Hostinger Horizons enables web app development through a simple AI chat interface The post Hostinger Horizons Enables Anyone To Build Web Apps With AI appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
EU reportedly prepares charges against Google for DMA breaches, alleging its search services receive preferential treatment over rivals. The post Google Faces EU Charges Over Alleged DMA Breaches appeared first…
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We had more ranking volatility with the Google Search results, this time we reported on it on Thursday. There are some rumors of a local update where Google would remove…
Google posted a new Google Ads update for Response search ads (RSAs) where up to two RSA headlines can serve in the space that previously only sitelinks were eligible for…
Google is testing a new box that highlights that you can book the hotel at the official site, the hotel’s direct website. This does not look like a sponsored result,…
Microsoft has this new style for some of the Bing Search Copilot answers. They can show a card or box that has a tabbed carousel where you can swipe through…
Google will soon stop placing your Google Ads on parked domain names by default. Instead, you will need to opt in to showing your ads on these parked domains.
Last week, Shameem Adhikarath spotted a sponsored label on top of the “People also consider” box within the Google Search results. I figured it was a bug with ads not…
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Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) is one of Google’s three Core Web Vitals. Like the other two (Cumulative Layout Shift and Interaction to Next Paint), it’s not exactly clear what it…
Currently, the mobile AI apps market is valued at $2 billion, primarily led by the success of ChatGPT and the sector continues to rise with more apps. In 2024 alone,…
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…
It’s been almost two weeks since I last reported on a Google Search ranking update (unconfirmed) and that may be a recent record. But that being said, I am now…
Google announced a couple new Google Lens features; (1) they are expanding how AI Overviews show on Google Lens results and (2) Chrome and Google’s iOS app now let you…
Google Business Profiles now can add backgrounds to the images you upload to your Google Posts, using AI. Victoria Kroll from Google wrote that you can now “can create an…
Google announced three updates to its image and assets system including its generative AI can now generate people and faces. Google also announced asset audience recommendations and asset testing for…
Google is showing AI-generated review summaries on some top quality store pages. So when you click on a specific retailer or merchant’s top quality store link, at the top of…
Martin Split from Google said that having an audio version of a page or a blog post, does not impact your Google rankings. He said it is good for your…
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WordPress announced the ability to secure a domain name registration for an entire century for a one-time payment The post WordPress Offers New 100-Year Domain Name Registrations appeared first on…
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But search for “how to get customers,” and you’ll find yourself flooded with advice, tips, and tactics. It’s hard to know which one to choose, considering that you have limited…
Learn the ins and outs of using sitemaps to improve content discovery and indexing. The post How To Use XML Sitemaps To Boost SEO appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Google’s Martin Splitt answers whether adding an audio version of a blog article will impact the page’s search ranking. The post Google Answers Whether Audio Versions Of Blog Posts Help…
Google expands ‘Circle to Search’ to its iOS apps, enhancing visual search for iPhone users. The post Google Brings Circle To Search To iPhone appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
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Unpack the role of AI Overviews in SEO. Get essential data on their triggers, traffic impact, and how to rank in these dynamic search results. The post The Impact Of…
The first week of January, we reported on an interesting local update we named the January 2025 local search update. Well, this might be more of a diversity update, where…
If you try to access your Google Business Profile page right now, you likely won’t be able to. It seems Google Business Profile edit section within Google Search is broken…
Google Business Profiles support team is currently a bit delayed, with a backlog of support requests, video verification delays, and reinstatement request backlogs.
We know Google can show reviews from third-party sources in Google Business Profile listings. We’ve seen Google take reviews from Yelp, travel sites and other third-party websites. But these days,…
Google is testing a new design for its search results that are more of a grid format, more of a boxed in design. They are not on all the search…
Google has this feature in its search results that lets you find results based on the images you’ve view within Google Image Search. It places this button in the search…
Google is testing spelling out the search menu and instead of saying “All,” Google is testing writing out “All results.” I am not sure why Google is testing this, but…
Discover the critical impact of a fast website on user experience and SEO rankings for better conversion rates. The post How To Create a Certified Fast Website To Compete In…
I can answer one of those questions for you. (Sorry, the universe thing is above my pay grade.) I work at Ahrefs, and we pronounce Ahrefs like “H-refs”. It’s how…
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…
Uncover the potential impacts of Google’s new Ask for Me on local businesses and customers. Is it a game changer, or bad for local businesses? The post Google’s New ‘Ask…
Google’s John Mueller said that there is no persistent shortcut to faster crawling. Yes, you can expedite crawling for specific situations and times, but there is no way to just…
Google Search is testing a new section in the search results titled or named “Background.” This includes articles from news publishers, with I guess, more background information than you would…
Google Ads has this section (not sure if it is new) named Advanced Plans. This feature allows you to select a “mix of ad types based on goals” and Google…
Microsoft is testing adding a new box to the knowledge panels within Bing that show related searches. This is obviously to encourage searches to do more queries, to generate more…
Google is testing removing the numbers from the pagination menu at the footer of the Google Search results page. The normal pagination bar shows the page number you are on,…
AI overviews in SERPs: a challenge or opportunity for ecommerce site owners? Ecommerce expert, Kevin Gibbons shares his insights. The post Ask An SEO: How Should Ecommerce Stores Deal With…
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Google’s Rich Results tool may not be reliable for debugging structured data The post Why Google’s Rich Results Tool Can Be Misleading appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
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But instead of panicking, you need a structured approach to diagnose the issue, take corrective action, and restore your site’s performance. Here’s exactly how to analyze a sudden drop in…
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…
That’s why I’ve put together 7 SEO SOPs that will make your work faster, smarter, and more effective, from using AI to create quality content to investigating why your traffic…
Dwarkesh Patel interviewed Jeff Dean and Noam Shazeer of Google and one topic he asked about what would it be like to merge or combine Google Search with in-context learning….
Google has upgraded the emails Google Business Profiles sends when your verification has failed. It now shows the reason(s) a verification has failed and what you need to do to…
Google Merchant Center recently began showing AI-generated summaries for how well your performance is doing with Merchant Center in Google Search. These are labeled as “experimental” and “AI-generated.”
Google is testing adding to the search results snippet a section that is named “page includes.” To be honest, this reminds me of the tags we saw on the search…
In 2019, Google stopped using rel prev and next as a signal for its search engines to combine or understand paginated results on your site. Then Google offered up some…
Capture the attention of potential guests and drive direct bookings with a strong SEO strategy for your vacation rental business. The post Boost Your Vacation Rental Bookings with SEO appeared…
Interview with WooCommerce shows why a strategic refresh is essential to staying relevant to user needs The post WooCommerce Rebrand Offers Lessons For Gaining Competitive Edge appeared first on Search…
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Google announced that most Business Profile Reviews are returned to normal. Sites still missing reviews should be normal in a few days The post GBP Reviews Outage Is Over appeared…
To find the top trending EV companies in 2025 we calculated the percentage growth of organic traffic to their websites between January 1, 2024 and January 1, 2025 using Ahrefs…
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Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…
Google had some more ranking volatility around the Super Bowl weekend. Reddit blamed Google for not meeting its expected user growth. Google Search is now faster for some users. Google…
Learn advanced link building strategies to naturally attract links from media, industry publications, niche sites, and bloggers. The post Advanced Link Building Strategies For National, International & Local appeared first…
Google has updated its Merchant Listing structured data documentation to now support, in beta, membership loyalty pricing property types. Google also updated the docs to provide more examples and instructions…
Google seems to be adding links to review publishers when you hover over some of the product results, popular products, snippets. The links show only after the box expands, and…
Google seems to have removed the minimum required budget for Local Service Ads. It is not clear if this is intentional or a bug but the box to stop you…
Google Ads has added to Performance Max campaigns, the search themes, an indicator to tell you what is driving a specific change in your ad performance. This shows a trend…
Remember the Bing shopping / e-commerce cards? Well, now it looks like Bing is putting an ad slot in them and labeled them as ads.
Google has posted an update on the reviews bug we first reported on a week ago, that it later confirmed this past Monday and we saw a fix rolling out…
Google’s John Mueller explains why Search Console shows URLs containing hashtags in them The post Google Reassures That #Anchor URLs In GSC Are Okay appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Google updates structured data guidelines, enabling merchants to showcase sale, member, and strikethrough pricing in search results. The post Google Updates Product Markup To Support Member Pricing & Sales appeared…
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web. Reddit blamed Google’s…
Google announced it is testing new pre-fetching methods that increase the speed (Largest Contentful Paint – LCP) of the first two results by 67 milliseconds and for the results after…
Google sent out notifications to Google Ads advertisers with upcoming changes to customer match lists. Google will set a new maximum membership duration of 540 days for customer match lists…
So after Google literally paid Reddit for its content and then ranked them incredibly well in Google Search and its search features, Reddit during its earnings call blamed Google’s search…
Initially, when Yahoo Search launched AI-generated answers, they did not contain sources or links. Now it seems Yahoo is adding “Learn more” links to these AI answer boxes in Yahoo…
Google Search is showing a snippet that has a date in the future. Normally the snippets have dates from the past; such as this content was found by Google X…
DeepSeek’s AI is booming, but security flaws and censorship raise big questions. What does this mean for the future of search? The post DeepSeek And Its Impact On The Generative…
Hackers are using Google Tag Manager to load malware into Magento sites, stealing credit card numbers during checkout The post Hackers Use Google Tag Manager to Steal Credit Card Numbers…
Panel of 6 search marketers share why Google’s Q4 2024 results may reflect shifts in user behavior and underlying instability The post Why Google’s 4th Quarter Results Raise Questions for…
Google explains how it uses the Speculation Rules API to prefetch search results, improving loading speeds on Chrome browsers. The post Google Reveals How It Prefetches Search Results For Faster…
Google Chrome’s latest CrUX update delivers granular LCP and RTT insights. This can help with optimizing page speed and user experience. The post Google CrUX Report Update Targets LCP &…
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web. The Google reviews…
There is some chatter in the SEO community that Google Image Search may be down ranking, lowering the rankings, of AI-generated images, in favor of non-AI-generated images within the Google…
Google is making more changes to the Google Publisher Center, in March Google News will fully transition to automatically generated publication pages in March.
Microsoft has updated Bing Webmaster Tools to make selecting the date ranges a lot easier in the performance reports. Now the date selectors are very quick to select, and not…
Google has posted a notice in the Google Ads console reminding advertisers about the upcoming brand guidelines changes that are now slotted for March 2025. This change was communicated numerous…
Google is testing adding filters to the latest post carousel. These filters can show recent posts, video posts, posts from Instagram, or Facebook.
Survey reveals trends in local reviews: trust in word-of-mouth, growing focus on recent feedback, and the importance of owner responses in shaping customer trust. The post Surprising Review Stats To…
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The big Google review count bug, that we first reported on Friday and that later Google confirmed on Monday afternoon, is now being fixed. We can now see review counts…