Today Google updated the information on the COVID-19 small and medium-sized business ad credit that was originally announced at the end of March. Who is an Eligible SMB? Google states that a small or medium-sized business is pre-identified business type by them, and already have a global team that helps these customers daily. The main…
[embedded content] “Eventually search engines can reduce crawling frequency of sites to detect changes and refresh the indexed content,” Bing wrote when it increased the number of URLs webmasters could submit for indexing and crawling from 10 to 10,000 per day. Enabling site owners to submit URLs directly to its search engine decreases Bing’s costs…
Is it just me, or does the words “meta robots tags” and “robots.txt” sound like something Schwarzenegger said in “Terminator 2”? That’s one reason why I started working in SEO — it seemed futuristic but overwhelmingly techy for my skills at the time. Hopefully, this article makes setting up your meta robots tags and robots.txt…
In 2018, Google started showing this to Chrome users if they clicked on a non-HTTPS website. I’m just going to put that down right here. Quietly. In case there’s an unfriendly snare drum beating in your brain. In 2018, Google told webmasters that if you have a non-HTTPS website, you risk losing traffic and this…
Google has announced their latest way to help during the COVID-19 crises, and this time they’re focusing on journalism. Ad Manager Fees Waived For the next 5 months, Google Ads will waive the ad serving fees associated with their Google Ad Manager product. The platform most commonly known and associated with Google’s legacy AdSense advertising…
[embedded content] “I’ve been working almost 100% of my time on corona-related stuff,” said Daniel Waisberg, search advocate for Google, “As part of the search engineering team, we kind of see what’s going on and try to understand what are all the initiatives [and] how they align.” “When it comes to webmasters, [we] hope you…
Search Engine Land Editor-in-Chief Ginny Marvin will host our next session of Live with Search Engine Land this Friday, and this time we’re going to be digging into digital commerce. Ginny will be joined by PPC experts and Kaitlin McGrew, SEM strategist at PMG; Bryant Garvin, CMO of Groove Life; Anthony Verre vice president of…
[embedded content] Search Engine Land Editor-in-Chief Ginny Marvin will host our next session of Live with Search Engine Land this Friday, and this time we’re going to be digging into digital commerce. Ginny will be joined by PPC experts and Kaitlin McGrew, SEM strategist at PMG; Bryant Garvin, CMO of Groove Life; Anthony Verre vice…
Google Discover (previously known as Google Feed) is a personalized content feed created by Google that proactively serves relevant content to users. While traditional search requires users to input a query, Google Discover anticipates user behavior to surface new and interesting content. Discover is available to mobile users on the Google App, Android devices, and…
[embedded content] The coronavirus has impacted search behavior in ways that might’ve been unimaginable until now, and the swings have created uncertainty for our clients and web properties. In this clip from Live with Search Engine Land, Merkle’s Alexis Sanders describes some of the trends she’s seen among her agency’s clients. Pedro Dias of APIs3…