Google research: PPC ads drive 50% incremental clicks In 2012, Google released a study, Impact Of Ranking Of Organic Search Results On The Incrementality Of Search Ads .
More sites move to Google mobile-first indexing In 2018, Google announced it had enabled mobile-first indexing for more websites. This was the first time Google had confirmed it was moving a large number of sites to this mobile-first indexing process. Google told us in October 2017 that a limited number of sites had been moved over.
Google Panda patent granted In 2014, a patent ( Ranking search results ) written by Google’s Navneet Panda and Vladimir Ofitserov – possibly describing the Google Panda algorithm update , or parts of it – was granted. However, the fact that Google was granted this patent didn’t necessarily mean it was being used by Google at the time, or that it hadn’t been modified since the application was filed. Read all about it in Google Granted Patent For Panda Algorithm and dive deeper into Bill Slawski’s Google’s Panda Granted a Patent on Ranking Search Results and Is Ranking Search Results the Panda Patent? on SEO by the Sea.
Google’s top 3 search ranking factors In 2016, Google’s Andrey Lipattsev revealed that links, content and RankBrain were the top three ranking signals in Google’s search algorithm. RankBrain was the third most important ranking factor. Google told us so in 2015.
Google Search Console to show event rich results errors for missing locations 2022: Google Search Console’s rich results report could now show you more warnings for event structured data markup if the event is missing a location.
rel=next/prev was not found on Google. That’s an error. In 2019, we learned Google had stopped supporting the rel=next/prev markup it had
Google Business Profiles new emergency help attributes for Ukraine support 2022: Google also added hotel attributes to define if hotels offered support to those displaced from Ukraine. Brands, especially restaurants, need FAQs and ‘coronapages’ fast 2020: It was critical that precautions being taken were discoverable in search results.
Google blocks 3.1 billion ads in a tumultuous 2020, says annual Ads Safety Report 2021: The report listed misinformation around COVID-19 and the political climate, as well as ad fraud, as top concerns.
Google Univeral Analytics: The beginning of the end In 2022, Google announced its plan to deprecate Universal Analytics on July 1, 2023. (That’s 106 days from today.) Previously processed data in Universal Analytics will be stored for at least six months after the deprecation date. Why was Google making the switch to Google Analytics 4
Google rolls out Search Ads 360 integration for Google Analytics 4 2022: Integrating enabled advertisers to see sessions, users and conversions within the context of dimensions such as source, campaign, medium and default channel grouping.