Search Engine Marketing

How to execute a multi-location website redesign without losing traffic by Ignite Visibility

A website redesign is essential for remaining competitive, but for multi-location businesses, the risks are much higher. Stripping away the local relevance that drives traffic to location pages can cause rankings and online visibility to plummet. Using localized content on location pages resulted in a 107% rankings lift, something businesses risk losing if a redesign […]

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Google Ads’ new text guidelines feature begins rolling out

Google is starting to roll out its new Text Guidelines feature in Google Ads, a tool first announced at the Think Retail event five weeks ago that gives advertisers more control over AI-generated ad copy. Driving the news. The feature, now appearing in some accounts, lets marketers set campaign-level text parameters — guiding Google’s AI

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Google Ads to permanently delete canceled accounts after six months

Google is tightening its account retention policy — canceled Google Ads accounts will now be permanently deleted six months after cancellation, marking the end of indefinite account storage. Driving the news. Under the new policy, Google will begin a cleanup of inactive accounts, sending a 30-day email warning before deletion. Previously, advertisers could reactivate canceled

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Google officially shuts down Privacy Sandbox

After years of delays and scaled-back ambitions, Google officially killed its Privacy Sandbox, the once-flagship initiative aimed at replacing third-party cookies with privacy-preserving ad technologies. Driving the news. In a blog post Friday, Anthony Chavez, VP of Privacy Sandbox, confirmed that Google is retiring 10 remaining Sandbox APIs, including Attribution Reporting, Topics, and Protected Audience

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SEO in the black box era: Why reports will look more like Mad Men than Search Console

Google’s quiet retirement of the num=100 parameter might look trivial to the rest of the world, but for SEO professionals, it’s another step deeper into the dark.  That small setting allowed us to see the full top 100 results at once, which made competitive research and rank tracking more complete.  Its disappearance comes on the

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