Google has launched a new tool designed to help marketers keep up with which products are in high demand amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The Rising Retail Categories tool marks the first time Google has provided this type of insight on the product categories people are currently searching for. Consumer interest is rapidly shifting from one…
ADVERTISEMENT On this week’s episode of Marketing O’Clock, Jess Budde, Greg Finn, and Christine “Shep” Zirnheld report on the digital marketing news of the week and try to give Google’s latest core algorithm update a more exciting name. May 2020 Core Update Google announced the update on May 4 and it appears to be a…
A new app makes it much easier for Shopify merchants to create shoppable Product Pins in Pinterest. The dedicated Pinterest app in the Shopify app store enables merchants to upload their product catalogs to Pinterest. It can automatically update products for Product Pins on Pinterest daily and add tagging to be able to track and…
Older link building tactics have much less impact now, mainly because once everyone catches wind that they work, inboxes everywhere become inundated with quick and dirty pitches aiming to achieve the same success. The issue has impacted top journalists, as well, who are now tired of the same canned pitch emails about why they should…
To be successful in SEO, we need to have an understanding of how users engage and interact with the websites that we manage. One way we can do this is by running tests that show us what users want from our sites and how they react to the content on our pages. Website testing allows…
Google is running a format-blending Shopping ads test that is, well, interesting. PLA + Text. The folks at SEMrush spotted this Shopping ad test Thursday. In the screenshot below, the product listing ad (PLA) for Body Candy Body Jewelry is accompanied by a text block below it with a blue linked headline and description (more…
LinkedIn found itself deindexed from Google search results on Wednesday, which may or may not have occurred due to an error on their part. The telltale sign of an entire domain being deindexed from Google is performing a “site:” search and seeing zero results. That was exactly the case with LinkedIn earlier today: There were…
Google is now surfacing suggested search queries based on recent activity. The suggestion appears as a link below the search bar with the modifying term bolded and italicized, as seen below. Google’s new search suggestion feature based on recent user activity. The personalized suggestions, first reported on by Android Police, can be quite nuanced. How…
ADVERTISEMENT Google has defined a set of metrics site owners should focus on when optimizing for user experience. By defining these Core Web Vitals, Google aims to provide unified guidance for quality signals that Google says are “essential to delivering a great user experience on the web.” “Optimizing for quality of user experience is key…
This Friday, Search Engine Land’s Barry Schwartz will host a discussion with Martin Splitt, Google Search Developer Relations on Live with Search Engine Land. Martin is extremely knowledgeable about how Google crawls and indexes all kinds of websites. So if you are having indexing issues with your HTML or JavaScript-based website then you won’t want…