Today on Google.com is a special Google Doodle for Felicitas Mendez on the first day of Hispanic Heritage Month. Felicitas Gómez Martínez de Mendez was a Puerto Rican activist in the American civil rights movement. In 1946, Mendez and her husband led an educational civil rights battle that changed California and set an important legal precedent for ending de jure segregation in the United States

Responding to changing consumer behavior, Google starts emphasizing BOPIS Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

Yesterday we reported for the second time that the Google Search Console coverage report was super delayed, over 14-days. Well, this morning, it looks like all is fixed. I am seeing data as recent as a couple of days ago

Google’s John Mueller said in a webmaster hangout at the 10:02 mark that Google Search Console will be dropping the crawl anomaly data from the reports. Google said it will be doing something better with it, “reclassifying it as something more useful,” John Mueller said.

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…

Custom Audiences will replace two previous audience definitions, and are available for display, YouTube, Discovery, and Gmail campaigns. The post Google Combines Custom Affinity and Custom Intent Into Custom Audiences via @SusanEDub appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Google’s John Mueller advises SEOs and site owners there’s no ranking benefit associated with having keywords in a domain name. The post Google’s John Mueller: Keywords in Domain Name Aren’t Needed via @MattGSouthern appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Google Ads has launched a new report named the ad destination report. Google said this new report will help you understand “how your customers convert” on your web site.

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