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[New Report] Why Your Audience Would not Care About Your Effectivity (and How Personalization Can Save You)

If the digital landscape is a battlefield, content is a powerful weapon. But here’s the catch: your audiences are savvier than ever! Their attention spans are shorter, and search engines are prioritizing “helpful content” like never before.  This means your content strategy needs a serious overhaul, and personalization is the key to unlocking its true […]

Google-Extended Bot Token Does not Have an effect on Google Search

Google has made an update to its Google-Extended section of the Google crawler (user agent) search documentation to change the references of “Bard” to “Gemini” because of the product name change. Google also clarified that Google Extended has no impact or effect on Google Search. Google added this new line that reads, “Google-Extended does not […]

Google Would not Say Core Web Vitals Are A Search Rating Issue

Google’s Danny Sullivan said on Friday, “We don’t confirm any of the things [page experience or core web vitals] as a direct ranking factor.” He added, “But to reiterate we look at many things not one thing and even the one thing might not be a direct ranking factor.” “It doesn’t say it is a […]

Google About The Source Would not Imply You Rank Higher

There was a complaint on X from a publisher who said Google is not showing details in the “About this site,” “About the source” section in the Google Search results for their site. Danny Sullivan, Google’s Search Liaison, responded that not having information about your site there doesn’t mean your site will rank better or […]

Google’s Useful Content material Replace Would not But Discover Hidden Gems

This is just a reminder that despite Google saying the helpful content update will one day be able to find hidden gems in its search results, it does not yet do that. We thought Google would launch it with the last helpful content update, but Google did not. When we covered the launch of the […]

When Loss Aversion Works (& When It Does not)

“Limited-time offer!” “Everything must go!” “This opportunity disappears at midnight!” “Don’t miss out! Act now!” Marketing like this is everywhere. But should everyone be doing this kind of marketing? Loss aversion is a principle from psychology that’s captured the imagination of marketers. Still… in the transition from intense psychology research to selling products, marketers have […]

Google Business Profiles New Fix Photograph That Does not Present Attraction Type

Google has added a new option in the Google Business Profile appeal for “Fix photo that doesn’t show.” This means you can submit a support request for when you know a photo is not showing up on your Google Business Profile and you want it to. Mike Blumenthal first reported about this saying, “Google has […]

Google Search Generative Experience Would not Present Snapshot Solutions For Unique Responses

The other day Agile SEO posted on Twitter an example of Google’s Search Generative Experience not showing any answer boxes, aka snapshots, for an answer it generated. Danny Sullivan, Google’s Search Liaison, responded by saying Google would do that when it thinks it is generating a completely original response. Here is the screenshot for a […]

Google Says Invalid Schema Markup Would not Damage You

Gary Illyes from Google said that having invalid schema markup does not hurt your rankings or your site. He said the worse case, if Google cannot parse the markup, it won’t use it. Gary said this at the 10:56 mark into the SEO office hours video. Gary was asked, “Can it hurt to have schema […]

Google Says Just As a result of A Website Is Good Now, Would not Imply It Will not Degrade In Search High quality Later

Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that just because a site appears to be doing super well in terms of Google ranking and SEO today that it won’t degrade one day in value. John added, “just because something’s in Google News now doesn’t mean it’ll be there forever.” Sometimes sites just lose their luster, the […]