Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google Assistant might take weeks to reach your Android phoneMar 3, 2017 by Danny Sullivan Google Assistant is officially available for my Android phones this week, …
Read More »Search in Pics: Google sleep capsules, YouTube control room & golden Android figurine
In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have and more. YouTube control room at the Google Moscow office: Source: Instagram Google …
Read More »How to monitor Google Knowledge Graph changes and performance
Google’s Knowledge Graph is a very prominent part of organic search results. By now, searchers are accustomed to seeing the panel that appears on the right side of the search result page that provides information about entities such as people, places and brands. Individuals and companies alike are striving to …
Read More »Google Assistant might take weeks to reach your Android phone
Excited to get Google Assistant on your Android phone? You might have to hang in there. While Google Assistant officially rolled out this week to phones beyond Google’s own Pixel, the company says it might take a few weeks to reach your device. Google Assistant is Google’s new digital assistant to take …
Read More »SearchCap: Google code syntax search, AdWords second line and AMP analytics bug
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Using AMP? A known bug is probably screwing up your Google AnalyticsMar 2, 2017 by Danny Sullivan Issue can cause visitors to be overcounted, single sessions …
Read More »Google makes it easier to search for programming languages answers
Google announced they now let you search using sequences of two or three special characters, something many coders do when looking for programming help in search. So now you can go to Google and search for technical queries such as [== vs ===] and [+=]. Google gave the example, if …
Read More »AdWords Expanded Text Ads could get even longer with second description line test
If you thought the 80 character description line available in expanded text ads already afforded a lot more room to get your message across, you could soon be seeing double that character count. Valerio Celetti noticed the option to add a second description line to expanded text ads in …
Read More »Using AMP? A known bug is probably screwing up your Google Analytics
If you are using the Google-backed Accelerated Mobile Pages, there appears to be an excellent chance that those AMP pages are not being tracked correctly, if you use Google Analytics. Christian Oliveira, a technical SEO consultant, posted a long, technical explanation of the issues AMP is giving with proper tracking …
Read More »Bing Ads Editor for Mac is now available to everyone
After running in beta in the US since last June, Bing Ads Editor is now available globally. The Mac version of the desktop editing tool for Bing Ads campaigns has been at the top of advertisers’ feature requests lists for years. The Mac version has parity with the Windows desktop editor, …
Read More »Google gives SEO tips on how to handle day-long site closures
John Mueller, a Webmaster Trends Analyst at Google, wrote a blog post explaining how SEOs and webmasters can handle site outages or closures that last for a day or longer. This is when a webmaster intentionally takes down the site for maintenance, site moves, religious reasons or other reasons. John …
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