Wash Up Monday

Google Updates Google Maps has removed fake businesses & local reviews - The search giant has said that in order to combat Google Maps spam and violations, they have removed around 4 million fake business profiles from their Google My Business programme last year. They have also removed around 75 million policy-violating reviews from local profiles. Below…

Google Updates Google Ads enables audience sharing – Google has announced that you can now enable continuous audience sharing in your manager accounts. This means that you do not have to share them manually all the time, but rather just enable it and Google will continually share the audience lists across accounts. They mention that whether your goal is to…

Google Google is testing a new home page design - There has been chatter and screenshots on social media showing a Google home page test. This new test has a few noticeable changes, the blue background on the Google Search button, the blue font in the buttons and the microphone button is outside of the search box. Google Ads now…

Google Google increases AMP custom CSS limit - The team at Google has increased the AMP custom CSS limit from 50KB to 75KB, which is a 50% increase. It was mentioned by someone at Google on their social media profile and that it is now up fully live. Google search app gets Siri shortcut - They have added a new Siri…

Google Google Ads switches to standard delivery for all campaign types - They have announced that they will be switching all campaigns, not just search campaigns or even shopping campaigns but also display, video, as well as hotel campaigns to standard delivery. This is expected to start happening next month and they say that any campaign using accelerated delivery will be switched…

Google Google search console report colours have been updated - Google have updated some of the colours that is used within the Google search console reports, such as the performance report. The colours are now blue, purple, green and orange. The previous colours were blue, light blue, green and purple. Google search console removals tool - They have rolled out…

Google Google drops a website's normal snippet when featured snippet is displayed - Back in 2019, around November you may have seen that Google had been testing the removal of the normal snippet from the Google search results when Google shows a featured snippet for that site/URL. It seems that after many tests, they have launched it and no…

Google Google is starting to send data-vocabulary.org schema deprecation notices - They have announced that on April 6, 2020 it will no longer support data-vocabulary.org schema. Google says that with the increasing usage and popularity of schema.org, they have decided to focus their development on a single SD scheme. They are giving webmasters, SEOs, site owners a few months to transition…

Google Google search console notification of Chrome warnings - Google is sending out notifications to webmasters who are running TLS 1.1 or lower. The notification does not say that Google search will rank the site lower or delist the site but rather Chrome, Google's browser will show a "not secure" warning to users if the site is running anything…

Google Google Maps and local links to other businesses - On Google maps and local, it used to show a business listing profile with the address, and near the address it sometimes shows other businesses nearby. Whereas now, it shows where that business is sandwiched in between other businesses. This is designed to help users find the place…