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Google is rolling out a new look for call-only ads which is said to help drive higher quality leads. The updated layout for call-only ads displays the business’s phone number at the top, while business name and headline is now placed below the phone number in smaller text. Here’s a comparison of the new layout…
In a Webmaster Hangout, Google’s John Mueller answered the question of how to stop Google from crawling and indexing a staging server. What is a Staging Server? A staging server, or staging site, is a section of a server or website that is used to test a new version of a website. If a publisher…
Several publishers reported trouble with Google’s URL removal tool. Submitted URLs were reported to be sitting in the queue but not processing. The issue doesn’t appear to be widespread though. Twelve hours after publishers reported the bug Google, a company that employs over 10,000 search quality raters, had yet to respond. URL Removal Tool Reported…
ADVERTISEMENT Ahead of Advertising Week, YouTube will be announcing Video Reach Campaigns, which offer brand marketers “simpler ways to drive growth across the customer journey with video,” according to a blog post this morning by Vishal Sharma, the Vice President of Product Management at YouTube. Now, if you boiled down the 665 words in Sharma’s…
ADVERTISEMENT YouTube has officially backtracked on controversial plans to take away ‘verified’ badges from some creators. The original plan was to introduce new criteria for earning verification status, and removing existing badges from channels that no longer meet the new criteria. YouTube announced these plans on Thursday and went back on its decision roughly 24…
Google has added another new structured data report, allowing site owners to quickly check whether breadcrumb markup has been implemented correctly. The ‘Breadcrumbs’ report appears under the Enhancements section in Search Console along with other reports related to the implementation of structured data. Just like other structured data reports, this one shows users which sets…
Google Chrome on Android will soon receive an update that provides answers to search results without having to actually submit a query. As users type queries into Chrome’s address bar, answers will show up in the section underneath along with other recommended queries. “Now on both desktop and Android, answers will show up inside the…
Google announced an algorithm update intended to rank original news higher. Despite Google’s update, apparently an authority site like Yahoo News can syndicate content and outrank the original. Google’s Top Stories Ranks Syndicated Content Syndicated content is original content that is licensed to be republished by another publisher, in this case Yahoo News. In a…
In the latest instalment of the #AskGoogleWebmasters video series, John Mueller addresses a question about AJAX crawling. Here is the question that was submitted: “What is the current status of #! AJAX crawling? How do I set up redirects?” Mueller addresses both parts of this question. His responses for each are summarized in the sections…