European antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager said yesterday at a conference that Google’s efforts to drive more traffic to European comparison shopping rivals have essentially failed. This is a reversal of her previous, qualified support for the changes Google made in response to a European Commission finding in 2017 that the company had “abused its market…
Yes, the editing pane is still awkwardly placed to take up a giant chunk of the right side of the screen, but Google Ads Editor’s latest version does offer some handy updates. Edit pane. Speaking of that edit pane, now you can at least condense some fields to hide them so there’s a bit less…
E-A-T (Expertise, Authoritativeness, and Trustworthiness) is a concept Google first published in its 2014 edition of the Search Quality Guidelines. These guidelines are used during Google’s search quality evaluations, in which it hires thousands of quality reviewers who are tasked with manually reviewing a set of webpages and submitting feedback about the quality of those…
One of the hottest topics and hotly debated threads on r/ppc is about rates and what you should charge. What does an agency charge? What should I charge as a freelancer? How do you charge if you do work on Amazon versus Google or Facebook? Different ways to charge clients There are a lot of…
It’s typically a good thing when you find out your website is ranking for a keyword you’ve been targeting, right? But what happens when, upon further investigation, you learn that the page you wanted to rank for a particular keyword isn’t the page that Google wanted to rank? (And that it’s another page on your…
Aja Frost, senior SEO strategist at Hubspot, explains how she helped restructure the SEO strategy at the company. Specifically how Hubspot uses a topic cluster approach to building out “content universes” that have “pillar pages” for the higher level content. Our interview goes into how the company structures its content around these topic clusters and…
Google is good at its job. Sometimes, a little too good – indexing pages it was never meant to find. Undesirable URLs that are not contained in your sitemap. Orphaned URLs not linked on your website. Bizarre URLs you may not even know exist. Most SEO professionals worry about getting pages into the Google index.…
Google held its Google Webmaster Conference event for the first time at its Mountain View, California headquarters on Monday. Here are five tips and trends we took away from the event. Structured data. Over the years, Google has continued to roll out new support for additional structured data markups and continues to expand support for…
Content marketing works. But – what if it’s not working for you? What if you’re not seeing the ROI you expected? This is a frustrating scenario, especially if you read the case studies and follow the success of top content marketers. What are you doing wrong? Take a deep breath. Maybe you just need a…
The Google News app now lets users see content in two languages, Google announced on Monday. Why we should care Some publishers may experience increased traffic from users who speak and read in multiple languages. Those users will now be able to find and consume news in two languages in their Google News app. This…