Chrome 84 is rolling out with restrictive third party cookie handling. This is how to check if it affects your site. The post Chrome 84 Handles 3rd Party Cookies Differently – How it Affects Publishers via @martinibuster appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Penalties must be seen for what they truly are: stopgap measures. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

If you run AdSense ads on your site and you have AdSense for Search, where you use Google AdSense to monetize your search results – Google may start to show Shopping Ads in those search results.

Google at the end of this month, end of July, will start to disallow marketing of downloadable software CDs and DVDs through Google Shopping Ads. This does not include video game DVDs, those will still be allowed.

The first organic result in Google Search has an average click-through rate of 28.5%, according to a newly published study. The post Over 25% of People Click the First Google Search Result via @MattGSouthern appeared first on Search Engine Journal

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…

Posted by cheryldraper Today marked day one of the first-ever MozCon Virtual! Even though we weren’t together in person, it was so exciting to get the best people in the industry together again. So much of the day was different from what we expected six months ago, but the one thing we can always count on from our speakers is a MASSIVE amount of value.

Google will soon begin sending email notifications to businesses when their business listings or accounts are suspended with Google My Business.

The Google Books Ngram Viewer, a tool that shows you how often phrases occur in books over time, now shows data through 2019. In short, this tool displays a graph showing how those phrases have occurred in a corpus of books

While reloading a script automatically doesn’t affect SEO, it’s still a bad idea overall. Here’s why it’s not worth the short-term revenue gains. The post Can an Automatic Reload Script Hurt SEO