I don’t cover YouTube SEO here much but I found a post from the YouTube Liaison talking about how traffic sources are impacted. In short, the YouTube home page recommendations are affected by viewers watching videos from the home page and not affected by external views, people watching your videos on an external site. He … Read more
What Is YMYL? YMYL stands for “Your Money or Your Life”—a phrase Google uses to distinguish any content that can potentially impact people’s happiness, health, financial stability, or safety. Google has designated YMYL as an important concept in its Search Quality Rater Guidelines—a comprehensive document for the real people tasked with manually evaluating websites and … Read more
What Are AI Overviews? Google’s AI Overviews are a new search feature that provides users with AI-generated answers to certain queries. And they appear above all other search results. For example, if you search “how to lose weight,” Google will automatically generate an answer for you. Answers are generated by gathering information from different sources … Read more
If you own a local business, it’s quickly becoming imperative to understand Google’s new Search Generative Experience (SGE) and how to adjust your local SEO strategies to maintain and even enhance your presence for optimal visibility, traffic, and revenue. The good news is if your business has been employing local SEO and content marketing best … Read more
Link-building is one of the most important aspects of SEO, especially for Google campaigns. In fact, it’s been discovered that the #1 ranked page on Google has an average of 3.8x more backlinks than the other results. The catch? Link-building strategies tend to be extremely challenging and time-consuming. It can take months of outreach to … Read more
Google has made an update to its Google-Extended section of the Google crawler (user agent) search documentation to change the references of “Bard” to “Gemini” because of the product name change. Google also clarified that Google Extended has no impact or effect on Google Search. Google added this new line that reads, “Google-Extended does not … Read more
URL slugs: such small, insignificant things, and yet such an important aspect of the SEO world. Every website has them, but not every site optimizes them. And no, we are not talking about those weird, slow creatures in your garden 🙂 In this article, we will explore: Let’s get into it. What is a URL … Read more
Artificial intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing the digital landscape – leaving no room for outdated SEO tactics. As search engines increasingly leverage AI to anticipate user intent, we must completely rethink our strategies and balance human creativity and AI efficiency to stay ahead. Let’s explore the innovations, opportunities and pitfalls to master as AI propels search … Read more
Bought a new domain and want to rank high fast? Some would say that’s hard to do, but Google’s John Mueller begs to differ. Someone on Twitter (now known as X) asked this now-deleted question: “Does the age of a domain name impact Google search rankings?” Mueller replied that the only people who would say such a … Read more
![How Do Ads Affect Website Visitor Behavior? [Experiment]](https://www.searchenginejournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/featured1-650c797bb3897-sej.jpg "How Do Ads Affect Website Visitor Behavior? [Experiment]")
Almost no one will ask you to show them more ads. We know ads are a powerful advertising medium and great for generating leads and sales. But your website users? A recent WARC report found that 53% of survey respondents felt that “too many ads” could actually damage a brand. There is a delicate interplay … Read more
421
229
714
826
543