Google Ads Tests Global Site Tag With Automatic User Data Collection
Google Ads is testing a new feature for the global site tag that can be configured to automatically collect user data. Dario Zannoni spotted this and wrote on Twitter “Global Site Tag can now automatically collect the information that the user submits…
Microsoft Bing Expands Car & Automobile Search
Microsoft Bing, in this crazy car market, has expanded its search features to help you buy a car. Bing also lets you filter the results in numerous ways and a lot of this is powered off of the MSN Autos Marketplace.
Google: Code To Text Ratio Is Not & Has Never Been An SEO Factor
Google’s John Mueller and Gary Illyes both said in a Reddit thread that code to text ratios for SEO does not matter. John Mueller said it is not an SEO factor and Gary Illyes said “it doesn’t matter.” This is not new, Google has said this numerous tim…
Google Search Console Performance Report Suffered A Data Loss Again
Google is having a hard time holding on to its data in Google Search Console. Google posted yet another data logging issue on its site, this time it impacted the performance reports for all – Google Search, Google Discover, and Google News. This happe…
Google launches revamped Search Ads 360
The new Search Ads 360 supports Performance Max and Discovery campaigns, includes a refreshed UI and greater support for other search engines.
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Best rates on actionable search marketing training end Saturday night
Early Bird rates expire this Saturday, February 12… book now to save 25% off your Master Class!
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Bing News PubHub moves to Bing Webmaster Tools
Bing News PubHub launched in 2016 at its own location but has now been migrated into Bing Webmaster Tools.
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Yelp introduces Keyword Boosting, rolls out Custom Location Targeting to all advertisers
Keyword Boosting may help local businesses achieve better campaign performance and reach higher intent audiences.
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4 ways to boost your paid search performance
You are swimming in data. Here’s how to unlock insights for better ad copy relevancy, targeting, and timing.
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Daily Search Forum Recap: February 7, 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.
Google confirmed some sort of issue with crawling Shopify websites…
Google Search Console performance reports data issue may impact analytics
This issue was between February 1st through February 3rd and did not impact your rankings.
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Google Fixes Shopify Crawling Issue, Calling It A Temporary Drop In Calculation
Last week, we saw reports that some Shopify sites were showing massive declines in crawling activity from Google’s Googlebot. John Mueller of Google responded this morning that this was “temporary drop in how we calculate how much we can crawl” adding…
Google Rolls Out Black Bar Knowledge Panels With Links That Don’t Work?
Yesterday, Brian Freiesleben and Khushal Bherwani both noticed a new design for some of the knowledge and local panels on the mobile search results. Google is showing a more sleek black bar for some of these panels. I personally can replicate it and n…
Google: Update Dates On Articles When You Significantly Change Existing Content
Google’s John Mueller said it only makes sense to update the date on a piece of content or article when you either “write something new or significantly change something existing.” He said this on Twitter and it goes along with previous advice John has…
Google Shows More Product Rich Results For Pages Without Structured Data
Starting in mid-December, Google seemed to start showing more product rich results in the search results for many snippets even if those pages did not have product structured data on them. Brodie Clark first posted about it on January 12th (which we c…
Some Google Algorithm Tracking Tools Are Reporting An Update But Results Are Mixed
Over the past couple of days, some of the Google search algorithm tracking tools were reporting large swings in volatility in the search results – thus signaling a possible Google search update. But the chatter amongst the SEO industry during that tim…
Vlog #158: Brian Wallace On Measuring The Success Of Infographics
In part one we spoke about how Brian Wallace of NowSourcing got into infographics, how it is not just about links but much more and some cool scores he had with them. In part two…
Google tests Buying Guides in mobile search results
Buying Guides may present visibility opportunities for your content marketing campaigns.
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Google says Shopify sites are in a good crawling state after reports of stalled crawling
Google Search Console’s crawl stats report showed Google stopped crawling many Shopify sites last week.
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8 SEO tools to get Google Search Console URL Inspection API insights
Discover some free tools, SEO crawler integrations, and scripts to leverage with Google Search Console URL Inspection API insights.
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