Google Search Console has yet another reporting bug, this one is with the Google News performance report. The data between May 12, 2022 and May 26, 2022 may show a drop due to a logging error. Google said there was no real drop in Google Search even if the reports showed one. Google wrote “Because […]
Google’s John Mueller was asked what are the timeframes for the data used when calculating quality metrics for the Google broad core updates. John said that there is a lot of “work that’s done well in advance” and “usually with data collected until then,” then being just before it rolls out. But John added “and […]
James Pate is the Technical SEO Manager at IBM, IBM has a whole group of respected and well known SEOs. I’ve spoken with Patrick Stox while he was at IBM, I also spoke with Tanu Javeri at IBM’s NYC offices a while back. So this is the third IBM SEO I’ve interviewed. James is based […]
Did you know that Google shows “out of stock” for items you label with the value of back ordered in your structured data for products? Some feel it should say back ordered and not out of stock, but I am not too sure if there is much of a difference? Brian Freiesleben posted about this […]
meta has announced an update to its US location targeting options for ads, with US congressional districts, as defined by the 2020 census, to be added as additional geo-targeting options. As explained by Meta: “Starting May 19, 2022, an additional set of location targeting options will be available for updated US congressional districts following the […]
It may feel like it should go without saying that you want your data to be accurate. However, you’d be surprised how many businesses don’t work with reliable data. And simply put, data reliability is essential for your business. Think of it this way. If you’re working with unreliable data, how do you know if […]
It’s one thing to know there’s something wrong with your business‘s online presence, but knowing what’s wrong and why is something else altogether. For example, you might look at your key metrics and see that you aren’t hitting your sales or retention goals. You know something’s wrong, but in order to solve the problem, you […]
We know that Google will stop collecting data within Google Search Console when a site is not verified or removes its verification. But did you know if you do not use Search Console, you verify it but never go in to look at the reports, Google may stop collecting data for that Search Console profile? […]
Google Search Console’s crawl stats report has a data gap, a missing day, of metrics again. This has happened numerous times, often this is fixed by itself after a few days. So I would check back in a few days – I doubt Google is missing data, it just has a processing issue and hopefully […]
Could this be another victim of Apple’s iOS data tracking change? Meta is quietly changing the way that it uses Location Services in Facebook, with the Depreciation of several local-based functions in the appincluding Nearby Friends, weather alerts and Location History. As you can see in this example notification, shared by social media expert Matt […]