Google’s Looker Studio has lost access to the Google Ads Auction Insights fields as of August 24, 2024 for new data sources. Then after September 23, 2024 it will no longer be available for existing data sources.

Google Ads announced a number of updates yesterday, across new reporting, shopping tools and more ad features, including, of course, AI ad features. “To help retailers maximize success and stay nimble in this year’s shorter holiday shopping season, today at our annual Think Retail event we shared some new updates to Google tools,” Google wrote.

Tons of Google Ads advertisers are noticing a new button available in the Google Ads advertiser interface named “internal tools.” There is a lock icon for the internal tools button and when you click on it, it has the headline “audience builder.”

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Google’s Martin Splitt answered a question about nofollow links and quality signals The post Google Says If Internal Nofollow Links Send A Quality Signal appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Google’s John Mueller observed that best practices have minimal effect on SEO The post Google Says Best Practices Can Have Minimal Effect appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

YouTube expands course creation feature, allowing more creators to offer paid educational content and unlock new revenue streams. The post YouTube Rolls Out Paid Courses To More Channels appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Google’s Martin Splitt commented on whether a YouTube video converted into text content could be negatively impacted as a duplicate The post Google On YouTube “Cannibalization” Of Web Content appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Critical WPML vulnerability enables remote code execution, impacting over 1 million WordPress websites The post WordPress Translation Plugin Vulnerability Affects +1 Million Sites appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.