"Google has become such a lynchpin in modern marketing that it's easy to forget that it's still a company—that the mistakes and decisions it makes can easily render our SEO efforts either meaningless or obsolete."
Terry Cane, COO of global SSL service domain registration and SEO hosting provider SEOHost.net (https://www.seohost.net), has commented on a bug that occurred in Google Ads and Google Analytics last month.
As reported by The Search Engine Journal, Google Ads Liaison Ginny Marvin confirmed the existence of a data reporting bug that caused reports to display either incorrect data or no data. The bug, which first surfaced on July 15, persisted until July 20. The cause has not yet been revealed.
"For five days, multiple critical Google services were missing a critical feature," says Cane. "To say that this was disruptive for marketers and search engine optimization (SEO) professionals would be putting it lightly. And to me, the fact that it occurred in tandem with another bug that prevented the indexing of new content serves as a sobering reminder."
The indexing issue, reports Search Engine Journal, was solved within hours of being identified.
"Google has become such a lynchpin in modern marketing that it's easy to forget that it's still a company," Cane continues. "That the mistakes and decisions it makes can easily render our SEO efforts either meaningless or obsolete. It's incredibly fortunate that issues such as this are relatively rare, but at the same time, one...
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