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The Google April 2023 reviews update finished rolling out yesterday afternoon on April 25, 2023. It took 13 days and two hours to roll out this expanded reviews update, which goes beyond products, that initially kicked off on April 12, 2023. As a reminder, the reviews update dropped “products” from the name because it now […]
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Both Google and Microsoft reported Q1 2023 earnings last night, and so far, Wall Street seems to be happy with the results. But if you look, Google’s ad revenues were flat (slightly down) year-over-year, while Microsoft Bing Ads revenues were up 10% year-over-year. Let’s dig into the search ad revenue side for both as best
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If you rank on page two of Google or beyond, you’re practically invisible. In fact, almost all of the traffic to our blog comes from first-page Google rankings: Unfortunately, nobody can guarantee first-page Google rankings. But you can improve your chances of getting them by following a logical process. Here it is: Let’s go through it
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Are you a website owner looking to improve the effectiveness of your online presence? Are you having success with attracting site visitors, but still can’t seem to increase your ROI? If so, then you may need to dive into the world of conversion rate optimization (CRO). But what exactly is CRO, and why should you
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The Microsoft Bing team has moved back to the Redmond office after being in the Bellevue office for over 13 years. They moved last week and Michael Schechter posted some photos with meaning of the building they were in for those years. Michael wrote on Twitter,Back in 2009, the Bing team moved from Building 88
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Google Ads seems to be testing a “show similar” button in the product carousel of sponsored listings. When you click on the “show similar” button, you are presented with a new dynamically loaded carousel that shows more products like the one you were looking at. This was spotted by Saad AK on Twitter – here
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Google Ads has been having more than normal latency issues causing errors within the advertiser interface and the Google Ads API. This started yesterday evening and is continuing through this morning. Google confirmed the issue last night at just before 10 pm ET on Monday, April 24th. Google posted ,”We’re investigating reports of an issue
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Google Ads is also testing a gold verification badge or label in the search results. We saw a blue verification label and then a blue badge-style label and now we are seeing the label in gold. This gold style was captured by Alex Kubica, he posted this screenshot on Twitter: As a reminder, this is
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Google seems to be testing a grid-like format for local results in the mobile web search results. We see these grid formats primarily for product and shopping search results, but I don’t think I’ve seen this for local search listings. This was spotted by Brandon on Twitter who posted a video cast of this in
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