One of the greatest failings of a PPC specialist is being unable to take a step back and see the big picture. You can get lost in the weeds of account management and focus too much on vanity metrics, bidding strategy testing and reporting to forget about what the client ultimately wants from the account. …
In 2023, Google’s Gary Illyes stated that links are no longer the third most important Google ranking factor. Was he lying? A recent study by Internet Marketing Ninjas showed that over 96% of websites in the Top 10 search results have more than 1,000 backlinks from unique domains. And only 0.3% have less than 100….
Google is discontinuing Universal Analytics, its legacy web analytics platform. This is the final shift in the transition to Google Analytics 4 (GA4). Why it matters. Businesses that relied on Universal Analytics for website measurement and data analysis need to act quickly to avoid losing access to their historical data and maintain continuity in their…
Google is rolling out Local Services Ads on its Maps app, starting with iOS, to help advertisers generate more leads directly from the navigation platform. Why it matters. This expansion brings local business ads to a highly-intent user base actively searching for nearby services, potentially increasing lead generation for advertisers. How it works. Google will…
Google will make Display & Video 360’s instant reports accessible through the Bid Manager API over the next few months as part of a migration from offline reporting. The big change. Once a partner is migrated, instant reports will be included in responses from the queries.list API endpoint. Why we care. Instant reports provide advertisers…
When OpenAI announced GPT-4, its latest large language model, last March, it sent shockwaves through the tech world. It was clearly more capable than anything seen before at chatting, coding, and solving all sorts of thorny problems—including school homework. Anthropic, a rival to OpenAI, announced today that it has made its own AI advance…
Google seems to have a bug where it has not indexed new content across both large and smaller publishers over the past several hours. The issue seemed to have started at about 5 p.m. ET, when Google Search was not showing most of the new content that content creators were publishing to their websites. What…
Google appears to have pulled back further on AI Overviews following well-earned criticism about its AI-generated answers giving users incorrect, misleading and dangerous answers. Let’s dive into new findings from two separate SEO platforms: SEOClarity looked at 2,700 keywords. SERanking analyzed 100,000 keywords. AI Overviews reduction. Google is showing AI Overviews less often, though the…
Google is consolidating its content suitability levers for advertisers across YouTube and the Display Network starting in September. What’s changing: Several content label exclusions will be removed for YouTube ads (DL-G, DL-PG, DL-T, DL-MA, “not yet labeled”) but remain for Display “Embedded YouTube videos”, “Live streaming”, and “Families” exclusions only available account-wide, not per YouTube…
Everyone wants to be a rockstar, but if it were easy to achieve this status in the SEO industry, everyone would do it. To succeed in SEO, one must have great discipline, a wide range of knowledge, experimentation and true skill. In this article, I will describe some of the things required to be a…
