We are pleased to announce Yoast SEO 21.5, packed with valuable features to elevate your optimization efforts. This release introduces a highly requested option allowing you to block AI web crawlers. Now, you can effortlessly control access to your content and ensure it remains where you want it to be. Blocking bots used to train … Read more
Ranking troubles? Let’s solve them Andy Crestodina Let’s face it. Most URLs don’t rank and will never get traffic from search. There’s nothing strange about that. Most URLs aren’t search-optimized. But many are and still don’t rank. So in this piece, we’re going to answer a question you may have asked yourself… Why don’t I … Read more
AI companies (e.g., Google, OpenAI) are primarily using high-quality content created by news publishers to train generative AI systems, which then compete directly against those publishers. That’s the core argument made in a new report from News Media Alliance, a trade association that says it represents about 2,000 publishers in the U.S. and Canada. Why … Read more
After years in the making, Google has fully transitioned to mobile-first indexing, the search engine giant announced Tuesday. This means Google prioritizes mobile versions when crawling pages and indexing content. The shift reflects Google’s increased focus on mobile devices that began in 2015. At the time, Google updated its search algorithm to favor “mobile-friendly” sites. … Read more
Google’s mobile-first indexing initiative that started just about seven years ago is now complete, according to Google. “It’s been a long road, getting from there to here. We’re delighted to announce that the trek to Mobile First Indexing is now complete,” John Mueller from Google wrote on the Google blog. History. As a reminder, Google started mobile-first … Read more
Imagine this: Your target audience can’t stop talking about one of your ads. Why? Because they all saw it at the right time and in the right place. That’s the impact of media planning. Media planning is an integral part of the digital marketing ecosystem. This post provides an introduction to media planning and detailed … Read more
Advertisers are moving from search-based channels to social media for eCommerce ads, according to a new report by DataFeedWatch. The research found that the use of search channels has dropped by over seven percentage points from 2022 to 2023. However, around 7% of all products submitted to Google Shopping were disapproved due to critical errors. … Read more
Google Ads has started serving a pop-up survey that disrupts advertisers when they try to pause campaigns. The survey asks users whey they want to pause their ad campaign before allowing them to continue. Why we care. The pop-up survey may annoy and inconvenience busy marketers who lack the time to explain their ad campaign … Read more
What Is an Event in Google Analytics 4? Google Analytics 4 (GA4) events are user interactions or system occurrences on a website or app. Events are the foundation of all GA4 tracking. Any time a web interaction takes place—whether it’s a page view, click, scroll, or purchase—GA4 records that data as an event. This is … Read more
Manually sorting through your keyword universe to categorize search terms and then working out how much value they drive from the market will take time you often don’t have spare. Not only is this an extremely long manual process, but how do you know where to focus your efforts next? Where will you get the … Read more
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