Archive of December, 2024
December, 31 2024
- Google Speculates If SEO ‘Is On A Dying Path’ via @sejournal, @martinibuster Googlers offer a surprising assessment of whether AI has put SEO on a 'dying path' - Search Engine Journal
- Daily Search Forum Recap: December 31, 2024 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
- Google Search Tests Get An AI Explanation Selection Google Search is testing a new method to get trigger an AI Overview in Google Search. You can [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
- Most Commented Search Engine Roundtable Articles - 2024 Edition Here are the most popular articles on the Search Engine Roundtable by number of comments. In other [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
- Google Top Quality Store Badge Off Search & On Website We've seen top-quality store badges in the Google Search results for a long time now. But now some [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
- Crawling out of December: the 2024 recap It might happen that by the end of this post you're going to try to decide who wrote this blog [...] - Google Webmaster Central
- Top 10 SEO expert columns of 2024 on Search Engine Land How Google works, the Google leak, GEO, GSC, and more! These 10 SEO columns got the most pageviews [...] - Search Engine Land
- Google Algorithm Updates 2024 Infographic Google has rolled out fewer confirmed search ranking updates in 2024, then it did in all the past [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
- Top Contributors To The Search Engine Roundtable In 2024 The Search Engine Roundtable is made up of what you, the search community, are talking about. What [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
- Google Search Ranking Volatility Heated Into New Years 2025 The Google December 2024 core update and the December 2024 spam updates are both complete, but yet, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
December, 30 2024
- Google CEO Describes A 2025 Beyond A Search Box via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google CEO outlines 2025 plan to make AI apps like Gemini the interface for how users search. What [...] - Search Engine Journal
- Top 10 PPC expert columns of 2024 on Search Engine Land Performance Max, lead gen, ChatGPT, value-based bidding, and more! These 10 PPC columns got the [...] - Search Engine Land
- Bug? Google Knowledge Panel Images Opening Full Screen. Google often shows images in the knowledge panels within the Google Search results, but when you [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
- Google Search Tests AI Generated Things to Know Google is testing using Gemini to generate the Things To Know section using AI. Yes, AI-generated [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
- Google AI Overviews Claims More Pixel Height in SERPs via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google's AI Overviews is occupying greater amounts of pixel space in the search results, creating a [...] - Search Engine Journal
- Daily Search Forum Recap: December 30, 2024 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
- Google Testing AI Overview Rendering Animation I am not sure I'd call this new, because I believe I've seen this numerous times before, but Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
- Google: Scaling Gemini For Consumers Biggest Focus Of 2025 Google's CEO, Sundar Pichai, reportedly held a meeting for its employees where he spoke about the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
- Google Search Ads Titled Find Related Products & Services Google is now testing titled sponsored search ads in the Google Search results with "Find [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
December, 29 2024
- Google’s CEO warns ChatGPT may become synonymous to AI the way Google is to Search Google will focus hard on scaling Gemini as a consumer app in 2025, CNBC reports. - Search Engine Land
- Google Explains How CDNs Impact Crawling & SEO via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google's new documentation explains how using a CDN can negatively impact crawling - Search Engine Journal
- Google Gemini Deep Research May Erode Website Earnings via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google's Gemini Deep Research erodes website earnings by removing the need for consumers to visit [...] - Search Engine Journal
December, 28 2024
- Google Says Temporal Anomalies Affect Googlebot Crawl via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google's John Mueller says temporal anomalies can affect Googlebot crawl - Search Engine Journal
December, 27 2024
- Google’s December 2024 Updates: Final Results via @sejournal, @martinibuster The verdict is in on Google's December 2024 updates. SEO and publisher responses share common [...] - Search Engine Journal
- Is SEO Always Changing? Not Really But Details Do. I always find it funny how I have so much to write about, day in and day out, on the topic of SEO [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
- Google Local Service Ads Test Extra Call Out Extensions Google is testing showing a section under the Local Service Ads for call out extensions or other [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
- Bing Tests Squared Off Search Bar Microsoft is testing a squared off search bar on the Bing home page. Normally the search bar is [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
- New Google Ads Brand Report Google Ads has quietly launched a new brand report. The brand report "is a dedicated brand [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
- Daily Search Forum Recap: December 27, 2024 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
- Google Search Nearby Stores Map Without Local Pack Google Search is testing showing a "nearby stores" section that has an embedded map with [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
- Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Spam Update Details, Google AI Organized Results, Google Ads Manual Actions and Updates, Apple Joins Google & Christmas Helpers Google's December 2024 spam update was completed yesterday at 2pm ET, but it had a busy and [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
December, 26 2024
- Google's Big December 2024 Spam Update Finished Rolling Out Google has completed the rollout of the December 2024 spam update after a seven-day rollout cycle. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
- Google December 2024 spam update done rolling out This spam update took about 7 days to fully roll out and is now complete. - Search Engine Land
- Why Apple Wants To Be Involved In Google's US Antitrust Case Apple has issued a motion of intervention in the DOJ vs Google antitrust case, specifically in the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
- Google December 2024 Spam Update Burns Through Christmas The Google December 2024 spam update seems to have burned through the Christmas holiday, with high [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
- Google algorithm updates 2024 in review: 4 core updates and 3 spam updates There were seven confirmed algorithm updates (two less than last year). But Google's March core [...] - Search Engine Land
- Google ads rolls out Brand Report for enhanced advertiser insights Google Ads Brand Report is a unified view of brand campaign performance with deduplicated reach and [...] - Search Engine Land
- Googlers Working Christmas & Christmas Eve (2024 Edition) Every year I like to cover how I spot Googlers, like John Mueller, but yes others, working and [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
December, 24 2024
- Google Ads New Asset-Level Conversion Data in Performance Max Google Ads seems to be rolling out new asset-level conversion data in Performance Max reporting and [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
- Google Ads alert: broad match auto-toggle raises concerns Switching to conversion-based bidding in Google Ads may automatically change keywords to broad [...] - Search Engine Land
- Google Launches Merchant Center Next Glossary Google has posted a new help section for Google Merchant Center, a Merchant Center Next Glossary. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
- Google expands AI organized search results to restaurants Google expanded these for dining recommendations within Google Search. - Search Engine Land
- Google Ads PMax Campaigns To Brand Guidelines Enabled After January 20 Google Ads is making a change to new Performance Max campaigns that are created in the Google Ads [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
- Top 15 SEO stories of 2024 Google leaks and endpoints. AI Overviews. The death of beloved features. These were among the most [...] - Search Engine Land
- Google Search Rolls Out AI Organized Restaurant Results Google has officially rolled out AI organized results for restaurants related queries. We've [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
- Crawling December: CDNs and crawling Content delivery networks (CDNs) are particularly well suited for decreasing latency of your [...] - Google Webmaster Central
- Google Ads Policy Disapproves Ads Pointing To Sites With Manual Actions Google Ads updated its abusing the ad network policy to say it will disapprove ads can take [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
December, 23 2024
- How to use ChatGPT for keyword research (with actual prompts) Learn specific keyword research applications for ChatGPT, plus a framework for incorporating the [...] - Search Engine Land
- Google Reveals Top Searches Of 2024 via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google's annual recap of the year's top trending searches offers dozens of ideas for content [...] - Search Engine Journal
- 60 of our biggest AI announcements in 2024 Recap some of Google’s biggest AI news from 2024, including moments from Gemini, NotebookLM, [...] - Inside Search
- Google December 2024 Spam Update Deindexing & Deranking Some Sites Hard On Thursday, December 19th at 12 pm ET, Google began its release of the Google December 2024 spam [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
- ChatGPT search vs. Google: A deep dive analysis of 62 queries A detailed analysis of ChatGPT search and Google's performance across 62 queries, with scoring [...] - Search Engine Land
- Bing Search Tests How To Pick Section Microsoft is testing a new section in Bing Search titled "How to pick." It helps you [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
- Google Ads For Performance Max Brand Control Adds Shopping Ads Override Google Ads added a new brand control override for Performance Max campaigns that lets you override [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
- Daily Search Forum Recap: December 23, 2024 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
- Google Offers Its Required Remedies In DOJ Antitrust Case Google has offered up its remedies over its antitrust case with the Department of Justice - it was [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
December, 22 2024
- Google Kwanzaa Decorations Are Live For 2024 And now we have the Kwanzaa decorations live in the Google Search results. Just search for [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
- Data providers: Google December 2024 core update was more volatile than last This last Google core update was more impactful than the December core update but not the August or [...] - Search Engine Land
- Google files its proposed remedies in DOJ’s monopoly case Google was required to file its own remedies which include changes to browser agreements, Android [...] - Search Engine Land
December, 21 2024
- Google Offers To Loosen Search Engine Deals In Antitrust Response via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google proposes relaxing search distribution agreements after court loss, rejecting DOJ's demands [...] - Search Engine Journal
- Google Christmas Decorations Are Live For 2024 Christmas is around the corner and Google finally posted its Christmas decorations in Google Search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
December, 20 2024
- Google’s review deletions: Why 5-star reviews are disappearing Google is deleting 5-star reviews at an alarming rate. Learn what it means for your business and [...] - Search Engine Land
- Google December 2024 Spam Update 👾 Rollout Shocks Before Holidays Google has released the December 2024 spam update one day after the December 2024 core update was [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
- The HCU Effect In Google Updates via @sejournal, @martinibuster An analysis of how Google's "HCU" signals may influence website rankings during a core [...] - Search Engine Journal
- Amazon SEO: A comprehensive guide Learn how Amazon search works, the importance of indexing, and best practices to boost visibility [...] - Search Engine Land
- Google Testing Shaded Button Sitelinks On Mobile Google is testing a new style of sitelinks again (I cover these way too often). This one turns the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
- 3 YouTube Ad formats you need to reach and engage viewers in 2025 Learn how to use key YouTube ad formats to entertain, educate, and inspire your audience while [...] - Search Engine Land
- Bing Search Studies Of Carousel Microsoft has this "studies of" carousel in the Bing Search results. It can help you find [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
- Google Search To Gain AI Mode Google Search will roll out an 'AI Mode' within Google Search that will look "nearly identical [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
December, 19 2024
- Google rolls out Brand Guidelines for Performance Max Google's brand guidelines for PMax campaigns centralize asset management to enhance brand control, [...] - Search Engine Land
- Cut The Malarkey. Speaking Frankly About AI Search & SEO via @sejournal, @martinibuster A frank assessment of the significant changes in search and what SEOs should be paying attention to [...] - Search Engine Journal
- Google Launches (Final?) Spam Update Of The Year via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google rolls out December spam update, expected to take a week to complete, capping off a year of [...] - Search Engine Journal
- AI Crawlers Account For 28% Of Googlebot’s Traffic, Study Finds via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Study finds AI web crawlers are gaining ground on traditional search engines, reshaping how [...] - Search Engine Journal
- Google December 2024 Core Update Fast & Furiously Finished Rolling Out The Google December 2024 core update quickly and brutally finished rolling out yesterday at around [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
- Google December 2024 spam update unleashed This update was released a day after Google finished rolling out the December core update. - Search Engine Land
- 3 ways to use AI for SEO wins in 2025 AI is changing SEO – but human creativity and strategy remain key. Here’s how to [...] - Search Engine Land
- Google Says It Makes No Sense To Block Disclaimer and Privacy Policy Pages Google's John Mueller said, "It makes no sense to block" privacy, disclaimers, or other [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
- Study On Removal Of Google Local Reviews The folks over at GMBapi have put together a large study on the topic of how and why Google removes [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
December, 18 2024
- Bing Search Updates: Faster, More Precise Results via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Microsoft enhances Bing search with new language models, claiming to reduce costs while delivering [...] - Search Engine Journal
- Forbes Fires Freelancers Over Google's Site Reputation Abuse Policy Forbes has reportedly fired some of its freelancers for some stories over its ongoing issue with [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
- Google Search Tests Rich Things To Do Image Carousel Google is testing a much richer experience for things to do style queries. Instead of showing a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
- Bringing more magic to Bing Image Creator Today, we’re bringing a series of enhancements to Bing Image Creator so you can experience [...] - Bing Search
- Google Ads Tests Double Serving Ads From Same Advertiser On Same Page Google has confirmed it is testing allowing showing the same ad, from the same advertiser, on the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
December, 17 2024
- Google’s Ex-CEO on AI: What SEOs Should Pay Attention To via @sejournal, @martinibuster Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt's comments suggest AI's future direction, something SEOs should watch [...] - Search Engine Journal
- Google Formalizes Decade-Old Faceted Navigation Guidelines via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google releases official documentation on managing faceted navigation, warning websites about SEO [...] - Search Engine Journal
- New Google Merchant Center Promotion For First Order Discount Google Merchant Center added a new field in the "Promotion conditions" section for [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
- Crawling December: Faceted navigation Faceted navigation is a great way to help users find what they need on your site, but it can [...] - Google Webmaster Central
- OpenAI Opens ChatGPT Search To All Logged In Users When OpenAI launched ChatGPT Search several weeks ago, it was just available to paid users. Now, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
- Google: Disavowing Toxic Links Is A Billable Waste Of Time Google's John Mueller reiterated in a big way that SEOs and site owners should not spend time [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
- Daily Search Forum Recap: December 17, 2024 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
December, 16 2024
- Google Search Tests New Favicon Design With Backgrounds Google is testing yet another design for favicons in the search result snippets. This one has these [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
- Google Warns: Beware Of Fake Googlebot Traffic via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google warns about fake Googlebot crawlers and suggests tools and methods to identify legitimate [...] - Search Engine Journal
- Google Business Profile Emails Asking To Add Social Profiles Google is sending out emails asking business owners to add their social profiles to their Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
- Daily Search Forum Recap: December 16, 2024 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
- Google Search Tests Attach File To Ask About A File Google Search is testing adding a paper clip icon to the search bar, next to the voice search icon, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
- Google: Search Console API Does Not Support New 24-Hour View Google's Daniel Waisberg confirmed that the new 24-hour date filter that is in the Google Search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
- Google Search Research More Articles Section Google is testing a "Research more" section in its search results that shows articles on [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
December, 15 2024
- Google December 2024 Core Update Landed & It's Big As you know, the December 2024 core update was announced on December 12, 2024 at around 10:46 am ET [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
- Google Hanukkah Decorations Are Live For 2024 Hanukkah (aka Chanukah) starts pretty late this year, compared to other years. The holiday starts [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
December, 13 2024
- Google To Have More Core Updates, More Often Google held its Google Search Central Live event at its large Zurich office (where the Search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
- Decoding Google’s E-E-A-T: A comprehensive guide to quality assessment signals Unpack the complexity of Google's quality assessments with a deep dive into E-E-A-T's influence on [...] - Search Engine Land
- Google December 2024 Core Update Is Live - What Are We Seeing Google surprised most of us with a new core update being announced yesterday, only a week after the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
- Google: Campaign-Level Negative Keywords For Performance Max In Beta Ginny Marvin, Google's Ads Liaison, confirmed that campaign-level negative keywords are now in beta [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
- Google Lens Serving Outage Yesterday Google Lens stopped working for all users for a short period of time yesterday morning (NY time). [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
- Google Performance Max negative keyword exclusions now in beta Google is rolling out a beta feature for campaign-level negative keyword exclusions in Performance [...] - Search Engine Land
- Year in Search 2024: The Breakout searches of the year Take a look at the Breakout searches of the year on Google Search, from the Olympics to the [...] - Inside Search
- How Gen Z is redefining discovery on TikTok, Pinterest, and beyond Visual, authentic, and community-driven – Gen Z’s search habits are reshaping online [...] - Search Engine Land
- Daily Search Forum Recap: December 13, 2024 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
- Google Ads AI Generated Reports BETA Google Ads is beta testing its new AI tools to generate reports by asking Google for the report you [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
- Google Completes DMA Hotel Tests In Search Several weeks ago, Google announced it would test changes to the search results for hotels in order [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
December, 12 2024
- Google December 2024 core update rolling out now Google has released its fourth core update for the 2024 year today. - Search Engine Land
- Google Rolls Out December 2024 Core Update via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google rolls out December 2024 core update, weeks after November update, capping off a year of [...] - Search Engine Journal
- Google Lens is having a serving issue Google has confirmed a serving issue specifically with Google Lens. - Search Engine Land
- Official: Bing Search Drops Cache Link After months of testing, and after Google was the first to make this move, Bing has dropped support [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
- A 13-point roadmap for thriving in the age of AI search Actionable insights for optimizing your digital presence across search engines, AI platforms and [...] - Search Engine Land
- Google Is Testing Gemini 2.0 Powered AI Overviews In Search Google announced its "new AI model" named Gemini 2.0 and with that confirmed Google has [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
December, 11 2024
- Analysis: 75% of Google AI Overview links come from top 12 organic rankings And if you aren't getting clicks, it may be because AI Overviews and featured snippets, in [...] - Search Engine Land
- Bing officially removes cache link from search results This comes after Google removed the cache link in February. - Search Engine Land
- Google Gemini 2.0 coming to Search and AI Overviews AI Overviews will be able to handle more complex topics and multi-step questions, including [...] - Search Engine Land
- Google Search Console New Date Picker & 24-Hour View This morning we reported about weirdness with the Search Console performance report date picker. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
- Google Business Profiles Adds More Hours Categories Google now supports even more categories for more types of hours for your business listing. Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
- Google Video Search Tests Dropping YouTube Channel & Upload Date Google's video search results seem to be testing removing the YouTube channel name and video upload [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
- Daily Search Forum Recap: December 11, 2024 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
- Google Shopping Product Details With Track Price, Save & Share Buttons Google is testing adding the ability to track prices, share and save products you are looking at in [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
- Google Search Console rolling out new date controls for performance reports This includes a new hourly view of the data. - Search Engine Land
December, 10 2024
- Discover the top trending searches of 2024 See the top trending searches in sports, pop culture, news and more. - Inside Search
- Google’s Updated Crawler Guidance Recommends ETags via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google recommends using ETag for efficient caching for reducing unnecessary crawling and server load - Search Engine Journal
- Google Confirms Search Indexing Issue via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google confirms widespread search indexing delays affecting a "small number" of websites. - Search Engine Journal
- Google Search Console Insights no longer to show data from Google Analytics Google says this change is to make it easier to use these reports. - Search Engine Land
- Google Site Reputation Abuse: FAQ Addresses Concerns via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google releases FAQ clarifying site reputation abuse policy, confirming rules for third-party [...] - Search Engine Journal
- Google Search has delayed indexing issues Google has confirmed it is investigating indexing issues within Google Search. - Search Engine Land
- Copilot Beta Now Bing Webmaster Tools For 10,000 Users In October, Microsoft announced it was testing adding Copilot features to Bing Webmaster Tools. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
- Google Search Having Indexing Issues Again Google Search is once again having indexing issues where new content is not showing in the index [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
- Google Search Console Insights Removes Google Analytics Data Google has dropped Google Analytics data from its Google Search Console Insights tool and [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
- Bing Webmaster Tools releases Copilot beta Microsoft has rolled out Copilot within Bing Webmaster Tools to 10,000 of its top users. - Search Engine Land
- Google: Sometimes Over Optimization Drift Towards SEO Spam Google's John Mueller was asked about over-optimization and if that can cause issues for ranking in [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
December, 9 2024
- SEO for ChatGPT search: 4 key observations Here’s how ChatGPT search compares to Google, plus insights into the role of long-form [...] - Search Engine Land
- Watch Google CEO Sundar Pichai Interview Say Search To Profoundly Change In 2025 Google's CEO, Sundar Pichai was interviewed by New York Times's Andrew Ross Sorkin. In this [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
- How to find emerging audience needs using Google Trends Bridge the gap between SEO and audience intent. Learn how Google Trends, digital PR and behavior [...] - Search Engine Land
- Google Search Console Links Report With Large Change In Links? Google Search Console may have made a big update to its link counts. I am not sure how widespread [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
- Google Search Console Legacy Tools & Reports Has Been Removed Google Search Console has dropped a whole section on its side bar navigation. The Legacy tools and [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
- Google clarifies how Google’s crawlers handle cache control headers Google is also asking site owners to allow Google to cache your web pages. - Search Engine Land
- Daily Search Forum Recap: December 9, 2024 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
- Try these 4 tips for easier last-minute shopping Use these Google Shopping, Maps and Gmail tools for last-minute holiday shopping. - Inside Adwords
- Google Search Ranking Volatility Continues Post Core Update The Google November 2024 core update finished on December 5th, but we have continued to see search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
- Google details shopping annotations and badges for ads and free listings Google’s new guide on Shopping annotations and badges outlines tools like "Price [...] - Search Engine Land
December, 6 2024
- Google CEO: Search Will Change Profoundly In 2025 via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google's CEO Sundar Pichai revealed that Google Search will profoundly change in 2025 and struggled [...] - Search Engine Journal
- Google Marauding Black Holes With Clustering & Error Pages As part of the topic of clustering and canonicalization with Google Search today, Allan Scott from [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
- Google Has 40 Signals For Canonicalization Did you know that Google uses around 40 different signals to perform canonicalization in Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
- Google: Focus On Field Data For Core Web Vitals via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google advises prioritizing field data over lab data for Core Web Vitals, as PageSpeed Insights [...] - Search Engine Journal
- Google CEO Sundar Pichai: Search will profoundly change in 2025 Pichai thinks we'll all be surprised in early 2025 about the newer things that search can do [...] - Search Engine Land
- Crawl budget: What you need to know in 2025 Confused about crawl budget? This comprehensive guide explains it all – from server capacity [...] - Search Engine Land
- Google November 2024 Core Update Finally Finished Rolling Out The Google November 2024 core update finally finished rolling out yesterday at around 1:30 PM ET. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
- Google Search Difference Between Clustering & Canonicalization Google's John Mueller explained the difference between clustering and canonicalization within [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
- Google Search: How Clustering Works With Localization As part of the topic of clustering and canonicalization with Google Search today, Allan Scott from [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
- Google adds FAQs on site reputation abuse policy Google added several frequently asked questions around the site reputation abuse policy. - Search Engine Land
- Google Does Try To Handle Broken Canonicals With all this talk about clustering and canonicalization today, what about if you get it wrong, or [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
December, 5 2024
- Google November 2024 core update rollout is now complete This update took 24 days to roll out and was a typical Google core update. - Search Engine Land
- Top 6 technical SEO action items for 2025 Prepare for 2025 with technical updates that optimize website resources, enhance visibility and [...] - Search Engine Land
- How to analyze your SEO competitors to find opportunities Gain the upper hand in search by analyzing your competitors' strengths and weaknesses in on-page, [...] - Search Engine Land
- Google Warns Of Duplicate Content “Black Holes” Caused By Error Pages via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google warns websites about error pages creating "black holes" that can permanently [...] - Search Engine Journal
- Google Ads To Test New Offers / Incentives For Agencies & Advertisers Google Ads is testing new offers for agencies and advertisers, trying to find impactful incentives [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
- Google Search makes it easier to search without personalization Google Search now labels if the results are personalized and gives you a quick way to turn off [...] - Search Engine Land
- Google Search Buttons For: Results Are Personalized - Try Without Personalization Google Search has a new button at the bottom of the search results that shows you if the results [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
- Google Uses About 40 Signals To Determine Canonical URLs via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google reveals it uses about 40 different signals to choose canonical URLs when dealing with [...] - Search Engine Journal
- Google Shopping Results Tests View All Buttons Google is testing "view all" buttons in the Google Search results, maybe shopping [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
- Easier consent management comes to Google Tag UI Google offers seamless consent management integration in Google Tag UI. You can connect CMPs and [...] - Search Engine Land
December, 4 2024
- How to search Google by date with before: and after: search commands The before:YYYY-MM-DD and after:YYYY-MM-DD search operator commands yield results for before, [...] - Search Engine Land
- 19 advanced Google search operators you need to know (and some we’ve said goodbye to) Gain powerful insights to inform your marketing efforts. Use the following advanced Google search [...] - Search Engine Land
- Google On Robots.txt: When To Use Noindex vs. Disallow via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google clarifies robots.txt best practices and explains when to use robots.txt directives and [...] - Search Engine Journal
- How to improve PPC lead quality for B2B campaigns Get actionable tips for qualifying B2B leads, optimizing paid media channels and using data [...] - Search Engine Land
- Google Web Rendering Service Cache Lasts For Up To 30 Days We knew Google's web rendering service (WRS) does its own thing with caching but now a new post [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
- A Week Overdue, Google November 2024 Core Update Still Causing Volatility We are now over a week past the estimated time the Google November 2024 core update was expected to [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
- Google Analytics enhances remarketing with Customer Match integration Google’ Customer Match update lets you use first-party data for more precise targeting and [...] - Search Engine Land
- Bing See Results Only From... Bing Search can now place a button under a search result snippet that triggers a site command to [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
- How to fix the ‘Alternate page with proper canonical tag’ error in Google Search Console Fix this GSC error by identifying the true canonical source, inspecting the URL, checking your [...] - Search Engine Land
- 6 tips for successful ecommerce search campaigns From labeling best practices to maximizing automated bidding, these tips will streamline your [...] - Search Engine Land
- Daily Search Forum Recap: December 4, 2024 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
- Google Search Console Refreshes Email Templates Google announced that it has modernized and refreshed the emails that are sent out from Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
December, 3 2024
- 7 pieces of AI news we announced in November From a powerful new AI-flood forecasting initiative to help from AI in advancing quantum computers. - Inside Adwords
- Surprising data: 15% of Google searches are driven by only 148 terms In other findings, 56% of Google searches are for generic terms and the long-tail accounts for just [...] - Search Engine Land
- Google: Host Resources On Different Hostname To Save Crawl Budget via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google recommends hosting website resources on CDNs or subdomains to preserve main site's crawl [...] - Search Engine Journal
- Rand Fishkin on the SEO opportunity pie shrinking and more insights Rand Fishkin shares his thoughts on the importance of creativity, chasing traffic, branded search, [...] - Search Engine Land
- Google: Just Because You Call Yourself It, It Doesn't Mean You Will Rank For It Google's John Mueller responded to a question on why a company is not ranking for its new brand [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
- Google Search YouTube Summary Pilot: Quick Takes & Key Takeaways Google is testing a new video format for some YouTube videos that provide "easy to [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
- Performance Max vs. Search campaigns: New data reveals substantial search term overlap Is PMax cannibalizing your Search campaigns? Learn insights on overlap rates and campaign [...] - Search Engine Land
- Google Tests Underline Title, Link & Domain On Hover In Search Results Google seems to be testing underlining the title, link and domain in the search result snippet when [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
- New Google Ads Customer Match For Google Analytics Audiences Google Analytics now supports Customer Match from Google Ads. Audiences exported to Google Ads will [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
December, 2 2024
- 21 Years Covering The Search Industry Today marks the 21st year anniversary of when I started this site, the Search Engine Roundtable... - Search Engine Roundtable
- Google Chrome site engagement service metrics In Chrome, type chrome://site-engagement/ to see which sites you engage with the most. - Search Engine Land
- OpenAI has no immediate plans for ChatGPT advertising Is OpenAI discussing plans for an ad model? Maybe. But don't expect advertising to appear in [...] - Search Engine Land
- Google Math Solver Watch Animated Tutorials Google is now showing animated tutorials for some math solver questions in Google Search. Math [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
- 8 tips to craft clear and impactful client communication Enhance client engagement with these actionable tips for writing and designing effective agency [...] - Search Engine Land
- How to cultivate SEO growth through continuous improvement Maximize your SEO potential with an iterative approach. Optimize, monitor and refine your strategy [...] - Search Engine Land
- How to become an industry thought leader by building content pillars Build authority in your niche with a strategic approach to content creation. Explore how content [...] - Search Engine Land
- 5 ways our latest Gemini models are changing retail Here are five ways Gemini models and generative AI are helping retailers modernize their businesses. - Inside Adwords
- Google Business Profile Food Orders Performance Metrics Gone In April 2022, Google Business Profiles added performance metrics for direction requests, website [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
- Bing Tests Shopping / E-Commerce Card We recently spotted Google testing a new e-commerce / shopping card format at the top of the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
- December 2024 Google Webmaster Report Here is the big Google Webmaster report for the past month, including the launch of the Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
- Google Chrome Site Engagement Metrics Google Chrome has a way to see site engagement metrics for your personal browser usage across the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
- Daily Search Forum Recap: December 2, 2024 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
December, 1 2024
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- How Chrome Site Engagement Metrics Are Used via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google Chromium documentation exposes the truth about Chrome Site Engagement Metrics and their [...] - Search Engine Journal