John Mueller presented at SEO Day virtually and someone noticed that on his Chrome browser was this little robot extension and shared a screen shot of it on Twitter. I am not sure what it does but I would guess it does some internal debugging related to Google Search and is not a public extension. I can be wrong
The performance planner tool in Google Ads now has been upgraded to support Shopping campaigns. Performance Planner now supports Shopping campaigns and Smart Shopping campaigns in Google Ads.
Last week, Tuesday and Wednesday, September 2nd and September 3rd, the Local RankFlux tool showed significant changes to the local rankings in Google Search. But I didn’t see much chatter in the local communities.
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Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…
Bing announced a new URL inspection tool that diagnoses issues and provides suggestions for how to make a page rank better.
Martin Splitt and Lily Ray in the latest SEO mythbusting video has just been released and it is chockfull of information around content. If you write content on your web sites, which I hope you do, you will want to watch this video.
Google is investing in new efforts to ward off vandalism in search results and ensure information remains relevant and reliable. The post Google’s New Measures to Protect Search Results From Vandalism via @MattGSouthern appeared first on Search Engine Journal .
The attributes should start appearing in Search and Maps soon. They are intended to give consumers confidence and manage their expectations. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article
Greg Finn posted a petition on Change.org hoping the SEM community can sign it and influence Google to change its mind around hiding data in the Google Ads search term report. He wants it to be advertiser choice and advertisers can opt out of Google hiding this data.