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Daily Search Forum Recap: August 2, 2024

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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.


There is a Google Ads reporting outage that has been going on for a while now. I posted the monthly Google Webmaster report – worth checking out, I think. Google Local Service Ads automated lead dispute system is up, we got screenshots. Google Ads is now charging Canadians a 2.5% surcharge fee. Google Ads separate ad groups can remove AI-theming. Google is testing an explore more search box. Google Ads soon will allow pubic hair grooming serving ads. Plus, I posted the SEO video recap video.

Search Engine Roundtable Stories:


  • Google Ads Reporting & Some Interfaces Are Down For Advertisers


    Google Ads is currently having an outage for many of its reporting interfaces across Report Editor, Dashboards, and Saved Reports in the Google Ads web interface. Plus, The Products, Product Groups and Listing Groups pages are down across the web interface, API, and Google Ads Editor.

  • August 2024 Google Webmaster Report


    Here is the big monthly Google webmaster report, where I catch you up on what changes with Google Search related to Google updates, ranking volatility, SEO, Search Console, UI changes, local and much more. This month we had intense ranking volatility all month, we had autocomplete updates, deepfakes algorithm changes and a big search indexing bug.

  • Search News Buzz Video Recap: Intense Google Ranking Volatility, Deepfake Search Updates & Trump Autocomplete Tweaks




    This week we covered how Google said the core update isn’t extremely far away. We also reported on super intense Google Search ranking volatility change later this week and then the ongoing volatility with Google Search over the past few weeks…

  • Google Tests Explore More With Search Section


    Google seems to be encouraging searchers to search more for more types of queries with a new “Explore more with Search” carousel. It shows the searcher other topics, with photos, on what they can search on.

  • Google Local Service Ads Automated Lead Dispute System


    A few weeks ago, Google announced it is doing away with how it does credits and disputes for Local Service Ads and is switching to an automated system. It seems like that system is now live, up and running.


  • Separate Ad Group In Google Ads Can Remove AI-Theming


    Ginny Marvin, Google’s Ads Liaison, said if you put similar keywords in separate ad groups that can essentially make both eligible to be considered for auction selection. It would essentially remove AI-theming (if that is a word) because they are in different ad groups.

  • Google To Allow Pubic Hair Grooming Ads In September 2024


    Google will update its Google Ads policy on September 3, 2024, to allow public hair grooming services to be advertised on the Google Ads network, including Display, YouTube, and Search.


  • Google Ads Tacks On Canadian Advertisers A 2.5% Surcharge


    Google notified advertisers in Canada they are charging a 2.5% surcharge on top of everything for buying ads on Google. This is on top of many of these advertisers losing the credit card payment option, which was as good as cash for many of them.


  • Google Product Expert Diamond Certificate of Achievement


    Here is a photo of a certificate of achievement that Ben Fisher received from Google for his work as a Google Product Expert in the Google Business Profiles forums. This is a Diamond Status version from the Google Product Experts team.



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Google Ads Reporting & Some Interfaces Are Down

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Google Ads is currently having an outage for many of its reporting interfaces across Report Editor, Dashboards, and Saved Reports in the Google Ads web interface. Plus, The Products, Product Groups and Listing Groups pages are down across the web interface, API, and Google Ads Editor.

Google posted this update in the Google Ads status dashboard over here:

We’re actively looking into an issue with Google Ads. Report Editor, Dashboards, and Saved Reports in the Google Ads web interface are currently down. The Products, Product Groups and Listing Groups pages are down across the web interface, API, and Google Ads Editor. Thank you for your patience. We will provide an update as soon as we have more information.

It is dated today at 3:38 pm ET, but the issue may have started yesterday.

Ginny Marvin, the Google Ads Liaison, wrote on X, “We’re actively looking into an issue with Google Ads.”

Mike Ryan posted about an issue yesterday on X with reporting, he wrote, “Anyone else having troubles with the Google Ads connector in Looker Studio? I think maybe they are working on it & broke it temporarily.”

Google Ads Reports Issues

Kirk Williams wrote on X, “I’m not crazy! ha, couldn’t figure out why some things were working and some weren’t. Thanks for the update!”

So if you are having issues, Google is working on it.

Although, Google has not posted a resolution time.

Forum discussion at X.

Update at 6:55 PM ET: Google is still working on it:



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Daily Search Forum Recap: July 31, 2024

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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.


Google Ads launched new PMax reporting and AI generation tools. Google responded to the claims that it was censoring President Trump. Google Ads has click-to WhatsApp message assets. Google has this new hidden gems store section. Plus, Microsoft Advertising and Bing Search ad revenue was up 19%.


Search Engine Roundtable Stories:


  • Google Ads Launches New PMax Reporting Updates & AI Generation Tools


    Google announced new Performance Max reporting updates and asset generation and image editing expansions. “We’re adding asset-level conversion reporting to Performance Max, expanding asset generation to App and Display campaigns, improving image editing and much more,” Google wrote.

  • Google Improved Autocomplete Predictions After Trump Criticism


    Over the past few days, Google has come under fire over its autocomplete predictions in Google Search around former President, Donald Trump. In the wake of the issue, Google updated its autocomplete prediction system to make improvements in these cases.

  • Google “Hidden Gem Stores” Search Feature


    Google seems to be testing a new search feature named “Hidden gem stores.” This shows you shopping and merchant listings from various stores and brands. This does not seem to be the Google hidden gems algorithm, but rather just a fancy title for a search feature box.

  • Microsoft Bing Advertising Revenue Up 19% (Back To Growth?)


    Microsoft reported its fourth quarter 2024 earnings and it showed that its search and advertising revenue was up 19%. The last time it was up over 19% in a quarter was 10 quarterly earning reports ago, in Q3 2022.

  • Google Ads Click-To WhatsApp Messages


    Google Ads lets you set up message assets to click-to WhatsApp for some advertisers. Message assets allow you to configure an ad asset or button with your responsive search ads in Google Ads, these can lead some users to WhatsApp.


  • Google Certified Innovator


    Google had an event for Google for Education named Google Certified Innovator at the Brazil office. There are numerous photos from the event, here is one from Instagram that I found but you can see a lot more on Instagram.

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Daily Search Forum Recap: July 30, 2024

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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.


Google Search Console has a bug with the search appearance filters, it should be fixed soon. Google is testing replacing the X/Twitter header in the search results with “latest posts from.” Google Ads has a new ad format named “for your consideration.” Google Ads has a new Merchant Center integration with AI images. Google said don’t make your m-dot URLs the canonical.

Search Engine Roundtable Stories:



  • Google Search Console Performance Report Search Appearance Filter Bug (To Be Fixed)


    Google Search Console has a bug with the Search Performance report, where if you want to filter by Search Appearance, it won’t show you all the options. Google is aware of the bug and it should be fixed soon.

  • Google: Don’t Make Your M-Dot URLs The Canonical


    Google’s John Mueller repeated advice from a while ago that you should not switch your m-dot URLs to be the canonical URL, even though Google is fully switched over to mobile-first indexing. He said this is just because it is how it is done, how it was done, and switching it on Google’s end would cause many large sites issues.

  • Google May Replace X (Twitter) With Latest Posts From


    Google Search may be replacing the heading for “X (Twitter)” posts with “Latest Posts from.” This would be a step to removing more X branding from the Google Search results page.


  • New Google Ads Format “For Your Consideration”


    Google may be testing a new search ad format named “for your consideration.” These ads, at least in the example below, show hotel websites that you can go to to find hotels in the area. This may work for other categories of queries, outside of hotels, but this is the example I see right now.

  • New Google Ads Google Merchant Center Feed Integration In AI Image Editor


    Google has a new Google Ads feature within Google Merchant Center feeds in AI image editor that enables you to import product images from your Merchant Center feeds into your Google Ads account. The images will then be stored and available for use in the Google Ads Asset Library. “You can leverage product images to generate new campaign images using AI-powered image editing in Google Ads,” Google added.


  • Waymo Car On Display At Google


    Google has a Waymo car on display at its Google headquarters in Mountain View, California – the GooglePlex. Waymo is Google’s self-driving car project and I guess they wanted to put this on display at the office there.

Other Great Search Threads:

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Industry & Business

Links & Content Marketing

Local & Maps

Mobile & Voice

SEO

PPC

Search Features

Other Search

Feedback:


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