User Experience and SEO Optimization

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 has a similar products section and carousel for Google Ads sponsored listings. We have seen similar products and similar shopping related results from the organic / free listings but now I…

Google AdSense announced a new auto ads format named “Ad intents.” Ad intents places links and anchors showing organic search results with ads into existing text and pages on your site related…

On Friday, Google responded to a pending bill in the California state legislature, the California Journalism Preservation Act (CJPA), that would require Google to pay a link tax to publishers by testing…

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Steer by Mechanic Advisor offers a suite of software tools for today’s automotive repair shop. We combine a mix of software tools that a repair shop needs to run a highly profitable…

Google’s John Mueller recommended that you do not disallow your internal footer links. A Reddit thread asked, “Should I disallow some pages that are in footer?” John replied, “If you do this,…

Google has a special easter egg in its search results for the upcoming solar eclipse. When you search for solar eclipse, you are shown a sun that gets covered by the move,…

In SEO agencies, we get too caught up in the SEO and forget that there’s a client. Understand what they want in order to align your SEO strategy with their goals. Learn…

Prepare your business for tomorrow’s SEO challenges with insights on adapting to emerging trends, overcoming measurement hurdles and more.

Previously exclusive to smart shopping campaigns, Maximum Conversion Value is now available for all shopping and search campaigns.

If you want to thrive in search in a post-AI world, publish more “deep content.”

Tick, tick. Done.

The tech giant plans to offer advertisers the same features currently accessible within Google’s PMax, such as conversion value rules.

Ranking volatility hit on Friday and Saturday, with limited reversals on Monday after a storm of manual actions last Thursday.

This year the stars aligned for the Women in Tech SEO Fest as it took place on International Women’s Day, or March 8th 2024. This is the first time International Women’s Day…

Today is the first day I have seen solid evidence of serious ranking volatility and changes related to the big Google March 2024 Core Update. As a reminder, the Google March 2024…

Here are the amazing women and nonbinary folks in our industry who I have learned from and who continuously inspire me in my career.

Google added recipeInstructions and recipeIngredient and thus you may see an increase in warnings for recipe items.

Maximize year-end donations for your non-profit by laying the groundwork early with steady advertising budgets and ongoing testing.

Celeste Gonzalez joins the SEO Rant podcast to share her thoughts on the value of SEO testing in the local space. Real examples of what SEO testing without massive data looks like…

Thank you to everyone who submitted pitches to speak at MozCon! After much deliberation, we settled on two community speakers that we’re confident are going to be a great addition to the…

A new cool E-E-A-T/YMYL/Helpful Content/Google Quality template coming soon.

Learn about information satisfaction or IS, a key metric in Google organic search rankings, and how to apply it to your business.

Seven tips and five myths

If searchers continue chatting with GenAI answer engines, it will be more critical than ever for marketers to track and monitor search results.

In January, Google told us that the Google Business Profiles websites will stop working on March 1, 2024. Google said the URLs will redirect from the website to the Google Business Profile…

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