Backlinks are still essential in SEO today, but there’s a stronger focus on their quality and strategic placement. The approach to acquiring links now mixes traditional methods with new strategies, resulting in a more natural online presence. One example of this blended technique is podcast link building, which moves away from the typical transactional nature…
First Position has been expanded to include all YouTube content through Display & Video 360, offering it at dynamic CPM rates. Previously, this feature was only available on YouTube Select inventory at fixed rates. Now, advertisers can secure prime ad placement at the beginning of a YouTube session across any content, enhancing relevance and impact….
Google is rolling out an update to attribution models in Google Analytics 4 (GA4) to more accurately credit paid search campaigns for driving conversions. Why it matters. The change addresses an issue where conversions that should be attributed to paid search clicks were sometimes incorrectly assigned to organic search, especially for single-page applications. Why we…
At the end of the summer, we published a generative AI use policy for our team and contributors to follow. Publicizing that we created a policy seemed unnecessary. There’s enough humble-bragging online. But since creating the policy, reputable publishers including Gannett (here and here) and Sports Illustrated were accused of using generative AI to create…
The Google November 2023 reviews update, the last one Google will confirm, finished rolling out yesterday afternoon on December 7, 2023. It took 29 days to roll out, which initially kicked off on November 8, 2023. Again, this was the last time Google confirmed a reviews update because it is now more of a regular…
I often get asked how people can enter digital PR as a career. As of yet, there is no digital PR degree you can obtain. Most decent senior digital PR practitioners, like SEO professionals, are self-taught. The role itself is a hybrid – part PR, part SEO, part content marketer, part journalist. If you have…
On August 22nd, Google released the August 2023 core update. We did not feel much of any volatility until a few days later, on August 25th. Then we had some movement on that Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, and then it died down for a couple of days, picking up again a few days ago. I…
Explore emerging AI trends and practical applications for enhancing digital asset management. Edna Chavira on September 12, 2024 at 3:01 pm | Reading time: 1 minute SearchBot is thinking … Are you overwhelmed by the constant demand for new content? AI and Digital Asset Management (DAM) can be your secret weapons for keeping up with content demands and delivering…
On Monday, I reported that Google stopped crawling and indexing Twitter content after Twitter made it so that unregistered (signed-out) users were not able to see tweets. Well, Twitter made a change in the past 24 hours or so that now Google and unregistered users can see the tweet but there is a modal that…
Many people have an incredibly low bar for what they consider to be “great” content that deserves to rank in Google Search. So often, I see people bemoaning the fact that their content is great and high-quality. They just can’t understand why it isn’t ranking. But inevitably, when I go look at that great content,…