Google Merchant Center now (as of July 1st) automatically calculates tax for U.S. merchants — no manual setup required. Why we care. The change eliminates a frequent source of product disapprovals and simplifies the feed setup process, especially for retailers using dynamic shipping rates. How it works. Google will now apply the correct sales tax […]
Google faces EU antitrust complaint over AI Overviews
A coalition of independent publishers filed a formal antitrust complaint with the European Commission against Google, accusing the tech giant of using its AI-generated summaries — known as AI Overviews — to siphon traffic and revenue from news outlets across Europe. The group, led by the Independent Publishers Alliance, is also urging regulators to impose […]
Black Hat SEO – A Bad Idea Disguised As A Cunning Plan
Since the development of Search Engine Optimisation as a concept, there has been a fairly obvious temptation for some people to try to rig the system in their favor by using the principles of SEO in a less-than-honest way. Because the idea of SEO is they keywords create cash, the idea that has occurred to […]
Is There Such A Thing As Too Much SEO?
It is obviously not easy to write good, SEO-compliant content for a website and still have a standard of content which will impress your readers, and this often shows in the more amateurish attempts at writing a website. One mistake a lot of people make is in thinking that the more they use a keyword, […]
SEO: A Tool For Boosting Your Ranking, Not A Silver Bullet
There are many people who have just enough knowledge of the way the Internet and search engines work to know that search engine optimization is important, but not enough knowledge to know that it will not just solve all your problems. SEO is not something you can apply and then sit back and wait for […]