Learn the fundamentals of Google Shopping and explain everything you’ll need to get up and running on the world’s most popular retail search engine. The post Google Shopping Free Listings: An In-Depth Guide appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

YouTube rolled out several updates this week, including the expansion of search insights to more languages and a new layout for channel pages. The post YouTube Updates: More Search Insights, New Channel Page Layout appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

In this article, we’ll look at how bad link building can hurt your reputation and give you some ways to help you keep yours spotless.  The post Can Link Building Give You Or Your Client A Bad Reputation? appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

Check out this article to learn more about the best computer science schools and opportunities out there today. The post The 20 Best Computer Science Schools Worldwide appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

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

During a live session at Brighton SEO, Google Search Advocate John Mueller makes a prediction about the future of backlinks. The post Google Predicts Strength Of Backlinks Ranking Factor Will Drop appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

Google announced an impact to audience targeting as a result of ongoing requirements for user privacy. Learn how your Google Ads campaigns may be affected. The post Google Announces Sunset Of Similar Audiences appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

Substack has launched a discussion feature that will allow authors to communicate with their audiences directly via mobile app. The post Substack Sets Its Sights On Twitter With New Chat Feature appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

Google has confirmed it has fixed a bug that affected some search features, such as the top stories section. The bug was “noticeable” around October 18th and 19th, and was fixed around October 28th. Google said the bug fix can take about a week to fully rollout. What happened. It is unclear exactly what the bug was, outside of there being a bug with “some search features” including the top stories section, as well as other search features. Google posted about this issue in the data anomalies Search Console report. Google wrote that on October 28th, the search performance report […]

Meta has just announced new tools to help creators reach new audiences, grow their communities, and monetize their content. Let’s jump in. 1. Updates to digital collectibles Creators will soon have the ability to make and sell their own digital collectibles on and off Instagram. About creators, Meta says “They’ll have an end-to-end toolkit — from creation (starting on the Polygon blockchain) and showcasing, to selling. People can easily support their favorite creators by buying their digital collectibles directly within Instagram. We’re testing these new features with a small group of creators in the US first, and hope to expand to more […]

Five years after it first launched, the video sharing-focused social network TikTok has taken the world by storm. Downloaded more than 2 billion times by users in 150 countries, people have flocked to the mobile app which presents them with a stream of algorithmically selected short videos filled with music, dancing, cooking demos, and other short bits of user-created entertainment. For this report, DISQO surveyed 39,452 adult consumers in the United States with the goal of better understanding TikTok usage and consumer attitudes, particularly about brand advertising on the social media platform, including: How does TikTok usage vary across demographic […]

Google’s John Mueller confirmed on Twitter that having a Sitemap file that lists pages that are duplicative to others, won’t necessarily cause ranking issues for your site. It might confuse Google when it comes to crawling but it should not impact rankings, John said.

Google has announced some changes to the Google Ads policies for government documents and official services. Google said “in March 2023, the Google Ads Government documents and official services policy will be updated to allow government authorized providers to promote government documents and services.”

Google Search, for some videos, allows you to click an expand icon on some videos it shows you in the search results. That expand button will then overlay a larger playable video with more details.

Google is already testing the new site name and favicon design change they launched just a couple of weeks ago on the desktop results. This brings the favicon and site name to the desktop search results as Google did for the mobile search results.

Google has just added hour and date dimensions for Google Analytics 4. A dimension is an attribute of your data. It describes your data and it’s usually text as opposed to numbers. An example of a dimension is Event name, which shows the name of an event that someone triggers on your website or application (such as “click”).  The new dimensions. An explanation of the new dimensions is below: Hour is the hour when an event was collected.Nth hour is the number of hours since the start of a specified date range.Date + hour is the date and hour when an event was collected.Week is the week […]