In an analysis of ~45 million keywords in which Google displayed their Top Stories SERP feature, the 1,000 most prominent domains accounted for 97.3% of all listings. That’s just one of many insights I aim to share, as Detailed teamed up with News SEO platform NewzDash to analyse their exclusive research. With this report I … Read more
Mary Kate Mack Mary Kate is the SEO Content Manager for seoClarity. Her favorite part of the platform is Content Fusion. “As someone who lives and breathes content creation, Content Fusion is the best resource for creating the best content and better search visibility. It’s powerful and continues to amaze me!” You can learn more … Read more
News publishers have been working harder than ever to squeeze search traffic out of Google. Just when editors start to feel confident that they’ve perfected a winning SEO formula, the game changes. From supposedly “helpful” algorithm updates to site reputation policies enforced by manual actions to the lurking threat of AI Overviews, the pressure is … Read more
Google Search changed how many stories it shows for political figures recently. Now Google shows the two by two top stories grid in search for searches on Harris, Trump and other political figures. Google use to show 7 top stories formats for these figures. This change was spotted by Will Flannigan, the SEO Editor of … Read more
Google News seems to be testing placing a header above news sources in the Google News follow interface, that says “how these stories are ranked.” I personally cannot replicate it, but some are able to see it. Punit posted a screenshot of this on Mastodon and it reads, “How these stories are ranked.” It then … Read more
Blog / SEO Strategy / Data Storytelling: How to Make SEO Insights Resonate with Stakeholders You’re not alone if you’ve ever struggled to explain SEO to people who are unfamiliar with how it works, whether its colleagues in other departments (i.e., engineering or product teams) or, clients and stakeholders who aren’t even affiliated with the … Read more
Google has posted yet another reporting and data logging issue with Google Search Console. This one occurred between March 28, 2024 through April 2, 2024 and impacted reporting on AMP pages and Web Stories in Google Images. This was just a reporting issue and did not impact real traffic. Google wrote, “A logging error prevented … Read more
Instagram released a series of tips and tricks to help creators enhance engagement for their Stories. The latest guidance from Instagram doesn’t introduce any new features but does offer presentation tips, along with a couple of sharing notes to create more impactful Stories. Why we care. When you get more people engaged with your stories, … Read more
In February, Google told us they stopped showing Web Stories in Google Image search results. Well, last *****, Google issued a correction saying Google has been showing Web Stories in Google Images but the Web Stories icon does not show. To make things worse, Search Console had a bug where it was not reporting these … Read more
Google has issued a correction from its previous statement in early February that Web Stories no longer showed in Google Image search results, that is not true. What is true is that Google stopped showing the Web Stories icon in the image search results. Plus, Google Search Console had a reporting glitch with Web Stories … Read more
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