Good morning, Search Marketer, today you are stuck with me, Barry Schwartz. George Nguyen is off today "adulting," so here is my first take at writing an introduction for the newsletter since we relaunched this newsletter in this new format years ago.
Google Ads released a holiday gift for search marketers this week, an updated version of the Google Ads Editor. It was actually released last month but Google didn't ship the announcement until the holiday season. Happy holidays Google Ads advertisers!
I've got to say, the rush SEOs feel when Google releases updates, especially big ones like core updates is exhilarating – don't you think? So when Google released that core update on December 3rd and then confirmed it was done rolling out on December 16th – I thought we were done. But on Friday morning, the 8th day of Chanukah, I saw some significant chatter and signs of another Google update. It sounds like we're not done yet … but are we ever done with Google search change? Nope, that is what we SEOs live for and deal with on an ongoing basis.
I do hope this latest Google update was more of a holiday present than a holiday headache.
Barry Schwartz,
Search Janitor