google has added a new type of notation to their Product Listing Ads (aka shopping ads), this time allowing retailers to add a notation when the price of a product has dropped by a certain percentage. They are being displayed for Product Listing Ads that appear both above the search results and in the right […]
Google to Restrict Autocomplete API Access on August 10, 2015
If you have a tool or website that uses the unsupported Google autocomplete API, be warned that your access will be shut off next month. On August 10, 2015, Google will begin restricting access to the autocomplete API. The autocomplete API gave suggestions for commonly used terms to complete the search query a user is […]