Archive of March, 2024

March, 31 2024

27-Year Search Expert Shares 5 Steps To Boost Your SEO via @sejournal, @martinibuster A 27-year SEO expert, who also worked at Bing for almost 10 years, shares advice on how to become a [...] - Search Engine Journal

March, 29 2024

Google Explains How CWV Is A Ranking Factor But Doesn’t Improve Rankings via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google explains why Core Web Vitals are a ranking factor that you shouldn't waste much time [...] - Search Engine Journal
How schema markup establishes trust and boosts information gain Learn how schema markup offers a potential cost-saving solution for Google while establishing trust [...] - Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: March 29, 2024 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
New Microsoft Copilot Referrer Data In Google Analytics You can now see Microsoft Copilot, formerly Bing Chat, referrer data in your Google Analytics [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Correction: Web Stories Still Show In Google Images & Google Fixes Search Console Reporting Bug In February, Google told us that they stopped showing Web Stories in Google Image search results. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Agile for SEOs: How in-house teams get projects prioritized Here’s how the agile methodology can help in-house SEOs get their projects prioritized and [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Search Recommendation For "Google Can Help You Stand Out" Google Search has this "recommendation" for businesses to sign up for Google Business [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google SGE In Wild, Stop Doing SEO For Google, Maps & Shopping Features & Google Ads Safety Report This week we covered that Google is now testing SGE in the wild for a small subset of US users. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Business Profiles New Add Amenity To Your Website Google seems to have added a new feature to allow businesses to add an amenity or amenities from [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads Posted Zero New Feature Announcements In March 2024 Google Ads has not posted a new feature announcement in its new features & announcements help [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

March, 28 2024

Google: Incremental Improvements May Not Impact Rankings via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google's John Mueller cautions against over-optimizing Core Web Vitals, suggesting incremental [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google did not drop Web Stories from image results Google issued a correction plus explained Search Console had a reporting bug with Web Stories in [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Ads Suspended 90% More Advertisers This Year & Removed 5.5 Billion Ads Google has released the 2023 Google Ads safety report sharing that Google has removed 5.5 billion [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Updates Its Definition Of Top Ads; They May Not Be At The Top Back in October we reported that Google has confirmed its search ads, Google Ads, can show up mixed [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google testing new tools for a more personalized shopping experience Google is experimenting with new product discovery elements, including generative AI for product [...] - Search Engine Land
8 steps to maximize success during global site migrations Ensure SEO is deeply integrated from the start, high-value URLs are preserved and monitoring occurs [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Ads Adds Share Ad Preview For Performance Max Google is now rolling out the ability to share ad campaigns within Google Ads for Performance Max [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
AutoBNN: Probabilistic time series forecasting with compositional bayesian neural networks Posted by Urs Köster, Software Engineer, Google Research Time series problems are [...] - Google Research
YouTube announces enhanced audience retention analytics tools The platform is also turning the For You section into a customizable shelf In another effort to [...] - Search Engine Land
Search Ads 360: 3 best practices for advanced PPC marketers Unlock SA360’s powerful data integrations, advanced bid strategies and automated template [...] - Search Engine Land
New Google Shopping & Maps Search Features Google announced a number of new(ish) shopping and maps/local features yesterday, a lot of them [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

March, 27 2024

Our 2023 Ads Safety Report Google’s annual Ads Safety Report details Google’s efforts to prevent malicious use of [...] - Inside Adwords
6 ways to travel smarter this summer using Google tools We’re sharing a few helpful tools from Search, Maps and Shopping ahead of the summer travel [...] - Inside Adwords
Google SGE: Study Reveals Potential Disruption For Brands & SEO via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Study reveals Google's AI search experience may impact brand visibility, prompting marketers to [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Explains Why Images Are Gone From Some SERPs via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google's John Mueller answers question about why image thumbnails are disappearing from the search [...] - Search Engine Journal
SEOs, Please Don't Remove Contact Us & About Us Pages Google's John Mueller asked if it would be alright not to list a contact us and about us page on [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Analytics Real Time Data Lagging Today There are countless complaints across the forums and social media that Google Analytics real time [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
European Hotels Can Remove Pricing Information From Google Hotel Search Google sent an email to European based hotel and vacation property managers that with the new [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google changes definition of ‘top ads’ A Google spokesperson confirmed that the update was a 'definitional change' and would not affect [...] - Search Engine Land
Google suspended 12.7 million ad accounts and blocked 5.5 billion ads in 2023 The number of advertisers who were blocked or removed due to policy violations nearly doubled [...] - Search Engine Land
Get more personalized shopping options with these Google tools We’re making it easier for shoppers to find what they want through personalized shopping [...] - Inside Adwords
Exploring Meridian, Google’s new open-source marketing mix model Dive into Meridian’s capabilities, limitations and how it compares to Meta's Robyn in the [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Local Service Ads Sends Email Asking You To Upload Photos Google is sending some Local Service Ads advertisers emails asking them to upload photos to their [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Developer Docs Gain AI Generated Help Features A week ago Monday, March 18th, I noticed Google's search developer documentation had generative AI [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Analytics real-time reporting bug confirmed Many sites are seeing zero or little real-time traffic reported in GA4. - Search Engine Land

March, 26 2024

Let’s Be Real: Reddit In The SERPs Lacks Credibility via @sejournal, @martinibuster Has Google's inclusion of Reddit answers in the search results negatively impacted the overall [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google: About Us & Contact Pages Not Important? via @sejournal, @martinibuster Is it true that having contact and about us pages is important for Google's assessment of a website? - Search Engine Journal
YouTube issues guidance on when to post content for maximum reach YouTube Product Lead Todd Beaupre explains how the timing of content publication can affect [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Updates Product Structured Data With 3DModel Type via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google updated the Product Structured Data documentation to add support for 3D product models on [...] - Search Engine Journal
5 reasons why rankings are lying and how to fix them Don't be fooled by decent rankings that won't drive results. Learn five problems that could be [...] - Search Engine Land
Google: Should Small Service Businesses Start A Website & A Blog? Google's Search Liaison, Danny Sullivan, was asked about if a business should always have a website [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Adds 3D Models Markup To Product Structured Data For Linking Google has added new 3D models markup support to the product structured data documentation so that [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Generative AI Tool Guide: Transforming Your Strategy For SEO Success via @sejournal, @sejournal Learn how generative AI tools can enhance your workflow and help you achieve your SEO goals. [...] - Search Engine Journal
7 tips to improve your website speed in 2024 by DebugBear Learn what you can do to improve the page load time and Google Core Web Vitals of your website. - Search Engine Land
Google Search Does Not Support AVIF Images Just Yet Did you know that Google Search does not support the AVIF image format? At least not yet. Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Mikhail Parakhin Steps Down As Head Of Bing Search & Microsoft Advertising Mikhail Parakhin, the head of Bing Search and Microsoft Advertising, is stepping down from that [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Mikhail Parakhin, head of Microsoft Bing Search and Microsoft Advertising steps down This comes days after the company announced the new CEO of Microsoft AI, Mustafa Suleyman. - Search Engine Land
Google Tests Places & Places Sites Search Bar Filter Tabs Yesterday we reported Google is testing products and products sites in the search bar tab in the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
YouTube warns creators not to delete videos Hiding or removing content can negatively impact your channel's overall rankings. - Search Engine Land
Google Search Console Tests Android App Google seems to be testing an Android App for Google Search Console. This comes several weeks after [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
App store optimization: 8 tips to leverage your SEO research skills Adapt your SEO skills to optimize mobile apps for better discoverability and downloads in the Apple [...] - Search Engine Land

March, 25 2024

Google Search Liaison: Ads Not A Hindrance To Search Rankings via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google Search Liaison clarifies that websites with ads can rank well, though it's important to [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Offers Advice For Those Affected By HCU via @sejournal, @martinibuster What steps should website publishers take if their pages have lost rankings due to the Helpful [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Testing AI Chat On Developer Pages via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google is beta testing a new AI feature called Side Panel Chat that will be integrated into [...] - Search Engine Journal
Local SEO in 2024: 6 simple ways to dominate local search New to local search? Wondering where to start? Here are six tactics to help you kick off your local [...] - Search Engine Land
Search Central Live 2024 in Warsaw, Poland We're excited to announce a Search Central Live event in Warsaw, Poland on April 24, 2024. [...] - Google Webmaster Central
Google: Publishing More Content Doesn't Improve Quality For Faster Indexing A couple of weeks ago, Gary Illyes and Lizzi Sassman of Google had Dave Smart as a guest on the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Begs SEOs To Stop Showing Google Things; Show Visitors Things Instead Google's Search Liaison responded to a series of posts on Twitter, leading him to beg SEOs to stop [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Tests SGE AI Overviews In The Wild (Subset Of US Users) On Friday, Google began to test SGE-based AI overviews in the real Google search results. That [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: March 25, 2024 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
How to benchmark PPC competitors: The definitive guide Benchmark PPC competitors across ad networks like Google and Meta and identify top channels, [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Tests Products & Product Sites Search Bar Filter Tabs Google is now testing placing "product sites" as its own search bar filter tab in the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google, Meta and Apple under investigation for uncompetitive practices by EU The big tech companies could face large fines and may be required to sell off some of their [...] - Search Engine Land

March, 23 2024

Google Answers If Different Content Based On Country Affects SEO via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google's John Mueller answers the question: Does changing content based on a visitor's country [...] - Search Engine Journal

March, 22 2024

Google starts testing AI overviews from SGE in main Google search interface Some users who do not opt in to the Google Search labs SGE feature may see AI overview answers in [...] - Search Engine Land
Report: No Site Hit By The September Helpful Content Update Recovered Yet As you know, the September 2023 helpful content update was brutal to many small site owners, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Is ChatGPT the Google Search killer we’ve been expecting? The next Google won’t do what Google does. Could that be OpenAI? Sam Altman shares his vision [...] - Search Engine Land
Microsoft Buying Ads On Google Search To Drive More Searches On Bing Microsoft is buying Google Ads to promote its search engine, Bing, on Google Search. I think this [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google publishes Performance Max developer guide The new guide offers simplified access to all the necessary information required to build PMax [...] - Search Engine Land
Bing Search Refine Your Search On Chat / Copilot Bing Search has a new refine your search box that sends searchers from Bing Search to Microsoft [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Spam Update Done, Patience With Core Update, Helpful Content Recoveries, Yahoo Search Coming & New Head Of Google Search This week we covered that the Google March 2024 spam update is done rolling out. Google says to [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google SGE a top threat to brand and product terms, study finds Among the findings: 91.4% of all search queries triggered SGE; Quora was a big winner; and paid [...] - Search Engine Land
Bing Search With Ask Copilot In People Also Ask Section Microsoft has been pushing Copilot within Bing Search a heck of a lot. Now Microsoft is showing a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
How to create local business content that converts Establish your local business as the industry authority by being authentic in your content and [...] - Search Engine Land
Bing Deep Search is officially live for all users Microsoft announced Deep Search back in December, it went live for some users last month and is now [...] - Search Engine Land

March, 21 2024

AI Spam Sites Beat Google’s March 2024 Spam Update via @sejournal, @martinibuster AI generated spam still enjoy top rankings after escaping Google's March 2024 spam update in a [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google’s Advice For Ranking: Stop Showing via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google's SearchLiaison offered suggestions on what to focus on if you really want top rankings - Search Engine Journal
Evolving Google Analytics for more insightful measurement New tools in Google Ads and Analytics allow you to simplify your measurement and are more seamless [...] - Inside Adwords
Google Rolling Out Changes To Shopping Searches In Europe via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google rolls out new search features in Europe, including changes to shopping results, to comply [...] - Search Engine Journal
Again, Images Not Showing For Some Google Search Result Snippets Google is once again investigating issues with recipe images and other images not showing for some [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Analytics 4 addresses Google Ads report discrepancies with conversion update To ensure greater consistency with Google Ads, GA4 is replacing conversions with 'key events' for [...] - Search Engine Land
Report: Sites Hit By March 2024 Pure Spam Manual Actions Not Recovering The days after the Google March 2024 spam and core updates were released, Google issued tons of [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Evolving SEO: Fresh New Features and Updates for Website Owners Experience the evolution! Bing is transforming beyond search, offering powerful AI, instant [...] - Bing Webmaster
Turbulence ahead: The wrath of the March 2024 core update is not linear Examining the fluctuations and ranking changes we're seeing so far since Google started rolling out [...] - Search Engine Land
How to onboard an SEO agency the right way Setting up a successful partnership with a new agency requires effort. Lay the groundwork for [...] - Search Engine Land
Google March 2024 Spam Update Finished Rolling Out Google has completed the rollout of the March 2024 spam update after a 14-day and 21-hour period. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

March, 20 2024

Google Completes March Spam Update, Core Update Continues via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google concludes March spam update targeting AI content and authority abuse; core update continues. - Search Engine Journal
Google March 2024 spam update done rolling out The core update is still rolling out, so we're not done yet, remain seated and buckled. - Search Engine Land
Google Images Notice: Memes About Certain People Aren't Disturbing Or Harmful For the past several months Google Image search has been showing a notice for some meme related [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Marketing Live 2024 registration opens Google's premier event for PPC marketers is scheduled for May 21, featuring keynote discussions [...] - Search Engine Land
Uber Unable To Remove UberEats Buttons From Google Business Profiles According to Google's policies, order delivery "providers are required to remove third-party [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Removes Phone Numbers From Hotel Search Listings Google has removed the phone number for the hotel panel and hotel panels in the search results. To [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Un-silo your PPC campaigns: 4 tactics for more cohesive marketing Align your PPC initiatives with broader marketing strategies with these four tactics for [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Search Tests More Product Image Snippet Variations We've covered product images within the search result snippets many times but here are even more [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Teaching writers when and how to use generative AI to create helpful content Dive into a framework for teaching writers to use AI tools effectively while preserving expertise, [...] - Search Engine Land
Google SGE Feedback On Affiliate Results & Google News Does This Interest You Pop-Up Google is testing more polls and feedback forms within its search results. We spotted a "How [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

March, 19 2024

The two parts of E-E-A-T Google hasn’t told you about Explore how notability and transparency complement Google E-E-A-T and how to integrate these [...] - Search Engine Land
Google On Spammy Backlinks & Negative Impact On Rankings via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google's John Mueller answered a question about spammy backlinks that were said to negatively [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Changes: Liz Reid New Head Of Search, Pandu Nayak Steps Down As Search Quality & Rankings Lead Google announced some executive changes last night with Liz Reid being named the new head of Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Will Collect Feedback After The March Core & Spam Updates Are Done If you've been glancing at the comments on this site or reading the feedback thus far on social [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
ScreenAI: A visual language model for UI and visually-situated language understanding Posted by Srinivas Sunkara and Gilles Baechler, Software Engineers, Google Research Screen [...] - Google Research
Google promotes Liz Reid to head of Search Cheenu Venkatachary is also replacing Pandu Nayak as lead of search quality and ranking. Cathy [...] - Search Engine Land
Google: Canonicalizing From WWW to Non-WWW Won't Impact Your Search Rankings Google's John Mueller said that if your website is www.domain.com and then you decide to [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Optimizing your Performance Max campaigns with Google Ads, GA4 data Here’s how to leverage Google Ads and Google Analytics 4 data to optimize your Performance [...] - Search Engine Land
Now Important Google Ads PMax To Microsoft Advertising PMax - Fully While Microsoft has offered tools to import your Google Ads campaigns into Microsoft Advertising, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Publishing Content In Bulk Is Not Spam Google's John Mueller said publishing content in bulk does not make the content spammy in the eyes [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: March 19, 2024 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable

March, 18 2024

OpenAI’s Sam Altman On Challenging Google With AI Search via @sejournal, @martinibuster CEO of OpenAI opened up about his vision of what an AI search engine would look like - Search Engine Journal
Google Urges Patience As The March 2024 Core Update Continues To Rollout Google is urging site owners and SEOs to have patience as the Google March 2024 core update [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads Report Editor exporting zeros; Google is investigating Google is investigating the exporting issues with Google Ads Report Editor. - Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: March 18, 2024 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
SEO planning: Your one-page SEO plan Execute effective SEO campaigns and improve your results with the help of this simple one-page SEO [...] - Search Engine Land
Official: Google Replaces Perspective Filter With Forums Filter A month ago we saw Google test a new search filter for "Forums." This would filter the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Business Profiles Now Offers Additional Review After Appeal Is Denied Google has updated its help document on how to fix suspended or disabled Google Business Profiles [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
MELON: Reconstructing 3D objects from images with unknown poses Posted by Mark Matthews, Senior Software Engineer, and Dmitry Lagun, Research Scientist, Google [...] - Google Research
Google Search Ads 360 gains retail media capabilities Google said this will increase efficiency and scale for retail media with self-service. - Search Engine Land
Why the exact match keyword type in PPC is still relevant today Explore the synergy between exact and broad match keywords to harness machine learning while [...] - Search Engine Land
EU Searchers Complaining About Google Maps Features Changes Related To DMA We've been covering many of the Google Maps changes, many related to what searchers see in Europe [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Showing Fewer Sitelinks Within Search Both Semrush and SimilarWeb's RankRanger tool are reporting that Google is showing fewer sitelinks [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

March, 15 2024

Why Prediction Of 25% Search Volume Drop Due to Chatbots Fails Scrutiny via @sejournal, @martinibuster Seven facts show why AI chatbots have no chance of causing a 25% drop in search volume by 2026 - Search Engine Journal
Google to replace perspectives filter with forums filter The perspectives carousels, clusters and traditional web page listings will remain. - Search Engine Land
Link devaluation: The hidden threat of SpamBrain Learn why buying links could be a recipe for disaster as Google tightens its grip on spammy SEO [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Merchant Center Product Studio With Themed Templates Including St. Patrick's Day Google Merchant Center has added new themed templates to the Product Studio. The new theme was for [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google March 2024 Core & Spam Update Movement Today Today is day 10 of the Google March 2024 core update rollout and Google March 2024 spam update. We [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Image Search Results Testing Like Button Google seems to be testing a like, thumbs-up, button on image search results. The thumbs-up icon is [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Microsoft serving ads for Bing in Google Chrome Windows users are reporting seeing ads for Bing AI and the Bing search engine, but they're worried [...] - Search Engine Land
Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Core Update Rumbling, Manual Actions FAQs, Core Web Vitals Updates, AI, Bing, Ads & More This past weekend (a week ago) we saw the first ranking volatility likely from the Google March [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

March, 14 2024

The Saga Of John Mueller’s Freaky Robots.txt via @sejournal, @martinibuster The weird robots.txt file of Google's John Mueller's personal site became an object of curiosity [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Official FAQ On Pure Spam Manual Action Google has posted an FAQ on what to do if you received a pure spam manual action. This was posted [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Confirms: High-Quality Content Is Crawled More Often via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google's Search Relations team reveals that high-quality, user-centric content is the key to [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google SGE could cost publishers $2 billion in ad revenue The Search Generative Experience could cause search traffic to drop by up to 60%, leading to a [...] - Search Engine Land
Google’s March 2024 core update: 5 things you need to know Google's March 2024 update is a game-changer, with many sites impacted by algorithmic changes and [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Business Profile For Hotels Tests New Filter Options Google seems to be testing new filter options for hotel listings within Google Business Profiles. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
SEO testing: Shifting from reactive to proactive strategies Explore a systematic framework for SEO split testing. Learn how to identify, prioritize and execute [...] - Search Engine Land
New Interface For Microsoft Advertising Console Microsoft seems to be rolling out a new Microsoft Advertising console design. The new interface is [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Bing Search Tests New Video Block Design In Search Results Bing is testing a new design for how it shows some videos in the Bing search results interface. Now [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Numerous Google Local Panel User Interface Updates Over the past couple of weeks, I've been informed of a number of local user interface changes to [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
How to identify and rank for ‘hidden gems’ in SEO With Google's increasing focus on surfacing first-hand knowledge and personal perspectives in [...] - Search Engine Land

March, 13 2024

John Mueller's Site Dropped From Google Search Everyone in the SEO community is talking about how John Mueller's website is no longer listed in [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
How to analyze Performance Max search terms insights for PPC success Google Ads fixed the bug preventing Performance Max search query data from showing in scripts. [...] - Search Engine Land
YouTube unveils 4 new features, including Tagged Product error notifications YouTube has introduced a series of updates aimed at helping creators better monitor and manage [...] - Search Engine Land
Are we becoming less curious about SEO? There was a time when SEOs loved to second-guess Google algorithms. What happened? - Search Engine Land
Google Now Says Core Web Vitals Used In Ranking Systems via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google updated their documentation to make it clear that CWV is used in their ranking systems [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Search Console Adds INP Metric In Core Web Vitals Report via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google Search Console adds Interaction to Next Paint (INP) metric to Core Web Vitals report. - Search Engine Journal
Best of SearchBot: Create a blog content strategy to boost SEO We ask Search Engine Land's SearchBot for tips on choosing blog topics that will boost a website's [...] - Search Engine Land
Bing Webmaster Tools Tells You When Your Inbound Links Are Inadequate Last week, Bing Webmaster Tools introduced top SEO insights that give you some SEO tips for your [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
5 tips to make your B2B content more human B2B doesn't mean boring. Learn how to craft content that speaks to the human behind the business [...] - Search Engine Land

March, 12 2024

Google updates its page experience docs to clarify ranking signals Core Web Vitals are a ranking signal but not other page experience signals. - Search Engine Land
Google unveils new ad tools and updates for mobile app developers Google is introducing a series of updates to help advertisers "enhance creativity, diversify [...] - Search Engine Land
What we’re seeing a week into the Google March 2024 core and spam updates Ranking volatility hit on Friday and Saturday, with limited reversals on Monday after a storm of [...] - Search Engine Land
Google’s Algorithm Hates AI Content? How To Make Google Love It via @sejournal, @martinibuster The March 2024 core algorithm update is penalizing AI content. Here's how to make Google love it [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google’s March 2024 Core Update Impact: Hundreds Of Websites Deindexed via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google's March 2024 Core Update deindexes hundreds of websites so far, targeting AI-generated spam [...] - Search Engine Journal
6 tips for better PPC ad copy Make every ad impression count with these tips for writing high-converting PPC ad copy. - Search Engine Land
Internal link building for an E-E-A-T-focused content strategy Maximize your website's E-E-A-T signals through strategic internal linking within a well-structured [...] - Search Engine Land
Creating Google Ads campaigns with Gemini conversational AI: How good is it really? Learn about Gemini AI’s capabilities and limitations, plus how to effectively use it for [...] - Search Engine Land
Nutrimuscle: Scaling spend and growing ROAS through better measurement Snapchat driving spend growth at higher efficiency Nutrimuscle is a fast-growing sports [...] - Search Engine Watch
Google Business Profiles With Bookable Services Google Business Profiles now shows services with bookable buttons. I know Google had booking [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Top Stories More Context Section Is Generated By AI Google has a section under some of its top stories in search results named "more [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google March 2024 Core/Spam Update Early Reversals (It's Far From Done...) We reported on Saturday that the Google March 2024 core update seemed to have touched down on land, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Hotel & Restaurant Search Listings Tests Adding Website Link Google is testing adding the hotel's website link directly to the Google Search hotel listings on [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

March, 11 2024

Google Integrates Social Media Posts Into Google Business Profiles via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google begins automatically surfacing social media posts on Google Business Profiles. - Search Engine Journal
Entity-based competitor analysis: An SEO’s guide Here's how a competitor entity analysis can help you pinpoint content opportunities and build [...] - Search Engine Land
AI-powered content management: How to make your workflows more efficient Learn how AI transforms content management by streamlining workflows, personalizing content and [...] - Search Engine Land
Google: Sites Using AI For Some Articles But Don't Specify Which Is Lowest Quality Pages The updated Google Search Quality Raters guidelines last week and added an example of that it [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Bing Webmaster Tools May Provide Up 24 Months Of Data Currently, Bing Webmaster Tools will give you up to six months of data, but Microsoft may extend [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Reminder: Google Core Web Vitals Replaces FID With INP Tomorrow (March 12) This is just a friendly reminder that Google will replace First Input Delay (FID) with Interaction [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Explains Doubling Down On AI Content Now May Be A Bad Idea There is a thread on Reddit asking site owners how they are dealing with the new various Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google LSAs Shows Competitors In Your Google Business Profile Listing Imagine you pay for an advertisement, someone then clicks on that ad and is then able to see local [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Marketing Platform launches new API with enhanced capabilities The new API allows marketers to move properties between standard and Analytics 360, providing [...] - Search Engine Land

March, 10 2024

Google March 2024 Core Update Ranking Changes Have Begun Today is the first day I have seen solid evidence of serious ranking volatility and changes related [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google’s Website Cache Is Still Available (For Now) via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google's recent update of its cache documentation highlights that the cache is actually still [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Interaction to Next Paint coming to Core Web Vitals this Tuesday Don't confuse this with the Google Core Update - they are two very different things. - Search Engine Land

March, 8 2024

Google issues search ranking penalties through manual actions Check your properties within Google Search Console for manual actions to see if your were impacted. - Search Engine Land
Google To Remove “Add Me To Search” People Cards In April via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google to discontinue its "Add Me To Search" people cards feature, citing limited [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google: We Still Try To Avoid Overlapping Algorithmic Updates Danny Sullivan, Google's Search Liaison, said again that the search company "generally try to [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
5 biggest challenges for PPC marketers in 2024 Get insights into the major hurdles PPC marketers will confront this year, from evolving audience [...] - Search Engine Land
Climate change SEO survey: Making the web more sustainable Uncover the link between SEO and environmental sustainability and how SEOs can aid in shaping a [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Search People Cards Going Away On April 7 Remember People Cards? Probably not. It launched in Google Search in India in 2020 a way for [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Some Google Business Profiles Tools Are Not Working Google Business Profiles has outages for some of its business management tools. The outages started [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Tests More News Topics Button Google is testing a button in the search results under the top stories news results to see [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

March, 7 2024

Google Business Profiles tools are temporarily unavailable Verification status, managing appeals and managing reviews currently may not be working. - Search Engine Land
Google Search Console recipe rich result report adds two new properties Google added recipeInstructions and recipeIngredient and thus you may see an increase in warnings [...] - Search Engine Land
Google launches privacy-focused measurement tool for advertisers Meridian, an open-source Marketing Mix Model (MMM), is available now to select marketers and data [...] - Search Engine Land
Empowering your team to build best-in-class MMMs Introducing Meridian, Google’s first open source MMM. - Inside Search
Google Ads now limits country-level location exclusions The platform is limiting advertisers to an exclusion list of 120 countries. - Search Engine Land
Google Updates Search Quality Evaluator Guidelines via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google updates Search Quality Evaluator Guidelines with details and examples to identify [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Unleashes Manual Actions Galore After Search Spam Policy Updates Google has unleashed tons of manual actions, search ranking penalties you can see within Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

March, 6 2024

Google March 2024 Update: 6 Insights On Manual Actions via @sejournal, @martinibuster Insights from sites receiving manual actions suggests this update may reach historic levels not [...] - Search Engine Journal
Craft winning paid search ads in 2024: 4 best practices Stay ahead of the curve in paid search advertising. Learn how to create compelling ads that [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Search turned off some event rich results Google says you may see a drop in clicks and impressions for your event search appearance reported [...] - Search Engine Land
13 ways SEO and social media teams can work together Bridge the gap between SEO and social media for boosted visibility and engagement. Learn how [...] - Search Engine Land
Google March 2024 Core Update Rolling Out - It's A Big Core Update Google announced the March 2024 core update has now started to roll out and that this core update [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

March, 5 2024

Google releasing ambitious search quality enhancements in the March 2024 core update and multiple spam updates The Google helpful content update is now part of the core update; all of this leading to a 40% [...] - Search Engine Land
What web creators should know about our March 2024 core update and new spam policies Today we announced the March 2024 core update. This is designed to improve the quality [...] - Google Webmaster Central
Google Business Profile websites are now redirected to Google Maps Eventually these redirects will go away and the website URLs will lead users to a dead end. - Search Engine Land
New ways we’re tackling spammy, low-quality content on Search We’re making updates to show less unoriginal, low-quality content on Search. - Inside Search
Google March 2024 Update: 4 Changes To Link Signal via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google's Core Algorithm update contains 4 changes to the link signals - Search Engine Journal
Google investigating error impacting AdMob messages Affected users can't create or publish new messages within the platform's privacy and messaging [...] - Search Engine Land
Bing Webmaster Tools gains new IndexNow Insights & top SEO insights report IndexNow now reached 2.5 billion submitted URLs and accounts for 17% of its clicked on web search [...] - Search Engine Land
Why information satisfaction is key to Google’s ranking algorithms Learn about information satisfaction or IS, a key metric in Google organic search rankings, and how [...] - Search Engine Land
Google March 2024 Core Update: Reducing “Unhelpful” Content By 40% via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google's extensive March 2024 Core Update tackles low-quality content and introduces new spam [...] - Search Engine Journal
How to optimize Google Core Web Vitals with real user data by DebugBear Collecting data on visitor experiences on your website can help you pass Google’s Core Web [...] - Search Engine Land
Top Insights For Maximum Visibility And Performance via @sejournal, @facan Learn how Top Insights empowers you with the data you need to make more informed decisions. - Search Engine Journal
Microsoft Advertising Performance Max Globally Available Today Microsoft announced that Performance Max campaigns are available globally on Microsoft Advertising [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google unveils major changes to ensure Digital Markets Act compliance Google announced changes to Search results, screen choices, and consent measures ahead of the DMA's [...] - Search Engine Land
Repurposing content with AI: Streamlining blog roundups and skyscraper posts Learn an AI-assisted approach to content repurposing, enabling you to efficiently create blog [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Search App Tests Colorful Search Buttons Google is testing new specialty search buttons to access search by image, translate, homework, and [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Updates Google StoreBot User Agent With Dynamic Chrome Version Google has updated the Google StoreBot user agent to use a placeholder version of Chrome. So [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Shut Down Google Business Profiles Websites This Morning Yesterday we reported that despite Google saying they would shutdown and redirect the Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

March, 4 2024

Google Ads launches new tool that automatically generates performance reports You can now easily customize your reports with the free "Solutions" tool available in the [...] - Search Engine Land
A/B testing and SEO: How to navigate pitfalls and maximize results Discover how to maximize the ROI of both A/B testing and SEO. Navigate common pitfalls at the [...] - Search Engine Land
Search Engine Land’s Periodic Table of SEO Elements goes interactive for 2024 The new interactive version features 44 elements in seven groups – Content, Architecture, [...] - Search Engine Land
Shifts in data privacy are forcing a return to marketing fundamentals Actionable tips and next steps you and your teams can take to evolve your strategy with less [...] - Search Engine Land
Google must face some advertisers’ antitrust claims, says U.S. judge U.S. District Judge Kevin Castel ruled that Google must face a proposed class action lawsuit but [...] - Search Engine Land
March 2024 Google Webmaster Report Here is the big Google Webmaster report for March 2024 and this past month was pretty calm relative [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google to update Local Services Ads verification process The change is gradually rolling out in the U.S., beginning with smaller states and extending to [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Business Profiles Websites Still Working (For Now...) In January, Google told us that the Google Business Profiles websites will stop working on March 1, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Search Central Live 2024 in Bucharest, Romania We're excited to announce a Search Central Live event in Bucharest, Romania on April 4, 2024. [...] - Google Webmaster Central
Google Ads To Automatically Pause Inactive Ad Groups Google Ads announced it will automatically pause inactive ad groups. Google will pause ad groups [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Report: Google Local Service Ads To Gain New Verification Process Google may roll out a new verification process for its Local Service Ads program. Supposedly this [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

March, 2 2024

Google Announces A New Carousel Rich Result via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google announced a new scrolling carousel that displays as a rich result that can be used for [...] - Search Engine Journal

March, 1 2024

TikTok launches monthly trends round-up series, including content tips TikTok's Trends Digest will advise brands and creators on tapping into trends to boost engagement. - Search Engine Land
Google Ads will automatically start pausing ad groups with low activity Advertisers will have the option to unpause cad groups but are advised only to do so if they expect [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Ads Editor version 2.6 launches with 8 new features The new features have been rolled out to help advertisers create more effective ad campaigns and [...] - Search Engine Land
How to identify and create content pillars that boost brand awareness Learn proven tactics for selecting content pillars that educate and entertain your audience while [...] - Search Engine Land
How one Google featured snippet is killing commercial list-based content A look at Google's "From sources across the web" SERP feature, its similarity to [...] - Search Engine Land
Google addresses third-party cookie deprecation concerns: ‘It’s time to move’ Dan Taylor, Google's vice president of Global Advertising Strategies, is urging advertisers to act [...] - Search Engine Land
E-E-A-T’s Google Ranking Influence Decoded via @sejournal, @martinibuster How should SEOs implement E-E-A-T in their strategies according to recent statements from Google's [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Structured Data Carousels Beta Documentation Added Google has added new structured data carousel beta documentation, also known as host carousel. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable