SEO

Brave Search now offers Search Ads on a managed service basis. Brave Search Ads. Here’s what Brave announced: Ads are sold on a cost-per-click basis. Rates are negotiated on a fixed basis before paid campaigns launch. Eligible brands can get up to 14 days of complimentary advertising. What Brave Search Ads look like. Here’s a

LinkedIn has reduced the size of link preview images for organic posts, while maintaining larger preview images for sponsored content. Why it matters. The change aims to encourage more native posting on LinkedIn and could prompt more users and brands to pay for sponsored posts to retain larger link previews. Why we care. The change

Google is having some technical difficulties this morning with its news engine. Google News, the news tab in Google Search, Google Discover, Google Trends and other Google services that use news publications, are currently not returning results for many searchers. The issue I believe started a couple of hours ago but is now getting worse

Google Search Console link report may be broken or maybe Google decided to report on fewer links in that tool. Many are seeing huge declines in the number of links the tool is showing them when compared to last week. More details. Starting Monday, May 27th, many SEOs began to notice a decline in the

Understanding all the features of Google Analytics 4 (GA4) is essential to making the most of it. Doing so allows you to configure the tool to analyze data accurately and efficiently. It also lets you draw the best conclusions for designing, refocusing and defining your digital strategies. GA4 users can configure many functionalities, including custom

A trove of leaked Google documents has given us an unprecedented look inside Google Search and revealed some of the most important elements Google uses to rank content. What happened. Thousands of leaked internal documents, which appear to come from Google’s internal Content API Warehouse, were shared with Rand Fishkin, SparkToro co-founder, earlier this month.

Conversion is usually preceded by several interactions with a website or an app. Attribution determines the role of each touchpoint in driving conversions and assigns credit for sales to interactions in conversion paths. Therefore, it’s crucial to understand attribution in Google Analytics 4 (GA4). (If you are new to attribution, read the Google Analytics help

Google looks stupid right now. And AI Overviews are to blame. Google’s AI Overviews have given incorrect, misleading and even dangerous answers. The fact that Google includes a disclaimer at the bottom of every answer (“Generative AI is experimental”) should be no excuse. What’s happening. Google’s AI-generated answers have gained a lot negative mainstream media

Google is testing a large blue visit button under some of the search results in the mobile search interface. The button says “visit” and takes you to the website listed in the search results. What it looks like. Here is a screenshot of this button, which Shameem Adhikarath shared with me on X: Why we

SEO today is more complex and challenging than at any other point. Once upon a time, not too long ago, links were the most important thing in SEO. But is that still true? This article will examine the significance of link SEO today. It will include various perspectives within the industry, analyze empirical evidence and

You can either have broad or deep subject matter expertise. The choice is yours. If you’re in the early or middle stage of your career, then this is the perfect time to decide whether you want to go broad or deep. Here’s how to think about this choice and decide what’s best for your search

Acquiring new customers is crucial for any business, but it’s challenging in today’s crowded digital landscape. Google Ads’ new customer acquisition (NCA) feature can help. This tool is designed to reach and convert prospects who have never engaged with your business. However, using NCA effectively requires a strategic approach. Simply enabling it won’t automatically deliver

Google is rolling out upgrades to Google Lens and Circle to Search, adding more links, knowledge panel information and even the new AI Overviews to the search results generated by Lens and Circle to Search. “We’ve been expanding the type of results you can get with Lens & Circle to Search,” Rajan Patel, the VP

The Value Proposition Canvas is a tool designed to help businesses create value for their customers. Typically, this relates to products or services. However, I have found the framework incredibly useful for content ideation, with customer fit and value at the heart of the process (as it should be).  To help you put this into

TikTok is testing a new 60-minute video upload limit, which could unlock new content possibilities for brands, marketers and content creators. Why we care. TikTok is already a powerful discovery engine, but the ability to upload 60-minute videos opens up TikTok’s potential as a platform to host long-form branded video content – rather than breaking

The Department of Justice’s laid out a damning case against Google in the antitrust lawsuit closing argument. Search Engine Land Managing Editor Danny Goodwin highlighted some of the damaging evidence – including how Google has been increasing costs for advertisers – in How Google harms search advertisers in 20 slides In light of the revelations,

Google has added two new crawlers to the Googlebot family of web crawlers: GoogleOther-Image GoogleOther-Video Google said these two new crawlers are versions of GoogleOther optimized for fetching image and video bytes. GoogleOther was added in April 2023 to be used internally by Google teams to crawl the public web and free up some resources

While the concept of entities for SEO has been around since 2012, it hasn’t been a widely adopted in PPC. Entities are essentially unique people, places, things or concepts that provide context and relationships for keywords.  As AI becomes more prevalent in digital marketing, incorporating an entity-based approach into your PPC campaigns is a way