Search Central Live is returning to Brazil | Google Search Central Blog | Google for Developers
Thursday, February 1, 2024 Leia em Português We’re excited to announce that Search Central Live is returning to São Paulo. Following our successful events last year, we’re continuing our mission…
7 Google Ads Shortcuts For Better Results With Less Effort
PPC management can suck up some major time if you’re focusing on elements that don’t matter, unnecessarily bloating your account, or skipping time-saving tools. These seven Google Ads shortcuts and…
Outrank Competitors With Content Gap Analysis
Step 3: Create a content brief Content briefs are created to establish a clear direction on what’s expected in a piece. A detailed brief aligns you and your writer on…
Google’s ‘Circle To Search’ Now Rolling Out To Select Android Phones
Google has announced the rollout of a new search feature called “Circle to Search” that allows users to quickly look up information on their mobile devices with simple gestures like…
Could This Be The Navboost Patent?
There’s been a lot of speculation of what Navboost is but to my knowledge nobody has pinpointed an adequate patent that could be the original Navboost patent. This patent from…
WordPress Website Builder Vulnerability Affects Nearly 1 Million Websites
A significant vulnerability has been patched in the Website Builder by SeedProd that has over 900,000 installations. This vulnerability, present in versions up to and including 6.15.21, poses a risk…
YouTube Announces 4 New Studio Features For Creators
YouTube unveiled several new features for YouTube Studio offering creators more insights and customization for their channels. 1. Enhanced Research Tab Coming To Desktop Last year, YouTube Studio added an…
Free SEO Plan Template (With Video Walkthrough)
Ranking in Google is the same (or at least very similar) for everyone. That’s why it’s essential to have an SEO plan template you can use time and time again.…
Google Updates Core Web Vitals With Interaction To Next Paint (INP)
Google has announced that its new Interaction to Next Paint (INP) metric will officially replace First Input Delay (FID) as a Core Web Vital on March 12. INP measures when…
The Anatomy of a Well-Optimized Page
Product pages are where the final decision to purchase a product is made. By optimizing them for SEO (and adding a sprinkling of UX), you’ll increase the chances of attracting…
How Do I Optimize SEO Conversions On Non-Branded Search Terms?
This week’s Ask an SEO question comes from Arpit, who asks: “How do I optimize SEO conversions on non-branded search terms?” Great question! This one is all about meeting user…
Reclaim Backlinks + Free Google Apps Script
Most of our sequences have three emails: If we don’t hear from recipients after the entire sequence, we mark it in our database and find alternative people in the company…
Google’s Q4 2023 Earnings Reveal AI’s Growing Role In Search
Alphabet, the parent company of Google, announced its financial results for Q4 and the full year of 2023. Alphabet’s CEO, Sundar Pichai, was pleased with the company’s ongoing success. He…
SEO Data. Explained in 4 Minutes, 53 Seconds
Here’s a 5-minute, beginner-friendly introduction to each of them. Organic traffic data refers to how often people visit your website through unpaid search results. Key data How to get it…
Google Answers Question About Signals And Syndicated Content
Google’s John Mueller answered a question about what happens to the signals associated with syndicated content when Google chooses the partner as the canonical instead of the original content publisher.…
WordPress 6.4.3 Security Release Fixes Two Vulnerabilities
WordPress announced a security release version 6.4.3 as a response to two vulnerabilities discovered in WordPress plus 21 bug fixes. PHP File Upload Bypass The first patch is for a…
Can Make AI More Reliable
Google’s DeepMind published a research paper that proposes a way to train large language models so that they provide more reliable answers and are resistant against reward hacking, a step…
Use Money Keywords to Generate Revenue
Then, we graded our money keywords as 3s — these were the high-intent keywords where we could easily present Cognism as the answer to our buyers’ pain. An example is…
How Better Online Reputation Drives Revenue
Join us as we look at how your online reputation and local marketing strategies can drive revenue for your business, while avoiding pitfalls along the way. With guest Raj Nijjer…
Sentence-Level Semantic Internal Links For SEO
Internal in-content linking practices have remained the same for the past twenty years, which is strange because Google has gone through dramatic changes within the last ten years and even…
How To Uncover Your Expertise To Become A Journalist’s Source
A company can generate influential media exposure by turning internal expertise into media sources. I challenge you to use brand scoring, like count, content shares, or other vanity metrics when…
4 Reasons Why A Webpage Couldn’t Rank
Someone asked on Twitter why their articles aren’t ranking well and Google SearchLiaison surprised everyone with a mini site audit of things needing to be fixed. A person (@iambrandonsalt) tweeted…
A Complete Guide for Local SEO
One of the best local SEO strategies that any eligible local business can use to rank higher on Google and get local clients is to claim and optimize their Google…
Why Google SGE Is Stuck In Google Labs And What’s Next
Google Search Generative Experience (SGE) was set to expire as a Google Labs experiment at the end of 2023 but its time as an experiment was quietly extended, making it…
Google’s SEO Starter Guide Updates: Branding In, Keywords Out
In a recent episode of “Search Off the Record,” Google’s Search Relations team provided information about upcoming changes to Google’s SEO Starter Guide. The team, composed of John Mueller, Lizzie…
What You Should Know About LLMs
So, let’s start with the steps that they have to go through for ChatGPT, for example, to give you an answer to a question. Again, like search engines, they have…
About Those Google AI Search Quality Raters
There’s been a significant amount of speculation about the motives behind Google’s firing of Appen, the company that provides Search Quality Raters, with many expressing this may be the dawn…
7 Powerful Benefits of Using PPC Advertising
It feels like Google drops new AI-integrated features into its flagship ad platform, Google Ads, every month. It doesn’t help that every other search engine also adopts AI features with…
Google’s SEO Starter Guide Set For A Major Update
Google’s SEO Starter Guide, a critical resource for search engine optimization professionals, is undergoing a significant revision. The impending update was announced on the latest episode of “Search Off The…
The Present and Future of Link Building OKRs: What Success Looks Like
I feel this article won’t be complete without mentioning my personal tips for setting up your OKRs. The thing is — OKRs are attractive. Our brains love tracking things and…