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🧠 Community Wisdom: Favorite prioritization frameworks, companies rescinding offers, fiction book recommendations, ideas for celebrating employee anniversaries, getting into fintech, and more

Source: Search Engine Land

By: Steve Liu

Posted on September 13, 2024

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How to Optimize E-commerce Sitemaps with 1M+ Pages — Whiteboard Friday

Source: Search Engine Land

By: Edna Chavira

Posted on September 12, 2024

Discover how to optimize your e-commerce website’s sitemap with Stevy’s six steps in this edition of Whiteboard Friday.

Google adds two new Googlebot crawlers: GoogleOther-Image and GoogleOther-Video

Source: Search Engine Land

By: Beth Nunnington

Posted on September 12, 2024

Google said these new crawlers are to “better support crawling of binary data that may be used for research and development.”

Google’s Buckle Up Comments On Search 6 Months Later

Source: Search Engine Land

By: Lauren Busby

Posted on September 10, 2024

Six months ago, I covered the famous (non) “buckle up” comments about the changes coming to Google Search over the next several months. Well, Andy Simpson posted a recording of Danny Sullivan,…

Google Prior To OpenAI’s GPT-4o Announcement

Source: Search Engine Land

By: Barry Schwartz

Posted on September 10, 2024

About 45 minutes before OpenAI’s announcement of GPT-4o, Google posted on X a demo of new Gemini capabilities where you show Google Gemini something on your camera via a live video feed…

Search ad costs rise, conversion rates decline again in 2024

Source: Search Engine Roundtable

By: barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz)

Posted on September 10, 2024

Search ad benchmark report finds advertisers are paying more for leads and clicks, while Google continues to report record profits.

6 unpopular SEO opinions you need to consider

Source: Search Engine Roundtable

By: barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz)

Posted on September 10, 2024

From prioritizing user experience to focusing on real marketing, dive into unpopular opinions on the evolving world of SEO.

7 B2B content distribution strategies that work

Source: Search Engine Land

By: Julia McCoy

Posted on September 9, 2024

Ensure your hard work reaches your target audience, drives engagement and generates leads with these content distribution tactics.

Mikhail Parakhin Confirms He Is No Longer Working On Copilot At Microsoft

Source: Search Engine Land

By: Lazarina Stoy

Posted on September 6, 2024

Mikhail Parakhin, the former head of Bing Search and Microsoft Advertising at Microsoft, confirmed he is no longer working on the Copilot project. He stepped down as the head of Bing Search…

Unpacking Google’s 2024 E-E-A-T Knowledge Graph update

Source: Search Engine Land

By: Leigh Buttrey

Posted on September 4, 2024

Learn how Google is rapidly building its Knowledge Vault and why establishing a strong, E-E-A-T-backed presence is crucial for SEO success.

Google Says Helpful Content Update Recoveries May Take Much Longer Than Others

Source: Search Engine Land

By: Victoria Shepherd

Posted on August 30, 2024

Google’s John Mueller responded to some questions around why sites hurt by the September 2023 Google helpful content update have not recovered with March 2024 Google core update. He said on X…

Google Ads will pause low-activity keywords starting in June

Source: Search Engine Land

By: Benu Aggarwal

Posted on August 29, 2024

Active keywords with no impressions in the past 13 months will be paused. If you re-enable them, they could be paused again after 3 months.

Microsoft makes Copilot available to all advertisers

Source: Search Engine Land

By: Dan Taylor

Posted on August 28, 2024

Microsoft Copilot now offers AI-powered conversational support, creative asset recommendations and content generation capabilities.

Google March 2024 core update rollout is now complete

Source: Search Engine Land

By: Anu Adegbola

Posted on August 27, 2024

The first core update of 2024 finished rolling out on April 19 – this was a pretty big one but it overlapped with other big changes leading to a 45% reduction in…

brightonSEO Live Blog

Source: Search Engine Land

By: Rob Garner

Posted on August 26, 2024

Follow along for talk takeaways, tips, and try-hard witty remarks.

Google Says Its Link Best Practices Guidelines Are Still Good Guidelines

Source: BrightEdge blogs

By: Jim Yu

Posted on August 23, 2024

Google’s John Mueller said the link best practices SEO documentation on its website are still “good guidelines” for both SEO and overall “accessibility & UX reasons.” The guidelines are only about 14…

Airbnb dominates in search sentiment report

Source: Search Engine Land

By: Jason Tabeling

Posted on August 22, 2024

The findings illustrate the importance of long-term consistency and managing search volume to maintain strong customer sentiment.

Structure, consume, learn and retire: Google’s pattern of learning

Source: Search Engine Roundtable

By: barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz)

Posted on August 22, 2024

Google’s cyclical process of giving us capabilities only to later remove them, seems to be a core part of its strategy.

We Lost a Local SEO Client — How We Solved It

Source: Search Engine Land

By: Danny Goodwin

Posted on August 21, 2024

Regaining Trust: Lessons Learned From Losing a Local SEO Client

Contract SEO Specialist ~ Alloy Automation ~ Remote (CAN)

Source: Search Engine Land

By: Greg Jarboe

Posted on August 21, 2024

You’ll be the driving force behind all things SEO, making sure the technical content we’re creating not only educates and engages our audience but also significantly boosts our SEO efforts. Your role…

Bingbot Fully Supports Brotli Compression & Now Tests Zstd Compression

Source: Search Engine Land

By: Adam Tanguay

Posted on August 20, 2024

Fabrice Canel from Microsoft announced that BingBot now fully supports Brotli compression and will soon be testing zstd Zstandard compression, a lossless data compression, for its crawler.

Google Business Profiles Register Automated External Defibrillator (AED)

Source: Search Engine Land

By: Andrew Holland

Posted on August 19, 2024

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…

How the Google-Reddit partnership impacts brand management

Source: Search Engine Land

By: Barry Schwartz

Posted on August 15, 2024

Dive into the impact of the Google-Reddit content licensing deal on brand perception and engagement, plus tips for managing reputation risks.

Google Maps Updates Suggest An Edit Workflow

Source: Search Engine Roundtable

By: barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz)

Posted on August 15, 2024

Google has updated the Suggest an edit feature within Google Maps business listings. Google said the new flow is “easier” and should help make updates to the Google Maps data.

Google CEO on the evolution of Search and SGE

Source: BrightEdge blogs

By: Albert Gouyet

Posted on August 14, 2024

Sundar Pichai believes Google can provide AI-generated answers while also helping users navigate to websites for information.

Google Ads With Get Phone Number Button

Source: Search Engine Roundtable

By: barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz)

Posted on August 14, 2024

Google is testing replacing the “call” button in the Google Ads, including Local Service Ads, with a “get phone number” button. This is a much longer phrase to use, but it is…

Daily Search Forum Recap: April 5, 2024

Source: Search Engine Land

By: Edna Chavira

Posted on August 9, 2024

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 explains why it shows…

60% of Perplexity citations overlap with top 10 Google organic results

Source: Content Marketing - SEO Blog by Ahrefs

By: Ryan Law

Posted on August 7, 2024

With Perplexity referrals growing 40% month-over-month, new research looks at how SGE and Perplexity differ.

How to improve your SaaS onboarding experience to retain more customers

Source: Search Engine Land

By: Marc Sirkin

Posted on August 6, 2024

Tips to optimize user experience, increase trial-to-paid conversions and maximize customer lifetime value.

How to speak more confidently and persuasively | Matt Abrahams (professor, podcast host, author, speaker)

Source: SparkToro

By: Rand Fishkin

Posted on August 4, 2024

Brought to you by: • Sprig—Build a product people love • Dovetail—Bring your customer into every decision • Coda—Meet the evolution of docs — Matt Abrahams is a renowned communication expert, with…

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