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……
Year: 2024
5 Best SEO Audit Tools for More Traffic
SEO audit tools reveal hidden issues and opportunities on your site. Backlinko uses these tools for in-depth SEO audits every year. And quarterly check-ins. This analytical approach has helped us maintain top rankings and grow organic traffic by 20.50% year …
Google Overhauls Video SEO Docs With More Details
Google has overhauled its video SEO documentation to vastly clarify the video indexing criteria and technical requirements. Plus, Google added a new watch page section to the document and expanded the examples in the document.…
Google August Core Update Helpful Content Surge Charts
This Google August 2024 core update has been shaking things up since it began to rollout. We saw some early signs of some sites hit by the September 2023 helpful content see some signs of life. Then some saw reversals …
6 Best AI Email Assistants for 2024
An AI email assistant is a tool that uses artificial intelligence to manage and optimize your email tasks.…
The Ultimate Guide to WordPress SEO
Learn how to optimize your WordPress website for search engines and rank higher in search results.…
What Is Ad Spend & How to Measure It
Tracking your ad spend allows you to be competitive as an advertiser. Learn the basics here.…
Google Now May Use Your OG Title For Title Links Search Snippets
Google has updated its title links search developer documentation to add that Google Search may use your og:title meta tag title for your title link in the Google Search results. The OG title is normally used by social sharing sites …
Google Business Profile Appeals Delayed Over 7 Days
Google is a bit delayed with its appeal process for Google Business Profiles. Appeals are now taking seven days or longer, some are saying about 15 days, which is much longer than normal.…
Google: Sending Bad Actor Traffic To A Site Doesn’t Hurt Its Search Rankings
A negative SEO question came up in the last Google SEO office hours on the topic of sending “bad actor” fake traffic to a site, to make the destination site look more questionable in Google’s eyes. Martin Splitt from Google …
Google Tests New Default Favicon Designs
Google Search is testing new designs for the default favicons it shows in the search results. This is when Google is not showing the site’s favicon or the site does not have a favicon, Google will show this default favicon.…
What Is Googlebot? How Google’s Web Crawler Works
Googlebot is the website crawler Google uses to find content on the internet. Learn how it works in this guide.…
Daily Search Forum Recap: August 23, 2024
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 Analytics is not showing data from yesterday or today right now……
21 Google Search Tips to Find Exactly What You Want
Get answers faster with these 21 Google search tips: 1) Filter your results, 2) Search within sites, and more.…
Hardbacon Announced Closure Day Before August Core Update, Then Sees Traffic Surge
There are many sad stories around sites getting hit by Google algorithm updates, such as core updates and of course the September 2023 helpful content update. But Hardbacon, a financial and budgeting company, was hit hard by those Google updates, …
Google Migrating All To Merchant Center Next By Next Month
Google announced that all merchants will be migrated (or as Google put it “upgrading”) from the old Google Merchant Center to Google Merchant Center Next by September (next month). We knew this was coming, we covered the upgrade emails back …
Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Ranking Bug Fixed, August Core Update Swings, AI Overviews, Google Ads Bug & More
Google’s larger search ranking bug was fixed four days after the issue was confirmed. Google’s August core update continues to roll out, some hit by the helpful content update are seeing some surges, but Google says wait until the update …