As people following the stay-at-home requests, we’re seeing an increase in searches. We want to provide regularly updated insights and trends specific to different verticals to help you understand the search trends and shifts in consumer behavior happening right now. What’s driving change in the auto vertical? Sources: COVID Insights: Autos Consumer Sentiment – New…
The disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic offered an unprecedented window into how search behavior can affect rankings. “Outside of the core updates, you haven’t really seen this much volatility [in such a short timeframe],” said Rank Ranger’s Mordy Oberstein, regarding the prolonged period of rankings fluctuations he witnessed between March 15 and April 3. …
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ADVERTISEMENT WordPress announced an update that fixes seventeen bug fixes and seven vulnerabilities. WordPress is automatically updating sites to WordPress 5.4.1. It is important to check that your WordPress installation is updated to version WordPress 5.4.1. Cross-site Scripting Vulnerabilities WordPress patched it’s software to address multiple Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities. There are two kinds, XSS…
Should marketers be investing in top-of-funnel campaigns or performance advertising right now? That question is being hotly debated in a lot of places, including major earnings reports where performance seems to be winning. (We’ll be debating top vs. bottom of the funnel marketing on tomorrow’s Live with Search Engine Land.) Making the case for brand.…
Google’s John Mueller recently stated that a sitelinks search box is rarely shown for sites in search results. Further, the appearance of a sitelinks search box is not at all influenced by implementation of structured data markup. Mueller discussed this topic during a Google Webmaster Central hangout held on April 28. A question was submitted…
Just like Google’s earnings yesterday, Facebook reported a pretty decent quarter marred by “a steep decrease in advertising revenue in March.” However April has reportedly brought nascent “signs of stability,” which is enough to drive the company’s stock up 10% in after-hours trading. Beating diminished expectations. To say that Wall Street expectations have been lowered…
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Google’s John Mueller shared some intentionally bad SEO advice in a lighthearted response to a satirical Reddit thread. In a thread inviting bad SEO advice – because “the moderators are all busy,” – Mueller took the opportunity to show his humorous side. Clearly he hasn’t lost his sense of humour with all that’s going on…
Google reported Q1 earnings this afternoon, beating analysts’ revenue expectations that were partly moderated by the COVID crisis. The company announced $41.16 billion in revenue compared with $40.3 billion expected. Significant slowdown in March. Alphabet CFO Ruth Porat said, “Performance was strong during the first two months of the quarter, but then in March we…