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While major companies like Wix, Duda and Cloudflare announced enthusiastic adoption of the new open source IndexNow indexing protocol that promises instant indexing, it was also confronted with questions over [...]

Businesses on Instagram now have access to demographic data about the audiences that see and engage with their content.Previously, the demographic breakdown in Instagram Insights was limited to users who [...]

Google announced five updates to its Search Quality Raters Guidelines (QRGs) today and issued an updated version of the document with a brief explanation of each one in its changelog.While [...]

Google Alerts is not working, the company advises.An issue has been identified that is in the process of being resolved.Exact details, such as the extent of the outage and how [...]

Every company will have dissatisfied customers.I don’t care how good you are – someone is eventually going to be dissatisfied with your product or service.I’ve spent most of my career [...]

This post was sponsored by News & Editorial SEO Summit. The opinions expressed in this article are the sponsor’s own.Do you work with publishers, news, and media sites? Are you [...]

Microsoft Clarity integration with Microsoft Advertising is now available to users as part of a pilot program, and most existing Universal Event Tracking (UET) tags will be updated to the [...]

Microsoft announced IndexNow, a major evolution in how all search engines can discover and index content. IndexNow is open source and open to all participating search engines. When content is [...]

Nobody likes a slow website. When a webpage takes too long to load, not only does Google take notice but users tend to move on and find another page that [...]

Google updated the requirements for review structured data. Failure to follow Google’s structured data requirements can make a web page ineligible to be shown for a rich result in the [...]

Need to gain insight into the budgets, keywords, and product ads driving your competitors' paid search campaigns? Learn a tactical approach here.The post Competitor Paid Search Analysis: Why Is It [...]

With every website, there is always a greater opportunity to optimize than there is time or resources to implement.Businesses of all sizes must be able to effectively prioritize focus, energy, [...]

As PPC account managers, we’ve always had to do a lot of reporting to keep our stakeholders informed.Now with the continued rise in automation, reporting has taken on new importance [...]

For anyone planning on having a long-term career in the marketing field (or seeking a pay raise or promotion at their current job), taking the initiative to get a digital [...]

Google’s John Mueller answered a question about how Google processes a site move, in particular if the site move might trigger a so-called “sandbox effect.” Mueller responded by providing a [...]

Are your paid social campaigns generating the results you want?B2B (and specifically SaaS) brands may not be able to depend on demand alone. So, you have to help generate that [...]

Google’s John Mueller in an Office-hours hangout answered a question about whether a big a site with thousands of indexed pages influences Google’s perception of site quality. John Mueller answered [...]

Google’s John Mueller says work on improving your website’s content, rather than implementing technical fixes, when recovering from a broad core algorithm update.A ranking drop following a core update indicates [...]

Google explains what it means when it suggests separating content by user intent, such as one place for information-based content and another for transaction-based content.Separating content by user intent allows [...]

Google Search on mobile is getting updated with continuous scrolling, which will automatically populate more results when users scroll to the bottom of the page.In an announcement, Google states:“At Google, [...]

Which SEO tasks do you spend the most time working on?Everyone has their own way of working, but there are core areas of SEO that appear to have more time [...]

When it comes to SEO, all things are not created equal.What defines your business as “enterprise” typically comes down to the size of your organization, your total annual revenue, or [...]

So you’ve brought a new, innovative product to market.Or maybe you found a way to put a new twist on an existing service, and it’s taken off in popularity.And now [...]

Since the arrival of GPT-3, content generators have multiplied the use cases for SEO. It seems a bi-monthly update to review the new progress in the field of language models [...]