Daily Search Forum Recap: April 30, 2024
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…
OpenAI deal puts ChatGPT on path of showing content and links in response to queries, which may be good news for publishers & SEO The post OpenAI To Show Content…
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Microsoft announced the general availability of Copilot in the Microsoft Advertising Platform. This means you can now use Copilot (Microsoft’s AI) natural language conversational chat, asset recommendations, and image asset…
Last week, Shameem Adhikarath shared an example of an individual that shows up twice as two different entities in Google Search. It is like maybe Google was fed two distinct…
Tuta Mail, a popular encrypted email service, complained to European Union tech regulators that Google dropped its rankings for all sorts of keyword phrases with the Google March 2024 core…
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One of my pet peeves is when people send me screenshots of pages they want me to read and do not include the URL to that page. Well, the Google…
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Google has renamed the Product Sites search filter to Product Websites. These only really show up in the European regions and starting last week, Google renamed “Sites” to “Websites.”
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Google’s Mueller shares insights on regaining visibility after algorithm updates, though recovery timeline remains unclear. The post Google’s John Mueller On Website Recovery After Core Updates appeared first on Search…
Google removes the manual submission option for Google News from the Publishers Center The post Google News Deletes Manual Submission Option appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web. Google’s March 2024…
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Google Search Analyst Gary Illyes addresses AI, site migrations, and “SEO is dead” claims, offering insights for SEO professionals. The post Google’s Gary Illyes On AI, Site Migrations, & “SEO…
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Danny Sullivan, Google’s Search Liaison, said that the search company will add the upcoming site reputation abuse policy to the spam reporting tool when the policy begins to be enforced.
A week ago, Anu Adegbola wrote a fabulous piece on some new privacy changes that may be coming to Google Chrome in the future named Chrome IP masking and how…
Google is auto-translating some of the content within the Google Knowledge Panels and blocks. So if you are in a location where you don’t only speak English, Google may show…
Apple Business Connect now lets you add links to your local listings that show up in Apple Maps. This is under the “actions” section that enables customers to order food,…
Google has for a long time used AI to write some knowledge panels. But now Google is labeling some of these AI written knowledge panels with “Al overviews are experimental”…
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Google made a significant update to the documentation on how to diagnose the causes ranking drops The post Big Update To Google’s Ranking Drop Documentation appeared first on Search Engine…
Google completed major March 2024 core update on April 19, a week before announcing it to the public. The post Google March 2024 Core Update Officially Completed A Week Ago…
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The Google March 2024 core update finished a week ago and Google did not tell us until today. It finished officially on April 19, 2024, and took 45 days to…
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…
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Google’s core update is still rolling out over 7 weeks later and yes we are seeing more fluctuations and chatter. Forbes blocked its coupon directory in preparation for the Google…
Google has removed the feature to add publications manually to the Google Publisher Center. Instead, publications will be automatically added when Google’s algorithms decide to.
Google is testing placing the date in the snippet on the same line as the URL in the snippet. This is instead of placing it before the snippet’s description section.
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Google is now sharing the Googlebot IP ranges for the User-triggered fetchers. User-triggered fetchers are from Google tools and product functions where the end user triggers a fetch.
Google and Microsoft both reported very good earnings, driving both stock prices up after hours. I like to dive into the ad revenue side, and it looks like Google Ad…
Google Ads is showing yet another new and fun notice to some advertisers. This one shows an impression issue for “Low keyword quality.” As a reminder, as for diagnostic insights,…
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Alphabet’s Q1 revenue up 15%, driven by Search and YouTube shine. Google reshuffles AI teams for “Gemini era” integration. The post Google Declares It The “Gemini Era” As Revenue Grows…
Google’s Infini-attention is a plug and play technology that can be added to existing models, including core algorithm systems The post Google’s New Infini-Attention And SEO appeared first on Search…
A Google podcast highlights the potential for factual errors in AI-generated content, stressing human oversight is critical. The post Google Stresses The Need To Fact Check AI-Generated Content appeared first…
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…
Google updated their Googlebot and Crawler documentation to add a second list of IP addresses The post Google Crawler Documentation Has A New IP List appeared first on Search Engine…
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New AI creative assistant doesn’t generate content. It democratizes high quality writing. Comes in free and modestly priced versions. The post DeepL Write: New AI Editor Improves Content Quality appeared…
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Over the past few days, while I was offline, the SEO chatter around the Google search ranking volatility continued to be super heated. The Google tracking tools seemed to calm…
Ed Zitron wrote a piece named The Man Who Killed Google Search. It goes through in detail how Prabhakar Raghavan, Google’s former head of ads – led a coup so…
Google has updated its favicon documentation for Google Search to add definitions for each supported rel attribute value in the Google Search favicon documentation.
Google released version 16.1 of the Google Ads API yesterday. The update includes query assets for Demand Gen, more location service details, more support warnings, Target ROAS bid simulation and…
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Google postpones Chrome’s third-party cookie deprecation to 2025 amid challenges, giving websites more transition time. The post Google Further Postpones Third-Party Cookie Deprecation In Chrome appeared first on Search Engine…
Discover how to demonstrate expertise, authority, trustworthiness, and experience for your content by learning about the latest updates to Google’s search quality rater guidelines. The post Google E-E-A-T: What Is…
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…
Google revised their favicon documentation with new wording that makes it easier to understand The post Google Revised The Favicon Documentation appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Google warns of “new reality” amid search struggles, accelerates timelines, while critics allege prioritizing revenue over quality. The post Google Warns Of “New Reality” As Search Engine Stumbles appeared first…
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Gary Illyes from Google said on stage at the SERP conference last week that there is no way that Google would change how the 301 redirect signal works for SEO…
Google may be testing a new design for the Google Image search results. This design looks like a tablet-like interface that is more boxes, and, honestly, it seems like it…
Google’s John Mueller said the link best practices SEO documentation on its website are still “good guidelines” for both SEO and overall “accessibility & UX reasons.” The guidelines are only…
Google is testing placing the year the company was established on Google Ads. The ads have “established in” next to the ad description, so these seem to be ad extensions…
Microsoft is testing moving the lock icon in the Bing Search results snippets from the left of the URL to the right of the URL. Well, most of the time…
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This comprehensive guide will teach you everything you need to know about writing effective prompts for ChatGPT for engaging and SEO-friendly content. The post How To Write ChatGPT Prompts To…
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Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…
Google’s John Mueller offered his insight into the extraordinary outcome of why three similar domain name migrations The post Google Explains A Weird Domain Migration Outcome appeared first on Search…
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Knowing your competitors’ keywords is the easiest form of keyword research. If your competitors rank for or target particular keywords, it might be worth it for you to target them,…
I am not sure how many times Google has said that you do not need to disavow spammy links, that you can ignore link spam attacks and that links pointing…