Posted by Vanessa Fox
Last week, I participated in the duplicate content summit at SMX Advanced. I couldn’t resist the opportunity to show how Buffy is applicable to the everday Search marketing world, but mostly I was there to get input from you on the duplicate content issues you face and to brainstorm how search [...]
At Google, we are always working hard to provide searchers with the best possible results. We’ve found that our spam reporting form is a great way to get your input as we continue to improve our results. Some of you have asked for a way to report paid links as well.
Links are an important signal [...]
Posted by Vanessa Fox
At SMX Advanced on Monday, Matt Cutts talked about our webmaster guidelines. Later, during Q&A, someone asked about adding more detail to the guidelines: more explanation about violations and more actionable help on how to improve sites. You ask — we deliver! [...]
Posted by Narayanan Shivakumar (Google Distinguished Entrepreneur, Director)
Today is Google Developer Day! We’re hosting events for developers in ten cities around the world, as you can read about from Matt Cutts and on our Google Blog. Jonathan Simon and Maile Ohye, whom you have seen on this blog, at conferences, and in our discussion forum, [...]
Posted by Adam Lasnik, Search EvangelistI’ve always loved traveling. Okay, not the flights so much, especially given that I typically travel coach (yes, even for work trips). But getting to learn interesting cultural tidbits, enjoy regional cuisines, and meet new people… it all definitely makes my life richer. Even the little things — linguistic differences [...]
We’ll be performing routine system maintenance this Saturday fromapproximately 10am to 2pm PST. You won’t be able to accessAdWords or the API during this time, but your ads will continue to run asnormal.
-Aaron KarpAdWords API Team
We’re planning to refresh the Sandbox this Friday at 4 p.m. PDT. As a result, it will be unavailable for several hours and all the data will be cleared. You can regenerate your client accounts afterwards by sending any valid request to the Sandbox without a clientEmail header block.
– Aaron Karp
Due to some technical issues, we’ve decided to delay the release of v11 (originally planned for this week) for a few more weeks. While we could release some components of v11 now, we feel it is better to delay the entire release in order to minimize the number of versions we launch in a [...]
Late last night our engineers were able to implement the upgrades that were originally scheduled for this Saturday’s maintenance period. Therefore, we have canceled this weekend’s system maintenance. All systems will remain operational and available.
– Jon Diorio, Product Marketing
We will be performing unscheduled AdWords maintenance from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. PT on Saturday, August 25, 2007. While all AdWords advertisements will continue to run as normal, you may not be able to perform API operations during this maintenance period.
We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
–Jon Diorio, Product Marketing
*** Update as of [...]
Over the past few weeks we have tested and implemented server enhancements that enable us to drive greater efficiencies from some of our more costly operations. Therefore, we are happy to announce the following rate sheet reductions:
addAds = 125 units (formerly 250)
addCriteria = 25 units (formerly 50)
These changes will take effect immediately.
And [...]
We plan to release V11 of the AdWords API during the week of August 20. This is the same week we were planning to sunset V9.
Since we understand that some of you may prefer to upgrade directly from V9 to V11, we have decided to delay the v9 sunset by three weeks. Therefore, [...]
