Google Ads Conversion Value Rules

Google announced a new method for smart bidding controls named conversion value rules. Google now allows you to adjust conversion values based on characteristics like location, device, and audience. After a conversion value rule is applied, it will be reflected in the “Conversion value” column in your Google Ads account reporting. These rules will also

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5 Lessons From 111 Emails

Email outreach is a staple of link building that the SEO industry swears by. And while it seems pretty straightforward on the surface, there are quite a few not-so-obvious roadblocks that might prevent you from succeeding at it. Back in 2016, I wrote an article titled “I Just Deleted Your Outreach Email Without Reading. And NO,

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Google Has No Plans To Control Indexing For Discover or Top Stories Separately

Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that the search company has no plans to separate out indexing and visibility controls specifically between Google News, Search, Discover or Top Stories. If you are in Search, you can be in the top stories carousel and there isn’t a whole set of individual controls for each feature. Plus,

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Google Says Again, Personalization In Search Is Extremely Light & Rare For Ranking

Google’s Danny Sullivan confirmed, again, that personalization in Google Search is an “extremely light” ranking signal. In fact, he said personalization is “fairly rare” to be used for ranking purposes. Danny is confirming what he said back in 2018 when he said personalization in search is a very light signal. This is outside of geo/location

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Two Google Algorithm Updates, Link Spam Update Rolling Out, Snippet Title Changes & Top Stories Bug

This week, we had not just one, but two different unconfirmed Google search ranking algorithm updates – one on Saturday and one on Wednesday. Google said the link spam update that was suppose to be done rolling out about two weeks ago, is still rolling out. Google made a change to the title link it

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