GMB listing’s insight reports are delaying due to bug!

There are many users in the Local Search Forums are complaining about Google My Business Insight Bug due to reporting issues. They are seeing weird reporting glitches in the GMB Insights section. This is not very common to see these horrific drops or data glitches in the reporting tool, I think after Search Console Indexing Bug this is happening with all Google products like delays  in Google Ads & AdSense reporting.

Google My Business Reporting Bus Complaints:

I am checking monthly insights for clients. I am seeing what visually looks like an insight reporting bug for views, and wondered if anyone is seeing this as well. I am seeing it across several clients/accounts and across locations for my multi-location clients. There is a trough that begins around 4/5-7 and recovers around 4/12-14. They all look similar to this screenshot. Anyone else seeing this?

Ok, after saw these complaints, I login to my GMB account and try to get the insight report which is missing. Google My Business Page showing me data may be delayed. The insights data may be missing or delayed due to reporting issues. There is no impact on the appearance of your business on Google. Here is the screenshot of SEOBizWorld: 

 

So I called to GMB support and got connected with CSR. They informed me that they are working on the insights section to make is more responsive. CSR also said that the GMB insight report will be back and available soon. Not all the users are seeing this issue but many have their concerns about Google My Business Reporting Bug. Like I said in the above that it should be related to Search Console Indexing Bug or maybe delays in Google Ads reporting. So if you are noticing these issues so please share your experience here. Find more details at Local Search Forums.

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What SEOs & Webmasters Should Watch At Google I/O 2019

Google I/O 2019 is starting from May 06 and will finish after 3 days, May 09, Thursday. Google I/O is the yearly festival for developers, SEOs and webmaster, where they announced new products, APIs and introduced frameworks. They published an agenda for SEOs and webmasters if they are not able to physically attend that event.  

This event held once-in-a-year, but you can also see and watch the live streamed on YouTube including conferences talks, and cross questioning. Google shared all the links that will bring to specific pages that are most relevant for SEOs and Webmasters. You can watch each session of Google I/O 2019 event – as per Pacific Central time (California time). According to Martin Splitt, it is well worth watching if you are an SEO. 

List of Google I/O 2019 Sessions which is useful to SEOs and Webmasters

• Tuesday, May 7th4pm – Building Successful Websites: Case Studies for Mature and Emerging Markets, with Aancha Bahadur, Charlie Croom, Matt Doyle, Rudra Kasturi, and Jesar Shah

• Wednesday, May 8th10.30am – Enhance Your Search and Assistant Presence with Structured Data, with Aylin Altiok and Will Leszczuk 11.30am – Create App-like Experiences on Google Search and the Google Assistant, with Allen Harvey 11.30am – Rapidly Building Better Web Experiences with AMP, with Adam Greenberg and Naina Raisinghani 6.30pm – Unlocking New Capabilities for the Web, with Pete LePage and Thomas Steiner

• Thursday, May 9th10.30am – Google Search: State of the Union, with John Mueller and Martin Splitt 1.30pm – Google Search and JavaScript Sites, with Zoe Clifford and Martin Splitt

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Google Search Console Monitoring Overall Structured Data Performance

Google announced at Webmaster Central Blog, that they have added three new reports in search console. They added unparsable structured data report and two enhancement reports including sitelinks searchbox and logo. Google introduced these new features in search console that will help webmasters and developers to  implement and diagnose structured data.

Unparsable Structured Data Report

Unparsable structured data is a new report that aggregates structured data syntax errors that prevented Google from identifying the feature type. Google said “that is the reason these issues are aggregated here instead of the intended specific feature report.” You can use this report to see if Google was unable to parse any of the structured data you tried to add to your site.

The report helps you with the following actions:

• Review the trends of errors, warnings and valid items: To view each status issue separately, click the colored boxes above the bar chart.
• Review warnings and errors per page: To see examples of pages which are currently affected by the issues, click a specific row below the bar chart.

Here is a screen shot:

You can check this report to see if Google was unable to parse any of the structured data you tried to add to your site. Below is a screenshot showing how the Unparsable Structured Data report looks like.

Logo & Sitelinks Searchbox Enhancements Report

This report is available under the enhancements section in Search Console, if you use the Logo markup or Sitelinks Searchbox. Here is the screenshot where you can find it:

You can read more about the reports in the Search Console Help Center.

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Google Introducing Auto-Delete Controls for Location History and Activity Data

Maybe you should know or maybe not, but it is true that Google is controlling and monitoring your search behaviour. But now you may be supervised that you can restrict Google to stop tracking you. David Monsees, Product Manager Search, announced that Google is introducing auto-delete controls for Location History and activity data.

So when you turn on settings in Google Account, the search engine can track your location history, Web & App data, which makes them to helpful for users. Google want to keep your data private and secure, but after received user’s feedback – they are rolling out new auto-delete controls feature for Location History and activity data to manage or delete it.

How To Use Google Auto-Delete Controls Feature?

Google explained that how you can use Auto-Delete Feature and turn on/off controls for Location History and Web & App Activity. If you want to delete all or some part of data manually, Google make it easy for you to manage or remove that data.

After this new feature complete rolled out, you can set auto-delete controls and set a time limit for how long you want your activity data to be saved, like for 3 or 18 months. The older Data will be automatically delete from your account on an ongoing basis. These controls are coming first to Location History and Web & App Activity and will roll out in the coming weeks.

Google said “You should always be able to manage your data in a way that works best for you–and we’re committed to giving you the best controls to make that happen.”

It’s sound really good but keep in mind, Google’s mobile apps tracking location data even when your mobile devices are off – no matter you’ve opted into Location History. According to survey New York Times, the US law enforcement agencies officially use ‘data mining‘ for criminal investigations.

Soon you will be able to setup auto-delete feature for Location History, and later on set for Web & App activity. But if you don’t like that Google track your every movement, you can turn off location history entirely.

How To Enable Google Auto-Delete Controls Feature:

• If you want to enable it, sign into your Google account
• Click on your profile picture and the Google account button.
• Click On Manage Data Personalization At Left Side Bar
• Click Web & App Activity
• Turn OFF (Pause) and un-check the Chrome history and activity from sites, apps, and devices that use Google services.
• Click on Manage Web & App Activity
• Delete Previous History

If you want to turn off Location history and other services, you have to do the same for video & audio activity, YouTube video search and watch history in the same way.

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Google Search Console Lost Data Effect Your Website Performance 

Due to lost data from April 9 to April 25^th, Google has confirmed reporting delays in Ads (formerly known as AdWords) and AdSense platforms. Plenty of publishers has received emails about upcoming changes in AdSense, many advertisers noticed and see that Google Ads reporting for April 30 and May 1 (Pacific Time) is incorrect.

Here is the current update about reporting delays in Google Ads & AdSense, “Reporting Issue – Google Ads reporting for April 30 and May 1 (Pacific Time) is incorrect. We will update this message when the issue is resolved and the data is corrected.”

I like to share the screenshot of Google Ads Reporting Delay Notice when advertisers can expand, after they login to their account.

I am also seeing tons of complaints from AdSense publishers regarding Google Ads & AdSense reporting delays. It is possibly related but there is not confirmation from Google on the AdSense reporting delay issues yet. See some of the complaints:

Google Ads Reporting Delay Notice:

I think after the release of v1.1 of Google Ads API, this is happening because publishers got notifications from Google AdSense. This is a well-known issue and probably related, but it should be sort out very soon. See forum details at Google Ads Help and Google AdSense Help.

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Is Google Search Console Lost Data Affect Your Website Indexing?

Previously I mentioned about Google Search Console Indexing Bug, which was confirmed in a tweet by Google and said that de-indexing issue should be resolved very soon. It means that the data was completely lost from April 9 to April 25^th, accept the performance report.

Here I like to share screenshot of data coverage report to visualize it:

You might be seen a huge up and down due to Google Search Console Lost Data, which could affect your indexing report. For example, if the data aggregation methods is change or there is a logging error, you might see a drop or bump in your chart. This page records known issues that might affect your data.

Google Search Console Lost Data:

April 9-25, 2019

Search Console experienced a data outage that ceased on April 26. The outage affected all reports except the Performance report. All missing data from April 9-25 was replaced with the data from April 26, when data began to be available again.

April 5, 2019

Because of internal management of our Search index, some pages of your websites might have been dropped from our index for a period of a few days without any action on your part. The matter has been resolved, no further action from your side is needed.

April 3, 2019

For most enhancement reports, data is now being collected from more pages than previously reported. Because of this, you might see an increase in issues and affected items/pages on these reports.

According to Google Webmaster:

The issue with missing fresh data in the indexing reports in Search Console has been resolved. The only report that still needs some time to update is the backlinks report. Thanks for your patience!

So it means that 16 days of data is completely gone for all report except Performance report. Now it is not possible to see how Google Search Console Lost Data can badly effect your website due to indexing bug from April 5 to April 25, 2019.

I want to say that keep mind do not add the stats from April 5 to 25, when making or preparing reports for your clients. This is newly added bug come with manual actions in the Google Search Console which was recently started yesterday in the afternoon.  See more details at Twitter.

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Make Money Online through Google AdSense Auto Ads on Your Site

According to current research report, Google AdSense said that Auto Ads are more effective on mobile devices. If you’re managing a responsive website which is perfectly works on mobile devices, you can easily setup Auto Ads on your site.

Google AdSense Auto Ads are specially designed for mobile devices, so users can view those ads on your site and there is no need specific thing or skills required to do that. Auto Ads have two two formats – anchor and vignettes – that are only available to view on mobile.

Things To Check Before Setup

1. You need to check that your site is already listed on the Sites page in your account. If not, then add your site and verify before you go for set up.
2. If you’re using YouTube, Blogger or any other host partner, and you want to show ads on your site, then you’ll need to upgrade your hosted account to display AdSense ads on the website.

How To Setup Auto Ads

To set up Auto ads, you need to select which type of ad format you’d like to display on your site. After you signed up for AdSense, you will get the code which you have to place in the HTML, between the <head> and </head> tags. (Note make sure the code is place before </Head>)

After you’ve done this, you can select to show different ad formats on your site by creating a URL group.

Steps To Follow

1. Sign in to your AdSense account.
2. Click Ads.
3. On the “Auto ads” page, click Get started.
4. On the “Choose global settings” page, use the controls to select the ad formats that you’d like to show.
5. Leave Automatically get new formats selected if you want AdSense to automatically add new ad formats to your global settings as they become available.
6. Click Save
7. Click Done

After 10-20 minutes, ads will start to display on your site. You are able make any changes to your ads in the settings at any time, without having to change the ad code. Furthermore, if you want to see videos tutorials or participate, join the Google AdSense Help Community.

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Good news for Windows 10 users, Google is rolling out dark mode on chrome 74 for Windows, Mac, and Linux in the next couple of weeks or days. On Tuesday, Google officially announced the new dark mode will be available for Windows 10 users like they roll out of Chrome 73 for MacOS in the last month.

You have to make sure that Windows 10 is up-to-date, so Chrome will automatically updates itself to match the dark mode is enabled or not. Chrome community manager explained “I can confirm that we are rolling out this feature to a small number of Chrome M 74 users now, and that it will become more widely available in the near future”.

How To Enable Dark Mode on Chrome:

If you don’t want to wait for this Chrome’s new feature, you can do it by force with a shortcut trick to enable dark mode.

• Open the “Properties” of a Chrome shortcut
• In the “Target” field, after “C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe” ADD “—force-dark-mode” (Without the quotation marks)
• “Apply” and “OK”

Chrome 74 also includes security features like Lite Mode for Android that will replace its Data Saver setting. Google said that data saver to lite mode provides more benefits in addition to data savings. There are some more features is coming in Chrome 74 such as “Remove Animations” for Android, to reduce motion sickness as well as blocking websites when you’re browsing in Incognito Mode. You can download Chrome 74 from Google’s Chrome site, or from help > About Chrome if you’re already using the browser.

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Cissy Chen, Product Manager at LinkedIn, published a blog post that LinkedIn is introducing A Set of Reactions Tool to express yourself. The Reactions Tool will give you more ways to quickly and constructively communicate with one another. This new LinkedIn Reactions Tool is little bit different to test the version, but it look exactly the same like Facebook’s response option.

Express Yourself:

LinkedIn wants you to express yourself more than a “Like”, so when someone react on your post you will understand better that why someone liked or loved what you said. According to LinkedIn:

“One of the things we regularly hear from all of you is that you want more expressive ways than a “Like” to respond to the variety posts you see in your feed. At the same time, you’ve also told us that when you post on LinkedIn, you want more ways to feel heard and understand why someone liked what you said. That’s why today we’re starting to roll out a set of Reactions on LinkedIn, giving you more ways to quickly and constructively communicate with one another.”

Find Out How Search Industry Celebrating Earth Day 2019 ?

Earth Day is a worldwide event celebrated on April 22. On this special day, the search industry also celebrating with some earth related logos and themes. Google created awesome Doodle with animated video, Bing has a beautiful home page, Yahoo also created a special logo and even Baidu displayed a GIF logo.

Below you can see the current logo from Google, Bing, Yahoo and Baidu, but the animated video from Doodle is amazing, which covers the Wandering Albatross, Coastal Redwood, Paedophryne Amauensis, Amazon Water Lily, Coelacanth, and Deep Cave Springtail.

Google:

Bing:

Yahoo:

Baidu:

Here is an amazing video on the Google’s homepage I am Feeling Lucky button yesterday on Easter:

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