Google’s done it again. Not content with making exact match keywords anything but exact, they’ve extended “same meaning” close variants to phrase and broad match modifier keywords. Not only are plurals, stemmings, misspellings and changes to word order all fair game for your keywords, now implied words and synonyms in search terms will also trigger…
Google’s John Mueller advises against creating too many pages in multiple lanaguages, unless it’s absolutely necessary. This advice was provided on Reddit in response to a thread in r/TechSEO where someone was looking for help with hreflang. ”I have an international site that I’m managing for a client that has pages being indexed for different…
Google has launched a new structured data element for image license metadata that allows Google Images to show a licensable image label in the search results. The CEPIC, the European picture agency, wrote about this on its blog saying “We are happy to share now that Google Images is releasing a metadata framework through Schema.org…
Bing is in the initial stages of rolling out a modernized version of Bing Webmaster Tools. Releasing first to a select set of users this week, the new Bing Webmaster Tools will be available to all users by the first week of March. In an announcement, the company says the refresh of Bing Webmaster Tools…
Bing announced Wednesday at SMX West that it will release the first phase of a refreshed and improved Bing Webmaster Tools in the first week of March. The new toolset promises to offer a faster, cleaner, more responsive and even more actionable set of features for SEOs and Webmasters. New Features. Bing is not just…
Google Ads is introducing an easier way for manager accounts to share audience lists across all accounts. Before today, sharing audience lists from manager accounts to sub-accounts would have required multiple steps to set up. Now, advertisers can simply opt-in via the settings panel. A new feature, called continuous audience sharing, is something advertisers can…
What we may not realize starting out in our search marketing career is that the path we choose can quickly become our identity – and with it, shape our mindset. We choose our worldview and its invisible hand leads us along our career path. It may even affect our mental health because we’re constantly pushing…
Google is testing more granular options for tracking website conversion actions in Google Ads. The new options were spotted by Yatin Mulay of Zen Online Marketing. It’s not clear how widespread this is, but we’re seeing the set of options that Mulay shared in some accounts as well. Current state. The current list of options…
In a world of ad blockers and AI automation, content marketing is essential to your marketing plan. For example, the number of people using ad blockers has risen by 10% in six years. No matter how much you spend on your paid advertisements, there’s a 26% chance your target audience won’t even see them. Voice…
“We strongly recommend that any user who can edit campaigns should be certified,” Google. There is a lot about the coming changes to the Google Partners program eligibility requirements that agencies aren’t happy about. Among them, the requirement that at least 50% of the eligible users listed in their manager accounts will need to earn…