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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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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Are You Ready For New and Upcoming Changes in Google AdSense Platform?

Currently, Google is sending emails to some publishers about new changes in Google AdSense platform and announced that “ your Ads tab will be updated in the coming weeks to reflect the Ad types, Text ad styles and Simplifying “If no ads available”.

Personally I am not using Google AdSense but in future I am planning to implement on my blog, but there are some publisher complaining about it on WebmasterWorld. Here is the screenshot:

Here is the email from Google AdSense:

We’re committed to continuously investing in the modernization of our advertising products. As a result, there are some important changes we’re making to some Google AdSense features that you have used or configured in the past. Your Ads tab will be updated in the coming weeks to reflect the following changes:

Ad Types:

We’re moving towards richer ad formats, phasing out text-only and display-only ad units to further improve user experience, and to fully reflect the pool of ads we have in the market. As a result, the “Text ads only” and “Display ads only” ad units in your account have been renamed to “Display ads” and from early 2019 will be updated to serve all ad types.

Text Ad Styles:

We’re deprecating text ad styles for “Text & display ads” ad units. From now on, you won’t be able to create ad styles for your new ad units. Your new ad units will have Google-optimized text ad styling. As this feature is being deprecated, your existing ad styles will also be optimized by Google in the following months. For customization and improved user experience, you can use native ads on your site.

Simplifying “If no ads available”

We’re continuously working to increase the quality and safety of our ad network and reduce the number of malicious ads that enter the AdSense network. As a result, we’re removing the “If no ads available” option and we’ll be defaulting to collapsing the ad space or showing a blank space instead. If your current setting is a color or another URL, it will be updated in the near future your current settings will stop serving in the near future.

I will recommend to publishers that keep monitor your Google AdSense Console and actively participate in the forum and highlighted the issues.

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Happy Earth Day 2019!

As the world celebrates Earth Day each year on April 22, so today Google is celebrating Earth Day 2019 by highlighting the few oldest living creatures, takes us around the planet that we call home to discover some of the awe-inspiring organisms which inhabit it. Specifically, the interactive slideshow of Google Earth Day 2019 explores six organisms across elevations—along with their earthly superlative!

Google Earth Day 2019 Featured Creatures:

This year’s Earth Day doodle help viewers discover six awe-inspiring organisms including Wandering Albatross, Coastal Redwood, Paedophryne Amauensis, Amazon Water Lily, Coelacanth and Deep Cave Springtail. 

Wandering Albatross

The widest wingspan of any living bird, is known to have the widest wingspan of any living bird which enables to fly miles without a flap.

Coastal Redwood

The tallest tree in the world, is known to be the tallest tree in the world at 377 feet which makes it equivalent to the height of 75 humans. 

Paedophryne Amauensis

The world’s smallest frog barely the size of a coin and also the smallest vertebrate

Amazon Water Lily

Among the world’s biggest aquatic plants, which is capable of bearing the weight of a small person.

>Coelacanth

At 407-million-years old, it’s one of the world’s oldest living species, is one of the world’s oldest living species and was also around the time dinosaurs were alive.

Deep Cave Springtail

Among the deepest-dwelling terrestrial creatures, which is among the deepest-dwelling terrestrial creatures whom apparently scientists had to coax with a bit of cheese.

Today’s Doodle was created by Doodler Kevin Laughlin. Below, he shares some thoughts on Earth Day and the inspiration for his Doodle:

Q: What does Earth Day mean to you personally?

A: It’s very easy for us humans to think of ourselves as something apart or separate from nature. If you pick just one day a year to remember that we’re all of this earth as much as a worm, mountain, or tree, Earth Day can be that day.

Q: How did you choose which species to feature?

A: This was the most difficult part of the process! The last thing I wanted to do was feature animals based on their cuteness or how they might appeal in some way to my mammalian sensibilities. We tried to focus on having a good range of organisms from around the globe that all had an extra special unique quality or earthly superlative. (Tallest, smallest, oldest, etc.)

Q: Did you learn any cool random facts while working on this Doodle?

A: Apparently scientists were able to coax deep cave springtails with a bit of cheese. So we’re not so different from these little hexapods, after all!

Q: What do you hope people will take away from this interactive Doodle?

A: If I can inspire the smallest bit of curiosity or wonder in someone, that would make me very happy. How often does one take a moment to contemplate a tiny critter that lives in the bowels of a cave in Georgia? All life is incredible and worth celebrating.

Furthermore, watch The Animated Video of Google Earth Day 2019, and enjoy the new heights and depths to celebrate Earth Day.

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Google’s AI/Machine Learning Tool Demonstrates How Algorithm Understand An Image

Google published a new tool to analyze your images, which tells you what it thinks about the image is relevant for, by using machine learning/artificial intelligence algorithm. This tool is called Google Cloud Vision Image Analysis Tool, indicates AI and Machine Learning algorithms for understanding images.

What is Google Cloud Vision Image Analysis Tool?

Google’s Cloud Vision API is a cloud service that allows you to add image analysis features to apps and websites. The tool offers two computer vision products that use Google’s AI and Machine Learning algorithms, help you understand your images with industry-leading prediction accuracy.

This tool use advanced machine learning models, allows you to upload an image, and quickly classify them into millions of pre-defined categories. This new Google’s Cloud Vision Image Analysis Tool can detect objects, faces, read printed and handwritten text, and build valuable metadata into your image catalog.

Google’s Image Analysis Tools Classifications:

• Faces
• Objects
• Labels
• Web Entities
• Properties
• Safe Search

Faces:

The “faces” tab detects the facial attributes such as emotional state or wearing head-wear, but facial Recognition is not supported. As you can see when I uploaded my picture, which is clearly smiling but Google’s image analysis tool didn’t detect it correctly.

Objects:

Yes, the “objects” tab works perfectly and detect what objects are using in the image, like ears, nose, mouth, but also detects like portrait and photography.

Labels:

The “labels” tab extract information about entities within an image that Google recognizes, like jacket, material, smile, hairs and etc. It works very well.

Web Entities:

This ‘Web’ tab detects web references to an image, which means it shows how much images are related on the web. Google’s Cloud Vision Image Analysis Tool uses multiple criteria for understanding an image.

Properties

The Image Properties tab detects general attributes of the image, such as dominant color.

Safe Search:

Safe Search tab detects how the image explicit content such as adult content or violent content within an image. This feature uses five categories (“adult”, “spoof”, “medical”, “violence”, and “racy”), and returns the likelihood that each is present in a given image.

Summary:

This is an amazing Image Analysis Tool for getting an idea that how Google understand your images. It may also helpful for you to optimize the images in the better ways.

Want to know what Google thinks about your image? Find out here at https://cloud.google.com/vision/docs/drag-and-drop

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Google AdSense Notification: Payment Amount Higher Than Your Chosen Form of Payment

Last day, there are so many Google AdSense publishers got noticed and received notifications in the AdSense console that “Your payment amount is higher than your chosen form of payment.” Those publishers are now confused and don’t know what to do with that. I personally checked that there are tons of complaints from publishers.

I can’t mention all those complaints here in the blog post, but few of them here:

“Your payout amount is more than your chosen form of payment can accept in your country. I have selected Western Union as my primary payment method. I’m getting payment from last 5 years through Western Union. Pending payment of previous month is just $350 but suddenly i got this error message at my google adsense account that “Your payout amount is more than your chosen form of payment can accept in your country. To continue getting paid please choose a new payment method.”

“I got an email saying: Your payment method details for Google AdSense were changed on 17 Apr 2019. For your security, please review this change and contact us if you have any questions. I didn’t change anything and when I logged things look normal so I am not sure what they’re talking about? Can someone please explain since i am worried for security of my account.”

Screenshots of Google AdSense Payment Notification

Here are some replies:

I am seeing that mostly issues are coming from Pakistan and India, especially those who are using Western Union as primary payment method. I will advise to publishers that keep monitor your bank account, payment modes, Google Adsense Console and actively participate in the AdSense forum and highlighted the issues. For more details check the Google AdSense Community (Payment).

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