It seems that YouTube is not showing up in Google News as often as it use to. Will Flannigan, the SEO Editor at the Wall Street Journal posted a chart from The Trisolute News Dashboard showing the drop in visibility experienced by YouTube in Google News. This means that YouTube videos and results are not…
Ahrefs leadership is once again calling out Semrush for making “7 shameless edits” to an Ahrefs vs. Semrush comparison article written by Brian Dean before his site, Backlinko, was acquired by Semrush. The saga continues. That would actually be seven additional edits. Because previously, in Ahrefs mentions vanishing from Semrush-owned Backlinko, Ahrefs called out Semrush…
Vehicle Listing Ads (VLA) within Google Ads are now live and open for Beta-listing in the UK, Denmark, and France. Previously only available in open beta in the U.S., Canada, and Australia, VLA will also soon be rolled out to the Netherlands, Italy, and Spain by the end of the second quarter of the year….
Google is going to update its Misleading Representation policy on 21 November 2023. The search engine is planning to remove non-fulfillment of a product or service due to lack of qualifications under Misrepresentation and file it under the Unacceptable Business Practices policy instead. Why we care. It’s vital to keep up-to-date with policy changes as violations…
As the paid search advertising landscape evolves, AI and language model tools are gaining traction in streamlining and optimizing campaign restructuring processes. Some paid search specialists are no longer content with the status quo. Others argue that our industry has been using AI all along and that the AI revolution is only a shift in…
The Killer Whale is back. The latest Knowledge Graph update, released in March, continued the laser focus on person entities. It appears Google is looking for person entities to which it can fully apply E-E-A-T credibility signals and aims to understand who is creating content and whether they are trustworthy. In March, the number of…
Google Ads has clarified its new “limited by bid strategy” indicator. Digital marketing expert Anthony Higman first noticed the pop-up on an enhanced manual CPC campaign. He shared a screenshot of the notification on X (formerly known as Twitter) and claimed there no further explanation had been provided: After the screenshot raised concerns in the…
YouTube is testing serving ads directly embedded into video streams – the latest move in its war on ad-blockers. Why it matters. The “server-side ad injection” approach bakes ads into the core video file itself, making them indistinguishable from content for client software and extensions that try to filter out advertising. Why we care. By…
Happy Thanksgiving everyone and to celebrate the holiday, I will not be posting news today. Don’t worry, a lot of news will be posted tomorrow, including the weekly SEO video recap (subscribe!). Today, Google has a special Thanksgiving Doodle that goes to the History of Thanksgiving search result in Google Search. Here is the search…
Google Ads finally resolved the “Confusing Ad Text” and other content quality label errors for “the vast majority of affected users”. For those still impacted by the error messages, which have been ongoing for the past 14 days, the platform confirmed it would continue working to restore the service. Appeals. The backlog for self-service appeals…