{"id":3323,"date":"2021-08-06T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-06T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cherylroll.com\/if-you-saw-expanded-search-terms-in-google-ads-it-was-a-glitch-fridays-daily-brief-351015\/"},"modified":"2021-08-06T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-08-06T14:00:00","slug":"if-you-saw-expanded-search-terms-in-google-ads-it-was-a-glitch-fridays-daily-brief-351015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cherylroll.com\/if-you-saw-expanded-search-terms-in-google-ads-it-was-a-glitch-fridays-daily-brief-351015\/","title":{"rendered":"If you saw expanded search terms in Google Ads, it was a glitch; Friday's daily brief"},"content":{"rendered":"
Search Engine Land’s daily brief features daily insights, news, tips, and essential bits of wisdom for today’s search marketer. If you would like to read this before the rest of the internet does, sign up here<\/a><\/strong> to get it delivered to your inbox daily.<\/em><\/p>\n Good morning, Marketers, and I’m trying to work from a coworking space this week.<\/p>\n It’s strange, to say the least. Everyone is social-distancing… together? As an introvert, it can definitely feel like a lot sometimes, but I’m making it work, designers. When I was chatting with Barry Schwartz about it, he brought up that it’s a lot like shared hosting. I guess I’m the website in this analogy.<\/p>\n I’ve seen a few articles about the pros and cons of shared hosting, and they are confusing if you’re not an expert. Is it bad for SEO? Can it affect your site resources? Yes and no and yes and no. A top-ranking Forbes article<\/a> says, “The downside is that the resources available will be limited and could even be affected by the actions of others on the same server. For example, if one user on the server gets a virus, it can put everyone else at risk.”<\/p>\n The featured snippet when I ask “Is shared hosting bad for SEO?” tells me: “The choice of a web hosting provider or a web hosting plan does not affect the SEO of a website, if all other things are equal and adheres to Google webmaster quality guidelines.” But then goes on to say, “It is indeed a fact that most low quality spammy websites use shared hosting for hosting most of their sites.”<\/p>\n So what’s a business or SEO newbie to do? Follow John Mueller’s advice<\/a> from last year and “Host where it makes sense for you.”<\/p>\n Carolyn Lyden, Big womp. “Back in September 2020, Google announced it would show less search term data in the Google Ads Search Terms report. As you can imagine, the advertising community was not happy. But something changed yesterday and all the search term data is now showing in that report,” wrote Barry Schwartz<\/a> for SERoundtable.<\/p>\n Many PPCers responded on Twitter hoping it was here to stay: “Please be feature … please be feature … please be feature … please be feature … please be feature …” tweet-begged CypressNorth’s Greg Finn. But later yesterday Barry confirmed<\/a> that it seems to be a bug as it just … stopped working for advertisers. We hope you were able to download your search term reports before the glitch was fixed.<\/p>\n Update. <\/strong>Google Ads product liaison Ginny Marvin tweeted<\/a> that the search terms glitch may become a feature. Yay!<\/p>\n
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\nSorry. The Google Ads search term disclosure was a glitch<\/h2>\n