Martech

MAY 2, 2024

Growth in digital commerce was vanishingly small in the first quarter of 2024 according to the latest Shopping Index report from Salesforce. Dig deeper: $221 billion adds up to a record online holiday season in 2023 Salesforce’s takeaway. Unless it’s not. But right now, Salesforce’s diagnosis is plausible.

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Search Engine Land

MARCH 22, 2024

Bing Deep Search was originally announced in December 2023 as a search engine that goes deeper on your queries using Bing’s index and GPT-4 to give you more tailored and deeper search results. It uses our existing Bing index and leverages GPT-4 to expand and enhance your query, and determine possible intents.

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Search Engine Land

APRIL 1, 2024

If the page isn’t ranking at all, this could mean that it’s not been seen by Google or Google simply cannot index it. So, let’s start by ruling out code, architecture and other technical problems. Here, you will be able to see if Google has indexed the page and indeed if it has any issues with crawling the page.

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Search Engine Land

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Indexing and ranking. Google added, “This is a Search Console reporting issue, and not related to indexing or ranking.” ” So, this reporting bug should have no impact on your rankings, indexing, or crawling of your website. .” It is unclear when the issue will be resolved, but Google is working on it.

Engineering 120

Engineering 120

Search Engine Land

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Google also made relevant information around robots.txt available from within the Page indexing report in Search Console. Google also made relevant information around robots.txt available from within the Page indexing report in Search Console. Google has released a new robots.txt report within Google Search Console. Why we care.

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Engineering 131

Search Engine Land

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Google is expanding its video requirements where the video must be the main content of the page to show up as a video result in Google Search to also have that requirement with Google’s “Video mode” in search.

Follow-up 125

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Search Engine Land

DECEMBER 14, 2023

What happened when Googlebot couldn’t crawl Azarenko’s site from Oct 5 to Nov. An increase in reported indexed pages in Google Search Console. Pages with noindex meta robots tags ended up being indexed because Google couldn’t crawl the site to see those tags. 7: Favicon was removed from Google Search results.

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The Advantexe Advisor

MARCH 29, 2024

From a value creation perspective, the S&P index has grown by about 10% and the Dow Jones Index by about 6%. The first quarter of 2024 is now in the books.

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Search Engine Land

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Google’s announcement. 8 blog post about the reduction of visibility for HowTo and FAQ results , Google announced: “Continuing our efforts to simplify Google’s search results, we’re extending the How-to change to desktop as well. Google Search stopped showing How-to rich results on desktop yesterday.

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Search Engine Land

APRIL 19, 2024

Screaming Frog Pros : Thoroughly indexes sites, connects to PageSpeed Insights API (with a key you provide), scheduling available. Ahrefs Pros : Thoroughly indexes sites, scheduling available, cloud-based application, connects to the PageSpeed Insights API (with a key you provide). Cons : Paid tool, desktop-based.

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Search Engine Land

JULY 13, 2023

Facing the indexing dilemma Small sites tend to grow one page at a time, using keywords as the building blocks of an SEO strategy. It’s critical to align SEO with business goals. Measuring SEO success based on keyword rankings or traffic leads to negative consequences due to over-indexing.

Drivers/motivators 97

Drivers/motivators Territory Niche Engineering 97

Search Engine Land

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Sophisticated AI connectivity AI has become a part of everyone’s workflow for SEO and marketing. Feed management as an SEO skill Throughout 2023, SEOs have observed changes in crawl rates and percentage of pages indexed by Google bots.

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Search Engine Land

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Google’s Gary Illyes fielded several questions during an AMA at Pubcon Pro in Austin this afternoon from moderator Jennifer Slegg. Google is known for experimenting with Search – and noted that it’s very hard to keep track of launches and “unlaunches,” adding that these unlaunches happen “a lot.”

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Search Engine Land

MAY 30, 2023

About a week ago, Google did its last batch of moving sites to mobile-first indexing and some mobile-friendly sites were still noticing their sites were being reported as being crawled using desktop indexing. It turns out, there is a reporting bug in Google Search Console that may show the wrong mobile indexing status for some sites.

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Engineering 98

Search Engine Land

APRIL 18, 2024

It follows on from Brave’s AI Summarizer feature , introduced last year. Here’s an example search for [what is after gen z]: And here’s what it looks like for a vanity search: But it’s not perfect. How Answer with AI works. What it looks like. Brave Search size. 10 billion queries per year.

Engineering 113

Engineering 113

Search Engine Land

OCTOBER 3, 2023

In today’s data-driven era, regulations such as GDPR safeguard user privacy, while SEO professionals control what appears in search engine results. This gap has devastating consequences, as personally identifiable information (PII) data indexed in search engines is instantly discoverable, harvestable and exploitable.

Engineering 107

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Martech

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Sophisticated AI connectivity AI has become a part of everyone’s workflow for SEO and marketing. Feed management as an SEO skill Throughout 2023, SEOs have observed changes in crawl rates and percentage of pages indexed by Google bots.

Objectives and Key Results 109

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Search Engine Land

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The limitations of outdated latent semantic indexing (LSI) techniques. It’s helpful to begin by learning about how and why machines analyze and work with text that they receive as input. LSI keywords: Myths and realities Latent semantic indexing (LSI) is a term thrown around a lot in SEO circles.

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Search Engine Land

JUNE 12, 2023

Google has expanded the video indexing report within Google Search Console to provide more detailed actions and reasons on what the issue may be with your videos not showing up in the Google search results. Video too tall : Decrease the height of the video so that it’s smaller than 1080px. What they look like. Why we care.

Engineering 98

Engineering 98

Search Engine Land

DECEMBER 18, 2023

It’s easy to get lost in the SEO rabbit hole, spending significant time with minimal results. The four pillars of SEO The four key areas of SEO that site owners need to consider are: Technical SEO : How well your content can be crawled and indexed. Indexing: Is it clear which pages the search engine should index?

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Search Engine Land

MARCH 29, 2024

One approach to reducing costs I’ve observed is a more stringent policy for what gets included in Google’s index. It’s like being taken out of the game entirely. However, experience has taught me that aligning with Google’s initiatives can significantly benefit our clients’ sites.

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Search Engine Land

DECEMBER 21, 2023

During that time, Google’s attitude toward AI-created content evolved. I’m certain Google’s focus-on-quality statement made it into many internal SEO decks pitching an AI-generated content strategy. And some of it initially made it into the company’s search results. 96% of documents didn’t make the index.

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Gaming Engineering Presentation UX 137

Search Engine Land

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Google’s increasing popularity and the coined term “SEO” brought hope to those striving to help small businesses establish a strong online presence. Educate the client about what SEO is: SEO companies need to educate their clients about SEO’s impact on their digital assets, making them aware of the value it adds.

Engineering 120

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Search Engine Land

JUNE 23, 2023

One often overlooked aspect of website management is managing crawl depth, the level at which search engine bots explore and index a site’s pages. Crawl depth refers to the level or distance of a webpage within a website’s architecture from the starting point or root. Crawl depth: What is it and why does it matter?

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Search Engine Land

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Bing has announced a set of new controls to allow webmasters and site owners to block Bing Chat from using its content for AI training and Microsoft’s generative AI models. Going forward, for content in our Bing Index that is labeled NOARCHIVE, Bing will not use the content for training Microsoft’s generative AI foundation models.

Engineering 119

Engineering 119

Search Engine Land

JANUARY 19, 2024

Engaging visuals : Incorporate visually appealing graphics or illustrations that align with your website’s design and brand. Navigation options : Provide easy-to-find navigation elements that guide users back to your website’s homepage, main content, or relevant sections. Wendy’s 10. M&M’s 12.

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Search Engine Land

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Are you looking to improve your website’s SEO and increase organic traffic? This white paper from Search Pilot presents 8 real-world examples of SEO A/B tests that led to organic traffic increases between 3-29% for the companies that ran these tests. Learn more! Visit Digital Marketing Depot to download 8 New Winning SEO Tests.

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Search Engine Land

JANUARY 9, 2024

Google’s home page is currently broken on some Android devices using Firefox mobile as a browser. Google posted the issue on its search status dashboard saying, “There’s an ongoing issue with the Google homepage for Firefox users on Android devices. The Google home page loads a blank screen. What Google said.

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Search Engine Land

JANUARY 19, 2023

Google has updated the video indexing report in Google Search Console to improve the accuracy of the error reporting. Google’s statement. Google wrote , “Search Console can now more accurately classify thumbnail indexing issues. ” What is the video indexing report. Which videos were indexed successfully?

Engineering 93

Engineering 93

Search Engine Land

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

But here’s the thing – users don’t care about definitions or technicalities. These platforms index and rank webpages based on keywords, backlinks and other factors, presenting them in an ordered list in response to user queries. Search engines are no longer just about indexing and retrieving web content.

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Search Engine Land

APRIL 26, 2024

While this is a good indication of how a core update has impacted your site’s visibility in the SERPs, you’ll need to dig deeper to really understand the update’s effects. These are well worth a read to improve your understanding of what’s changed. Look at the crawling and indexing state of pages.

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Search Engine Land

JULY 10, 2023

Google has confirmed an issue with indexing content from news publishers and surfacing that content in Google News. Google’s statement. Google posted a statement in the Google Search status report saying , “There’s an ongoing issue with indexing in Google News that’s affecting all sites.

Engineering 87

Engineering 87

Search Engine Land

JULY 13, 2023

It is guaranteed that between the time I’ve finished writing this and you are reading it, something major would have happened in the industry, and it’s guaranteed I would have missed something! Once the content is fetched, it is indexed. An index is what actually gets searched when you type in a query in Google or Bing.

Engineering 97

Engineering Legal Appointment Finance 97

Search Engine Land

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Established sites that do not restrict indexing of search results pages or marketplaces that leverage user-generated content (UGC) run the risk of amassing an enormous amount of long-tail traffic through low-quality URLs that rank for the most obscure adult terms. It’s well worth segmenting traffic data for further detail.

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Search Engine Land

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Specifically, Google will confirm if there is an issue with crawling, indexing, or serving in Google Search. Google wrote, “as we head into 2023, we want to introduce another tool for the public to understand the most current status of systems which impact Search—crawling, indexing, and serving.” ” Issues are rare.

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Launch Engineering Service Product 99

Martech

APRIL 9, 2024

Metadata unlocks your digital content’s true potential, enabling efficient search, improved findability and trusted content governance. Taxonomy is vital in recognizing the organization’s vocabulary and enhancing the search process. Effective search is the foundation of a successful digital asset management (DAM) system.

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Martech

JANUARY 31, 2024

The findings come from the “ 2024 Work Automation Index ” released this week by work automation platform Workato. It’s a trend Workato CEO Vijay Tella described in his 2023 book “ The New Automation Mindset.” For marketers, it’s intriging to see RevOps leading the way on genAI. Get MarTech!

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