Google Ads Editor Version 2.3 Gains Business Information Assets, Location Assets & More
Google has released version 2.3 of the Google Ads Editor, this comes four and a half months since version 2.2 was released in November 2022. The new version gains image assets, location assets, b business information assets, PMAX text asset automati…
Google Search Console Breaks Out Merchant Listings and Product Snippets Reporting
Google has updated some of the reporting within Google Search Console to break out the Merchant listings and Product snippets differences. You can see the difference in performance between how your search results do between Merchant listings and Produ…
Link building for beginners (How to build links to your site)
This article discusses modern link-building tactics and strategies. It is focused on the beginner who wants to understand the benefits and risks of link-building. This article focuses on legitimate link-building tacts and strategies, not black-hat link-building tactics.
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Vlog #216: Sam Michelson On Search Intent, Features & Reputation Management
In part one, we spoke about who Sam Michelson is and his business development techniques. In part two, we dove into CRM software and how they use it, including looking at a new piece of software for partner management…
Local Ranking Study For 2023 From Whitespark
The folks over at Whitespark has published there 2023 local ranking factors study, where they asked dozens of local SEO experts to rank what they think are the most important ranking signals for local pack and organic local search rankings.
Google Ads Tests Blue Badges For Verified Advertisers In Search
Google is testing showing blue badge icons and labels on some search ads for advertisers who are verified by Google Ads. The blue label is a blue circle with ridges and checkmark within it.
Google Might Not Fully Render A News Article Before Showing It In Search
Gary Illyes from Google said that in some cases, Google may not fully render a page before showing it in Google Search or Google News. It depends on how timely that content is and how quickly Google needs to index and serve it in Google Search.
Google Currently Looking Into AMP Support in GA4
As you know, Google Analytics 4 does not support tracking AMP pages. Well, Google’s Ads Liaison, Ginny Marvin, said on Friday that Google is “currently looking into it and will share an update as soon as we have one.”
Microsoft Exec Burns Google Over Lack Of Citations In Bard
As a reminder, when Google launched Bard, I, along with some others, were taken back by the lack of citations and links to sources provided in its answers. A Microsoft executive of over 21 years, Michael Schechter, Vice President, Growth and Distribut…
E.E.A.T. SEO Checklist 2023
This is a 300-point in-depth SEO checklist for in-house or outsourced website developers and managers (with limited technical jargon) on reviewing your website to ensure it meets Google Search Quality Evaluator ratings.
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Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Bard Launched, Bing Chat Image Creation, Generative AI Policies & More SEO/SEM News
The Google broad core update for March is not done yet, and we see tremors. Google started to roll out Bard, and while it is fast and has a sleek interface, it was a bit underwhelming when compared to Bing Chat. In fact…
Google March 2023 Broad Core Update Tremors & Fluctuations Continue
As you know, Google has started to roll out the Google March 2023 Broad Core update on March 15th, it should probably continue to roll out through the first half of next week and complete. But like most Google updates, we see tremors and fluctuations d…
Bing Chat Image Creator Now Working
A few days ago, I reported that Bing Chat has now integrated the Bing Image Creator tool. But the truth is, it was not integrated, not until at least after 4:30 pm ET yesterday, March 23rd. It now works in Bing Chat under “Creative” mode.
Google Business Profiles Has A New Manage Menu Feature
Google Business Profiles seems to have launched a new manage menu feature for restaurants in the web version of the business profile tool. It opens a “your menu on Google” box that lets you either manually build your custom menu in Google or link to y…
Google Ads Can See A Significant Performance Impact By Not Migrating To GA4
As we approach the Google Analytics 4 migration deadline, Google Ads Liaison, Ginny Marvin reminds advertisers that some “advertisers could see a significant performance impact” in their ad campaigns if they do not migrate.
Non-Supported Rel Link Attributes Do Nothing In Google Search
The other day, John Mueller of Google tweeted something true but sarcastic and it seems some took it the wrong way. He said In case you’re curious, the rel=dofollow works on links. The thing is, it could have been any rel attribute, such as rel=cheese …
Daily Search Forum Recap: March 23, 2023
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.
Microsoft’s CEO of Bing said Google Bard is pretty far behind Bing Chat…
Google Says Bard Won’t Link To Sources Too Often
As you know, we’ve been playing with Google Bard, it just started to roll out a couple of days ago. Early on, we were disappointed thus far with how limited it seemed and more so, how it rarely linked to sources and content creators. Now, Google got ba…
Microsoft Bing’s CEO: Google Bard Is Pretty Far Behind Bing Chat
Mikhail Parakhin, the current CEO of Bing at Microsoft and former CTO at Yandex said that Google Bard is “pretty far behind” compared to Bing Chat. “We learned to never underestimate Google,” he added.
Google Search Console Adds If embedURL Page Uses indexifembedded
Google Search Console’s URL Inspection tool can now report if the embedURL page for a video uses the newish indexifembedded robots tag. This was spotted by Jon Henshaw and posted on LinkedIn.