Beginning July 13 of this year, Google will stop accepting and displaying ads for a specific slice of payday and high interest loans.

They call it the L.E.A.N. system because ads clearly need to go on a diet. That stands for "Light, Encrypted, AdChoice supported, and Non-invasive advertising".

Just another way for Google to keep all the traffic to itself?

This just popped up in my Twitter feed

Just in case you were wondering if Google still values the mobile web - the answer is "yep!" Their mobile friendliness test was launched prior to Mobilegeddon and now it's getting an upgrade!

There's a new ad unit design on the block for Google AdSense. And it's pretty minimal - white space, a little blue text, and nothing more.

Getty Images has decided to take its complaint to the E.U. over what it says is Google Image Search making it easier for image piracy.

Evidently clickjacking has become a big enough issue that Big G is willing to devote resources to fighting it!

Just a week after Google started testing a very sneaky color change for ads in its European search results, they now appear to be testing ads in loca

For what feels like half a year or more, zombie traffic has been plaguing all sorts of websites.

Debating whether or not site speed is a ranking factor is a popular pastime on SEO Chat.

In the last few years, the ads at the top of the SERPs have gotten more and more similar in appearance to organic results.

Ever find yourself wondering?

Bloggers are feelin' the pain after this weekend when Google sent out a new round of manual actions punishing unnatural outbound links.

Could this be a gift to make up for the loss of the sidebar ads? Google is testing snippets that show a single, randomly chosen review underneath ads in the 3-pack.

Two news items about local search and Google My Business broke on April 1 - none were April Fools' pranks. At least as far as I know!

To better compete with Google AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) and Facebook Instant Articles, Apple News has opened their app to blogs and smaller content publishers.

How Google treated integration between a website and Google Plus differently based on where links were directed. 

Responses range from "Wow, everything is different" to "What are you smoking, there have been no changes."