On July 1, 2023, Google will move everyone to its latest version, Google Analytics 4 (GA4), and retire Google Analytics 3 (also known as Universal Analytics or UA). While these changes will benefit the average user without any noticeable difference in how they search and browse online, the…
Recently, I have been asked by a major global brand to support a website shutdown project. The company wasn’t making enough to sustain itself and make a profit. The same global brand also owns multiple other similar companies in the niche. Shutting down a website is easy, but when you have to …
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web. Google is still working on the timestamp issues for stories in Google Search. Google Ads has released the Google Ads API release schedule. Google …
This week, I posted the monthly Google webmaster report, an excellent place to catch up on the past month in SEO. Glenn Gabe shared some wild charts showing how Google’s various search algorithms can’t make up its mind about on-site quality. Google Search Console’s queries report in Google Anal…
Google has updated the Google tag (the new Google tag ) to include a new tap coverage summary and offering deeper Google Ads, Google Analytics, and various CMS integrations. Google wrote “we’re unveiling another set of capabilities that provide more visibility into your site’s measurement co…
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web. Google Search Console’s Google Analytics 3 integration may be broken, query data is not being set. Google updated its local reviews guidelines to…
Google Analytics, specifically the Universal Analytics 3 version and not Google Analytics 4, is currently not showing any query data within the integrated Search Console reporting. If you try to access your query data within Acquisition > Search Console > Queries, you will see the data for t…
Google Search Console is not currently tracking clicks or impressions for traffic sent through the new Google multisearch feature. Glenn Gabe confirmed this the other day by running some tests on a few of his client sites (note, you can check out his detailed blog post on this over here )….
There may be a bug with the Google Analytics and Google Search Console integration. The queries report within Google Analytics (Universal Analytics 3) when you connect your Search Console profile now shows “not set” for all query data. It is like Google pulled all the query data out of the repo…
Google has just announced three additional feature capability updates to their tag. These updates are intended to “help advertisers and businesses strengthen their measurement strategies and efforts.” Now, Google has added three new features. Tag coverage summary Google Ads and Analyti…
