Most SEO experts are still afraid to publish their success stories, with a few notable exceptions. Many are simply unable to share their work even when it’s successful. How can SEOs stop practicing “ghost optimization”? Before we dive into this question, let’s look at the reasons for the ongoing secrecy and still prevailing negativity among
Read MoreMicrosoft’s Fabrice Canel has said that in early January 2023, the new BingBot will be responsible for 100% of Bing’s crawling activity. The new user agent is now responsible for about 50% of all crawls. Some history. In 2019, Microsoft Bing announced new Bingbot user-agent names that fit better with its evergreen Bingbot crawling and rendering service. Then in
Read MoreGoogle is now rolling out two different Google search algorithm updates simultaneously, the December 2022 helpful content system and the December 2022 link spam update. The helpful content update started on December 5th, and the link spam update started on December 14th. Both updates are not finished rolling out, in fact, Google said that the helpful
Read MoreGoogle has just released updated policy requirements for the month of December. Their help page reads: On February 21, 2023, the About Our Policies section of the Google Advertising Policies Help Center will be updated to include the following language: Advertisers have a responsibility not to promote content or engage in behavior that risks harm to our
Read MoreGoogle is testing the ability to search for spoken words in a video through a new “Search in video” feature. This is officially being piloted in India, but some are also seeing this feature being tested in the United States. The announcement. Google posted this news on the Google India blog, writing, “besides images, videos
Read MoreCreating a loyalty marketing strategy is critical to understanding that every customer is unique. Every member has different needs, preferences, communication channels, behavior and emotions. Approaching all these unique members as one via mass communication is a big mistake when trying to scale your business. Segmenting your customers is critical to your success. But what
Read MoreAdvertising on Google Ads is a no-brainer for many brands. Between the mammoth market share, the proven ROI on time and monetary investment, and the innovations in creative/targeting – it’s never been a better time to scale Google Ads. Getting started can be a bit more complex than it used to be. You’ll need to make
Read MoreGoogle has retired Web Light, Google’s mechanism to serve pages and content faster, using a more lightweight version of that page, to those with slower internet connections. Google said, “while this feature has worked as intended and enabled broader access to the richness of the web, increased affordability of more powerful smartphones has diminished the
Read MoreFacebook is the most-used social media platform in the world. It boasts 2.96 billion monthly active users. Most likely, you’re on Facebook and use it often. But is your business on Facebook? Not only that, is your business on Facebook and using a content marketing strategy? If your audience hangs out on the social media
Read MoreWith the Google December 2022 link spam update and helpful content update both still rolling out, SEOs are worried that Google may have one more Google algorithm update up its sleeve before the year’s end. Well, it will not happen, said John Mueller from the Google Search team. No more core updates this year. John
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