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Google Adds AMP Help to Webmaster Help Forums

February 18, 2016 at 5:06 am PST By Jennifer Slegg

Google Adds AMP Help to Webmaster Help Forums

Having problems implementing AMP on your pages?  Google has added a new webmaster help forum section specifically for AMP, and added some new pinned posts with quick answers. John Mueller announced the new AMP forums for all questions related to AMP. We now have a category for AMP / Accelerated Mobile Pages here in the […]

Facebook Instant Articles Available to All Publishers in April

February 18, 2016 at 4:45 am PST By Jennifer Slegg

Facebook Instant Articles Available to All Publishers in April

Facebook is opening up Instant Articles to all publishers, Facebook announced yesterday.  However, it is a merely just a pre-announcement, as Facebook does not actually plan to make it available to publishers until April. Facebook’s Instant Articles allows Facebook to serve articles directly within Facebook, saving a user a click through to a website that […]

Using SEO Research to Discover Why Organic Rankings Dropped

February 18, 2016 at 4:30 am PST By Ron Dod

Using SEO Research to Discover Why Organic Rankings Dropped

Does this sound like you? “We redid our website and our organic search traffic plummeted. We have been losing organic search traffic continually for months. We have lost rankings for key positions in Google.” If I had a nickel for every time one of our clients said this to us, I would have at least […]

Yahoo Testing Their Own Larger Product Listing Ads

February 18, 2016 at 4:10 am PST By Jennifer Slegg

Yahoo Testing Their Own Larger Product Listing Ads

Google has been testing their own oversized version of Product Listing Ads and it seems Yahoo is testing their own version too. Yahoo’s version is actually running their own Yahoo Shopping Ads, so these are not the Google PLAs they have been testing in Yahoo Search Results.  But instead of the maximum 2 lines of […]

Google Wants Feedback on Adding More Days to Search Analytics

February 18, 2016 at 4:00 am PST By Jennifer Slegg

Google Wants Feedback on Adding More Days to Search Analytics

Why do you want to see more than the standard 90 days in Search Analytics within Google Search Console?  Zineb, a Google Webmaster Trends Analyst wants to know what webmasters would use the increased data for.  While the common answer is seeing either seasonality or year over year data, here are many more reasons webmasters […]

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