Welcome to Part I of Edition No. 28 of my weekly newsletter, providing practical analysis in the world of digital content strategy.
Highlights from Friday’s updates:
There’s One Platform Still More Popular Than TikTok (with Teens)
Top 20 LinkedIn Courses are Free This Month
Don’t Expect Google Lens Data in Search Console Soon
Contents
I. Tip: Get Indexed on Google Faster
II. Analysis: Bounce Rate is Here for Real. I’ll Show You How To Access it
Tip: Request Google Index Your Page
Did you just publish a new piece of content? Want to make sure it shows up in Google search results as soon as possible?
Here’s how to speed up the process:
Copy the URL of the content
Go to your Search Console account
Paste the link in the search bar at the top of the page.
You’ll likely see a message that the page is not indexed. Click the “Request Indexing” button
You’re all set! Your content has now been added to a priority crawl queue.
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Analysis: Bounce Rate is Here for Real Now
A few weeks ago we talked about how bounce rate was finally added to Google Analytics 4. (Forget the fact that it was available all along if you simply inverted engagement rate.)
At that time, though, it had only been announced and not yet added to the dashboard.
Also See: How To Lower Bounce Rate in GA4
Now, however, you can find bounce rate in GA4. Here are the two ways to do it:
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