Microsoft Bing has recently added three notations to its search results pages that show price history, available coupons and ethical choice ratings. Price history. Bing shows a graph showing whether a product price has increased, decreased or is stable. It highlights the high, median and low prices. Here’s what it looks like: Microsoft Bing’s Price history annotation This annotation is available in the U.S., Canada, France, Germany, Great Britain, Australia and India. Available coupons. Bing shows searchers directly in the search results when coupons are available for a website. The coupon will automatically be copied and applied to the purchase […]

Microsoft Bing is adding new annotations to shopping search results, including active coupon codes for retailers’ websites. The post Microsoft Bing Adds Coupon Codes To Shopping Searches appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

Effective digital transformation can accelerate organic marketing growth—and maintain that growth despite future economic or regulatory challenges. Join search experts from Conductor in an upcoming webinar and learn: The crucial role organic and SEO play in enterprise digital transformation. The importance of diversifying marketing efforts and what that looks like. How to apply data-driven insights to elevate the customer experience. Register today for “Beyond the Buzzword: Transform Digitally to Drive Organic & SEO Growth,” presented by Conductor. The post Webinar: The crucial role SEO plays in digital transformation appeared first on Search Engine Land.

Touring and playing live can be amazing. On great nights, when everything is going right, you get to feel the buzz of performing your songs in front of an audience who returns the energy. Yes, great shows can lead to new fans, merch sales, more gigs, and good press. But no matter how ready you are to bring your best, there are always SOME aspects of playing live that are out of your control. What if THOSE things aren’t going right? Here are 8 challenges most touring artists will face 1. Sound issues Maybe the PA is broken. Maybe you […]

On July 27th, Google released its fourth product reviews update named the July 2022 product reviews update. That update took a short and sweet six days to roll out and was completed on August 2nd. In short, this July update was almost none existent to most of the data providers we asked, where in aggregate, there were very few signs of any real Google update during that six-day time period. Let me add the caveat that if a site was hit by this update, it 100% felt like a major update, where the site can see traffic changes upwards of […]

Live shopping is the new home shopping network. Learn how it works and discover how each generation prefers to shop ecommerce products online. The post An Online Marketer’s Guide To Mastering Livestream Shopping appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

As Google Lens becomes more and more popular, SEOs are asking, will we be able to see what traffic we get from Google Lens in Google Search Console? The answer is that Google Search Console currently does not support showing Google Lens traffic or data and likely won’t in the foreseeable future.

Google may be showing fewer reviews in the search result snippets, fewer review rich results, specifically when you filter by the shopping vertical. This seemed to happen right when Google released the Google Product Reviews update, there was a five percentage point drop in the number of review snippets for this category.

Google has updated its help documentation on dynamic rendering to say “dynamic rendering is a workaround and not a long-term solution for problems with JavaScript-generated content in search engines. “Instead, we recommend that you use server-side rendering, static rendering, or hydration as a solution,” Google added.

Google has made a couple of tweaks to the documentation for the Follow Feature in Google Search. Google added you should use (1) descriptive titles for your RSS feed and (2) a single feed even if you have multiple.

Google has updated the dynamic rendering help documentation to now say Google no longer recommends using dynamic rendering, that this is a workaround and not a long-term solution to your Google Search crawling and indexing problems with JavaScript. Truth is, Google always said this was a workaround but now with advancements in web and crawling technology, Google is pushing harder for developers, webmasters, and SEOs to avoid using dynamic rendering. What is dynamic rendering? Google said that dynamic rendering means “switching between client-side rendered and pre-rendered content for specific user agents.” You would be able to serve Google an HTML version […]

There are several ways you can see how you’re ranking from different locations, each with its own advantages and drawbacks. The post How To See Google Search Results And Rankings For Different Locations appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

Google is testing displaying all of the menu bar options under the Google Search bar. This is instead of showing the “more” button, to see more search options.

I miss in-person events. I haven’t been to a search marketing conference since late 2019. But as much as I miss in-person events, I’m not sure if I’m ready to return to conferences in the real world. After all, our free SMX Advanced event in June was 100% online – and got absolutely amazing scores from the 8,000+ search marketers who attended. This year, we’ve seen the return of in-person marketing conferences (as well as hybrid events) – and attendance levels are definitely not back to pre-pandemic levels. Recent COVID variants have caused major spikes in cases across the country. […]

Become an SEO PM rockstar by structuring your SEO plans into clear buy-in worthy actions that easily integrate into team workflows. The post SEO Project Management: A Guide To Organizational Nirvana appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

Ready to build trust with customers and market your business more effectively? Start by hiring quality content writers. Nothing can replace the utility of a good writer. It starts with trust Of Aristotle’s three modes of persuasion, his first focused on the speaker’s credibility. According to Aristotle, credibility can often decide when uncertainty persists and opinions are divided.  Credibility elicits trust, which forms loyalty over time. For brands, this is essential to developing long consumer lifecycles that feed their business.  Brand trust is an essential factor in purchasing decisions, according to 88% of respondents in a recent Edelman survey. New […]