Author: I Love Citations

Need to justify the value of your SEO investment? Here’s a five-step model to forecast the long-term impact of your organic search efforts.

First-click, linear, time decay, and position-based attribution models will all be deprecated later this year.

Why was ChatGPT disabled in Italy? Learn about the data privacy issues that led to an investigation into OpenAI practices.

For the past 20 years, local business owners and their marketers have had to live and work with Google as the “great house”, owning all the good real estate. The dominant role Google’s local and organic results play in bringing nearby customers to our doors has had the effect of making every other source of business […]

For the past 20 years, local business owners and their marketers have had to live and work with Google as the “great house”, owning all the good real estate. The dominant role Google’s local and organic results play in bringing nearby customers to our doors has had the effect of making every other source of business […]

Google is testing displaying a business profile listing in an overlay interface within the web search results instead of taking you into the Google Maps interface. So when you click on a business listing in the local pack, instead of it taking you into Google Maps to view more details on that business, Google is […]

In today’s digital age, YouTube has become a powerful platform for individuals and businesses to showcase their brands, products, and services. With over two billion monthly active users, everyone is leveraging the power of YouTube for greater reach and to engage with their audiences in new and exciting ways.

Brandon Mercer, who works at Hearst Newspapers, posted in the Google Search Console help forums that people are using the “remove outdated content tool” from Google to remove competitor pages, and he said it works. Although Google’s Danny Sullivan responded, he seems unconvinced that it does indeed work. The tool was launched in January 2020 and was upgraded several months later.

Since there have been webpages on the internet, scrapers have been out there scraping content off those sites for one reason or another. Well, even Microsoft’s Bing Chat has to deal with scrapers and yes, those scrapers can even cause sites hosted by Microsoft to slow down.

I am starting to see early signs of a possible Google search ranking algorithm update touching down this morning, April 3rd. The automated tracking tools are not picking it up yet, but I am seeing some chatter from SEOs who are up already checking their traffic.