Shopping SERPs have been looking more like a feed than ranked results for a while now. In December, I wrote about the integration of Google’s shopping tab into the main results for shopping queries in e-commerce shifts. The result is a marketplace that looks more like Amazon than web search results. SERP features and query refinements play a … Read more
There are often times when more than one keyword (and/or search theme) in your account will be eligible to match for a search term. Yet only one will be selected to compete in each auction. So, how does Google choose which of your keywords to put forward? There’s a prioritization framework for that! We’ve also … Read more
Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai recently discussed the future of search, affirming the importance of websites (good news for SEO). But how can that be if AI is supposed to make search engines obsolete (along with SEO)? Search vs Chatbots vs Generative Search There’s a lot of discussion about AI search but what’s consistently missing is … Read more
If you’ve always been in awe of folks using the Google Search Console API to do cool things, this article is a good read for you. You can use BigQuery with the GSC bulk data export to get some of the same benefits without requiring the help of a developer. With BigQuery, you can efficiently … Read more
A query function lets you use data commands to shape your data in Google Sheets, making it an important function. The query function is so helpful because it can replace the work of many other commands and replicate the functionality of pivot tables (a table that lets you group, compare, and summarize larger data sets). … Read more
The right search query is a Goldilocks-style effort: Not too specific that you get no results, and not too broad that you get too many. Semantic search, meanwhile, is all about understanding what searchers throw into a search box. In other words, with semantic search, we meet searchers where they are instead of requiring them … Read more
Google’s John Mueller answered a question about discrepancies in Search Console query reports. John explained why page and site level reports can report different numbers of search queries than the search console query report displays. Discrepancy in Search Console Query Reports The person asking the question wanted to confirm if anonymized queries were the reason … Read more
