In this Whiteboard Friday, learn about UTM tagging for Google Business Profiles with Claire Carlile Rees.

Google Search may be having a new indexing or serving (or both) bug where it is now showing new content from sites that are creating new content.

Study reveals Google search shifts: ecommerce and user-generated content rise, while product review sites lose visibility. The post Study: Google Favors Ecommerce Sites & User-Generated Content appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

A new study finds Google is reducing the frequency of, but lengthening, AI overviews in search results. The post Google Dials Back AI Overviews In Search Results, Study Finds appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Google begins rolling out the June 2024 spam update, which should take a week to complete. The post Google Launches June 2024 Spam Update appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

The most successful marketers are lifelong learners who thrive by adapting to change. And the last decade has given us plenty of opportunity to practice flexibility and adaptability.

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web…

In the Google Merchant Center structured data documentation, it says that you should add structured data to the HTML source and that it “can’t be generated after a page has been loaded using JavaScript.” This does not mean Google cannot process the structured data on the page if generated using JavaScript, but rather that it makes it harder for Google to do so.

Surprise, surpise… Wikipedia is the number one source of information that comes up when you click on the people also ask feature within the Google Search results. People also ask is just another variation of a form of featured snippets, so this probably makes sense.

A few months ago I posted about a possible bug with Google Maps where map pins were being moved around into one location. I later updated the post to suggest it was more of a spam or hack exploit