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Google Tag Gains Tap Coverage, Ads, Analytics & CMS Integration

Google has updated the Google tag (the new Google tag) to include a new tap coverage summary and offering deeper Google Ads, Google Analytics, and various CMS integrations. Google wrote “we’re unveiling another set of capabilities that provide more visibility into your site’s measurement coverage and simplify the setup.”
The new Tag coverage summary, you can quickly determine whether your Google tag has been implemented on all of your website pages. You can use the Tag coverage summary to see which pages of your website have the Google tag installed and quickly identify pages that are not tagged.
This summary will show you where your tags are implemented in suggested pages, which can be added to your summary to understand your tag coverage on these pages later. Also, if the suggestions do not include all of your website pages, you can quickly add the URLs by entering them or uploading a CSV file. Finally, you can also click the Tag Assistant icon next to each page to investigate whether your tags are implemented properly.
Google will be adding easier integration with Google Ads and Google Analytics in the coming weeks. Google said these integrations will be built into “the through account setup and conversion setup flows in Google Ads and Google Analytics.” These new features will make it faster and easier to set up conversion measurements. You won’t need to add more code to your website, which often relies on technical expertise or assistance from other departments. During the setup process, you will be directed to set up the Google tag or reuse an existing one during account setup.
Plus, some popular CMS platforms also added integration. This allows advertisers using a content management system can set up a Google tag without making changes to their website code.
Forum discussion at Twitter.
Source: www.seroundtable.com
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Google Hanukkah Decorations Are Live For 2023

Hanukkah (aka Chanukah) starts this coming Thursday night, December 7th. Google has added its Hanukkah decorations to the Google Search results interface to celebrate. Google does this every year and I expect to see the same rollout in the coming weeks for Christmas and Kawanzaa but for now, since Chanukah is in the coming days, we have the Hanukkah decorations live at Google Search.
Here is a screenshot of the Chanukah decorations as they look like on the mobile search results.
You can see it yourself by searching on Google for [chanukah], [hanukkah], but not yet [חֲנוּכָּה] or other spelling variations yet but it should soon. It looks better on mobile than it does on desktop results.
To see the past, the 2023 decorations, 2021 decorations, 2020 Chanukah decorations, 2019 Google holiday decorations, the 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010 and so on.
Happy Chanukah, everyone!
Forum discussion at X.
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Google Pay Accepted Icons In Google Search Results

Google seems to be testing a Google Pay Accepted label or icon in the Google search results. This label has the super G logo followed by the words “Pay accepted” words next to search result snippets that support Google Pay and notate such in their structured data.
This was first spotted by Khushal Bherwani who shared some screenshots of this on X – here is one:
Here are some more screenshots:
Here is test and without test window for same query. pic.twitter.com/n9cYWBOsro
— Khushal Bherwani (@b4k_khushal) October 20, 2023
Brodie Clark also posted some screenshots after on X:
In continuation from the test from October, Google is now testing out a new Google Pay label associated with organic results. Last month, Google was testing Pay Accepted text, with this month changing it to Pay encrypted checkout. More details: https://t.co/MvFNoPmMDR pic.twitter.com/WDVVc4RbTO
— SERPs Up 🌊 (@SERPalerts) November 30, 2023
I tried to replicate this but I came up short.
This is not the first time Google had similar icons like this in its search results.
Forum discussion at X.
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Google Discover Showing Older Content Since Follow Feature Arrived

Typically, Google Discover shows content that is less than a day old, but it can show content that is weeks, months, or even years old. However, typically, Google will show more recent content in the Discover feed. Well, that may have changed with the new Google follow feature.
Glenn Gabe, who is a very active Google Discover user, noticed that since the Follow feature rolled out, he has been seeing content that is weeks and months old way more often than before the follow feature rolled out. Glenn wrote on X that “this could also be playing a role. i.e. Google isn’t providing as much recent content, but instead, focusing on providing targeted content based on the topics you are following.”
It makes sense that if you follow a specific topic and if Google Discover only shows the most authoritative types of content, it might be hard for Google to find new content on that topic. So it does make sense that Google may show older content more often for that specific topic you follow.
Here are screenshots Glenn shared:
Have you noticed this in your Discover feed?
Forum discussion at X.
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