Search Engine Marketing

Google’s $4.7 billion legal storm: Sued in Italy, pays in Texas

Google is facing a potential €2.97 billion ($3.3 billion) antitrust lawsuit in Italy, accusing the tech giant of stifling competition through anticompetitive practices. The lawsuit, filed by Moltiply Group, claims Google used its dominance in the search engine market to undermine the growth of its rival price comparison platform, Trovaprezzi.it, operated by Moltiply subsidiary 7Pixel. […]

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How to Do a Competitive Landscape Analysis (If You’ve Never Done It Before)

Running a competitive landscape analysis can help you develop a strategy for outsmarting the competition and capturing more of the market. In this guide, we’ll explore how competitive analysis works, offer 5 competitive analysis frameworks, and show you how to gather data you need to understand the lay of the land.

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LLM traffic not as engaged as organic traffic: Study

Users who arrive on websites from LLMs are generally less likely to engage than those from traditional organic search. That’s according to a new study published today by Dan Taylor of SALT.agency. This new data seems to challenge claims by Google and Microsoft Bing that citations from AI search results result in higher-quality clicks. Why

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Google updates image SEO best practices to say use the same image URL for same image across your pages

Google updated its Google image SEO best practices help document to recommend that you use the same image file name URL for the same image, even if you place that same image on different pages on your site. Google said you should do this to save with your site’s overall crawl budget. What Google changed.

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Google Reminds That Hreflang Tags Are Hints, Not Directives via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

Google’s John Mueller explains that Hreflang tags act as suggestions, not directives. Learn how canonical tags impact international SEO and what adjustments your strategy needs. The post Google Reminds That Hreflang Tags Are Hints, Not Directives appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

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