Google has begun testing removing EU-based news publishers in Google News, Google Search, and Google Discover for 1% of users in Belgium, Croatia, Denmark, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland and Spain (not France). Google is doing this to provide data on the impact this will make for these publishers if this would be rolled out … Read more
Building a strong local search presence is challenging enough, but maintaining it can be just as difficult. You can have the best content, the strongest backlinks, and glowing customer reviews, but without the right care and steps to optimise them, they all lose value quickly. To rank – and keep ranking – in the top … Read more
This month’s news is almost entirely about Google. The company is facing heavy criticism, making some leadership shakeups, and possibly preparing for another big update. In the month’s top stories, you’ll learn why one top tech voice thinks Google Search is falling apart. You’ll also learn whether Google’s changes have affected its share of the … Read more
Search changed in some big ways with the arrival of the last big update. Catch up with how SEOs are responding in this month’s roundup. In the top three stories for the month, you’ll look at how many of the celebrated ranking increases during the update were later wiped out. You’ll also discover why one … Read more
This week, we had more Google search ranking volatility to report on – surprise, surprise. Google is deprecating its Sitelinks Search Box next month. Google may have penalized Fortune Recommends over site reputation abuse. Google is showing generative AI throughout the search results. Google has this People’s Insights box that shows online forums for unprofessional … Read more
During the past few months, we’ve been testing the SEO capabilities of the world’s most popular CMS systems in 2024. We’ve been revealing the results of our individual tests as we go. And it’s safe to say that some CMS systems performed better than others. This post is an update of a similar test we … Read more
For the original iTunes version, click here. Google may be forced to breakup, the DOJ is leaning towards forcing that and more as a remedy to its monopoly ruling. This morning we are seeing a spike in Google Search ranking volatility. Google is testing quick view, where it just takes recipe blogger content and … Read more
Google Search rankings gains were lost for many, followed more more volatility this week. Google updated its web search spam policies, with a focus on site reputation abuse. Google’s cache operator is now fully dead. Google’s site command for image search seems broken. Google fixed a Search Console reporting bug with product snippets. Google Maps … Read more
Google Search has this news or top stories section titled “Backstory.” It comes up from political queries, maybe other news queries. This was spotted by Khushal Bherwani who posted about it on X – I can’t seem to replicate this but maybe I am trying the wrong queries? Here is a screenshot: Using the title … Read more
Google Search has this newish news or top stories carousel format that Google titled “States in the news.” It shows you news or top stories from news publishers related to the query by U.S. state. Here is a screenshot: Here is a GIF of it in action: I spotted this via Khushal Bherwani who posted … Read more
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