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Google Search Analytics report now breaks down job listings & details results

Channel: SEO, Google: Rich Snippets, Google: Search Console, Google: SEO, Search Engines: Job Search Engines, SEO BLOG, SEO: Structured Data & Schema.org / Good To SEO / 2,675 Comments

Google quietly announced they have added the ability to filter by job listings to the Search Analytics report within Google Search Console. If you have job listings on your website, you can potentially now filter your Search Analytics report to see what traffic, impressions, clicks, positions and so on those listings are bringing to your […]

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Google Adds Natural Language Queries to Google Analytics

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Google Analytics is a gold mine of data, and the backbone of many digital marketing processes. But with so many insights available, it can, at times, be difficult to find the points of most relevance. This has been a recurring theme in research reports relating to data usage – last year, a study from IBM found

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Google Search Console average impression data change is not a bug, it is a reporting change

Channel: SEO, Google: Search Console, Google: SEO, SEO BLOG / Good To SEO

Google has informed us that they have updated how they measure the metrics they report in Google Search Console’s Search Analytics report specifically for search results in lower positions. Google updated the data anomalies page to say that this change started on July 14, 2017, and goes forward from there. It reads: An incremental improvement

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Google paid search spend up 23% in Q2, thanks to non-brand text & shopping ads

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In the US, Google saw second-quarter search ad spend grow around 20 percent from the same period last year, in keeping with what we’ve observed in previous quarters. Meanwhile, Bing and Yahoo recovered from Q1, and shopping ads on all engines have begun to account for still more click share among retailers. Those are among

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Right to be forgotten, Google Analytics questions & Search Console changes

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Barry Schwartz Barry Schwartz is Search Engine Land’s News Editor and owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics. Barry can be followed on social media at @rustybrick, +BarrySchwartz and Facebook. For more background information on Barry, see his full bio and

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Top European court to decide if Google needs to purge disputed links from global index

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A top European court will now decide whether Google must remove “right to be forgotten” (RTBF) links from its global search index. The French data protection authority, Commission Nationale de l’informatique et des Libertés (CNIL), previously argued RTBF can be defeated when disputed content remains in Google’s global index. In 2015, CNIL demanded global delisting to enforce RTBF.

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5 Best Practices That Will Help You Rank On Page One Of Google

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So you want to rank on page one of Google? Just like any other industry, SEO doesn’t lack prophets of doom, proclaiming its death every other year. But in spite of the constant negativity coming from those who see search engine optimization as a mere fad, SEO has not only survived for nearly 27 years,

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Did you know? Google sees JavaScript links you don’t

Channel: SEO, Google, Google: Search Console, Google: SEO, Link Building, Link Building: General, Link Week Column, SEM Tools: Links, SEO & SEM Tools, SEO - Search Engine Optimization, SEO BLOG, SEO: Crawling and Robots / Good To SEO

Most SEMs are aware by now that Google is parsing JavaScript and processing content within the DOM. We know this not only because Google has flat out told us, but also because it has been tested. We know all of this — and yet, tools which provide backlink data are only seeing classically formatted <a

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How (and why) Google ranks videos differently from the way YouTube does

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Have you ever been served a specific set of YouTube videos in Google’s Search Engine Results Pages, only to find that the exact same search yields different results when performed on YouTube? Well, according to a new report from Stone Temple Consulting, when Google returns multiple YouTube videos in the results pages, the ranking order between

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Google Now is dead, long live ‘the feed’

Channel: Mobile, Google: Google Assistant, Google: Google Now, Google: Web Search, SEO BLOG / Good To SEO

Google Now was launched at Google I/O in June, 2012. It was part of a package of updates and UI changes for mobile search, which included a female-voiced mobile assistant to compete with Apple’s Siri. Google Now was initially a way to get contextually relevant information based on location, time of day and your calendar. It evolved to become much

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