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Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web. Google's March 2024 core update completed on April 19th, Google…
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Google removed their documentation on manually adding publications for review to be included Google News. An announcement via new documentation advises that publishers can no longer manually add their sites to be considered for Google News…
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Keyword tracking involves monitoring and measuring the performance of specific keywords or phrases. It helps you understand how well your website ranks for those keywords, how often the keywords are searched on average, and more.If you’re…
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What Are Google Ads Keywords?Google Ads keywords are words or phrases used to match your ads with the terms your potential customers are searching for. Choosing relevant keywords can help you reach the right users when they’re searching for…
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Download a PDF version of the above checklist for your office or to share with employees to ensure you’re having your best and most productive client meetings. Detailed key to the checklist: 1. Check expectations It’s a momentum…
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Google Ads has announced a series of updates to Performance Max campaigns. The enhancements give advertisers more granular control over their campaigns, improve customer insights, and manage budgets better. 🆕 ✅Several #PMax updates…
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404 pages show when users try to access resources that don’t exist.Like a misspelled URL. Or a page that was deleted.And you can create a custom 404 page in WordPress (even if you can’t code).Why You Need a Custom 404 Page in…
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Following the recent SERPConf event, Google Search Analyst Gary Illyes shared insights that provided a glimpse into the latest trends and challenges in the SEO world. His LinkedIn post touches on a range of topics, from technical issues to…
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Google has for a long time used AI to write some knowledge panels. But now Google is labeling some of these AI written knowledge panels with "Al overviews are experimental" as a disclaimer. This may show up for both…
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Apple Business Connect now lets you add links to your local listings that show up in Apple Maps. This is under the "actions" section that enables customers to order food, buy tickets, schedule an appointment, and…
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Google is auto-translating some of the content within the Google Knowledge Panels and blocks. So if you are in a location where you don't only speak English, Google may show you your local language as an additional…
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What Is Pinterest SEO?Pinterest SEO is a set of practices to make your profile and content more visible on Pinterest. With the goal of driving more traffic to your website.It involves optimizing your Pinterest content, like Pins and boards,…
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A week ago, Anu Adegbola wrote a fabulous piece on some new privacy changes that may be coming to Google Chrome in the future named Chrome IP masking and how that may impact advertisers. Ginny Marvin, the Google Ads…
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Danny Sullivan, Google's Search Liaison, said that the search company will add the upcoming site reputation abuse policy to the spam reporting tool when the policy begins to be enforced. So sometime after May 5, 2024,…
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You've put a lot of time and effort into developing a website. And you want more people to see it.That’s what search engine optimization (SEO) is for.In this article, we'll discuss SEO for web developers and what best practices you should…
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