I have been working in digital marketing and SEO since 2003. More recently, my focus has expanded to include SEO and conversion rate optimization (CRO) testing.
@lilyraynyc I completely agree about the loss of traffic. How-To content first took a hit when Google removed rich results in September 2023, followed by the official launch of SGE (and then AIO) in May 2024.
@BJsWholesale I just tried to return something at your St Johnโs location (Florida). I arrived at 5:55pm to a sign saying someone would return at 7:00pm.
If you send me a report with em dashes or emojis like โ๏ธ, ๐, or ๐ ๏ธ as bullets, I immediately assume it was created by AI and that you haven't taken the time to curate or verify it before sending.
Powerful Built 4 More Podcast with @NatePeterman about how faith, team unity, and collective execution can create dramatic turnarounds from seemingly hopeless situations https://t.co/wzU1ypYGbW
Can't log into https://t.co/zKmniPCnXq? It isn't just you. @AnthropicAI posted (https://t.co/MJzMOz3dkN) that there is a partial outage: errors when logging in.
@lilyraynyc@sistrix Maybe Google realized that the $60M/year they paid for access to the Reddit Data APIโdata that is already publicly availableโwasnโt such a good deal after all.
Today we released the December 2024 spam update.
It may take up to 1 week to complete, and we'll post on the Google Search Status Dashboard when the rollout is done: https://t.co/L7n9n3Nh6X
The Dec. 2024 core update is rolling out, and we expect it will complete in two weeks.
If you're wondering why there's a core update this month after one last month, we have different core systems we're always improving. This past blog post explains more: https://t.co/N5p3KsJyiI
In the Dec 5th episode of the Search Off The Record podcast, Allan Scott from the Google Search team mentioned an issue with pages using empty canonical tags. He explained that their parser could unintentionally take it as a request to remove the site. He said there are methods to try and validate the tag but urged caution when using them. https://t.co/Mnvc9EaqTE #SEO