SEO

The majority of marketers are still able to use their Universal Analytics accounts as usual. Despite warning advertisers that the tool would be replaced by Google Analytics 4 on July 1, UA is still processing data as usual for most people. Why we care. Marketers were reluctant to make the switch from UA to GA4,…

Google has confirmed an issue with indexing content from news publishers and surfacing that content in Google News. Google said it is working to fix the issue but the issue may result in a decrease in traffic from Google News. Google’s statement. Google posted a statement in the Google Search status report saying, “There’s an…

Google has updated its page indexing report in Google Search Console with more “fine-grained” issues. This is just a reporting change and does not change the processing of your website, John Mueller said on Twitter. The issue. Some savvy SEOs noticed a spike in issues being reported this indexing report in Search Console. But Google…

Are you looking to make your brand campaigns on Google Ads more efficient?  As a European fintech business, we have used Google Ads as an acquisition lever. Initially, we found success with Google’s target impression share for brand campaigns.  However, in 2023, with profitability as our focus, we challenged the status quo. Our hypothesis was…

Here is a photo of the Google dance class from the Google Dublin, Ireland office all together on International Music Day from June 21st. I found this on Instagram. This post is part of our daily Search Photo of the Day column, where we find fun and interesting photos related to the search industry and…

Google Search can show deals in both a product carousel format and a product grid-type of format. Some of these I think were somewhat showcased last November but over time, they may evolve. Here is a screenshot of Google showing me deals in both a carousel format and in a product grid format: Here are…

Bing is now testing showing branded side labels next to each search result listing. We saw earlier more basic side labels and before that branded side bars for some search queries. I am also seeing favicons on the side of the snippets. Bing is always very busy testing these things. This was spotted by Frank…

Google announced last night that it is looking to develop a complementary protocol to the 30-year-old robots.txt protocol. This is because of all the new generative AI technologies Google and other companies are releasing. This announcement comes shortly after the news around Open AI accessing paywalled content for its ChatGPT service. But I know many…

If you do some sports-related queries, sometimes, Google Search will let you rate the players and then see how those players line up against each other based on their ratings. I have no clue if this is new, I tried to Google it to find others covering this, but I did not find anything. But…

I am really trying not to cover the Google search ranking volatility and not report on another Google search ranking update but today things got super heated again. And don’t get me wrong, the Google search results have been very heated for over a month but today, things spiked above those new normal levels. And…