We’re thrilled to announce the pillars of the 2022 DIY Musician Conference. Yes, there are dozens of workshops and mentor sessions planned this year, each of them giving you a chance to go deep on specific strategies, platforms, or techniques. But we also think it’s crucial to explore some of the big, universal questions: How can my music make a lasting impact and emotional connection? How can I stay inspired, challenged, and evolving as an artist? How do I become a more charismatic performer? How will “the industry” and audiences respond to my music? That’s why we’re hosting these 5 […]

Google Search Console Insights, the cute analytics that joins Search Console and Google Analytics with a goal of making it easy to understand your content’s performance, now works with sites that only use Google Analytics 4 (GA4). This is welcomed news for sites, like my new site – Lucid Insider, that was set up without Universal Analytics.

Google’s John Mueller was asked again about should you block your search results pages on your site from being indexed. The answer is generally yes, always has been, but John added that a “selected list of search-queries being essentially equivalent to low-effort category pages,” he said “but overall I’d block them.”

Microsoft announced a bunch of new features and other news for the Microsoft Advertising platform. These include automatic updates for Shopping Campaigns, auto-generated Remarketing Lists, more eligible UET tags migrating to the Microsoft Clarity insights experience, Customer match expanded to new markets and more.

Two years ago, Google made a new Google Merchant Center policy named Website needs improvement. Well, now free listings accounts with this issue status are still active, but their products have limited visibility on Google.

This week, I published the monthly Google webmaster report – a great place to catch up on the Google news. Google may have done another algorithm update on July 5th and July 7th. Google created its own landing page for its algorithm…

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

Earlier this year, Google Merchant Center added auto-tagging for free listings is now available in your Merchant Center account. But this only worked in the Google Shopping tab, now it works across all Google experiences.

Google Ads has added the diagnostic insights on the Insights and Overview page of the ad console. Diagnostic insights help you identify common reasons why your campaign may not be serving or getting conversions.

Over the past few days there has been some chatter within the SEO community about more Google search ranking algorithmic fluctuations and volatility. This comes after over a week of relative calmness in the Google search results.

Last Thursday, June 30th, a lot of folks across social media began to talk about how a search for [desk ornament] in Google Image Search brought up Swastikas, German Nazi items and more really horrible items. Danny Sullivan from Google escalated the issue to the Google Search team and said this is a priority for Google to fix. But just almost a week later, the results seem to still appear.

As a reminder, back in 2016, Google updated its guidelines for using schema markup on your site with third-party reviews. Google reminded us in 2018 that this is not in accordance with their rich results guidelines. And now, John Mueller of Google reminded us again – he said “You can’t mark up 3rd party reviews with structured data.”

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 a problem with Nazi stuff showing up in the search results…

CRB sticks by initial ruling on mechanical royalty increase. In 2018, the Copyright Royalty Board made an important decision regarding songwriters and publishers in the digital age. Streaming services should raise the mechanical royalty rate from 10.5% to 15.1%. This increase would happen gradually between 2018 and 2022. However, Spotify, Amazon, Google, and Pandora contested the decision. They argued that increased payments would make their model unsustainable, as they already pay billions in royalties. This lead to a long appeals process that has finally ended. The CRB announced it will stand by the initial ruling. And there is more good […]