If you go to the Google home page today, you will see a gray Google logo. Google does this on somber days and since today is the national day of mourning for President Jimmy Carter, Google has grayed out the logo.
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Google Grays Out Logo On National Day of Mourning for President Jimmy Carter
TikTok’s “What’s Next 2025″ report reveals key trends shaping social media marketing in 2025. The post TikTok ‘What’s Next’ Report: 10 Takeaways For Marketers appeared first on Search Engine Journal .
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TikTok ‘What’s Next’ Report: 10 Takeaways For Marketers via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern
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Google’s Martin Splitt explains rendering strategies, their impact on SEO, and how to optimize websites for search engines. The post How Rendering Affects SEO: Takeaways From Google’s Martin Splitt appeared first on Search Engine Journal
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How Rendering Affects SEO: Takeaways From Google’s Martin Splitt via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…
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Daily Search Forum Recap: January 8, 2025
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…
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Daily Search Forum Recap: January 8, 2025
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Discover the complexities of martech stacks and the struggles of marketing teams to reach target audiences. Learn about the obstacles they face in this survey. The post New Study Highlights Martech Challenges To Reach Target Audiences appeared first on Search Engine Journal .
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New Study Highlights Martech Challenges To Reach Target Audiences via @sejournal, @gregjarboe
What happens when you lose a lot of links really quickly, how might that impact your Google search rankings and SEO performance? Well, John Mueller of Google was asked that question and after much back and forth, he responded, “SEOs often overestimate links.”
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Google On Losing Lots Of Links Fast: SEOs Often Overestimate Links
Google is testing showing local ads in the local pack without review stars. Normally you’d see review stars for the sponsored results in the local pack, but in some cases, Google is testing removing the reviews from the sponsored results in the local pack.
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Google Tests Local Pack Ads Without Review Stars
Using the “validate fix” button within Google Search Console to communicate to Google that you fixed an issue, does not signal to Google to expedite anything on its end. It just a reporting mechanism for you to track when Google recrawls the issue and for you to see if it was “fixed” according to Google or not but it does not speed anything up.
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Google Search Console Validate Fix Does Not Expedite Fixes
Google has updated one of its help documents to specifically say that ad scheduling isn’t compatible campaigns that use Smart Bidding. The previous version of that page said, “Ad scheduling is not compatible with both Smart Shopping campaigns and App campaigns.” This change to the help document is causing a lot of confusion but in all honesty, likely means nothing has changed.
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Google Ad Scheduling & Smart Bidding Campaigns Doc Update Confuses