SEO Daily News and Algorithm Updates

What frustrates users most: looking through search results, visiting multiple websites and figuring out the right search term.

Microsoft, in its monthly update, announced that it will be moving (or “upgrading” as they call it) smart shopping campaigns to Performance Max within the next couple of months. Microsoft said they…

Google has fixed an issue with site names not appearing for some internal pages, this has been an issue since December 2023. I checked some examples, and they are indeed fixed –…

Google News seems to be testing placing a header above news sources in the Google News follow interface, that says “how these stories are ranked.” I personally cannot replicate it, but some…

What a month it’s been for AI search technology! After almost a year of testing in labs, Google took the step we were all waiting for and began rolling out AI more…

What a month it’s been for AI search technology! After almost a year of testing in labs, Google took the step we were all waiting for and began rolling out AI more…

Watch now | This episode is perfect for those interested in tactical advice from seed stage to IPO around marketing tactics and sales compensation. Meghan Gill is SVP Sales Operations & Sales…

Google said it will not index sites that are not accessible on mobile devices after July 5, 2024. “If your site’s content is not accessible at all with a mobile device, it…

Last week, Google emailed its Google Ads and Google Analytics users with a heads-up about new privacy laws coming to some states in the United States. This involves topics around restricted data…

Just last week we reported that chat is going away from Google Business Profiles. Well, Google may be adding native SMS and WhatsApp messaging support for your Google Maps business listings.

The Google Search Console link report now seems to be fixed. As we reported last week, we saw a decline in links being reported by the tool, followed by a huge decline…

Here’s everything you need to know about redirects, when to use them, how to implement them properly and potential issues to avoid.

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Sponsored posts will still display larger preview images, but organic posts with third-party links are now much smaller.

We know they work, and we’re excited to show you the proof.

This may impact news publisher traffic, while Google works out the kinks.

It’s not always black-hat!

In this Whiteboard Friday, Tom touches on four particular insights gleaned from the recent Google documentation leak.

This is part 2 of a series of posts I am writing to discover more about what we can learn from the information in the recently discovered Google documentation on API references….

You may have noticed a spike in impressions and clicks between May 15 to May 27 – it was a bug.

Two words: Weak. Correlations.

Here’s what you can do.

Well this has been an interesting week. Rand Fishkin published a fascinating article about a set of documents that was shared with him. These documents contain the documentation for making API calls…

PayPal plans to offer personalized promotions and advertising, targeting its approximately 400 million users.

AIO will likely mean less traffic for many sites, but news appears to be exempt (for now). Plus, a major leak might have revealed many of Google search’s internal workings.

Google will be removing the call history reports and the Chat feature within Google Business Profiles on July 31, 2024. Google said, “We acknowledge this may be difficult news,” but added, “We…

July 31, 2024 Google will shut down call history and chat – you can download your history now.

The documents reveal how Google Search is using, or has used, clicks, links, content, entities, Chrome data and more to rank content.

Google is testing a large blue visit button on its mobile search results interface. The button is hard to miss and shows up under the sitelinks for some searchers. Again, it is…

Google has grayed out, muted, its logo, for Memorial Day, again this year. It also applied an American flag under the search box with the message, “Honoring those who sacrificed.” That links…

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Google is rolling out new profile pages that shows you the reviews and notes you left across Google Search. And starting on June 24 your reviews and notes may be public to…

In this Whiteboard Friday, Tom takes us through the top SERP features of 2024 by both presence and Share of Voice.

The AI-powered ad tools and automation capabilities will help brands with centralizing ad creative and measurement, scriptwriting, and more.

ContentDistribution.com is a performance content agency that works with venture-backed SaaS companies like ClickUp, Privacy.com, and Skiff (acq by Notion). We are building a Digital PR department to deliver earned media placements…

Google may be testing a special search result snippet interface for Reddit search results. In this test, Google seems to be showing the number of upvotes and the number of comments on…

Hello – I am looking for someone to help me create content for a niche, vertical marketing website that I currently use to drive targeted SEM traffic to. Ideally, you would start…

Visual brand profiles and new AI tools on search can now help showcase on brand merchant imagery, videos and promotions.

Google introduces video-powered search ads, expanded virtual try-on for apparel and 3D shoe spins to assist with complex shopping decisions.

Rapidly produce high-quality Performance Max creative assets at scale incorporating brand-specific fonts, colors and imagery.

Not only are the search results more graphical, they have richer information for these more interactive ways of searching.

Rajan Patel, the VP of Engineering at Google leading the Search experiences, wrote that Google is rolling out a more graphical results interface that go “beyond visual matches to include things like…

Sundar Pichai calls this is a disruptive moment. He also avoids commiting to releasing data on AI Overview click-through rates and traffic.