Google’s SVP overseeing Search, Prabhakar Raghavan, recently warned employees in an internal memo that the company’s search division faces a “new operating reality” with fewer resources, according to a CNBC report. The memo comes amid concerns over softening revenue and user engagement metrics for Google’s core search product. Recent quarters have seen weaker-than-expected growth in … Read more
YouTube advised creators and marketers against deleting videos from the platform. Additionally, the app strongly suggested avoiding making videos private. The Google-owned site explained that removing content from the app or restricting access could disrupt your channel’s connection to people who have watched that video and negatively impact ranking. What YouTube is saying. YouTube Product … Read more
TikTok accused U.S. Senators of staging a “predetermined” vote to ban the platform in the United States. Next week, the U.S. House of Representatives will vote on legislation that gives TikTok’s owner, China’s ByteDance, six months to divest the app. If it doesn’t, TikTok could be completely banned in the United States, losing its 150 … Read more
Google issued an urgent warning to Universal Analytics 360 users, reminding them that they must migrate to Google Analytics 4 (GA4) and complete a historical data export before March. Why we care. Failure to take action within the next two weeks could result in the loss of critical advertising capabilities. Next steps. If you are … Read more
The Google Ads help guide has a new AI assistant. Currently in open beta, the new tool has been designed to help users find answers and solve account issues relating to Google Ads. Select users are currently being invited to test the AI and provide their feedback. Here’s a screenshot of the new tool in … Read more
January 27, 2015 | Posted by Shiri Berzack In the past, Google has warned against blocking Googlebot from crawling specific aspects of your website, and now the warning has been extended to mobile sites. Google’s Zineb Ait Bahajji announced on Google Plus, that blocking Googlebot for Smartphones will have a negative effect on … Read more
Gizmodo published an article “exposing” CNET for deleting thousands of pages, as they put it to “game Google Search.” What CNET did. “Thousands of articles” were deleted in recent weeks (CNET declined to provide an exact number), according to Gizmodo. CNET confirmed the content culling. CNET decided which pages to “redirect, repurpose or remove (deprecate)” … Read more
Recently, there was a discussion on Twitter about the validity of using custom elements in the <head> section of web pages. Custom elements are part of the Web Components specifications, allowing developers to create HTML elements tailored to their needs. Using custom tags, developers can build reusable and self-contained HTML elements that function independently from … Read more
During Google’s April 2023 SEO Office Hours, a website owner asked Gary Illyes, Analyst at Google, whether giving Googlebot a different HTTP status code from the one served to human visitors would be acceptable. Specifically, they wanted to serve an HTTP status code of 410 (Gone) to Googlebot while giving users a 200 (OK) status … Read more
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