How to analyze Google’s SERPs

Conducting SERP analysis will help you understand what is and isn’t working for a particular keyword. Here are tips and tools to get started.
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Large enterprise brands may find the new ads ideal, while smaller local businesses may not see much advantage.
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Forget zero-click. Now we have zero-link search results from Google. Is this an act of war on publishers?
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Learn potential reasons why you’re seeing this status in Google Search Console, plus ways to address related crawling and indexing issues.
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Your Google podcast manager stats will show a drop in clicks and impressions.
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Google promises to make their experimental conversational AI service, powered by LaMDA, available more widely in the coming weeks.
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Google’s Q4 earnings report showed a decline in ad revenue, missing analysts’ expectations, due to challenges in the digital advertising market.
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In the Google Q4 earnings call, Sundar Pichai confirmed the company’s plans to deliver ChatGPT like features.
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We may have gotten our first preview of at what chatbot-style Google desktop search results will look like later this year
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Key SEO takeaways from Google’s 2020 paper on how text-generation models can be successfully used to detect low-quality content.
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Google Account-level negative keywords are here

Now you can apply the same negative keyword lists you already use across multiple campaigns.
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Our search campaigns should focus on overall visibility on the web rather than only giving importance to traditional search engine results.
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Google is accused of violating antitrust laws in acquiring or maintaining dominance.
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Any experiments and personalizations still active will end.
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The outcome of this case could have significant implications for the way that internet companies operate, content curation, and free speech online.
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Ranking on Google’s first page will be useless if there’s only one page of search results. Learn what else can happen with this change.
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For the first time in the company’s 25 year history, Google parent Alphabet has announced a mass layoff.
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You can now test Performance Max updates in your account and monitor results before applying the changes.
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An easy-to-read, highly condensed analysis of all the known, confirmed, rumored, and absolute myth-level Google ranking factors.
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Ecommerce advertisers and brands will now be able view which items were added to cart, purchased, clicked, and more.
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Most businesses might think having two search results on Page 1 is a good thing. This is not always the case. Here’s why.
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For the first time in a decade, ad giants Google and Meta are slowing down, making room for smaller, emerging platforms to take over.
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Here’s what you need to know about Google Autocomplete, how it generates predictions, and why it has moved away from making “suggestions.”
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CBD advertisers in California, Colorado, and Puerto Rico can apply for certification beginning in January.
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There is no indication on what caused the outage, how many merchants are affected, or when a resolution will be reached.
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Google announced this as a pilot feature in India, but some in the U.S. are also seeing it.
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