Google & Bing Testing Bolding Snippets On Hover
Both Google and Microsoft Bing are testing hover effects that will bold elements of the search results. Google is testing bolding the description of the snippet and Bing is testing…
Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Helpful Content Recoveries W...
This week we covered the ongoing Google June 2025 core update and how we are finally seeing some recoveries with the past helpful content updates, and some core updates. Google…
From invisible to unmissable: How EYClick tripled traffic for a C...
Discover how EYClick helped a family-run Catalan restaurant build its online presence, rank #1 locally, and boost organic traffic by 300% in just 3 months.
The SEO KPIs That Actually Matter (And How to Track Them)
Proving the value of your SEO efforts can seem like an uphill battle. What’s the cheat code to getting buy-in from stakeholders? Tracking the right SEO KPIs. Not just the…
Google Expands Posting Reviews Is Turned Off For This Place
Google seems to be expanding the feature where they turn off the ability for some local listings, Google Business Profiles, to allow posting reviews. We covered this before during the…
Heated Google Search Ranking Volatility On Saturday June 28th
On Saturday, June 28th, it appears that another significant Google Search ranking update occurred, although Google has not confirmed it. There has been significant search ranking volatility and chatter within…
Google Ads With Nearby Hotel Placement Units
Google seems to be testing a new ad unit for hotel or nearby listings that have big blue buttons to book at the site being listed. I am honestly not…
Internet Marketing Ninjas Acquired By Previsible
Previsible has acquired Internet Marketing Ninjas to expand its link building and digital PR services, with both operating as separate brands The post Internet Marketing Ninjas Acquired By Previsible appeared…
Google AI Mode With Link Cards Only – A Bug?
Google is either testing showing link cards only within AI Mode or it might be a bug. Randomly over the past few weeks or so, I’ve seen reports of people…
Google’s Trust Ranking Patent Shows How User Behavior Is A Signal...
Google’s trust ranking patent suggests that user behavior can influence how search results are ranked. The post Google’s Trust Ranking Patent Shows How User Behavior Is A Signal appeared first…
Report: Over 12% Of People Also Ask Results Are Google AI Overvie...
Last November, Google began to power some of the peopel also ask results with AI Overviews. Historically the people also ask were featured snippets, but now they can be featured…
HTTP Status Codes Explained: Full List & Impact on SEO
Learn what HTTP status codes are, what different codes mean, and how they impact search visibility.
Google Ads Ad Preview Tool Update
Google seems to be rolling out an update to its Ad Preview tool within Google Ads. The ad preview tool also shows a preview of a Google search result page…
Google Merchant Center Gains Automatic Shipping Updates
Google Merchant Center is rolling out automatic shipping updates under the automatic improvements tab. “Automatic shipping updates improve the accuracy of shipping information of your products. The feature can help…
How to Analyze & Compare Competitor Website Traffic in 2025
Learn to analyze competitor website traffic and compare metrics, engagement, devices, and demographics.
Subdomain or Subdirectory? What’s Best for Your Business
You need to build out a new arm of your website. Do you use a subdomain or a subdirectory? It’s an often painful decision that can impact your SEO performance…
Google Ads API Outages and Slowness; Microsoft Ads Warns About Go...
Google Ads is experiencing some technical difficulties, although their ad status dashboard indicates that all is currently fine. The issue is somewhat significant in that even Microsoft Advertising is warning…
Google Business Profiles Reverification After Suspensions Increas...
A number of local SEOs are stating that Google is now requiring businesses that had their Google Business Profiles suspended to reverify at a higher rate than normal. Meaning, the…
Yoast SEO Functionality Is Now Available Within Google Docs
Yoast SEO breaks free of the CMS paradigm and now provides readability and keyword feedback within Google Docs. The post Yoast SEO Functionality Is Now Available Within Google Docs appeared…
1 agency, 1 powerful toolkit, 4 standout SEO wins: How Cardeseo d...
See how Cardeseo used SE Ranking’s automation tools to cut reporting time by 70%, scale its client base from 30 to over 200, and achieve three big SEO wins.
Diggity Marketing News Roundup—June 2025
Christopher Caparoso In the top stories for the month, you’ll learn about Google’s new AI Mode for search (and whether it’s the SEO apocalypse some fear), the big announcements made…
Google SMS Review & Blackmail Scams
A couple of years ago, we covered a report by the NY Times on the ongoing issues with review scams and blackmail. Well, the issue is not gone, despite Google…
What Is an Href Link? 4 Best Practices You Need to Know
An href link uses an tag and href attribute to create a clickable hyperlink. Here’s how to code your own.
How To Use New Social Sharing Buttons To Increase Your AI Visibil...
AI share buttons that are easy to configure may help increase a site’s exposure in ChatGPT and Google AI Mode. The post How To Use New Social Sharing Buttons To…
Websites With More Organic Search Traffic Get Mentioned More in A...
I looked at the top 50 websites mentioned in Ahrefs Brand Radar for Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, and Perplexity. This is across ~76.7M AI Overviews, 957k ChatGPT prompts, and 953.5k…
How To Best Blend Product-Led And Sales-Assisted Growth
In B2B SaaS, product-led growth (PLG) has become a powerful engine for early traction. But when it‘s time to scale to enterprise? You’ll need to build on it with sales-assisted…
New Google Ads Broad Match Experiments Testing
Google is reportedly rolling out a new way to conduct broad match keywords experiments and A/B testing. Google wrote this “new approach is aimed at delivering faster results and reducing…
Google Updates Merchant Return Policies & Loyalty Programs
Google has updated a number of search-related help documents for its merchant return policies and loyalty programs. Google said these updates are to “remove unclarities in the documentation and examples.”
Google AdSense New Privacy Law & Opt-Out Mechanism
Google AdSense has added new universal opt-out mechanisms and privacy controls due to new laws they must adhere to. These go across several US states.
Bing Search Tests Updated Image Carousel With More Images
Microsoft is testing a new image carousel within the Bing Search results. This image carousel shows two rows of images, instead of one, has related searches with an arrow at…
Why Sustainable Growth Demands The Right Mix Of Paid And Organic
With rising acquisition costs, stricter privacy laws, and AI-driven black boxes reshaping attribution, the traditional ad-only model no longer holds. Here‘s how to build a strategic balance of organic and…
Google Offerwall Out Of Beta
After over a year of being in beta, Google has announced the launch of Offerwall. “Offerwall messages allow your site visitors to choose alternative ways to support your site and…
Google Ads Generating Fewer Clicks? Why?
The folks at PPC Hero noted that Google Ads CPCs increasing and there is a decline in ad click volumes within Google Search. The question is why? More competition? Higher…
Google Keyword Planner Update Gives Breakdown By By City, Region ...
Google has pushed out an update to its keyword planner tool that gives you new forecast views to get predictions on your keywords by regions and device/platform. The update also…
Daily Search Forum Recap: June 17, 2025
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. Google Search Console…
My Exact 7-Step Framework for Brand SEO (With Templates)
However, that changed when Google and OpenAI turned most of these queries into zero-click searches. For the remaining queries, search platforms directly reward authoritative and popular brands, so branding can…
AI Mode research: Volatility, source patterns, and differences fr...
Explore SE Ranking’s new study of Google’s AI Mode. See how it picks sources, how volatile results are, and how it compares to AI Overviews and organic search.
Google Ads Top Stop Serving Message Assets With Unverified Phone ...
Google is notifying some advertisers that their ads with message assets will stop serving on September 1st, and won’t be able to create new ones on August 1st, if the…
OpenAI Quietly Adds Shopify As A Shopping Search Partner
OpenAI has added Shopify to ChatGPT’s shopping search as a third-party data source. The post OpenAI Quietly Adds Shopify As A Shopping Search Partner appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Google: No AI System Currently Uses LLMs.txt
There has been a lot, I mean, a lot, of chatter around if one should add an LLMs.txt to their website. Many are starting to add it while others have…
Google Merchant Center Product Status Changes History Report Retu...
Google appears to be reintroducing the “product status change” report within Google Merchant Center. This displays the historical changes of your product statuses and is a feature that was greatly…
Bing Search Tests Zoomable & Sticky Related Searches
Microsoft is testing zoomable and sticky related searches in the Bing Search results page. So one variation has the related searches stick to the right top of the screen as…
The Smart SEO Team’s Guide To Timing & Executing A Large-Scal...
Planning a migration? Discover these expert tips to ensure a seamless site move while protecting your SEO and performance. The post The Smart SEO Team’s Guide To Timing & Executing…
Google AI Mode Follow Up Questions With Suggestions
Google AI Mode also has search suggestions in the follow-up section. After you ask Google AI Mode a question and scroll down to ask a follow-up, Google may show you…
Domain-Level Link Metrics May Not Be Good Predictors of AI Search...
I looked at the top 50 websites mentioned in Ahrefs Brand Radar for Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, and Perplexity. This is across ~76.7M AI Overviews, 957k ChatGPT prompts, and 953.5k…
Mastering Local SEO: A Strategic Imperative For Travel And Touris...
Explore how a local seo strategy travel and tourism can elevate your online presence and attract more visitors to your destination. The post Mastering Local SEO: A Strategic Imperative For…
AI Visitors Visit Fewer Pages and Bounce More Often Than Traditio...
Unfortunately, we can’t even validate or dispute those claims, because Google doesn’t give us the ability to differentiate between AI-powered search traffic and traditional search traffic in Search Console or…
Confirmed: Google Ads Errors & High Latency Issues
Google has confirmed an issue with Google Ads, where there are unexpected errors, high latency and other unexpected issues with the Google Ads advertiser console. Google said access is fine…
Daily Search Forum Recap: July 3, 2025
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…
Google Ads Editor Version 2.10 Is Out With 20 New Features
Google has released the new version of Google Ads Editor, version 2.10. This version has over 20 new features, which is a lot of a version update for Google Ads.
OpenAI Improves ChatGPT Search Quality
OpenAI announced it has released several improvements to the ChatGPT search response quality. These improvements include “more comprehensive, up-to-date responses,” according to the AI company.
Search News Buzz Video Recap: Where The Google Core Updates, Web ...
Another week and more Google search ranking volatility hits, this time on June 25 and June 26. Google promised more core updates, more often, but that did not happen. Google’s…
AI Overviews Cite AI-Generated Content More Than Human Writing
Google uses “grounding” to improve their accuracy, but according to our research, AI Overviews are more likely to cite AI-generated content than human-written content. Here’s what we found: We took…
Google AI Mode Within People Also Ask & Chrome
Just like Google had AI Overviews (also featured snippets) in the People also ask section of Google Search, Google is now testing AI Mode within People also ask. Plus, Google…
80+ Up-to-Date AI Statistics for 2025 (No Stale Sources)
It’s on track to drive change at a scale we haven’t seen since the industrial revolution. But in a space moving this fast, most stats you find are already out…
Google: Larger & Longer Issues Can Take Longer To Reverse In ...
Google’s John Mueller said that for larger and longer issues, it can take Google longer for Google Search to reprocess it all. Meaning, the bigger the issue and the longer…
How to Disavow Backlinks (+ Find Out if You Really Should)
Learn how to disavow backlinks, when it‘s necessary, and how to create and submit a disavow file to Google.
Google June 2025 Core Update Is Rolling Out – What We’...
Google officially announced the rollout of the June 2025 core update yesterday at around 10:37 am ET. This core update is expected to take about three weeks to roll out….
Google Ads To Update Its Political Content Policy
Google will be updating its political content policy this month, if not already. Specifically, the content on the Google Ads Political content policy page and Election Ads verification page will…
What Is a Markup Language? [+ 7 Examples]
A markup language is a system for defining the structure, presentation, or purpose of text within a document.
The Lean Guide to Product Research
The good news is that’s no longer true. Today, anyone with an internet connection can uncover really powerful market insights using affordable and even free tools. This guide will show…
Microsoft Advertising Target CPA and Target ROAS Going Away On Au...
Microsoft Advertising will soon retire Target CPA and Target ROAS as a standalone bidding strategies. Instead, those bidding strategies will be merged with Max Conversions and Max Conversion Value. This…
10x Traffic by going global with SEO: The Medicai + Ahrefs Succes...
Medicai used Ahrefs to accelerate their organic traffic against their competitors using a combination of programmatic and content-based strategies. About Medicai Medicai is a VC-backed healthcare startup that develops cloud-based…
Google Explains How To Approach Content For SEO
Google encourages publishers to be realistic about the kinds of searches their content should appear for. The post Google Explains How To Approach Content For SEO appeared first on Search…
Google Ads New Step-By-Step Conversion Setup
Google Ads is refreshing the interface for the conversion actions and conversion setup process. It is a new step-by-step process that is much easier to use than the old version.
Pairing up for better reports: How Insight Online combines SE Ran...
Discover how Insight Online integrated SE Ranking & Swydo to save time and create clearer, more easily manageable SEO reports for clients.
How AI Is Already Shaping Your Brand Narrative
Your brand is no longer just what you say to your audiences. If you’re not actively managing your algorithmic footprint, AI systems will define your brand for you. And it…
Google Tests ‘Preferred Sources’ To Personalize Top Stories In Se...
Google’s new Preferred Sources lets users customize Top Stories with favorite publishers. How could this shift impact search visibility? The post Google Tests ‘Preferred Sources’ To Personalize Top Stories In…
How to Track Local SEO for Multiple Locations with Semrush
Discover how Semrush tools can help you research, execute, and track local SEO across multiple locations.
Bing Search Image Box Tests Explore Image & Visual Search But...
Microsoft is testing expanding its image search box within the Bing Search results to let you “explore” images in a deeper way. Part of this test brings you into Bing’s…