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Microsoft Advertising announced a bunch of additions and what is coming soon yesterday. Some of the bigger news is that you can now use the API to import your Google Ads data. Plus Microsoft added countdown customizers for Responsive Search Ads, Universal Event Tracking (UET) Tag Helper, seasonal segments available for In-market Audiences and more. […]

GUESTS & RESOURCES Episode Overview Join host Ben as he concludes his conversation with Mike King, Founder and Managing Director at iPullRank. Together they dive into how you can prepare for Mobile-only indexing.  Mike chats about what companies need to do in order to prepare for mobile-only indexing. One of the first things that you

To celebrate its own birthday, the 46th birthday, on April 4, 1975, Microsoft updated its Twitter profile image with its original retro logo that the founders created. They wrote on Twitter “Microsoft was founded on April 4, 1975. #NewProfilePic and banner to help us celebrate our 46 years in style.” Ah, the good old days…

There has been this ongoing bug with Google Maps / Google My Business where for some service area businesses they end up being placed in the middle of the United State of America, in Independence, Kansas. I am not sure why and I don’t fully understand it, it must be one of those mysterious phenomenons.

Sean Brattin asked Google’s John Mueller a couple of months ago if Google uses Cloud Vision AI within Google Image Search. The answer was no, but John did say that Google did talk about “about doing that in the past” but ended up not to do it. This came up in a video SEO hangout

A few years ago, Google began displaying for some related searches (also people also ask flavors) image icons near the query refinement option. Now, it seems Google is showing a text icon for when text is found inside the refinement option, and not just images. Saad AK noticed this, he shared it with me on

The other day I saw Paul Haahr, a Google Search engineer vet, retweet something shared by Daphne Keller, former Google Search lawyer, who shared Facebook VP’s Nick Clegg Medium piece named You and the Algorithm: It Takes Two to Tango. With me so far? Anyway, the tweet from Daphne Keller “we will reward this behavior

GUESTS & RESOURCES Episode Overview Join host Ben as he kicks off his conversation with Mike King, Founder and Managing Director at iPullRank. Together they dive into why Mobile-Only Indexing is a problem.  Mobile-only indexing is the second biggest topic after Core Web Vitals in the SEO community. Mike starts the discussion with the announcement

Google first launched what it called cameos, selfie style videos from well-known people, back in 2017. Generally those shows up for people’s own knowledge panels, like you would see for a search on my name. But now, it seems Google is showing them for product searches and more generic searches. Ryan Mews posted an example

Normally this feature showcases images at Google and other search companies or swag and stuff like that. But when I saw this Search Console report, I had to share it as a funny image here. The report worked itself out to be in the form of a shark, or a wave, how cute. This was