Get Your COVID19 Ad Credits From Google Before They Are Gone!

In all this COVID19 mess it seems it’s just bad news after bad news for small to medium-sized businesses. Well, there is good news from Google! If you are a current Google Ads client and you have actively run PPC campaigns 10 out of 12 months in 2019 as well as January and February of 2020 then you may be eligible for some ad credits! Google has allocated $340 million to ad credits for qualifying businesses so take action now and see if you can get your share! Google is also additionally helping with funding for businesses worldwide by providing…

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Google Shopping Free!

Once upon a time there was this thing called Froogle which then later turned into Google Shopping. While Froogle was free the other turned into a pay service for featuring your products in Google. Well guess what? Google Shopping is now available to merchants that sell products for free! You no longer must pay to be in Google Shopping. If you have a product that qualifies then you will now have the ability to appear in Google Shopping for free. If you are already running paid ads, then nothing has changed for you and you have been automatically opted into the…

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Was There A Google Update New Years?

There was chatter in the SEO community as to if there was a Google update New Year’s Eve? The monitors and Search Engine journal say no. This just made me think about how much freak out happens about Google updating their algorithm and is it really that scary?I think the answer is mixed. I have had 20 years’ worth of Google updates behind me and honestly very few have been as impactful as Panda and Penguin. Those were major for anyone that had been using what I would call a gray hat methodology. Which is where you did not exactly…

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Raise Your Hand If You Looked At Google Analytics Today & Thought Ohhh No!

So, like many of you first thing this morning I am going over stats to see how things are looking. It’s kind of my routine look at traffic look at rankings and then start the day.Well today I look, and I see a giant drop in traffic to some of my sites that usually are pretty rock solid, and the coffee just did not taste as good! Google Analytics Traffic Reporting Glitch - Breathe Easy! Thanks to Search Engine Roundtable which I would recommend you subscribe to if you have an interest in what goes on in the world of…

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