Google Ads Gains New Budget Reports

Google announced new budget reports for Google Ads. Google said these new budget reports will “help you visualize monthly campaign spend behavior.” You can visually see how daily budget changes affected performance and monthly spend limits.

Google Says URL Case Applies To Robots.txt Directives

We’ve known for like two decades that Google does and can treat the same URL but with different cases differently. So domain.com/Apple vs domain.com/apple can be seen by Google as different URLs. But Google seems to be stricter about this rule when it comes to the robots.txt file.

SEOs Noticing Google Search Console Crawled, Not Indexed Errors Even When Indexed

Lily Ray posted on Twitter that many SEOs are noticing this and posting about it on Twitter with “many examples of URLs in GSC’s “Crawled, Not Indexed” report (with recent crawl dates) that are, in fact, indexed URLs.” There are lots and many of me toos on this and it seems Google is investigating the […]

Google Ads Sexually Explicit Content Policy Seen As Egregious Policy Violations

Google Ads, starting on December 1, 2021 and scaling up enforcement by January 2022, will see its sexually explicit content policy violations updated to egregious policy violations. That means ads that are found to violate the sexually explicit policy can lead to immediate account suspension upon detection and without prior warning.

Search News Buzz Video Recap: Bigger Google Algorithm Update, MUM & More Google Updates, Number Of Ranking Signals & Google Turns 23

Google had an unconfirmed but pretty big Google Search ranking algorithm update on September 24th and 25th. Google hosted its big search event called the Search On event…

Nooglers At Google Dublin With Propeller Hats In Masks

Google Hotel Listings Gain Eco-Certified Badges

In July we reported that hotel listing can now add their sustainability and eco certifications to their listings in Google My Business. Well, now, Google is showing the eco-certified green label in the hotel listings in Google Search.

Inman Top 10: The biggest stories in the month of September 2021

From closing gifts your clients will remember to NAR’s battle with the feds, catch up quickly on the biggest stories of the month, as determined by Inman website visitors. Here’s the Inman Top 10 stories for September 2021.

Why REX pays buyer agents and uses MLSs — sometimes

REX’s general counsel Michael Toth says the discount brokerage pays buyer agents in at least 40 percent of its list-side transactions.

3 tips for breaking into the luxury real estate market

Confidence is key if you’re in the business of buying and selling real estate, and it’s especially crucial if you’re trying to break into the high-end market. That said, there are other factors that will help you get your foot in the door. Here are a few.

BiggerPockets Money Podcast 236: Finance Friday: Enjoy Life Before FI with Simple Investing Strategies

Strong frugality is hard to come by. Not many people would write off their solar system as a business expense and use bitcoin mining to provide heat to their house, […]

ESET Threat Report T2 2021

A view of the T2 2021 threat landscape as seen by ESET telemetry and from the perspective of ESET threat detection and research experts The post ESET Threat Report T2 2021 appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

Hackers could force locked iPhones to make contactless payments

Flaws in Apple Pay and Visa could allow criminals to make arbitrary contactless payments – no authentication needed, research finds The post Hackers could force locked iPhones to make contactless payments appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

78% of buyers consider natural disaster risk when house hunting

The majority of respondents in a recent realtor.com survey said the threat of a natural disaster played a role in where they looked for a new home.

Redfin brings cash offer service to 2 largest markets in North Carolina

The Seattle-based brokerage launched its iBuyer service in the Charlotte and Raleigh metro areas.