Google published a research paper describing how it extracts “services offered” information from local business sites to add it to business profiles in Google Maps and Search. The algorithm describes specific relevance factors and confirms that the system has been successfully in use for a year. What makes this research paper especially notable is that […]

Google Search Console seems to have a bug with its Google Discover performance report. Since June 5th, the clicks and impressions data have gone to zero or significantly dropped for many news publishers. After I reported about it on the Search Engine Roundtable, Google added an annotation to the chart to note that there is […]

Google updated the Recipe Schema.org structured data documentation to reflect more precise guidance on what the image structured data property affects and where to find additional information about ranking recipe images in the regular organic search results. Schema.org Structured Data And Rich Results The SEO and publisher community refers to the text results as the […]

Perplexity is on pace to serve 1 billion queries a week within the next year, according to CEO and co-founder Aravind Srinivas. That means Perplexity could answer 52 billion queries annually. “In May, we did about 780 million queries. That’s growing 20% month over month,” he said at the Bloomberg Tech event in San Francisco. […]

AI Mode is live for millions of users, but it’s intentionally separate from the core Google Search page – at least for now. And any AI Mode features that are successful will migrate to the main Google Search experience, according to Alphabet/Google CEO Sundar Pichai. “Our current plan is AI Mode is going to be there as […]

Relevance should be the most important link metric that SEOs care about heading forward. After all, links will help LLMs, search engines, and users understand your brand – who you are and what you do. That’s according to James Brockbank, Managing Director at Digitaloft. Some of the topics covered in our interview: Getting better at SEO […]

Every tweet, direct message, and comment holds weight. Social media has long been a connectivity platform, where users engage with friends, colleagues, and family. In recent years, it’s also evolved to become a feedback mechanism for businesses. In many industries, customers are communicating with a business on social media. It’s a key customer service channel, […]

BrightEdge Enterprise SEO platform released new data showing distinctive patterns across major AI search and chatbot platforms and also called attention to potential disruption from Apple if it breaks with Google as the default search engine in Safari. Desktop AI Traffic Dominance One of the key findings in the BrightEdge data is that traffic to […]

Anyone who’s run Google Ads for more than five minutes knows that digital advertising is anything but static.  The urge to keep things simple – one set of goals for the whole account, nice and tidy – makes sense.  But if you’re still relying on account-default conversion goals, you’re likely leaving performance (and money) on […]

WordPress security company Patchstack announced a new security tier called managed Vulnerability Disclosure Program platform (mVDP), which offers both human and advanced AI plugin reviews to help plugin developers keep their software resistant to vulnerabilities and provide greater trustworthiness. One of the biggest problems with WordPress is vulnerabilities from third-party plugins. An enormous amount of […]