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

As part of a more significant effort to fight creator impersonation, YouTube has stopped allowing channels to hide the number of subscribers they have. The post YouTube Disables Hidden Subscriber Counts appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

SMBs: Taking risks doesn’t have to be scary.

The other day, I covered how Google added a line to its Google documentation that Googlebot can crawl the first 15MB of content in an HTML file or supported text-based file, after that, it stops crawling.

Read on to learn how advertisers are prioritizing machine learning, first-party data, and the impacts that inflation imposes on marketing performance. The post Inflation’s Impact On Ad Spend Detailed In Merkle Report appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Google has updated its rich results content guidelines to align better with the overall Google merchant guidelines thus disallowing rich results for products that are widely prohibited or regulated, or that can facilitate serious harm to self or others. These include, but are not limited to, weapons, recreational drugs, tobacco & vaping products and gambling-related products.

Google Maps is testing a new local listing interface where it shows more images in the top portion of the local listing and there are tabs to show the business overview on the left and the reviews on the right.

You’ve likely heard by now that Google is updating Google Analytics from Universal Analytics (also known as GA3 or UA) to a new, upgraded version, Google Analytics 4 (GA4).

Google Search is now grouping some of its Top Stories sections for some queries by topics. This was working on mobile for a while but is now reportedly working for the desktop Top Stories Google Search results.

Learn which 10 content management systems are most used right now and explore recent updates from major CMS players. The post CMS Market Share Monthly: 64.2% Of Sites Use WordPress appeared first on Search Engine Journal .