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

See how the Google Perspectives search filter provides diverse viewpoints for queries through highly-engaging social media posts, videos, Q&A, forum discussions, and news content. The post Google Perspectives: How This Search Filter Delivers Diverse Viewpoints With Engaging Social Content appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Advertisers were shown how to improve their YouTube marketing strategies with cost-efficient, high-impact, tried and tested methodologies at SMX Advanced.

YouTube is piloting a new feature to help marketers pick the perfect thumbnail for their videos. The Test & Compare tool, also known as A/B thumbnail testing, will provide performance data, revealing which designs drive the highest click through rates (CTRs)

Google will be deprecating support for sitemaps ping and the endpoint will stop working by the end of this year. Google said it is announcing the “deprecation of the sitemaps “ping” endpoint.” This means that HTTP ping requests will result in a 404 error

With AI’s integration into search technology, the pace of change is quickening.

Google experts caution: “site:” has limits. For full indexing insights, rely on Search Console instead. The post Google’s “Site:” Operator Won’t Show You Everything That’s Indexed appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Adding schema markup on your website is a great way to help search engines like Google to understand your content more quickly and accurately. One of the lesser-known ways of utilizing schema markup is by including “ entities ” within it.

In part one we learned about Amy Toman and her love for small business. We dug more into that love in part two and also spoke about helping small businesses with local optimization, even with low budgets

What many SEOs underestimate when they get into working for an enterprise company is that there is more to the job than just optimizing the website.