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New Google Maps Directions, Travel & EV Features

Source: Search Engine Land

By: Anu Adegbola

08/19/24

Google has announced a number of new travel features with Google Maps and Travel around driving alternatives, trains and buses, travel impact mode and then some new EV driving direction features. Google…

Google Ads Notifies Advertisers That Some Ad Customizers Will Go Away May 31st

Source: Search Engine Land

By: Anu Adegbola

08/19/24

On August 31, 2021, Google notified advertisers it would drop support for expanded text ads for responsive search ads. Google is now reminding advertisers that Ad customizers for text ads, expanded text…

Google Discontinues Video Carousel Markup

Source: Search Engine Land

By: Barry Schwartz

08/19/24

Google has discontinued its support for video carousel markup and has thus removed it from its video structured data help documentation. Initially, Google tested video carousel on a limited number of sites…

Google Business Profiles Register Automated External Defibrillator (AED)

Source: Search Engine Land

By: Andrew Holland

08/19/24

Google sent out emails a couple of days ago to businesses asking them to register their Automated External Defibrillator (AED) with Google Business Profiles. Google said, “you could save lives” if you…

HARO Has Been Dead for a While

Source: General SEO - SEO Blog by Ahrefs

By: Ryan Law

08/19/24

RIP… again.

Daily Search Forum Recap: April 17, 2024

Source: SEO Agency Jobs – SEOjobs.com

By: Blake Hughes

08/19/24

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…

YouTube escalates war on ad blockers

Source: SEO Agency Jobs – SEOjobs.com

By: Blake Hughes

08/19/24

YouTube users who use ad blockers to avoid advertising on the platform will now see alerts or experience buffering issues.

U.S. search ad revenues hit record $88.8 billion in 2023

Source: Senior Level SEO Jobs – SEOjobs.com

By: Blake Hughes

08/19/24

Search continues to account for the largest share of digital ad spending. Search revenue grew 5.2% year on year.

Google AdSense launches new Ad Intents format for Auto ads

Source: SEO Agency Jobs – SEOjobs.com

By: Blake Hughes

08/19/24

Publishers have a new option for Auto ads to appear on their website, in the form of links and anchors.

Technical SEO ~ Weedmaps ~ $100k-$131k ~ Remote (US)

Source: Search Engine Land

By: Cory Henke

08/19/24

The Technical SEO will be responsible for monitoring and resolving any issues with the crawling, rendering or indexation of weedmaps.com. In addition to these traditional technical SEO tasks, the Technical SEO will…

Google Discover optimization: A complete guide

Source: General SEO - SEO Blog by Ahrefs

By: Louise Linehan

08/19/24

Improve your visibility on this powerful recommendation platform through content quality, relevance and technical enhancements.

Why the shift from ‘conversions’ to ‘key events’ in GA4 is a game-changer

Source: General SEO - SEO Blog by Ahrefs

By: Louise Linehan

08/19/24

Learn how this GA4 change lets you maximize marketing opportunities to measure and report on what matters most to your business.

Your guide to ARR per FTE

Source: Search Engine Roundtable

By: barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz)

08/19/24

A primer and new benchmarks on the hot new SaaS metric

More Google Core Ranking Volatility Hits Yesterday/Today

Source: Search Engine Roundtable

By: barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz)

08/19/24

I know we just reported on more volatility this Monday, possibly related to the Google March 2024 core update, but we are seeing even more volatility over the past 24 hours related…

Google Maps Dropping Draft Reviews

Source: Search Engine Roundtable

By: barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz)

08/19/24

Google Maps will soon stop supporting drafting reviews for local business listings and Google Business Profiles. Google said that starting July 16, 2024, review drafts will no longer be supported.

Google Search Console Unused Ownership Tokens

Source: Search Engine Roundtable

By: barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz)

08/19/24

Google Search Console has a new security feature under user and permission management to help you manage your unused ownership tokens. Basically, it helps you manage who has permissions to your Search…

Google Ads Adds AI Generated Image Tool For Demand Gen Campaigns

Source: Search Engine Roundtable

By: barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz)

08/19/24

Google Ads announced that Demand Gen campaigns are getting generative AI tools to create image assets. This is rolling out to advertisers around the world in English with more languages to come…

Google Search Testing Horizontal Lines For Sitelinks & People Also Ask

Source: Search Engine Roundtable

By: barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz)

08/19/24

Google Search is testing horizontal lines under the sitelinks and the people also ask elements in the search results. This is a long horizontal line that goes across the while search result…

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