France’s antitrust regulator imposed a 150 million euro fine ($166.2 million) for arbitrarily suspending ads, according to the Wall Street Journal. The ads in question were “deceptive,” according to Google. La vie et la mort. Claiming that Google exercises “the power of life or death” over companies, the French antitrust authority characterized the suspensions, according…
Unless you are HubSpot or Ahrefs (or Search Engine Journal ?) and naturally land millions of links, you should be looking to acquire links. Google has made it clear that content and links are two of the biggest SEO factors. Content without links limits your referral traffic and hinders ranking potential. The only problem is:…
Fake news, deceptive content, and disinformation will continue to be major, contentious issues as we head into the 2020 election next year. Following heavy criticism in the wake of the 2016 election, both Facebook and Google initiated fact-checking efforts to help identify falsehoods in news content (although Facebook’s political ads policy has been thought to…
Google quietly announced that a bug was discovered in Search Console which may impact reporting for a period of time in December. Specifically, the bug affects reporting of Google Discover impressions and clicks between December 8 and December 13. As a result, site owners may see a data drop in the Performance report during that…
Bing has partnered with airlines to provide a more comprehensive flight search experience, the company announced on Tuesday. It makes use of real-time data and direct integrations with airlines to facilitate flight search, comparison and booking. Why we care Bing’s flight search will look familiar to those familiar with Google’s flight search offering. The flight…
Bing is expanding its visual search features, allowing the features to be accessed in more places throughout Microsoft Windows. Visual search lets users conduct a search using an image to find other, visually-similar images. This feature was previously only accessible from Bing’s image search results. Now, Windows users can access Bing’s visual search capabilities from…
Google launched in 1998, more than 20 years ago. Yet the importance and value of search optimization is still not fully understood by many business owners. That’s an eye-opening finding from a recent survey by digital agency Fractl. Business owners and consumers surveyed. Fractl surveyed 977 people in total about their Google and SEO knowledge,…
ADVERTISEMENT YouTube has again upset creators after implementing another policy change that may impact the content published by popular channels. After recently infuriating creators with changes to its monetization policies, YouTube has updated its harassment policy to no longer allow certain types of content: “We will no longer allow content that maliciously insults someone based…
Windows users can now initiate Bing visual searches right from the search bar, without having to open up a browser, Microsoft announced on Monday. The feature is first rolling out to U.S. users, with international markets to follow shortly after. Users can submit a full or partial screenshot to search for objects in an image.…
We all should know by now the top common black hat tactics to avoid. Most SEO professionals like to think of themselves as white hat, or at least gray hat. However, did you know that there are several white hat strategies that can seriously hurt your long-term SEO performance? The reason most of these white…