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 that up to 24 months. Fabrice Canel from Microsoft said on X, “We will consider extending to 2 years.”
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 competitors. Is that ad worth buying? Well, Google Local Service Ads that bring up your Google Business Profile can show nearby competitors in your Busi…
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 considers the “lowest quality pages.” In section 4.7 it states the only mention of using AI and writes, “The website terms of use states that “some articles” …
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 updates and the associated traffic drops. One Redditor responded that he would go from 500 articles to 5,000 articles written using AI to make up for the t…
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 to Next Paint (INP) as a Core Web Vital metric tomorrow, Tuesday, March 12, 2024. This has nothing to do with the Google March 2024 Core update that is c…
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.
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 to the big Google March 2024 Core Update. As a reminder, the Google March 2024 Core Update officially started on March 5, 2024 and will take up to a mon…
TikTok warns ‘predetermined’ vote on U.S. ban will ‘damage millions of businesses’
TikTok could lose its 150 million-strong U.S. user base if new legislation receives Senate approval next week.
Reddit pilots new tools to help brands boost engagement
Businesses that sign up for the Reddit Pro trial will have access to AI-powered insights, enhanced performance analytics, and more.
5 biggest challenges for PPC marketers in 2024
Get insights into the major hurdles PPC marketers will confront this year, from evolving audience targeting to changing tracking requirements.
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 News Buzz Video Recap: Google March Core & Spam Updates, Manual Actions, Spam Policies, Bing Webmaster Tools & Deep Search
It was a busy week between Google releasing the Google March 2024 core update, which is supposed to be one of the largest core updates Google has ever released. Google also released a March 2024 spam update. Google updates a number of its spam policies…
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 greener digital landscape.
Google: We Still Try To Avoid Overlapping Algorithmic Updates
Danny Sullivan, Google’s Search Liaison, said again that the search company “generally try to avoid” overlapping algorithmic updates. This is after Google released both the March 2024 core update and March 2024 spam update the same day.
Google Tests More News Topics Button
Google is testing a button in the search results under the top stories news results to see “more news topics.” I personally cannot replicate this, which makes me think this is new.
Google Ads Country-Level Exclusions Limited To 120 Countries
Google Ads now limits the number of country-level exclusions you can add to your ads to 120 countries. This is a new limit but Google confirmed that location exclusions aren’t going away.
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 “business professional, performer, or anyone looking to build up your own online presence, you might have a website, social profiles, and other information spr…
Google May Show Your Social Media Posts In Search (via Google Business Profiles)
Google has updated its Google Business Profile help documentation to add a line saying that Google may show your social media posts in Search if you have associated your social media links via your Google Business Profile.
Some Google Business Profiles Tools Are Not Working
Google Business Profiles has outages for some of its business management tools. The outages started yesterday, March 7th, at about 5 pm ET or earlier. It impacts the ability to manage reviews, appeals and also to check your verification status.
Google Business Profiles tools are temporarily unavailable
Verification status, managing appeals and managing reviews currently may not be working.