More than 50% of North American back-to-school shoppers say they’ll check for in-store inventory online before heading to a store, according to Google. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article. …

A “just the facts” approach to reporting data can damage client relationships. Learn how & why to optimize reporting with storytelling. The post How Storytelling Fuels Reporting Your Clients Can Get Excited About appeared first on Search Engine Journal.…

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Following Professional Profiles, Twitter announces the launch of the Shop Module as part of its wider approach to improving the shopping experience on the platform. The post Twitter Tests New Shop Module appeared first on Search Engine Journal.…

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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… …

We’re thrilled that YouTube has named CD Baby as a flagship member of their Preferred Distributor Program. What is a YouTube preferred partner? CD Baby’s inclusion in the Preferred Distributor Program means that YouTube now recommends us to artists who …

We know Google said that Google can index and rank non-HTTPS URLs and content. And yes, that means Google can also crawl non HTTPS URLs. Google’s John Mueller actually confirmed on Twitter that yes, Google does crawl non HTTPS URLs.…

John Mueller from Google said it is wrong to say that “Edu domains tend to have a ton of outbound links, and as such, Google ignores a big chunk of them.” He said “People who focus on .edu links usually …

Gary Illyes from Google posted an awesome question and answer on Twitter talking about pages that are on the edge of the Google quality threshold. He said that if your pages disappear from Google Search and then reappear when you …

When Google announced the new link spam update, a ton of confusion arose with that announcement. The confusion was mostly around do you need to change your nofollow links to rel=sponsored for affiliate or similar links. The answer is no, …

I am sorry for the random static issues, I kept touching the wireless mic by accident. On Monday, Google pushed out a new algorithm update the company called the link spam update… …

Google has changed the guidelines around the fact check ClaimReview structured data guidelines to no longer allow multiple ClaimReview markups per page. You are now only allowed one ClaimReview element per page going forward. …

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

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Google was asked if you have an English version of your site for years and years and then expand the site to France. So you create an FR subdomain or subfolder for the French users. Does the English version signals …