Marketers and business owners are spoiled for choice when it comes to the many social media platforms available for growing an online audience. From BlueSky to TikTok, LinkedIn to Patreon, social media marketing has never been more robust, or, arguably, time-consuming. But it doesn’t have to be. Fortunately, you don’t have to be everywhere at […]
Three weeks ago at Google I/O, Google announced AI Mode will roll out to all U.S. searchers. That time has seemed to come over the past several hours. AI Mode signed out. When you use Google without being signed in, or in incognito mode, and try to access AI Mode with longer queries, it probably […]
Google will be dropping support for several structured data markup elements in order to simplify the search results interface. Specifically, Book Actions, Course Info, Claim Review, Estimated Salary, Learning Video, Special Announcement, and Vehicle Listing will no longer show rich results in the Google Search results. Why are they being removed. Google said they “believe […]
Google’s CEO, Sundar Pichai, responded to concerns about the impact of recent changes in Search and was repeatedly asked to clarify his position on the web ecosystem and how it fits into what he calls the next chapter of search. Pichai’s responses were given in the context of a recent interview on the Lex Fridman […]
Google retires seven structured data features including Book Actions, Course Info, and Claim Review to streamline search results. Rankings unaffected. Google is removing seven structured data features from search results. This change will not affecting rankings. There’s no immediate action needed. #Google #Retires #Structured #Data #Features #Streamline #Search #Results
Google has confirmed a content serving issue with Google Discover, Google Lens and voice search for some users. What Google said. Google wrote: “There’s an ongoing issue with serving Google Lens, Discover, and Voice Search results that’s affecting some users. We’re working on identifying the root cause. The next update will be within 12 hours.” […]
Google has confirmed an ongoing disruption that is preventing some results from appearing in Google Lens, Discover, and Voice Search. According to the company’s Search Status Dashboard, the incident began on June 12 at 1:00 p.m. Pacific Time. A follow-up entry posted at 1:16 p.m. states: “There’s an ongoing issue with serving Google Lens, Discover, […]
Google’s Search Relations team has explained why their SEO advice often sounds vague or comes with conditions, such as “it depends.” In a recent Search Off the Record podcast, team members Martin Splitt and Gary Illyes shared the challenges that prevent them from providing clear-cut answers. The discussion was part of what the team referred […]
Affiliate marketing is widely used by companies in different niches: from travel agents to ecommerce giants like Amazon and tech platforms like Shopify. No wonder, as affiliate marketing is a win-win strategy for both affiliates and brands. Brands get better results, while affiliates earn fair commissions. Everyone benefits – but only when the system is […]
Optimizing for Google AI Mode (and AI search in general) isn’t just business as usual for SEO professionals. But it also doesn’t necessitate a deep technical understanding of vector space or dense retrieval models. Instead, it calls for recognizing and addressing the evolution of both Google Search and user behavior. This means adapting existing SEO […]