Yoast Founder: IndexNow Doesn’t Lead To More Traffic Or Improved Crawl Efficiency
Some of you may be wondering why Yoast or WordPress have not integrated the Microsoft backed IndexNow protocol. Well, Joost de Valk, the founded of Yoast said he has seen zero evidence that IndexNow helps sites gain more traffic or reduces crawling or…
Google Local Panel Showing Confirmed By Phone Call (Duplex Related)
Google is now showing how long ago it confirmed a phone number and hours were accurate for a local business. Google can now write in a business local panel “confirmed by phone call” followed by how long ago it was.
Google Ranking Quotas Do Not Exist
Google’s John Mueller said again that websites do not have some form of quota where they can only rank for a limited number of keywords. He said on Twitter “there’s no hard limit for how many pages we show from a site, subdomain or not.”
Google Search Central Virtual Unconference Back Returns For 2022
Martin Splitt from Google announced on Twitter that the Google Search Central Virtual Unconference is returning at the end of this month for the 2022 event. Google held an Unconference 2021 and 2020 and I guess has decided to host one again this year.
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Google Tests Removing Estimated Number Of Search Results
Google Search is testing removing the estimated number of search results figure you typically see under the search bar after you conduct a search query. Google tested this back in 2016 and I guess Google is testing it again.
Google page experience update for desktop done rolling out
After 9-days this page experience update for desktop is now fully rolled out.
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Google confirmed by phone label in local panel may add trust to local listings
This label seems to be based off of Google Duplex calling businesses to verify their business operation details.
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Google ‘Confirmed by phone’ label in local panel may add trust to local listings
This label seems to be based off of Google Duplex calling businesses to verify their business operation details.
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Microsoft Advertising Editor rolls out support for Microsoft Audience Network campaigns
Previously, advertisers could only manage their Microsoft Audience Network campaigns via the associated interface or an API. Now, they can also manage them offline via the Microsoft Advertising Editor.
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New content analytics coming soon to LinkedIn
Have you been patiently waiting for better content analytics from LinkedIn? Soon you’ll have more Post insights.
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How to be a competitive paid search marketer in 2022
The paid search landscape is more competitive than ever. In a recent webinar, Ashley Fletcher showed how marketers can stay ahead of the curve.
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Semrush buys Kompyte so it can upsell competitive intelligence tools
The acquisition is Semrush’s first foray into products not specifically designed for search and content marketing teams.
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PSA: Blocking USA Users But Allowing Googlebot Is Against Google’s Webmaster Guidelines
Google sends its crew of crawlers, Googlebot, from the United States. That is where 99% of the crawling originates from. If you are not allowed to show your website to users based in the United States, then you also cannot show that website to Googleb…
Google Business Profiles May Require Additional Verification
Google has updated the help document on how to verify your business to say “we may require you to verify by more than one method.” So if you verify using one method, Google might decide it needs you to verify again but using a different method.
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Google: Translated Content & Garbage Parameters In URLs
You may end up confusing Google when you have “garbage” parameters trailing in your URLs, espesially when it comes to translated content parameters. There is this interesting conversation when a large multilingual site found its translated content exc…
Google Search Console URL Inspection Tool Errors
Yesterday, Google confirmed that some folks trying to use the URL Inspection tool via the console or even the API may be seeing errors. Google said it is working on a fix but almost a day later, some are still having issues and Google has yet to confir…
March 2022 Google Webmaster Report
It is time for the March 2022 Google webmaster report, where I look back at the past 30-days of SEO news related to Google and highlight the most important changes over that time period. This month we had a confirmed rollout begin of the page experienc…
Google may require double verification for some business profiles
Google updated its help documents to say that it may require you to verify your business with an additional method.
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How to use Google Business Messages to talk to your customers
Google’s Business Messages is one of the best ways to connect with your customers and future customers.
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Daily Search Forum Recap: March 1, 2022
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.
IndexNow has grown more support over the past week…