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The Core Updates newsletter is written by Mark Williams-Cook, a veteran SEO who is Digital Marketing Director at Candour, Founder of AlsoAsked and organiser of SearchNorwich. Over 40,000 SEOs follow Mark's 'Unsolicited #SEO tips' on LinkedIn, which has now been wrapped up into the Core Updates newsletter, along with an overview of weekly news and the current episode of the Search with Candour episode, hosted by Jack Chambers-Ward.
SEO tips and updates from Mark Williams-CookSearch with Candour hosted by Jack Chambers-Ward SEO updates you need to know 🛍️ AI Mode expands shopping features to include conversational queries and agentic checkouts. With agentic checkout, users can create alerts to buy a product once it drops within their specified budget. 🏷️ Google Search Console annotations may finally be rolling out. This much-requested feature was tested back in May and now users are reporting a wider rollout. Fingers...
SEO tips and updates from Mark Williams-CookSearch with Candour hosted by Jack Chambers-Ward SEO updates you need to know 📉 CTR drops by 61% when AI Overviews are present and 41% even when AIOs aren't present. This study by Seer Interactive demonstrates the continuing effects that AIOs are having on both organic and paid CTRs. 📊 GA4 adds new date ranges; 'last month', 'this month' and 'quarter to date' for reports. GA4 has added some helpful new reporting features and these specific date...
SEO tips and updates from Mark Williams-CookSearch with Candour hosted by Jack Chambers-Ward SEO updates you need to know 📊 Google announces Query Groups for Google Search Console. This new feature can group queries by different similar search intent, highest click volume, and trending up or down. Yes, it's basically regex filters. 🗣️ Google expands Gemini to Home assistant. This adds new LLM and search functionality to Google Home devices. That's right, the era of voice search is finally...