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.
E-E-A-T Quick Wins — Whiteboard Friday
Itamar shares E-E-A-T quick wins that you can utilize to help your website appear more credible in the eyes of users and Google.
Google Business Profiles tools are temporarily unavailable
Verification status, managing appeals and managing reviews currently may not be working.
The cutting-edge AI strategies you need for landing page success by Cynthia Ramsaran
In this webinar, learn how to create landing pages that deliver seamless, personalized experiences end to end.
Google Ads now limits country-level location exclusions
The platform is limiting advertisers to an exclusion list of 120 countries.
Google launches privacy-focused measurement tool for advertisers
Meridian, an open-source Marketing Mix Model (MMM), is available now to select marketers and data scientists.
No link between social media engagement and content readership, study finds
New research suggests that publishers may not derive the same benefits from using social media as they did previously.
Google Search Console recipe rich result report adds two new properties
Google added recipeInstructions and recipeIngredient and thus you may see an increase in warnings for recipe items.
How to improve site performance with user testing
Gather insights from your target audience about their experience, pain points and expectations to inform your SEO and content efforts.
Understanding the Yoast SEO traffic lights
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Google Unleashes Manual Actions Galore After Search Spam Policy Updates
Google has unleashed tons of manual actions, search ranking penalties you can see within Google Search Console, after it released its search spam policy updates on Tuesday. The manual actions seemed to mostly have been distributed yesterday, Wednesday…
Why now is the most important time for nonprofit advertising
Maximize year-end donations for your non-profit by laying the groundwork early with steady advertising budgets and ongoing testing.
~80% Feel Google’s March Core & Spam Updates Won’t Reduce Low-Quality Search Results
I ran a poll asking my X/Twitter followers if they think the new Google March core and spam updates will reduce unhelpful content from showing up in the search results by 40%? About 80% of the 1,XXX votes said no, they don’t think it will reduce the l…
Does Google Search Know What Is Reliable Information
Danny Sullivan, Google’s Search Liaison, was asked does Google currently validate/verify if information or data within content, is accurate, correct, true or even “commonly accepted”. In which Sullivan replied it isn’t a simple yes/no response, Google …
Google Maps Hides Views Counts On New Reviews
Google is no longer showing the number of views a review gets on Google Maps. You will be able to see the older reviews view-counts for now but the new reviews are not showing those counts.