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Google Expands Trusted Store Badge To Free Shopping Listings
The coveted Google Trusted Store badge is now available on free product listings. Learn how to earn the badge and its benefits.
Reminder: Support For Google Expanded Text Ads Ends On June 30
A reminder to all Google Ads advertisers — there’s three months left to utilize expanded text ads before they go away.
LinkedIn Pages Can Now Publish Newsletters
LinkedIn announces Newsletters for business pages. Newsletters are serialized long-form content that followers subscribe to. Here’s how to get started.
Hotel Booking Links Now Available In Google Search & Maps
Google has added new visibility to its free hotel booking links feature. Take advantage of these free links on Search and Google Maps.
TikTok Taps Into GIPHY’s Video Clips With New Editing Tool
TikTok & GIPHY are partnering on a new editing tool, allowing users to quickly grab clips from a vast library of short videos.
Top Digital Marketing Trends For 2022: Oracle Survey Results
Looking for industry benchmarks to inform your marketing strategy and upcoming campaigns? Oracle survey results reveal what’s trending in digital marketing today.
Google Search Console Updates Structured Data Report
Google is updating the structured data report in Search Console to provide more context about errors, helping you fix invalid markup with less guesswork.
YouTube Testing ‘Search Chips’ On Desktop
YouTube is testing a new way to search for videos on desktop with ‘Search Chips’ that allow users to refine results with suggested keywords.
Google Sunsetting URL Parameters Tool Next Month
Google is sunsetting the URL Parameters tool in Search Console next month, the company confirms in an announcement today.
YouTube Confirms Shorts Views Don’t Count For Monetization
Views of YouTube Shorts count toward a channel’s total watch time, but they don’t count toward eligibility in the YouTube Partner Program.
Yoast WordPress Plugin Update Causes Fatal Errors
Yoast WordPress plugin published an apology for a failed update that resulted in serious website problems for publishers
Google Removed 7 Million Fake Business Profiles In 2021
In a report from Google about how it keeps Maps information reliable, the search company reveals it removed seven million fake business profiles in 2021.
Twitter DM Search Lets You Find Messages By Keyword
Twitter is upgrading the direct message search bar, adding the much requested ability to search for DMs by entering keywords and names.
How to Rank Seasonal Ecommerce Products
Google’s John Mueller answered a question about the difficulties of ranking seasonal products, mentioning how they suspected that structured data might be the reason. John...
Why Search Console Query Reports Are Inconsistent
Google’s John Mueller explains why Search Console query data is inconsistent between the different reports
New Related Search Feature For AdSense Is Introduced
The new Related Search for Content feature is now available for AdSense customers. Learn about the benefits, requirements and how to get started.
New Integration For GA4 And Search Ads 360
The newly announced integration of Google Analytics 4 and Search Ads 360 provides valuable insights and data sharing between the two platforms.
New Google Algorithm Update Aimed At Product Reviews
Google launches a third product review algorithm update in search results, which builds off of the product review updates introduced last year.
Rank Math WordPress Plugin Duplicate Sitemap Bug
WordPress SEO plugin Rank Math bug generates duplicate sitemaps
Google: Alt Text Only A Factor For Image Search
Google’s use of alt text as a ranking factor is limited to image search. It does not add value for regular web search.
Yoast WordPress SEO Bug Creates Duplicate Sitemaps
Yoast confirmed a bug that causes WordPress to generate duplicate sitemaps and is said to be working on a fix
Google’s John Mueller: “It’s Impossible To Crawl The Whole Web”
In response to a question about why SEO tools don’t show all backlinks, Google’s John Mueller says it’s impossible to crawl the whole web.
Google Introduces New Vehicle Ads Format
Showcase your auto inventory to local buyers with the new vehicle ad format in Google Ads. Vehicle ads are available to dealerships in the US.
YouTube Launching 5 New Features For Livestreams
YouTube announces five new features for livestreams, some of which are currently in testing and others that will roll out later this year.
How Google Ranks Pages With Abbreviations
Google’s John Mueller answers how Google’s algorithm handles abbreviations
500 Response on Robots.txt Fetch Can Impact Rich Results
500 response to a robots.txt fetch causes loss of rich results and while a bug in search console fails to diagnose the issue
Google Search Results and Synonyms
Google’s John Mueller discusses synonyms and search results and explains how context of the whole query is important
Nearly 50% Of Twitter Users Tweet Less Than 5 Times A Month
Does Twitter have an engagement problem? A new study from Pew Research Center finds 49% of US adults on Twitter qualify as “lurkers.”
New LinkedIn Tool Finds Top Skills Needed For Any Job
A new tool from LinkedIn allows you to find the top skills employers want candidates to have for almost any job position.
Google Sunsetting Universal Analytics In 2023
Google is getting ready to sunset Universal Analytics, which was the standard version of Google Analytics before GA4, in mid-2023.