Twitter’s transparency report indicates that press freedoms are under pressure and most reasons for account suspension in decline except for child safety violations The post Twitter Transparency Report Shows Dark Side Of Social Media appeared first on Search Engine Journal…

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 has made a variety of significant updates to its Search Quality Rater Guidelines. The most significant overhauls were to Google’s definitions of YMYL (Your Money, Your Life), and the extent to which E-A-T matters as a matter of …

QR codes are shaking up the marketing world (did you see that Coinbase Superbowl commercial?). This seminar will teach you everything you need to know about how QR codes can be used to unlock mobile engagement and revenue, channel attribution, …

Google is delaying the deprecation of third-party cookies in Chrome by another year, with plans to start phasing them out in 2024. The post Google Gives Third-Party Cookies Another Year appeared first on Search Engine Journal.…

Google has updated its search quality raters guidelines today, this is an update from the October 2021 update. You can download the full 167-page PDF raters guidelines over here. This version has refreshed language in the new overview …

Neeva has revealed how it instructs human evaluators to rate its search results, specifically for technical queries.  Like Google (which, coincidentally, updated their quality rater guidelines today), Neeva uses human raters to assess the quality of its search results. …

In this week’s Ask An SEO, Kayle Larkin shares tips on how to influence which sitelinks show up on Google Search results pages. The post Why Isn’t Google Showing The Sitelinks I Want? Ask An SEO appeared first on Search …

Shopify is laying off 10% of workforce due to anticipated shopping trends that failed to materialize The post Shopify Lays Off 10% Of Workforce appeared first on Search Engine Journal.…

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Google has updated its Google Merchant Center policy to no longer disapprove the login required and restricted purchase free listings. Google said instead, Google will mark them as active but may notice the products “have limited visibility on Google.”…

Fabrice Canel from Microsoft said on Twitter last night that 5% of all URLs downloaded are over the new BingBot user agent. To take you back, in April, Bing announced a new user agent for its crawler, BingBot.…

We have seen Google Search test infinite scroll search results on and off for years, even launching continuous scroll on mobile officially. But now we are seeing Google Maps test infinite scroll in its search results interface.…

There is just so much going on with Microsoft Bing Search between new features and tests, I figured I’d put together a quick list of them in one place. I am not 100% sure if these are all new because …

The fourth version of the Google Product Reviews Update is now rolling out – this update is called – you guessed it – the July 2022 Google Product Reviews Update. This update, like previous updates, will take about two to …

How do enterprise and SaaS software differ? Check out these main differences to make the best decision for your marketing organization. The post How Do Enterprise & SaaS Marketing Software Solutions Differ? appeared first on Search Engine Journal.…

Meta’s latest earnings report reveals the company’s first-ever year-over-year decline in advertising revenue, signaling a downward trend that it expects to continue. The post Meta Reports First Ever Decline In Ad Revenue appeared first on Search Engine Journal.…