Search Engine Journal★ Featured
New spam guidance says to noindex or block crawling on pages made for sharing. Google's docs say a URL blocked in robots.txt can be indexed. `google update` · `indexing` · `crawl`
Search Engine Journal★ Featured
Spot the gaps between Google Ads targets and business growth, from outdated margins and repeat buyers to weak leads and capped reach.
Search Engine Journal★ Featured
Google Ads expands customer lifecycle goals with High Value acquisition for Shopping and retention modes across Search, Shopping, and Performance Max.
Search Engine Journal★ Featured
Allocate your next marketing budget increase by weighing retention and conversion fixes against more paid search, then fund the bottleneck with evidence.
Reddit: r/SEO
Genuinely asking because I just spent 2 months fixing every technical thing I could find on my own site (pre-rendering, canonical/redirect loops, hreflang, internal linking, sitemap) and indexed pages stayed stuck at exactly 2 the whole time. Turned out Googlebot was renderi... …
Reddit: r/SEO
Thanks to the best roving SEO story supremo - u/rustybrick Google also added a new section for "Only index content meant for Search." It says: If your service lets users create shareable pages, generated outputs, or interactive tools, consider... `google updat …
SEMrush Blog
Learn how Semrush is addressing “poisoned” Google Search results, validating ranking data, and investing in visibility for users.
Reddit: r/SEO
TL;DR: Two of my websites dropped from 20K+ monthly users to a few hundred after introducing AI content, but improved on Bing and other search engines. Meanwhile, a new AI-built website is ranking well on Google. What’s your experience? I’ve been doing SEO for years and ru...
Search Engine Journal★ Featured
John Mueller's responded to a stalled indexing report and explained why SEOs may need to relax about indexing report freshness. `indexing`
Search Engine Journal★ Featured
Wait for Google to send the booking, or build channels you own. That choice does not need to wait for generative UI.
Search Engine Journal★ Featured
Jonathan Berthold explains why bottom-of-funnel content is the lowest-lift experiment and how to sell leadership on a test you can't promise will win.
SEMrush Blog
The best free SEO tools include Keyword Magic Tool, Position Tracking, and Ubersuggest.
Search Engine Journal★ Featured
Looking things up now makes up about as large a share of consumer ChatGPT messages as writing, though the increase is smaller than earlier data.
Ahrefs Blog
Sigh. Yet another metric marketers have to be raked over the coals for. Jokes aside, AI share of voice can be useful. It tells you how visible your brand is in AI responses compared with your competitors. But the number … Read more ›
Ahrefs Blog
You recommend products you genuinely rate. When someone buys through your link, you get a commission. You don’t have to make the product, hold stock, handle shipping, or deal with refunds. In this guide, I’ll show you how to think … Read more ›
SEMrush Blog
Google Business Profile (formerly Google My Business) is a free business listing that supports reviews, Q&As, posts, and more.