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Instagram is building on its monetization capabilities with a new subscriptions feature, which allows creators to make monthly recurring income. Starting today, Instagram Subscriptions is launching in a limited test…
A new tutorial on the Google Ads YouTube channel goes over easy, step-by-step instructions for setting up free hotel booking links. This video can help Google Ads users learn how…
It comes as no surprise that when sourcing products and services, B2B customers – like the rest of the world – find them online. In fact, 87% of B2B enterprises…
Perhaps you’ve heard of regex but aren’t quite sure how it can be used in SEO or whether it fits into your own strategy. Regular expressions, or ‘regex’, are like…
Maybe you’ve heard colleagues or industry experts talking about Microsoft Clarity. But what is it and how does it work? Microsoft Clarity is a user behavior and website debugging analytics…
Enterprise SEO can seem slow, expensive, and burdened with process. This is particularly true in reporting, where workflows and deliverables can be extensively detailed and nuanced. Whether you deliver physical…
Wish your product listings could rank better on search engines? Feel like your success is as limited as your crawl budget? Effectively ranking thousands of products, hundreds of categories, and…
Google addresses the subject of robots.txt files and whether it’s a good SEO practice to keep them within a reasonable size. This topic is discussed by Google’s Search Advocate John…
Google published a new video about site migrations. John Mueller offered insights into how Google handles website migrations and how long they can take. The major takeaways are that site…
Google provides detailed advice for websites that need to target multiple locations, such as a business with offices in different states. This topic is discussed during the Google Search Central…
Today’s Ask an SEO question comes from David in Craughwell, Ireland, who asks: “When checking my and my competitor backlink profiles, I come across many links from firebaseapp.com and web.app…
As the ball dropped in Times Square at midnight on January 1, 2022, many search engine marketers were tempted to check their analytics and rankings. It appears that Google has…
Opt-in or opt-out? Do sales increase if you present customers with a list of upsells to choose from? If you make customers opt-out or deselect items, will you decrease buyer…
Google’s Search Advocate John Mueller explains how the search engine uses synonyms and whether there’s a human component to it. Mueller discusses this topic when addressing a question submitted to…
Branded content is a term that is thrown around quite a lot in marketing circles, but many people struggle to understand what it actually means. It’s likely that you’ve come…
Perhaps you’ve heard of the Amazon Attribution and Amazon Brand Referral Bonus programs and are wondering how they can help build your business. As the cost per click (CPC) on…
Google Search Console has a new report dedicated to evaluating Page Experience criteria on the desktop versions of webpages. This report can help you prepare for the launch of the…
Third-party cookies are on their way out, but the deep-data connection to your future audience isn’t gone for good. A blessing in disguise, the shift to first-party data allows you…
When Google announces a broad core algorithm update, many SEO professionals find themselves asking what exactly changed (besides their rankings). Google’s acknowledgment of core updates is always vague and doesn’t…
Instagram Reels allows you to create and share TikTok-like videos of up to 60-seconds in length. Unlike Instagram Stories, Reels are featured permanently on your Instagram profile and don’t disappear…
Not finding much value in KPIs and metrics? Skipping measurements because they take too much time? What if you could make smarter decisions and identify issues before they harm your…
DuckDuckGo celebrates a milestone of 100 billion total searches, but the search engine’s year-over-year growth is slowing down. In an announcement on Twitter, DuckDuckGo highlights the fact it hit 100…
In local SEO, a citation is a mention of key business information – your name, address, and phone number (NAP) – anywhere else on the web. Local citations might appear…
Quickly gaining a lot of links from other sites sounds like it should be a positive thing for any website. But could it actually hurt, rather than help, your rankings?…
Google admits its help documents aren’t always up to date and says it’s worthwhile doing your own research on recommended best practices. This topic is discussed during the latest episode…
Sometime in December, SEO experts started noticing that Google was low-key testing out a new feature inside its search box. It’s an expanded version of the box that we’re calling…
Internal and external links have a significant role to play in guiding website visitors to the answers they seek about your products and services. Each link should lead your audience…
One component of a successful digital marketing strategy is your social media presence. If you need numbers to prove the value of social media marketing, you’ve come to the right…
Considering a career in SEO? The sheer volume of information out there can be intimidating when you’re just getting started in SEO. We asked industry experts to share their advice…
Microsoft is making the IndexNow protocol easier to implement by ensuring submitted URLs are simultaneously shared between search engines. IndexNow launched in October 2021 as solution to help websites get…