Smart Shopping campaigns aren’t just a feature update. “[It’s] a totally fascinating product, but has some drawbacks as well,” Mike Ryan, product management lead at Smarter Ecommerce, said of Google’s Smart Shopping campaigns, which use automated ad placement and bidding…
Remote work and hybrid work environments continue after the move toward these scenarios was sped up by the start of the pandemic in 2020. Some challenges remain, however. According to research, organizations using remote or hybrid work are experiencing cyberattacks…
After numerous days where sites hosted on SiteGround were blocking Google from indexing, the issue has been resolved this morning. For the past several days, 2 million or so of the domains hosted on SiteGround were potentially not being crawled…
Third-party apps like EdgeDeflector once allowed users to open Start menu searches in their preferred browser, but an upcoming update will eliminate users’ ability to choose. An upcoming Windows 11 update will block third-party apps from enabling users to select…
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has targeted a popular retention program in the news industry, ruling ‘call to cancel’ subscriptions are illegal. Many companies, including a large portion of the news industry, make it easy for customers to sign up…
Gotta, gotta be down because I want it all Search Engine Land’s daily brief features daily insights, news, tips, and essential bits of wisdom for today’s search marketer. If you would like to read this before the rest of the…
“Shopify is evolving into the world’s first retail operating system,” says Shopify COO Harley Finkelstein. “We think the future of retail is retail everywhere. A brand that’s going to be successful in 5, 10 or 15 years from now needs…
As promised, Bing is the focus of a new Xbox experience that’s launching this week. Beginning on Tuesday, Xbox Live users who also have Kinect will be able to use their voice — and Bing’s search technology — to find…
If your podcast does not have a knowledge panel yet, make sure your RSS feed adheres to Google’s rules What are podcast knowledge panels? Google began showing a specific podcast knowledge panel on October 12, 2021. It displays the podcast name, image, and…
The rollout for this Google search algorithm update will take about a week. Google is rolling out a new search ranking algorithm update targeting the more spammy side of of the search results. The company is calling this update the…
