Archive of May, 2024

May, 31 2024

Google To Limit AI Overviews For “Nonsensical” Queries via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google addresses concerns about AI overviews, while continuing to claim they lead to higher user [...] - Search Engine Journal
Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Rank Data Leak, Google Volatility, Search Console Link Decline & Google On AI Overviews This was one heck of a week with Google's search ranking data features being leaked... - Search Engine Roundtable
Google explains how it is improving its AI Overviews Google said only one in every 7 million unique queries resulted in a Google policy violation. - Search Engine Land
Google AI Overviews Are Here To Stay With Improvements - The Ray AIO Update Google's Head of Search, Liz Reid, wrote a blog post last night named "AI Overviews: About [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google to honor new privacy laws and user opt-outs Google is enabling Restricted Data Processing and honoring user opt-outs via Global Privacy [...] - Search Engine Land
4 key SEO lessons to avoid site launch disasters Launching a new website? Learn from hard-earned lessons on major pitfalls to avoid, like improper [...] - Search Engine Land
Google News and Discover not loading for many searchers This may impact news publisher traffic, while Google works out the kinks. - Search Engine Land
Google Shopping Ideas Search Carousel Google is now showing a newish "shopping ideas" carousel within its search results. It [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Tests People Also Ask Open By Default Google is testing showing the first people also ask link, as opened by default. So you don't need [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google News Tab, Discover & Google News Not Returning Results This morning, I was doing some news queries and noticed that, sporadically, the Google News tab was [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

May, 30 2024

AI Overviews: About last week Here’s what happened with AI Overviews, the feedback we've received, and the steps [...] - Inside Search
Unpacking Google’s massive search documentation leak This breakdown unveils potential Google Search ranking factors, including details on PageRank [...] - Search Engine Land
How SEO moves forward with the Google Content Warehouse API leak Addressing common questions, critiques and concerns following the massive Google Search leak and [...] - Search Engine Land
Core Web Vitals: WordPress, Wix, Squarespace, Joomla, Duda, & Drupal via @sejournal, @martinibuster Core Web Vitals scores reveal which CMS is the fastest. But something weird happened to nearly all [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google adds opt-in for Video Enhancements for ads You can now opt into Google's new video enhancements tool that uses AI to automatically generate [...] - Search Engine Land
Huge Decline In Links Reported In Google Search Console Links Report Earlier this week, we reported on some declines in the number of links reported in the Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Confirms Search Leak But Urges Caution After over 32 hours of silence after the Google Search ranking data leak, Google has finally [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Report Spam Tool Adds Site Reputation & Expired Domains Abuse Google added a couple of new options to the spam reporting tool, including the new site reputation [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
4 ways to check your website’s Google consent mode setup Stay compliant with Google's consent mode v2 requirements. Here's how to verify your consent [...] - Search Engine Land
6 guiding principles to leverage AI for SEO content production AI can be a helpful tool for search-driven content production, but without these guiding [...] - Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: May 30, 2024 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable

May, 29 2024

Doubts Emerge Over Alleged Google Data Leak via @sejournal, @martinibuster Some search marketers are skeptical of connections between the alleged Google data leak and ranking [...] - Search Engine Journal
How to create and configure custom dimensions in GA4 Get more granular site analytics by creating custom dimensions in Google Analytics 4. Here's how to [...] - Search Engine Land
Google responds to leak: Documentation lacks context Google won't comment on the specific elements in the document, in order to keep its ranking system [...] - Search Engine Land
Two Conflicting Google AI Overview CTR Studies In the past couple of weeks, we had two blog posts published on the topic of the click through [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Business Profiles Shows Product Rejection Details Google Business Profiles can now show you why your uploaded products were rejected by the system. I [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Search Central Live 2024 is coming back to the APAC region Search Central Live is coming back to the Asia Pacific region, bringing you insights from Google [...] - Google Webmaster Central
A guide to ad variations in Google Ads Learn to set up clean A/B tests using Google Ads' ad variations feature and get ideas for [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Business Profile Call History & Chat Going Away Google will be removing the call history reports and the Chat feature within Google Business [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

May, 28 2024

HUGE Google Search document leak reveals inner workings of ranking algorithm The documents reveal how Google Search is using, or has used, clicks, links, content, entities, [...] - Search Engine Land
Report: 14,000+ Google Search Ranking Features Leaked Rand Fishkin along with Mike King may have published one of the biggest data leaks outside of the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Data Leak Clarification via @sejournal, @martinibuster Clarification of that Google data leak that may change your mind about what is known so far - Search Engine Journal
Google Search Leak: Conflicting Signals, Unanswered Questions via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Leaked Google documents suggest user engagement metrics influence rankings, contradicting past [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google To Shut Down Business Profile Chat Feature via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google to discontinue Business Profile chat feature by July 31, urging businesses to seek [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google's John Mueller On Recovering From Core Updates - Maybe You Had A Good Run... John Mueller, a Google Search Analyst at Google, wrote a response to a site owner who saw their [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
New WordPress Plugin Solves Site Navigation Problem via @sejournal, @martinibuster Joost de Valk, founder of Yoast SEO, created a new WordPress plugin that solves a common site [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Is Now Indexing EPUB Files via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google quietly started indexing EPUB files and can now be seen in the SERPs - Search Engine Journal
Google Business Profile chat and call history going away July 31, 2024 Google will shut down call history and chat - you can download your history now. - Search Engine Land
3 common B2B SEO mistakes sabotaging cost per lead Be careful not to ONLY rely on paid media in B2B. Here's why SEO and content can reduce CPLs years [...] - Search Engine Land
Undated Google Ads Experiments To End August 23, 2024 Google has sent some Google Ads advertisers email notices that any of their Google Ads experiments [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
How to build a better remote team at your digital marketing agency Learn how a personality strength assessment tool can help you identify team members' strengths and [...] - Search Engine Land

May, 27 2024

Google's John Mueller Blasts The Concept Of Toxic Links, Again Google's John Mueller once again blasted the "concept of toxic links," he wrote on [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
In Face Of AI Overview Backlash, Google Updates Docs With How To Show Web Only Results & How To Give Feedback Google has updated its help documentation page on AI Overviews to tell searchers how to show only [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Rolls Out Search Profile Feature For Reviewers via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google rolls out a new type of social profile that makes users' written reviews in Search publicly [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google’s AI Overviews Shake Up Ecommerce Search Visibility via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Data reveals Google AI overviews are disrupting ecommerce visibility, pulling product data from [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Images "See Exact Matches" Helps You Find Who Stole Your Images Google Images lets you upload an image, and then it may show you an option to "see exact [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Mobile Tests Large Blue Visit Button On Search Results Google is testing a large blue visit button on its mobile search results interface. The button is [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Grayed Out Its Logo On Memorial Day Again Google has grayed out, muted, its logo, for Memorial Day, again this year. It also applied an [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

May, 26 2024

Your guide to Google Analytics 4 attribution Understand how attribution in GA4 works – session, user, and event scopes, modeled and [...] - Search Engine Land

May, 24 2024

How important are backlinks for SEO in 2024? Do backlinks remain a crucial factor for SEO? Or has their importance been diminished in 2024? We [...] - Search Engine Land
Google AI Overviews under fire for giving dangerous and wrong answers Your Money, Your Life seems to not apply to AI Overviews. Google advises users to run with [...] - Search Engine Land
Google testing blue visit button for search result snippets These are really big and visible buttons that may encourage a higher click-through rate from the [...] - Search Engine Land
Improving content quality at scale with AI Discover how to leverage AI to uncover unanswered questions in your content, helping you enhance [...] - Search Engine Land
Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Ranking Volatility, Ads In Google AI Overviews, Sundar Pichai Interview, Heartfelt Helpful Content & More Ad News We had more Google search ranking volatility in the middle of the week after some calming for a few [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Can Now Index Electronic Publication (EPUB) Google Search can now index Electronic Publication, the .epub, file type. Google added EPUB as a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Analytics Real-Time Reports Adds Users In Last 5 Minutes Google has updated the Google Analytics real-time reports to show real-time data in the last five [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: The Site Reputation Abuse Policy Enforcement Not Yet Algorithmic Google has once again said that its enforcement of the site reputation abuse policy is still only [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Directory Of Embarrassing Google AI Overviews Every day now, I see several screenshots on X of embarrassing and sometimes harmful AI Overviews [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
New Google Search Profiles With Reviews & Notes Google is rolling out new profile pages that shows you the reviews and notes you left across Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

May, 23 2024

New Google Lens Ads Mimic AI Search Results via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google's new visual search blurs the lines between AI search results and paid [...] - Search Engine Journal
New for 2024! Compare 16 top SEO platforms Whether you're looking to revamp your SEO strategy, upgrade your toolkit, or stay ahead of industry [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Confirms: No Algorithmic Actions For Site Reputation Abuse Yet via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google confirms algorithmic actions for site reputation abuse are not live, and will only impact [...] - Search Engine Journal
Bing Search Is Down; Takes Down DuckDuckGo, Ecosia, ChatGPT Search & More Bing Search is currently down and/or having massive latency issues. The Bing home page loads a gray [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Bing Search outages since early this morning Third-party search services that use Bing are also offline, including DuckDuckGo, ChatGPT Search, [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Tests Replacing Related Searches With People Also Search For? Google may be testing replacing the "related searches" box with the "people also [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Tests Special Reddit Search Result Snippet Interface? Google may be testing a special search result snippet interface for Reddit search results. In this [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Survey: Shoppers open to using AI search to discover products 55% of consumers believe generative AI search engines could make it easier to discover products and [...] - Search Engine Land
Google AI Overviews, clicks and traffic impact: Unraveling the mystery What's up with the Google AI Overviews click-through rates? Let's explore some math, sleights of [...] - Search Engine Land
Driving traffic but not leads? How to win with SEO and CRO Combining SEO and CRO forms a harmonious union. Explore these helpful tools and tips if [...] - Search Engine Land

May, 22 2024

Google To Prioritize AI Overviews Ads Over Organic Search via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google keynote speakers demonstrated how AI Overviews will prioritize advertising over organic [...] - Search Engine Journal
SEO job listings down 37% in Q1 – bad omen or blip? We're living through a disruptive moment due to AI – and more turbulence is expected in the [...] - Search Engine Land
Doodle for Google’s top 55 artists share their wishes for the future Today we’re announcing the 2024 Doodle for Google state and territory winners. - Inside Search
Google Search Ranking Volatility Spike Around May 22 After a few days of calm Google weather, we are now seeing a spike in volatility, fluctuations and [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Advertisers react to ‘underwhelming’ Google Marketing Live 2024 Here are some of the reactions from PPC experts following the many updates announced at Google [...] - Search Engine Land
How to use the new customer acquisition goal in Google Ads Find out how to leverage the feature effectively through thoughtful audience segmentation and [...] - Search Engine Land
Google & Bing Say Upgrade To WordPress 6.5 To Gain Lastmod Sitemap Support Google and Bing are recommending that those on WordPress to upgrade to version 6.5 because 6.5 now [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads VP: Users click on links in AI answers Google's Shashi Thakur tells us that users love AI Overviews and click on links. But he has no [...] - Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: May 22, 2024 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
Google is testing special snippet treatment for Reddit search results This will very likely lead to even more traffic sent by Google Search to Reddit. - Search Engine Land

May, 21 2024

Google Won’t Commit To AI Search Traffic Data In Search Console via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google won’t commit to providing websites with Search Console data on traffic generated from [...] - Search Engine Journal
New AI tools to help merchants market brands and products At GML we’re announcing new generative AI tools that help merchants market their brand and [...] - Inside Adwords
SEO Job Listings Reportedly Down 37% Year-Over-Year via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern SEO job listings dropped 37% in Q1, though senior roles increased slightly amid economic pressures. - Search Engine Journal
Google Marketing Live 2024: Everything you need to know From creative updates, to immersive shopping ads, to new reporting, here's a recap of all the AI [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Adds Visuals To About Source Knowledge Panels December 2022, Google began showing "About this" site under some search result snippets, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google's Sundar Pichai On AI Overviews Killing Web, Smaller Publishers & Search Console Data Nilay Patel, Editor-In-Chief of The Verge interviewed Sunday Pichai, CEO of Google, at Google I/O [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google tests AI-powered ads for complex purchases Google AI will provide personalized recommendations and advice before connecting them with [...] - Search Engine Land
Ads creativity and performance at scale with Google AI Google AI is helping marketers engage consumers with new creative features, immersive formats, and [...] - Inside Adwords
Google starts testing ads in AI overviews Existing Search, Performance Max and Shopping campaigns will be automatically eligible to appear in [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Lens and Circle to Search gains more links, facts and AI Overviews Not only are the search results more graphical, they have richer information for these more [...] - Search Engine Land
Shopping graph optimization: The future of ecommerce SEO Optimize for Google's product entity database across sources like manufacturer sites and YouTube to [...] - Search Engine Land
Google rolls out immersive, AI-powered Shopping Ads Google introduces video-powered search ads, expanded virtual try-on for apparel and 3D shoe spins [...] - Search Engine Land
Google PMax upgrade allows mass AI creative asset production Rapidly produce high-quality Performance Max creative assets at scale incorporating brand-specific [...] - Search Engine Land
Google AI Overviews Colors Do Not Indicate Confidence Of Response Google's John Mueller said the colors that Google selects for the AI Overviews has no indication of [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

May, 20 2024

Niche blogging in the new Google reality: 5 strategies to thrive or die Niche bloggers hit hard by recent Google updates have seen minimal recovery. Here's what to do [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Helpfulness Signals Might Change – Why It’s Not Enough via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google might update the helpful content signals so that new pages can rank. This is why that may [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google CEO is ’empathetic’ to content creators Search has wiped out Sundar Pichai calls this is a disruptive moment. He also avoids commiting to releasing data on AI [...] - Search Engine Land
Google CEO Addresses Concerns Over AI’s Impact On Search Traffic via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google CEO downplays concerns over AI search impacting website traffic, claims it drives more [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Working On Surfacing More Content That Comes From The Heart Last week we reported how Danny Sullivan, Google's Search Liaison, said how they are looking for [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Ex-Googler: Google’s AI projects are driven by ‘stone cold panic’ Google is afraid of being left behind and thinks the solution is to put AI in everything, a former [...] - Search Engine Land
Has ChatGPT launched its Search product in stealth? ChatGPT can now search the web to find current information, recent events or detailed answers that [...] - Search Engine Land
How to generate SEO content ideas with the Value Proposition Canvas Generate SEO content ideas that directly address your customers' jobs, pains and gains for more [...] - Search Engine Land
Danny Sullivan: We Speak Directly To Engineers Working On Google Ranking Systems Google was asked where Google's Danny Sullivan and John Mueller get their information from when [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
38% Of Webpages From 2013 Have Vanished, Pew Study Finds via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Pew Research Center study reveals widespread digital decay: 38% webpages, government links, tweets [...] - Search Engine Journal
Bing Lets You Turn Off AI Responses But Google Doesn't Let You Turn Off AI Overviews Google has been rolling out AI Overviews in its search results since last week and more and more [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Comments To Notes In Google Search? Google may be bringing comments to the Notes on Google Search (and Discover) feature. Notes on [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Straight from the source: 2024 Search Engine Land Awards judges reveal what makes an application award-worthy Submit your entry by Friday, May 24, to lock in Super Early Bird rates! - Search Engine Land
Google Says Notes On Search Now Ends Soon Google has updated the Google Search Labs to say that Notes on Search now "ends soon." As [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

May, 18 2024

Google Hints At Improving Site Rankings In Next Update via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google aims to better reward high-quality content sites in the next core update. - Search Engine Journal

May, 17 2024

Google Reveals Two New Web Crawlers via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google announces details of two new crawlers that are optimized for scraping images and videos for [...] - Search Engine Journal
Why advertisers can no longer trust Google Trust in Google has absolutely collapsed in the wake of revelations from the DOJ antitrust trial. [...] - Search Engine Land
TikTok now testing 60-minute video uploads We may soon know whether TikTok users actually want hour-long videos. Could this lead to more [...] - Search Engine Land
How to archive your Universal Analytics historical data Time is running out to save your Universal Analytics data. Follow these steps to archive historical [...] - Search Engine Land
Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google AI Overviews, Ranking Volatility, Web Filter, Google Ads AI Summaries & More Google announced they are rolling out AI Overviews in the US and many searchers want to turn it [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Mikhail Parakhin, Former Microsoft Bing Head, Joins Perplexity Advisor Board Mikhail Parakhin, the former head of Bing Search and Microsoft Advertising at Microsoft, has [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Navigating the AI wars: Winning SEO strategies for brands See how AI is changing our quest for information, the key players in the AI wars and the attributes [...] - Search Engine Land
Remove Your Content From Google's AI Overviews When Google announced it is rolling out AI Overviews in the US search results and last year when [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Two New Googlebots: GoogleOther-Image & GoogleOther-Video Google has added two new Googlebots, Google crawlers, to its crawler list. They include [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads AI Summaries Live For Some Advertisers Google Ads continues to roll out AI features within the advertiser console. Now some advertisers [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

May, 16 2024

Continued Heated Google Search Ranking Volatility Through May 16th I have been continuing to update the May 9th Google ranking volatility story, but it is super [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Sites Hit By Helpful Content Update Could See Improvements With Next Core Update If... Google's John Mueller was asked when can a site expect to recover from the September 2023 helpful [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Many Searchers Want To Turn Off Google AI Overviews There are many searchers who have been using Google daily that are heading to the Google Web Search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google AI Overviews: More searches, less satisfaction What happens when you let Google do the Googling for you, but Google can't find what Google is [...] - Search Engine Land
Google adds two new Googlebot crawlers: GoogleOther-Image and GoogleOther-Video Google said these new crawlers are to "better support crawling of binary data that may be used [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Local Service Ads Tests Message Multiple Businesses Google is testing a new button for the Local Service Ads to "message multiple businesses" [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
How to run a successful site migration from start to finish Moving to a new domain, changing your CMS or merging sites? Learn best practices for a seamless [...] - Search Engine Land
Google AI Overviews = Theft? Court Ruling Sets Precedent via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google's AI search overviews spark debate over fair use of web content, echoing recent French court [...] - Search Engine Journal
Is Service Areas A New Google Local Ranking Factor? A bunch of local SEOs are buzzing about a possible new local SEO Google ranking factor and are [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google AdSense Will Not Change Minimum Reporting Thresholds Google AdSense planned on changing the minimum reporting thresholds for Custom Channels and Search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
How to reappeal a Google Business Profile suspension Follow these steps to appeal your GBP suspension and increase your chances of getting reinstated on [...] - Search Engine Land

May, 15 2024

New Google AI Overviews Documentation & SEO via @sejournal, @martinibuster What Google's new AI Overviews documentation says that SEOs and publishers need to know - Search Engine Journal
New Google AI Search Features Coming Soon - From Google I/O Google not only announced that AI Overviews are rolling out in the US this week but a number of new [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google AI Overviews Launch In US Search Results Google, as expected, has officially launched AI Overviews in the US and will expand the launch to [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Web Filter Goes Live To Show Just Text Links In February, we caught Google testing a new search filter named "Web Results." Well, last [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
How entity-based strategies can contribute to PPC success Incorporate entities into your PPC strategy to expand keyword lists, optimize for quality scores [...] - Search Engine Land

May, 14 2024

Generative AI in Search: Let Google do the searching for you We’re bringing AI Overviews to everyone in the U.S. and adding new gen AI experiences to take [...] - Inside Search
SGE Is Here. Google Rolls Out AI-Powered Overviews To US Search Results via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google rolls out AI-generated overviews to US search results, powered by a new Gemini model [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Rolls Out New ‘Web’ Filter For Search Results via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google introduces new "Web" filter for simplified, text-only search results. - Search Engine Journal
Google rolls out AI Overviews in US with more countries coming soon AI Overview link cards get a higher click through rate than normal web search results but Google [...] - Search Engine Land
Google RSAs in 2024: Everything you need to know The latest updates and best practices for Google responsive search ads, from single-headline ads to [...] - Search Engine Land
Google adds “web” filter to only show text-based links in Google Search results Google said the filter appears on the top of the results page alongside other filters. - Search Engine Land
Google Search Confirms Deindexing Vast Amounts Of URLs In February 2024 Gary Illyes from Google confirmed that Google has "suddenly" dedindexed a "vast [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
New Google Search AI features to help you plan, research and learn New features include AI Overviews, multistep reasoning capabilities, planning capabilities, [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Tried To Steal OpenAI's Thunder 45 Minutes Prior To OpenAI's GPT-4o Announcement About 45 minutes before OpenAI's announcement of GPT-4o, Google posted on X a demo of new Gemini [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Automated Action Viewer In Search Console Might Happen? For over a decade now, I've been talking about Google adding an automated action viewer to Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads To Change Functionality For Suspended Accounts Google announced and emailed advertisers that they are changing the functionality of Google Ads [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: We Read Your Feedback On Search Quality & Changes To Come Danny Sullivan, the Google Search Liaison, said yesterday on X that he has read the feedback from [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
How to build a custom GPT to redefine keyword research Merge AI efficiency with SEO mastery. Create a custom GPT for unique data analysis, uncovering [...] - Search Engine Land
Google's Buckle Up Comment On Search 6 Months Later Six months ago, I covered the famous (non) "buckle up" comments about the changes coming [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

May, 13 2024

6 unpopular SEO opinions you need to consider From prioritizing user experience to focusing on real marketing, dive into unpopular opinions on [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Warns Against “Sneaky Redirects” When Updating Content via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google warns against using "sneaky redirects" with rel=canonical tags when updating [...] - Search Engine Journal
Content Decay: A Rotten Name For A Real SEO Issue via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google's Search Off The Record podcast discussed Content Decay, an SEO problem that nobody's heard [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google limits functionality of suspended ads accounts Google is limiting actions to billing, appeals, security settings and account navigation for [...] - Search Engine Land
5 mistakes to avoid when adding new ecommerce channels by Digital Marketing Depot Learn how to avoid missteps that can stifle growth, waste valuable resources, and even lead to [...] - Search Engine Land
Entity-oriented search: The evolution of information retrieval, explained Learn how modern search engines use entities, context and knowledge graphs to truly understand [...] - Search Engine Land
7 B2B content distribution strategies that work Ensure your hard work reaches your target audience, drives engagement and generates leads with [...] - Search Engine Land
Why Google Can’t Tell You About Every Ranking Drop via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google explains the challenges in providing transparency about algorithmic ranking changes and [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Search Console Doesn't Keep Data For Most De-Indexed Pages Gary Illyes from Google said on LinkedIn that Google Search Console doesn't "keep (almost) any [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Lifts Some Site Reputation Abuse Policy Penalties About a week ago, we reported that Google began enforcing its new site reputation abuse policy by [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Video Pages Need To Be Super-Obvious Video Play Pages In April 2023 and December 2023 Google changed how it classifies what it would consider video [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Again On Difference Between Algorithm Updates & Data Refreshes Danny Sullivan, Google's Search Liaison, posted on X explaining the differences between algorithm [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Ad format preferences land in Google Demand Gen campaigns Ad format preference will give advertisers the choice to place their video assets across YouTube's [...] - Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: May 13, 2024 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

May, 10 2024

How to navigate negative Glassdoor and Indeed company reviews Dealing with negative reviews from former employees? Here’s how to respond properly and [...] - Search Engine Land
How to leverage social search for effective on-site optimization Embrace the era of “search everywhere” by harnessing the potential of social search [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Local Panel With Owner Attribute Google can show the owner of the business in the local panels in the Google search results. I [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Mikhail Parakhin No Longer Working On Copilot At Microsoft Mikhail Parakhin, the former head of Bing Search and Microsoft Advertising at Microsoft, confirmed [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Shopping Ads get conversion annotations Merchants can enable conversion annotations that showcase a product's popularity directly in Google [...] - Search Engine Land
Google: Proximity Not A Relevancy Factor For Local Service Ads Google has updated its Local Services Ads help document on ad rankings to remove the line around [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Site Reputation Abuse Isn't About Linking Danny Sullivan, Google's Search Liaison, made it crystal clear that the site reputation abuse [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Report: Alphabet still wants to acquire HubSpot Acquisition discussions are reportedly progressing between Alphabet, Google's parent company, and [...] - Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: May 10, 2024 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

May, 9 2024

Google Defends Lack Of Communication Around Search Updates via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google regularly updates search algorithms with thousands of unannounced tweaks annually, sparking [...] - Search Engine Journal
Ex-Google CEO Implies AI Search Will Have No Links via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google's former CEO said out loud what Googlers won't: Google is not about showing links, it's [...] - Search Engine Journal
Online reputation management: Top 10 hurdles and how to overcome them From dealing with generative AI to monitoring brand mentions across platforms, managing your online [...] - Search Engine Land
Sundar Pichai, Google's CEO, Responds To Google Search Quality Issues Google's CEO, Sundar Pichai, was interviewed by Emily Chang at Bloomberg before the big Google I/O [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Ranking Update Volatility Starting On May 9th I am seeing signs of a possible Google search ranking update today, May 9th, between a spike in [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google’s Strategies For Dealing With Content Decay via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google shares strategies for managing outdated website content rather than deleting it. - Search Engine Journal
Google Defines “Content Decay” In New Podcast Episode via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google defines "content decay" in a new episode of the Search Off The Record podcast, and [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Analytics Gains Google Ads Conversion Performance Beta Google Analytics has a new beta Google Ads report named "conversion performance." This is [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Tests New Search Notes Button Google is testing a new button to add a note to the search results. As a reminder, Google launched [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Optimization beyond data: Design thinking for SEO Elevate your SEO strategy by using a design thinking framework to create more impactful, [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Search results without SGE jump to 65%, up from 25% While the number of Google search queries without SGE results have significantly increased, SGE [...] - Search Engine Land
Google CEO on future of links, AI making Search quality worse Sundar Pichai said links will always be an important part of Search and addressed complaints that [...] - Search Engine Land
Information gain: Here’s what this new SEO ‘buzzword’ really means Here's what information gain means for machine learning, Google patents and information foraging [...] - Search Engine Land

May, 8 2024

Google Local Business Profile Reviews Listings Updated Google has updated the page where you view, reply and report reviews for your Google Business [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: May 8, 2024 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
The SEO-UX paradox: Achieving visibility without sacrificing user delight SEO doesn't have to undermine UX. Learn how to create user-centric experiences that resonate with [...] - Search Engine Land

May, 7 2024

Google is not about blue links, says ex-CEO Eric Schmidt Calling AI 'underhyped,' Eric Schmidt believes Google will be able to monetize AI answers and [...] - Search Engine Land
Hit By The Core Algorithm? 5 Factors To Be Aware Of via @sejournal, @martinibuster Five insights shared by Googlers that can be helpful for those wanting to reverse lost rankings - Search Engine Journal
Google Search Ranking Update Volatility Starting On May 3rd I am slow to report on this but figured I'd document it just in case some of you noticed ranking [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google hides search results count under tools section Is the results count one step closer to fully going away? - Search Engine Land
Google begins enforcement of site reputation abuse policy with portions of sites being delisted Sites like CNN, USA Today, LA Times and others are seeing their rented subdomains and subfolders [...] - Search Engine Land
Number Of Search Results Dropped Google Search Results Page It seems Google has fully removed the number of results found, the results count, from the Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Unpacking Google’s 2024 E-E-A-T Knowledge Graph update Learn how Google is rapidly building its Knowledge Vault and why establishing a strong, [...] - Search Engine Land
Big Brands Receive Site Abuse Manual Actions via @sejournal, @martinibuster Big brands appear to be among the first to get hit with manual actions. One major company had a [...] - Search Engine Journal
Report: 64% of technical SEOs believe AI isn’t a job security threat However, SEOs view Google SGE as a threat. Also, AI is impacting SEO planning and roadmaps for [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Ads New Performance Max For Marketplaces Google Ads has launched Performance Max for Marketplaces. This is designed to help you sell your [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Began Enforcing The Site Reputation Abuse Policy Last Night Google said it began to enforce its new site reputation abuse policy last night. The policy went [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Rumors Of Google Auditing 25% Of Google Ads Are False The Google Ads Liaison, Ginny Marvin, said the rumors of Google auditing 25% of Google Ads accounts [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

May, 6 2024

Apple’s “Intelligent Search” Will Summarize Webpages via @sejournal, @martinibuster Apple's new AI Search will generate website summaries. Another feature, called Web Eraser, [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google’s Mueller Outlines Path To Recovery For Sites Hit By Core Update via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google's John Mueller reveals the reality of recovering from algorithm updates: Adaptation is key. - Search Engine Journal
Big Change To Google’s Product Structured Data Page via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google completely revamped their +6,000 word Product Structured Data documentation into three [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google SGE Says Drink Urine To Pass Kidney Stones Quickly The new AI advanced version of Google Search, aka Google SGE or Search Generative Experience, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Tests Showing Only Local Listing For Near Me Queries Google Search seems to be testing showing only local listings from Google Business Profiles for [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Will Remove Its Disavow Link Tool At Some Point Google's John Mueller said on X that he believes Google will remove the disavow link tool "at [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google disavow link tool will go away at some point John Mueller said, "At some point, I'm sure we'll remove it," referring to the disavow [...] - Search Engine Land
How to avoid an SEO disaster during a website redesign Avoid the costly mistake of losing all your SEO progress after a website overhaul. Here's how to [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Confirms Site Reputation Abuse Update via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google's SearchLiaison confirmed that the site reputation abuse policy commenced being enforced on [...] - Search Engine Journal
DOJ hammers Google over search ad price manipulation Here's how Google harms advertisers in 20 slides, according to the DOJ's closing statement on [...] - Search Engine Land
Google: Sites Hit By The Old Helpful Content Update Can Recover & Grow Google's John Mueller said again this morning that sites hit by the old September helpful content [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Gemini Stops Linking To Most Sources? A year ago, Google Gemini (formerly known as Bard) began linking to sources as citations and we [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Statcounter Fixes Search Engine Market Share Data After Incorrectly Showing Google Lost Share Over the past week, many have been windblown by Statcounter reporting that Google lost significant [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
How to uncover hidden gems in your paid search accounts Use keyword analysis, auction monitoring and conversion path tracking to identify untapped [...] - Search Engine Land

May, 5 2024

Google’s huge search market share loss wasn’t real: Data revised While it wasn't as dramatic a drop as first reported, Google has been consistently losing U.S. [...] - Search Engine Land

May, 3 2024

The Industry Mourns The Loss Of Mark Irvine - Brilliant & Giving Search Marketer I am deeply sad to report that Mark Irvine passed away unexpectedly last night. Mark was deeply [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Open To Alternative Ideas For Hreflang Gary Illyes from Google said he has heard from the SEO industry that hreflang can be [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google expands Performance Max to online marketplaces With no need for a website or merchant center, you can now use Performance Max to drive traffic to [...] - Search Engine Land
3 key observations about the Google March 2024 core update Uncover the unique characteristics of the March 2024 core update, from its prolonged rollout to its [...] - Search Engine Land
Google SGE AI Answers Now Cost 80% Less To Generate One of the big worries for Google investors was the cost of running AI to show within its search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Effort shaming: Balancing work ethic and burnout in marketing Here’s how to foster a healthier work culture that values both mental well-being and [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Recrawls URLs At Different Rates: Multiple Times Per Day To Every Few Months Google has to crawl the web to build its index for it to provide search results. And since webpages [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Localized SERPs: Winning traffic and leads with service area pages Service area pages are now critical for ranking for local search. Learn tips for making your [...] - Search Engine Land
Google unveils new ways to reach streaming audiences Google wants advertisers to centralize their streaming ad buys through its web-focused demand-side [...] - Search Engine Land

May, 2 2024

Google’s Search Engine Market Share Drops As Competitors’ Grows via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google's search engine market share is reportedly dropping as competitors gain ground. - Search Engine Journal
Small review site lost 91% of its Google traffic to affiliate-focused SEO content Google's search results are dominated by big brands. SEOs for smaller sites are complaining. It's [...] - Search Engine Land
Google: Helpful Content Update Recoveries May Take Much Longer Than Others Google's John Mueller responded to some questions around why sites hurt by the September 2023 [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google restricts promotion of deep fake sexual content These restrictions now apply to Shopping ads and will be enforced across all types of ads after May [...] - Search Engine Land
How to overcome the top 3 objections to YouTube video ads Don't let budget constraints, past failures or lack of know-how stop you from taking advantage of [...] - Search Engine Land
May 2024 Google Webmaster Report In the past month, in Google-land, we have spoken a lot about the March 2024 core update, which [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Forbes Completely Removes (410 Server Status) Coupon Directory A couple of weeks ago Forbes blocked its coupons directory on its website from being crawled by [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Report: OpenAI To Launch Search Engine Over the past week or so, I've seen two signals that OpenAI will launch its own search engine of [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads To Disallow Services For Deepfake Sexual Content Google Ads, Shopping Ads, Admob, and other Google Ads products will soon disallow deepfake sexual [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: May 2, 2024 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
7 ways to use the ‘inspect element’ tool for SEO Learn how to use this browser tool for SEO tasks like link analysis, code troubleshooting, schema [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Ads To Automatically Pause Low-Activity Keywords Next Month Google Ads will automatically pause low-activity keywords starting in June 2024. That means [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google, DOJ make closing arguments in antitrust trial The stage is set for a monumental court decision that could shake up the search industry – or [...] - Search Engine Land

May, 1 2024

What To Know About Medium-Level WordPress Vulnerabilities via @sejournal, @martinibuster The facts about medium-level vulnerabilities and whether they're something to worry about - Search Engine Journal
Most SEOs Did Not Send Feedback To Google On The March 2024 Core Update Google opened up its feedback form after it announced the Google March 2024 core update was [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Did Google really lose search market share to Microsoft Bing in April? Google has lost search market share in the U.S., North America, globally and elsewhere. Meanwhile [...] - Search Engine Land
Google SGE AI Overviews Has A New Title - AI Answer Google is now labeling or using the title of its SGE, Search Generative Experience, "AI [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Googling "Flag GIF" Leads To Nazi Flags In Google Search If you search for [flag GIF] on Google, click on the "waiving" refinement, you are taken [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
A new Mother's Day gift experience on Google Search We’re making it easier to find Mother’s Day gifts with a new shopping experience. - Inside Search
6 ways to use AI for paid search account restructuring Embracing AI is key to smarter PPC management. Let AI do the heavy lifting on these key tasks, from [...] - Search Engine Land
Bing Webmaster Tools Notifications & Insights Bug Fixed Fabrice Canel from Microsoft confirmed Microsoft has fixed a bug with Bing Webmaster Tools showing [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads Posts First New Feature Announcement In Two Months - PMax Updates Google Ads has posted its first new features announcement in its help section in over two months. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
How to boost your marketing revenue with personalization, connectivity and data Here’s how to leverage AI, unified customer data and connected journeys to meet [...] - Search Engine Land