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Google says it is making progress, but there are still days for which reporting is inaccurate. Another update in the Google Ads reporting bug saga that started on May 2. There’s progress on the store visits and store sales data inaccuracies. The latest update. Store sales and...

The faster Assistant will be available on Pixel phones ‘later this year’ and could become a major competitive advantage. Google’s Assistant is on a billion devices. Google sees it as a kind of connective tissue in its growing device ecosystem, from smartphones to the...

Details are scant in an alert currently showing in the Google Ads UI. Google Ads is currently alerting users that there is a reporting issue affecting this week’s data. What’s the notice? A notice that appears in the web UI at sign-in says, “Google Ads reporting for April 30 and...

Optimize shopping campaigns with n-grams. Search marketers know the value of search queries varies drastically from query to query. Metrics such as conversion rate or revenue per click (RPC) help uncover valuable search terms. However, even with this information it is difficult...

Users will be asked to choose from among five search and browser apps in randomized order. In a European antitrust decision last year, Google was ordered stop compelling phone makers to pre-install Google apps to gain access to Google Play. The decision came with a €4.3 billion...

On Friday, Google said it fully resolved the de-indexing issue that started on Thursday afternoon. But now Google is saying it is not fully resolved just yet and is still working on reprocessing a lot of the URLs that were delisted from the search index on Friday. Google suspects...

Increased competition between hotels and vacation rentals should increase visibility for rental providers — and boost Google Hotel Ads revenue. Google recently redesigned and added features to its hotel search interface to make it more intuitive and useful for both desktop...

Google Ads the other day introduced a new feature in their console to suggest to you the columns they think are important for you to see in your dashboard. Google calls this “recommended columns.” Google will suggest columns to you based on your campaign and account...

Google has been deprecating, killing off support for, their old AJAX crawling scheme since 2015. It has been dying a slow death but now Google’s John Mueller has said on Twitter is has been fully deprecated. John said “We crawl, render, index the URLs with #! now, we...

Google Analytics is used by more than 28.8 billion websites since its inception in 2005. And many have attempted to find a ‘one size fits all’ approach as far as attribution models are concerned. While this is admirable in and of itself, it also goes against the very nature of...