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The Google Search Console Performance report is now delayed over 60 hours. For me, it is about 63 hours delayed. The good news, Google is aware of the issue and I am sure it will catch up soon.Here is what I see when I try to access…
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Last week, Google hosted the Google Marketing Live event at the new GooglePlex, the Bay View campus. Here is a photo or two from that event. The new office is pretty slick, by the way.This photo above is from Twitter, here is…
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Google has updated its SafeSearch, adult content filter, help documentation to say you should not show the age gate prompt to Googlebot. Google wrote, "For content behind a mandatory age gate, we recommend allowing Googlebot to crawl…
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Bing has a feature in the Bing video search results to see "more like this" on video overlays. Plus, there are a few more features here on the video landing page in Bing Video search.Frank Sandtmann posted about this on Mastodon and…
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Instead of just showing citations in the footer of the response and answers in Bing Chat, Bing is now showing anchor text hyperlinks as responses. In fact, if you watch the answer being built, Bing Chat will create the actual HTML…
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In a recent interview, Rene Ritchie, YouTube’s creator liaison, sat down with Todd Beaupre, YouTube’s growth and discovery lead, to discuss the algorithm’s future and its implications for creators in 2023. Beaupre shares many insights that…
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What exactly IS an API? They’re those things that you copy and paste long strange codes into Screaming Frog for links data on a Site Crawl, right? I’m here to tell you there’s so much more to them than that – if you’re willing to…
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Microsoft released a number of improvements to Bing Chat, including an Android home widget, improved sports scores and other updates for SwiftKey, the company announced. This is in addition to the other changes, including Bing being added…
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Google began to slowly roll out the Google Search Generative Experience on Thursday and I posted many screenshots of what I found. Since then, Danny Sullivan, Google's Search Liaison, responded to some public complaints and criticism…
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About a week ago, Google did its last batch of moving sites to mobile-first indexing and some mobile-friendly sites were still noticing their sites were being reported as being crawled using desktop indexing. It turns out, there is a…
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I went to Menachem Ani’s office, JXT Group, to chat all things paid search. We first spoke about he first got into the Google Ads business, he was doing Google Ads since the early times. He started in the space doing ads for eBay…
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Three platforms dominate short-form video content: TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts. A recent study conducted by Social Insider dives into the performance stats of these platforms, analyzing key metrics to determine which comes…
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Knowing how to use Google Analytics 4 (GA4) is necessary for marketers looking to optimize their digital campaigns. But first, you need to get some basic considerations nailed down. When gathering information, journalists ask six…
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The Google Search Console performance reports are currently significantly delayed, mine is now showing it is over 65 hours delayed. Typically, these reports are updated within 4 hours, so this is a significant delay. Google is aware.…
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For as long as I’ve worked in SEO, I have been asked the same question by brands and businesses, big and small: Why should I use YouTube? How can it help my business? Shouldn’t I be on TikTok instead? Sadly, for many businesses,…
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