With all the changes and updates Google made recently, I wondered if some SEOs felt they couldn’t take off over the Christmas weekend holiday. Google gave us permission to take off but did you? It seems like most of you did based on this very unscientific and not statistically sound poll I did on Twitter

Google looks to be testing a new announcement section at the top of the Search Console interace. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

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Shaun Elley posted a screenshot of one of his ads in Google Ads showing a status of “eligible (limited) policy (past violation).” This seems to mean that an ad you once had was disapproved because of a past violation but now that ad is not longer disapproved because Google later decided to no longer disapprove such types of ads.

Google had a busy year of search algorithm updates in 2021, but some might question the timing of many of those updates during an already super stressful year.

Google’s John Mueller was asked on Twitter why the pipeline to get data into the link report within Google Search Console seems slower than most the other reports. In short, John said that links is not an area they think SEOs should focus too much on and thus the report is not an area where Google thinks there is “any need to spend lots of resources” on.

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It’s unclear whether this feature will remain available once Smart Shopping campaigns are rolled into Performance Max campaigns in 2022. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

Did you know that most of the search algorithms Google launches work across all languages? There are exceptions, like when Panda first launched and the product reviews update and some others. Some launch first in some languages, like the English language, and some launch globally in all languages – like Penguin

Google Business Profiles now let’s you mark a product as special to pop it to the top.