Recent changes to organic sitelinks cause major drops in impressions in Google Search Console

Google released sitelink updates that caused impression and average position drops in Google Search Console. Merkle SEOs Melody Petulla and Kyle Blanchette dive into what happened, how to check your site and what it means for SEO.

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Google App now organizes cards into 2 categories: interests & upcoming events

The latest round of Google App updates also include a card that lets users choose specific topics of interests to personalize app content.

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Google adds holiday decorations for Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa & Festivus searches

Holiday-themed imagery has been added to search results, including a Festivus pole for those who prefer to air grievances this time of year.

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Ad extensions for the entire decision journey

How can you use ad extensions to move potential customers further down the sales funnel? Columnist Mona Elesseily shares some tactical advice.

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SEO trends to prepare for in 2017

What’s on the horizon for search engine optimization (SEO) practitioners in the coming year? Columnist Pratik Dholakiya shares his predictions.

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Black Friday Report: Retail search ad spend shifted from text to shopping ads on desktop

Desktop spend across 2,500 popular product queries increased just marginally over the holiday weekend compared to a year ago.

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Google’s 2016 Santa Tracker signals the official countdown to Christmas

This is the 12th year Google has counted down the seconds until Santa’s December 24th departure from the North Pole.

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SEO & Redirecting A Site To A Domain With Unrelated Content

Google ChickenJen Slegg’s post on Google’s Updated Site Move Recommendations for Webmasters is timely in that we are working on multiple large domain migrations at moment – tis the season I guess. As I have often said, redesigning a website and migrating the domain at the same time is the SEO equivalent of diamond cutting. There are […]

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Google’s shift to mobile-first: mobile moments that matter

Columnist Jim Yu outlines Google’s long march toward a mobile-first index and explains why optimizing for mobile devices is no longer optional.

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Creating Google doodles that ‘Surprise & Delight’: 5 Questions with Doodler Sophie Diao

Offering a behind the scenes glance at the doodle team in action, Diao shares what she appreciates most about her work.

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Here’s an AdWords script to fill empty ad groups

Columnist Daniel Gilbert of Brainlabs makes sure you don’t lose traffic due to missing ads.

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How do our biases impact PPC performance?

With experience comes wisdom, but columnist Brett Middleton believes that search marketers can sometimes limit themselves by clinging to old habits.

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Ad customizers just got a whole lot more powerful

Columnist Frederick Vallaeys discusses the new capabilities of ad customizers in AdWords, explaining how you can use them to serve better, more relevant ads.

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