Migrating to a new website platform can be a necessary step for businesses looking to scale up or embrace new technologies. However, website migrations come with considerable SEO risks. Without proper SEO planning and execution, a platform migration can lead to a significant loss of organic traffic, revenue and market share. Here are 12 common…
Ever wonder how Danny Sullivan, Google’s Search Liaison, compiles feedback on issues related to Search and then shares those details with the wider Google Search team? Sullivan regularly does this work but has only shared examples with the public a few times. He shared some of the latest feedback he’s received Nov. 3. What Sullivan…
The US Federal Trade Commission has published previously redacted information detailing why it’s suing Amazon. New documents detail the alleged deceptive practices used to boost consumer prices by more than $1 billion including deliberately making Amazon search worse – a strategy reportedly approved by chairman Jeff Bezos. Why we care. If Amazon is found guilty of…
Google Business Profiles (GBP) are the lifeblood of most local businesses’ marketing efforts. For many small companies, having a GBP is often the only way they promote their business online. And if a company’s GBP listing gets suspended, that business will likely lose a ton of business. (Having worked on hundreds of suspension/reinstatement cases for…
Google has released version 2.5 of the Google Ads Editor, this comes 17 weeks since version 2.4 was released in Jul 2023. The new version gains campaign level broad match, search themes, DSAs to PMax and much more. PPCGreg spotted this earlier but the release notes didn’t go live until yesterday afternoon: tip: I recommend…
As a reminder, the Google helpful content system/update is a sitewide algorithm. It looks at your site as a whole when applying its ranking system to the Google Search results. So changing a character on one page of your site, won’t do anything to help you recover from this Google ranking algorithm. Danny Sullivan, Google’s…
Google has big AdSense news, which it says won’t result in a change to how much publishers get paid. Google said it is changing its AdSense revenue-share structure and will also pay per impression and not per click. But again, Google says this won’t change how publishers get paid. Google wrote, “Based on our tests,…
Only two weeks after the October 2023 core update finished rolling out, we have a new core update rolling out – the November 2023 core update. This is a different update to the core update, Google said, “We have different systems that are considered core to our ranking process; this month’s core update involves an…
This was a fun week, being that you all ruined the internet. First up Google shocked us with a new core update, the November core update. The Google October core update had a bug that impacted some sites’ performance in Google Discover. A new Google reviews update is coming next week; it will be the…
In a groundbreaking development, engineering company Boston Dynamics has integrated ChatGPT, a sophisticated language model developed by OpenAI, into one of its remarkable robots, Spot. This canine-like companion is now equipped to offer guided tours around a building, providing insightful commentary on each exhibit along the way. Spot has undergone a remarkable transformation, now…
