Google agrees to pay $391.5 million in a settlement with 40 states over a lawsuit involving the search engine company’s user location tracking. The post Google Settles Location-Tracking Case For $391.5 Million appeared first on Search Engine Journal.…

For the last several hours, Google Ads users have been noticing issues logging in. Google Ads product liaison Ginny Marvin tweeted the following response, stating that the problem was caused by an authentication issue: An issue with Google account authentication …

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. Yep……

LinkedIn is teaming up with GitHub to launch over 40 software development courses through LinkedIn Learning, all of which are free until March 2023. The post LinkedIn + GitHub Launch 40+ Free Courses appeared first on Search Engine Journal.…

There are numerous cases of businesses losing all of their reviews that they have acquired over the years in their Google Business Profile listings. The issue seems to be related to Google automatically applying suggested edits from the web to …

Last week I reported on how Google Local reviews can display how many reviews a specific reviewer left in a specific city. Well, Google is also doing this by category, how many reviews a specific reviewer left for the business …

Google Business Profiles and business listings reviews are going missing, dropping out completely, again, but this time it seems to be related to automated suggested edits occurring on some business profiles.…

The Information wrote a piece that says Apple is at least four years or more away from building its own search engine – Apple Search. We have been talking about Apple’s quiet efforts in building its own search engine for …

Google Ads is sending emails out to some advertisers offering to pay them $100 in Google Ads credits for enrolling in automatically applied recommendations. The response from the PPC community is almost all against doing this for any amount of …

It seems as if I see more volatility signals on the weekends with Google Search than I do during the weekdays. We may have had another Google search ranking algorithm update, unconfirmed, this weekend, around November 11th and 12th.…

With the recent developments on Twitter, you may have heard about Mastodon in the news. Perhaps you’ve already joined to protest or find an alternative.  Although you can use Mastodon as an alternative to Twitter, there is no such …

In part one with Rick Mariano we spoke about helping build LocalEdge to provide high volume digital marketing services at a low cost and then in part two we spoke more about using automation and the human touch……

Elon Musk fires nearly all Twitter contract employees, with one fired working parent tweeting how the timing couldn’t be worse The post Twitter Fires 80% of Contractor Employees With No Formal Notice appeared first on Search Engine Journal.…

Why is content marketing important? That’s a loaded question, but worth considering, because the benefits of content marketing are almost too numerous to count. To sum it up, content marketing is important because it’s a cost-effective, sustainable marketing method that …

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A new report shows that the cost per lead has increased for about 91% of industries in Google. The hardest hit industries are Arts & Entertainment (up 134%), Travel (up 69%), and Furniture (up 54%). Industries that saw a decrease …

Here’s how to conduct competitive ad text research directly within Google Ads in 7 easy steps. The post Google’s New Ad Insights Feature & 7 Tips For Competitive Ad Research appeared first on Search Engine Journal.…