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I am seeing a ton of complaints in the Google Business Profiles forums about reviews going missing.
A lot of people are saying the review counts have dropped from one number to a lower number.
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See how ChatGPT helps SEOs save time, improve workflows, and tackle tasks like keyword research, content creation, and technical audits.
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The folks at Seer put together a study looking at how the click-through rates of the Google organic and paid search results are impacted by having AI Overviews on the page. And the short answer is, [...]
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In December, we reported that Google was experimenting with something they call AI Mode.
Well, now, we have more details and even screenshots of AI Mode in Google Search.
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John Mueller from Google wrote on Bluesky, "and let's be honest, people can tell when author bios are used purely as an SEO tactic. It's kinda awkward, not reassuring."
This was in [...]
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Google leads organic search with 94.8% traffic, but AI tools and smaller engines show growing competition.
Search Engine Journal
OpenAI announced big news that its ChatGPT Search service is now open and no longer requires a login or an account.
It comes the same day that Google expanded access to Gemini 2.0 to all users and [...]
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Google's John Mueller offers advice on dealing with indexed URLs that shouldn't be indexed
Search Engine Journal
Google’s latest move forces SEOs to rethink how they measure success. Here’s what you should be focusing on now.
Search Engine Land
Google AI Overviews are contributing to the organic decline. But paid ad CTRs are down with or without AI Overviews shown.
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I am seeing a lot of renewed chatter within the SEO industry of a possible unconfirmed Google search ranking update touching down in the past 24-hours or so.
The weird thing is that the tools are [...]
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Google / Alphabet reported its Q4 2024 earnings last night, where its ad revenue hit $72.46 billion, up 10.6% from last year's quarter of $65.52 billion. Google's revenue was up 12% with $96.47 [...]
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Google AI Overviews are now able to show super detailed comparison within Google Search. If you search for two very specific models, Google may give you a ton of details directly in the AI Overview.
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Microsoft published its new Microsoft Advertising features that it released over the past month. This goes across Performance Max tools, reporting, new values, targeting, and more.
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The new Google Ads form tracking in Tag Manager enables codeless conversion event creation for advertisers with minimal technical setup.
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