Google announces the release of their August 2024 Core Update (see link below). We've seen notable lift in traffic to our customer's sites since July 18th (see chart below) so curious if this is the completion of the update...but this is what Google posted today.

Google's "Merchant Listing Experiences" continue to work their way up to dominating the #1 organic spots on searches. Note this site, who isn't even in Google Merchant Center...is dominating their results for the short-tail key phrases related to their products. That site was

Interesting observation on the impact of Google's August 2024 update with some seasonal businesses that we service, where they typically drop in traffic consistently as the summer months end and we go into winter. As the August 2024 update continues to roll out....we are seeing

As businesses and digital marketing agencies look for some recovering from the HCU but seeing only a small percentage are recovering (a year later).....it's important to know what the traffic is shifting to, and it's not just "big brands". It's good if Google is recovering the

Google clearly communicates that SEOs shouldn't be worried about "thin content"...they should just be worried if it's "helpful content"...and sometimes helpful content means very short content. See what Google has to say about it in the latest Search Engine Roundtable article

We've found that most ecommerce merchants aren't yet up to speed with these huge changes related to Ecommerce SEO that Google has been making.... with the "merchant listing experiences" (aka "Popular Products") which makes product page optimization critical and then Google

Look at the increase in positions specifically of Q&A content through Google's latest core update....completely exploded. For this customer the Q&A (powered by Answerbase) is now about 50% of their overall traffic...and we've seen as the Q&A lifted...it's lifted the rest of their

We've added the ability for you to see what questions have been asked by real people on forums related to each of your articles, products and categories. This ensures that you know all of the "User Demanded Content" that people actually care about, so you can fulfill that demand

Have you seen a drop in your ecommerce organic traffic in 2024? This short video covers something in your product schema that may be holding you back....quick fix and quick results. Hope this is helpful for your ecommerce SEO moving forward. youtube.com/watch?v=dV7YZW…

Google's December core update brought a notable lift in impressions to the ecommerce product Q&A content (powered by Answerbase). The lift in clicks hasn't come yet like it came in Google's August Core Update....but we have seen in the past that Google first moved Q&A's into the

It’s live! Read on our article on ecommercetech.io on how ChatGPT changes product discovery - and what it means for Shopify stores, taxonomy, and the teams behind them. ecommercetech.io/blog/chatgpt-s…

Sam Blink - The expert Shopify marketing agency is an awesome resource for Shopify owners/marketers....we encourage you to keep up to date with their posts.

Another example of how helpful Q&A content is feeding Google's AI....leading customers to the appropriate products (and product replacements). The future of SEO, AEO, or whatever else one may want to call it.....if you're creating good "people first" helpful content.....both

Finding ecommerce products via AI LLMs like AI Mode, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, or whoever people's "trusted AI advisor" becomes is the present and future, and it's just a matter of time before there are clear winners in the space and it takes over traditional shorter-tail

We feel that ChatGPT and Answerbase are on the same page, because of substance yes....but mostly because they don't allow users to get to any other page than the one they generate ;) #seo #digitalmarketing #ecommerce