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In late May, Google went public with AI Overviews. I’ve been tracking third-party inquiries and studies ever since. Sometimes AI Overviews produces incorrect answers. An account at X, enough googling, cures some of these complaints. To its credit, Google has fixed many bugs, primarily by limiting the appearance of general views and excluding user-generated content from sources. Here’s what we know so far in the release of AI Overview. 15% of inquiries An article last…

John Mueller of Google answered a question about Reddit about the probability of fixing just 10 pages out of a site’s 20,000 pages, how that might help it recover from updating useful content. The site owner said that only 10 pages were affected by that September useful content update and asked if the 10 pages might hurt the other 20,000 pages on the site. The question that was summed up at the end was: “Can…

Google has updated its search performance report in Google Search Console to include a breakdown of your merchant listings in the Google Search Image tab. This means you can now see how your merchant listings are performing when a searcher clicks on the image tab in Google Search results. how it looks Google published this screenshot from this report on X: What are Merchant Lists? Google explained that merchant listings are an extension of the…

Digital Marketing Agency NYC – Mack offers free SEO consultations to help NYC small businesses improve their online visibility and generate more calls. NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK, USA, June 10, 2024 /EINPresswire.com/– Digital Marketing Agency NYC – Macka leading digital marketing company, is delighted to announce a new initiative aimed at supporting small local businesses in New York City. The agency now offers free SEO consultations to help small businesses improve their online visibility,…

Last week we reported that Googlebot will virtually stop crawling and indexing websites with its desktop crawler and will only crawl with its smartphone crawler (which caused a lot of confusion). But Google’s John Mueller continued Reddit who doesn’t think this means you can “completely ignore what’s served on the desktop in terms of SEO.” John was asked, “Can I ignore the desktop version of a website for mobile-first indexing?” John said: “Overall, I don’t…

Google is currently working to fix a bug that prevents structured data of product variants of showing rating stars in the search. This bug was spotted by Jarno van Driel and Google’s Ryan Levering confirmed it and said they will be working on a fix soon. Jarno posted LinkedIn saying: “The new Schemaorg ProductGroup enables a price range rich result. However, it doesn’t seem to enable any rating stars in search results, even though aggregateRating…

Google’s John Mueller answered a question about whether it’s okay to stop optimizing a desktop version of a website now that Google is switching to exclusively indexing mobile versions of websites. The question asked is related to a announcement they did a week ago: “…the small set of sites we’ve still been crawling with desktop Googlebot will be crawled with Googlebot mobile after July 5, 2024. … After July 5, 2024, we’ll crawl and index…

SEO never lose hope! 5 Advanced SEO Strategies for Maximum Online Visibility Is your website not visible online? Did basic SEO but didn’t get any feedback? Then you need to follow advanced SEO strategies to face the competitive world. Advanced SEO strategy is more than basic SEO and helps in flexible decision making. Another with, without advanced SEO, it is impossible to rank in a competitive age. In this article, I have shared my thoughts…

5 Ways Google Is Changing SEO Just a few years ago, search engine optimization was widely considered a specialized knowledge of how to manipulate Google search rankings with clever underhand tactics. While that was an accurate assessment back then, the SEO industry has matured. It is now a dynamic and multi-faceted online marketing discipline that transcends clever tricks and has become an essential experience requirement for all online marketers. Google has facilitated and accelerated this…

Google’s John Mueller answered a question about site-wide impacts on a site with ten pages that lost rankings in the March/April 2024 core update and subsequently experienced a site-wide collapse the place in May. Can 10 pages result in a site-wide penalty? The person who asked the question on Reddit explained that they had ten pages (out of 20,000 pages) that were affected by the Useful Content Update (HCU) in September 2023. They subsequently updated…