Microsoft Ads identified an increase in policy-breaking behavior. Here’s what caused it, what they’re doing about it, and how you can help.

Rand Fishkin came out with yet an eye popping study, saying that based on SimilarWeb data “64.82% of searches on Google (desktop and mobile combined) ended in the search results without clicking to another web property.” The previous year he used JumpShot data which showed 50.33% of all Google searches ended without a click to any web property in the results.

Questions about whether a browser assigning users into cohorts counts as a use of personal data, without consent, may be a privacy violation.

Recently, Google’s John Mueller posted about what to do if your site goes offline. The advice was to serve a 503 server status code if the outage is short term. So someone asked if they can serve a 502 server status code instead.

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It’s important for businesses to not ignore the importance that reviews still have in local search results even as customer sentiment around reviews shifts.

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Plus, enabling YouTube video playback directly within Twitter may help content creators get more views. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.