The SEO Weekly
Checkout on Google: eCommerce SEO - Episode 73
Where queries are weird, advice is controversial, and everything depends.
In this week’s episode, we cover Google’s move to streamline the checkout process of purchasing a product from an eCommerce search result, an invitation to implement a web standard around search engine scraping for LLM training, and the sunsetting of Google’s Universal Analytics.
We also discuss the upcoming helpful content update, content syndication, and SEO Workflows.
Also:
- SGE Panel Discussions
- Twitter SEO
- Google Bias and Perspectives
Host: Garrett Sussman | Demand Generation Manager
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Show notes / References:
Google/SERP Updates:
- A principled approach to evolving choice and control for web content – Google
- Google just announced “checkout on Google”, a new, powerful way of directly sending customers to your checkout page from free organic listings. – H/T Kevin Indig
- Buy on Google program to shut down Sept. 26 – Danny Goodwin – Search Engine Land
- Google Analytics 4 has replaced Universal Analytics – Google
- Looker Studio Report converting back to UA – Aoakudotcom
- Universal Analytics Eulogy from Brie Anderson
AI Generation and SEO:
- Search Generative Experience Roundtable Discussion – Clearscope
- How to Prepare Your SEO Strategy for Google’s AI-Powered Search Results – Botify
SEO Twitter/LinkedIn:
- Twitter SEO Disaster – Sistrix – Cyrus Shepard
- List of SEOs worth following on Threads – Lidia Infante
- Google’s testing tools no longer mimic Googlebot’s user-agent – Tomek Rudzki
General SEO:
- Google’s Helpful Content & Other AI Systems May Be Impacting Your Site’s Visibility – Dr. Marie Haynes
- How to Create an SEO Workflow for Content Success – Ryan Jones – SEOTesting
- GA4 for B2B: How to track events and conversions – Gemma Fontané – Search Engine Land
- Guard Your SEO: Are News Syndication Partners Hijacking Your Traffic? – John Shehata – Newz Dash
- Double Whammy Rankable – Google Bias & Google Perspectives
- Google Bias Under the Microscope ft. Jack Chambers-Ward – Part 1 – Rankable Ep. 115
- Google Perspectives with Garrett Sussman – Search with Candour
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