Search Engine Land

JANUARY 31, 2024

With Google Analytics 4 (GA4) reports, you can better understand the performance of your organic search efforts. Organic traffic is the traffic acquisition channel by which users reach a website through non-advertising links from organic search results. Direct : When users get to a website directly by entering the URL.

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Search Engine Land

MAY 15, 2024

Entity pain points: What challenges do people performing these activities typically encounter? Entities for improved PPC quality scores In PPC, it’s relatively easy to determine if your website accurately presents the entities and relationships you want it to; simply check out your quality scores. See terms.

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Heinz Marketing

APRIL 25, 2024

By Lisa Heay , Director of Business Operations at Heinz Marketing As part of my Marketing Operations role, one of my focus areas is to understand how our website is performing and where we have opportunities for optimization. Can you use them to make strategic decisions about your marketing efforts and your website?

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Search Engine Land

APRIL 26, 2024

With so many moving parts, pinpointing results and actions for your website can seem like an impossible task after a Google algorithm update finishes rolling out. Examine your performance reports, looking for changes in impressions, clicks or average position compared to the previous period. Often, pages in a specific directory (e.g.,

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Search Engine Land

MARCH 26, 2024

A fast-loading website provides a good user experience and helps increase conversion rates. Ready to make your website fast? Analyze a network request waterfall for your website A request waterfall visualization can tell you exactly what happens when opening your website. For example: What resources are downloaded?

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Search Engine Land

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Treat your visitors to a great user interface User interface (UI) plays a pivotal role in website performance and user engagement. Websites with shoddy user interfaces might fail to retain visitors’ attention. Enhance accessibility for all users To improve user experience and SEO performance, prioritize accessibility.

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Search Engine Land

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The basic assumption is that accumulating more PageRank-passing backlinks will eventually boost rankings and drive converting traffic to the website. More importantly, it almost always distracts from much more sustainable ways of growing organic Google and Bing traffic to the website. Performance. Unique selling proposition.

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Search Engine Land

MAY 3, 2024

Google expanded Performance Max to help merchants drive sales directly through online marketplaces, such as Amazon. Performance Max for Marketplaces allows sellers to create Google ad campaigns that send traffic to their product listings on third-party ecommerce platforms, without needing a website or Merchant Center account.

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Search Engine Land

MAY 7, 2024

Have you ever clicked on a brand’s ad and ended up on a website you weren’t expecting? Normally, the first ad you see should be the brand’s official one, taking you straight to its website. It leads directly to its own website via the correct tracking link. That’s ad hijacking. What is ad hijacking?

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Search Engine Land

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Below are nine ways to optimize your website for the holidays and make the most of this high-traffic period. Things like gift guides are always popular, but if you are working on a website that isn’t product-based, there are still plenty of opportunities. This is especially useful for an e-commerce website. See terms.

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Search Engine Land

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The three Core Web Vitals metrics each measure a different aspect of the experience users have on your website. INP assesses how quickly your website responds to user interactions. How does Google know how fast your website responds to user interactions? What is Interaction to Next Paint?

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Search Engine Land

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

From March 4, advertisers using Performance Max will have access to impression-level placement reporting of Search Partner Network sites. The Search Partner Network consists of websites and apps that collaborate with Google to display search ads. What is the Search Partner Network? What is Adalytics?

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Martech

MAY 8, 2024

It’s time to rethink our performance measurement strategies to safeguard budgets and ensure marketing’s worth remains quantifiable. Obtaining more information about a website visitor will make it easier to link conversion paths based on known first-party interactions.

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Search Engine Land

APRIL 9, 2024

shoppers by advertising on retailer websites as opposed to marketplaces, according to a new study. shoppers are now influenced to buy products advertised to them on retailers’ websites, compared to 13% on marketplaces 54% of U.S. Retailer website influence. Brands are almost twice as likely to influence U.S.

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Search Engine Land

MARCH 11, 2024

Hundreds of major brands unknowingly have their ads served on Made for Advertising (MFA) websites. What are MFA websites? MFA websites are sites created primarily for profit through advertising and generally provide a poor user experience, potentially damaging the reputation of digital advertising overall. What is Adalytics?

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Search Engine Land

JANUARY 12, 2024

If you have a Google Business Profile , it’s a good idea to frequently check and see how your it’s performing. Just like your website’s analytics, checking your GBP’s performance helps you understand: How many calls you’re getting. Tap on Performance , then See More to expand. How people are finding your listing.

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Martech

JANUARY 4, 2024

Website speed is often seen as the main factor impacting customer conversions. Factor fixation Recently, my boss, Ken Goldshvartz, was on The Frictionless Experience podcast to discuss putting website speed into a broader context. The discussion focused on the risks of narrowly focusing on website speed as the most important metric.

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Search Engine Land

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

You’re probably analyzing performance to see the results of your efforts, assessing the impact of Google’s latest update, or working on a case study to share with the SEO community. Did your website impressions increase and the average ranking metric decrease? It’s not a bad sign and does not mean you’re performing any less!

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Search Engine Land

MARCH 5, 2024

Google’s Core Web Vitals have been a ranking signal since 2021 when Google introduced three metrics to measure the quality of user experiences on a website. When measuring web performance, we can look at either lab data (also called synthetic data) or real user data (also called field data).

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Search Engine Land

JANUARY 22, 2024

Google confirmed a search ranking bug, a “very narrow issue,” as Google called it, that affected a “small number of websites” where those rankings would drop out of the Google Search results over the weekend and then reappear during the weekdays. Google’s statement.

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Search Engine Land

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Optimizing page speed for enterprise-level websites is challenging. Beyond suggesting improvements, your success as an enterprise SEO specialist depends on understanding the web team’s tech stack and their performance budget. Understand their performance budget. You can use BuiltWith to analyze a website’s tech stack.

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Search Engine Land

APRIL 29, 2024

56% of the top three positions are held by ccTLDs Our data reveals that ccTLDs are the most prevalent website structure in the top three ranking positions globally. Perhaps this is just a coincidence, but it indicates that Google does not favor websites with no discernable geotargeting for that market. Below are our key findings.

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Martech

MAY 1, 2024

Google Ads introduced six new AI-powered features for Performance Max campaigns. You will be able to see real-time spend tracking, current and projected spend and forecast conversion performance. You’ll want to explore these new PMax features to see whether they help you uncover new insights or improve campaign performance and ROI.

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Search Engine Land

MAY 14, 2024

This article covers the benefits of custom GPTs and provides a step-by-step guide to building your own “Striking Distance Keyword Opportunity Analyzer” – a GPT specifically designed to identify high-potential keyword opportunities that align with your website’s existing rankings. Business email address Subscribe Processing.

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Search Engine Land

MARCH 12, 2024

A powerful yet significantly underutilized strategy, internal linking, is crucial in showcasing your website’s E-E-A-T and boosting your SEO performance. It involves strategically placing hyperlinks within your website’s content to connect relevant pages within your site.

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Search Engine Land

MARCH 12, 2024

Earlier this year, Google announced the expansion of its Gemini generative AI model to support more products, including ad campaigns such as Search and Performance Max. All you need to start is your website URL and Google AI will help you create optimized Search campaigns by generating relevant ad content, including creatives and keywords.”

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Search Engine Land

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Migrating to a new website platform can be a necessary step for businesses looking to scale up or embrace new technologies. However, website migrations come with considerable SEO risks. Here are 12 common SEO pitfalls to avoid during a website platform migration. Encourage designers and engineers to think performance-first.

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Search Engine Land

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

LinkedIn is simplifying action tracking with a new tool called Website Actions. This new data layer enables B2B marketers using LinkedIn’s Insight Tag to set new conversions, build retargeting audiences and measure campaign impact without the need for additional tracking codes on your website. Why we care. Getting started.

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Search Engine Land

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

However, not all advertisers have seen a welcome change to their account performance. Learn how the mandatory Audience Network expansion impacted this software company, which saw 26% of its budget spent with no added conversions or performance benefits. times more likely to visit the website and 6.6x What changed and why?

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Search Engine Land

APRIL 29, 2024

Google Ads today introduced six new AI features for Performance Max campaigns. You’ll want to explore these new PMax features to see whether they help you uncover new insights or improve campaign performance and ROI. You will be able to see real-time spend tracking, current and projected spend and forecast conversion performance.

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Search Engine Land

JANUARY 23, 2024

Google warned website and app owners that they could face account suspension in the European Union (EU) if they display non-compliant GDPR Consent Banners. Refer to the urgent steps outlined by Google for detailed instructions on implementing consent mode for your website or app. Why we care. Action needed. First spotted.

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Search Engine Land

MARCH 5, 2024

Microsoft updated Bing Webmaster Tools with new helpful insights and reports to help you with your site performance within Bing and Search in general. This shows you a curated and prioritized list of the top SEO issues that Bing found for your website. Bing also added a new top SEO insights report that shows you your top SEO issues.

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Search Engine Land

DECEMBER 6, 2023

This decision comes in the wake of an Adalytics report claiming that Google search ads were appearing on inappropriate non-Google websites through the SPN, creating potential risks for brand safety. The flagged websites referenced in the research contain pornographic, sanctioned, and pirated content. New capabilities. Adalytics claims.

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Search Engine Land

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Depending on your website and business situation, the SEO strategy may vary. Some of the services you might engage an SEO agency for include: SEO website assessments and audits SEO audits can offer an in-depth critique of your website, identifying areas to improve. You might, for example, start with an SEO audit.

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Search Engine Land

JANUARY 11, 2024

This article compares the performance of GPT-4 and Google Cloud’s machine learning APIs on common SEO tasks where automation can be implemented, including semantic analysis, classification, translation, and image understanding. Methodology To test the models’ performance, I’ve put them against one another on the same data (i.e.,

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Search Engine Land

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Overwhelming your audience with content they don’t need will harm your site performance and bog down the capacity to be found. A search engine like Google only crawls a certain amount of your website on each visit. Army recruiting website. Another example in action The Army website is just one example of this principle.

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Search Engine Land

MAY 9, 2024

Are users struggling to find relevant information on your website? Clearly defining the problem allows you to focus your efforts on the areas that will impact your SEO performance most. Think outside the box and consider how to create value for your audience through content, website updates, or user experience.

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