In its latest round of updates for video creators, YouTube is launching more detailed analytics data and enabling Shorts thumbnail customization. The post YouTube Launches New Analytics & Custom Shorts Thumbnails appeared first on Search Engine Journal.…

A top priority for marketers is to increase email responses from their customers and reduce unsubscribe rates. But to be successful, they need data to help personalize messaging with information on past purchase behavior, inquiries and engagement. Join Salesforce in …

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

Microsoft is announcing the general availability of its Azure OpenAI service, which allows developers to create applications utilizing technology like ChatGPT. The post Microsoft & OpenAI Bring AI Models to Developers Worldwide appeared first on Search Engine Journal.…

Every article you can find online about Google ranking factors will tell you there are at least ~200 or so odd variables that contribute to how a site will perform in the SERPs.  That being said, there’s an enormous …

Google is testing a “check wait time” button for some local results in the Google search results. I guess this tells you how long you have to wait to receive service from the local business, like a restaurant.…

Imagine this: A small business owner, relying on Google Ads to make sales on his Shopify store, has had his livelihood crushed by Performance Max in two months. Sales are practically zero, cost per conversion is up 20x ($6 to …

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Google’s Core Web Vitals first became a ranking factor back in 2021. In February 2022, the change was fully rolled out to all mobile and desktop searches. Since then, Google has also worked on delivering new technologies to optimize web …

For a long, long time, Google has given searchers a way to override the location Google Search thinks you are searching for. Often, that location was in the footer, but for the past several months Google has been showing it …

John Mueller of Google said on Twitter that “publishing frequency alone does not make something spam.” Google’s algorithms don’t look at the content volume as a spam signal alone.…

Google seems to be testing a new box in the search results named perspectives and opinions. The naming convention reminds me of Google perspectives, but this acts differently, as the old perspectives were featured snippet based, and these new perspectives …

Here is another PSA from Gary Illyes of Google. In short, if you serve a 4xx status code with your robots.txt file, then Google will ignore the rules you have specified in that file.…

Discover the top YouTube videos for 2022 and see what works in various industries. The post The Significant 7: Top YouTube Videos, Shorts, And Ads of 2022 appeared first on Search Engine Journal.…

Website indexing is one of the first steps (after crawling) in a process of how web pages are ranked and served as search engine results. The post Website Indexing For Search Engines: How Does It Work? appeared first on Search …

ChatGPT is trending right now, but do you know how to use it? Learn the art of making prompts and harnessing the power of AI. The post From Zero To ChatGPT Hero: How To Harness The Power Of AI In …

Google Speed Update: New ranking algorithm designed for mobile search In 2018, Google announced the “Speed Update” – a new ranking algorithm designed for mobile search – would go live later in the year. The “Speed Update,” as we’re calling …