Archive of May, 2023

May, 31 2023

Large sequence models for software development activities Posted by Petros Maniatis and Daniel Tarlow, Research Scientists, Google Software isn’t [...] - Google Research
Google’s Search Relations Team Explores Web3’s SEO Impact via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google's Search Relations team discusses the potential impact of Web3 on SEO, highlighting [...] - Search Engine Journal
We turned Search Engine Land into a chatbot We trained ChatGPT on our content and turned our website into a chatbot so you can explore, [...] - Search Engine Land
Test driving Google’s Search Generative Experience Here are some early findings from a 30-query mini-study designed to push the limits of Google's [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Search Console Insights adds your growing content report This new report is designed to help those who have not associated their Search Console Insights [...] - Search Engine Land
How Google’s Search Generative Experience compares to ChatGPT, Bard, Bing Chat Here are some early findings from a 30-query mini-study designed to push the limits of Google's [...] - Search Engine Land
Google modifies shopping ads policies to enhance transparency The changes to the YouTube Shopping ad and Discovery products ad requirements aim to clarify [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Search Treats .AI ccTLD As gTLD (Domains) Google has updated its help document to add the .ai generic country code top level domain (ccTLD) [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Console Reporting Some Mobile Indexing As Desktop Indexing Google has a bug in Google Search Console where it reported some sites being indexed using mobile [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Record Lobby At Google - Search Engine Roundtable
Bing Chat Sports Grounding & Android Widget Bing Chat is now better at answering sports-related questions with new sports grounding and it also [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

May, 30 2023

How to use GA4 to optimize your digital marketing strategy Here's a framework for maximizing Google Analytics 4 to improve your digital marketing strategy. - Search Engine Land
Our 5 Doodle for Google Finalists share their stories of gratitude Announcing the 2023 Doodle for Google Finalists! - Inside Search
Google Search Console shows the wrong mobile indexing status for some sites Some have been wondering why their mobile-friendly sites are being crawled using the desktop [...] - Search Engine Land
Is your YouTube Channel a brand video graveyard? How to revive it Don't let your YouTube channel go to waste. Learn how to revitalize it and reap the rewards of a [...] - Search Engine Land
Bing Chat gains Android home widget and improved sports scores Plus, Bing Chat rolled out a number of improvements to SwiftKey. - Search Engine Land
Google Search Generative Experience Ends In December 2023? Google has noted that the Search Generative Experience as a labs experiment runs through the end of [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Console performance report delayed but Google will fix the issue At the time of writing this story, the reports were delayed by over 65 hours. - Search Engine Land
Google Search Console Performance Report Delayed 60+ Hours The Google Search Console Performance report is now delayed over 60 hours. For me, it is about 63 [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Allow GoogleBot To Bypass Age Gate On Adult Content Google has updated its SafeSearch, adult content filter, help documentation to say you should not [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: May 30, 2023 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Generative Experience Early Complaints & Responses From Google Google began to slowly roll out the Google Search Generative Experience on Thursday and I posted [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Marketing Live Photo From New GooglePlex - Search Engine Roundtable
Bing Video Search "More Like This" Action Bing has a feature in the Bing video search results to see "more like this" on video [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Bing Chat Adds Anchor Text Hyperlinks Within Answers Instead of just showing citations in the footer of the response and answers in Bing Chat, Bing is [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

May, 29 2023

Google Home Page On Memorial Day Today, like previous years, Google has posted a grayed-out logo and a small US flag, to commemorate [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

May, 27 2023

Google Search Generative Experience: A Look At SGE With 12 AI Overviews via @sejournal, @kristileilani Experience the future of search with Google's innovative Search Generative Experience (SGE) and [...] - Search Engine Journal

May, 26 2023

Google Search of today won’t exist in 10 years, says DeepMind co-founder Will 'old-school search' be gone in 10 years, thanks to ChatGPT, the new Bing and Google's new [...] - Search Engine Land
How to do B2B content marketing the right way (with 5 examples) Businesses that do content marketing right have a huge competitive advantage. Here's what [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Search Generative Experience Live For Some - Early Screenshots & Videocasts The all-new and exciting Google Search Generative Experience is now rolling out as a labs [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Barkour: Benchmarking animal-level agility with quadruped robots Posted by Ken Caluwaerts and Atil Iscen, Research Scientists, Google Creating robots that [...] - Google Research
Google Business Profiles Panel Tests Image Slider Google is testing adding an image carousel directly in the business profile panel. So at the top of [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Marketing Live AI Ads, Google Search Ranking Update, Topic Authority Ranking System & More This week, we had the big Google Marketing Live event where Google showcased more of how ads will [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Foundation models for reasoning on charts Posted by Julian Eisenschlos, Research Software Engineer, Google Research Visual language is [...] - Google Research
Daily Search Forum Recap: May 26, 2023 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Business Profile Bug: Unable To Invite New Owners Google Business Profiles has a bug that prevents you from inviting a new owner to your Business [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Product Listings 3D & 360 Imagery Are Different The other day, I reported that Google was testing replacing the 3D label with a 360 label. Well, I [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Dr. Michio Kaku Giving Google Talk - Search Engine Roundtable
Bing Preview Release Notes: Mobile Improvements and Sports Grounding This has been an exciting week! At Build 2023, we announced we’re bringing Bing to [...] - Bing Search

May, 25 2023

3 new ways generative AI can help you search Today, we’re starting to open up access to SGE (Search Generative Experience), one of our [...] - Inside Search
How Google Business Profile pre-defined services can impact local SEO Looking to boost your local SEO rankings? Consider adding pre-defined services to your Google [...] - Search Engine Land
Hands-on with Google’s new Search Generative Experience Here's your early look at a variety of searches on the new Google Search Generative Experience. - Search Engine Land
SEO and ChatGPT: What’s DAM got to do with it? by Cynthia Ramsaran In this webinar, learn ways OpenAI services can help, augment or assist users in their day-to-day [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Search Algorithm Ranking Volatility May 22 & 23 - Not Confirmed I am seeing signs of another unconfirmed Google search ranking algorithm update, this one kicking [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google opens access to Search Generative Experience today Some of you who signed up for the waitlist will get an email notifying you that you have access to [...] - Search Engine Land
Programming Note: Offline For Shavuot On Friday This is a programming note that I will be completely offline for the holiday of Shavout/Shavous, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Top Quality Store badge replaced Trusted Store badge Google said this change "will not affect your performance metrics at all." - Search Engine Land
Google Bard Gains Images With More Coming Soon As Google announced a week or so ago, Bard now can show images in the responses. Jack Krawczyk [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Interactive Suggestions For Your Search Google is testing a new feature named "suggestions for your search." It is an interactive [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
TikTok tests AI chatbot for search and discovery Company confirms the Taka chatbot, saying it is 'designed to help make it easier to discover [...] - Search Engine Land
Differentially private clustering for large-scale datasets Posted by Vincent Cohen-Addad and Alessandro Epasto, Research Scientists, Google Research, Graph [...] - Google Research

May, 24 2023

How to convince leadership why they can’t ignore SEO Struggling to get buy-in for your SEO efforts? Here are four things you can do to help leadership [...] - Search Engine Land
3 key trends impacting search marketing today From privacy legislation to campaign consolidation, here’s a rundown of events that [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Search Topic Authority Ranking System (Not New) Google posted a new blog post about an old ranking system it has not talked about before named [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Boost your visibility in search with online reviews by Digital Marketing Depot Take a closer look at how Google reviews, rankings, and ratings work together to help new [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Search bug caused a drop in video traffic Between May 4 and May 17, there was a bug with Google Search that caused sites to get less traffic [...] - Search Engine Land

May, 23 2023

Introducing a new era of AI-powered ads with Google We’re using generative AI in ads to help advertisers manage complexity and improve [...] - Inside Adwords
Understanding news topic authority To better surface relevant, expert, and knowledgeable content in Google Search and News, [...] - Google Webmaster Central
Google Topic Authority: An SEO Ranking System For News Sites via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google reveals new information about the 'Topic Authority' ranking system that delivers relevant [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Ads lets you create campaigns using conversational AI Google AI can help you create Google Ads campaigns – keywords, headlines, descriptions [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Ads adds 2 new campaign types: Video views, demand gen Advertisers will have new video-first campaign types at their disposal, Video view campaigns and [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Marketing Live 2023: Everything you need to know Here's a recap of all the Ads and marketing news from Google's annual event, including lots of [...] - Search Engine Land
7 new Google Ads features include Brand restrictions in broad match, AI in Smart Bidding More Google Ads improvements include top search categories for RSAs, campaign prefils, new tools [...] - Search Engine Land
Resolving code review comments with ML Posted by Alexander Frömmgen, Staff Software Engineer, and Lera Kharatyan, Senior Software [...] - Google Research
Together we’ll address public health crises and scale our health impact for billions of people. Our collaboration with WHO will focus on providing credible health information to positively [...] - Inside Search
How to land 1,830 ranking positions with only one article You don't always have to create many unique content pieces to earn multiple SERP rankings. [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Rich Results Test Tool Gains Brings Back Code Button Google has added back the edit code button to the Rich Results Test tool. Ryan Levering from [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Merchant Center Next to replace Merchant Center By 2024, Merchant Center Next will automatically be pulling in products, pricing, imagery and more [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Search Generative Experience integrates Search, Shopping ads A clearer picture has emerged with how ads will be natively integrated into Google's new Search [...] - Search Engine Land
Google launches new topic authority system to better surface news content Google said this will help with newsy queries in specialized topic areas, such as health, politics, [...] - Search Engine Land
New tools to help small businesses connect with online shoppers Merchants can use Product Studio to create product imagery with generative AI and easily list their [...] - Inside Adwords
Google Product Studio brings AI-generated images to advertisers This new Google tool will help merchants punch up existing product images into alternate creative [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Bard adds images in responses Bard now includes Google Search images for visual responses. You can also ask Bard for images. Each [...] - Search Engine Land
Impressive Google Nederland Lobby Wall Sign - Search Engine Roundtable
Bing at Microsoft Build 2023: Continuing the Transformation of Search Today, at the Microsoft Build conference, we’re taking the next steps to further expand how [...] - Bing Search
Bing Search Tests Blue Highlighted Text In AI Chat Answers Within Search Microsoft Bing is testing highlighting portions of the AI chat answer in blue, the one embedded in [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

May, 22 2023

Google has done its last mobile-first indexing switch today, a six-year process Any site not yet moved over will remain on desktop-indexing going forward. - Search Engine Land
7 top enterprise SEO tools compared: A comprehensive evaluation An in-depth look at seven tools used by enterprises for content optimization, technical SEO, and [...] - Search Engine Land
Neeva is shutting down its ads-free search engine Neeva beat Google and Microsoft in launching generative AI search with citations. But the ad-free [...] - Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: May 22, 2023 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Meta fined $1.3 billion by EU for privacy violations Meta has five months to put in place measures to halt future data transfers and six months to end [...] - Search Engine Land
20% of CMOs to invest less in paid search, SEO this year The latest Gartner CMO Spend report has CMOs trying to do more with less – and that could [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Branded Host Interview Cards - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Site names now support subdomains on mobile devices Google also said if you find issues, you can submit those issues in their forum. - Search Engine Land
Google Bulk Mobile-First Indexing Switch Batch Today (Last Batch Done) I am hearing reports from SEOs that Google did another batch switchover from desktop-first indexing [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Unusual AMP Crawl Issues Reported In Google Search Console Starting May 12th If you still use AMP on your site, then go to the AMP enhancements report in Google Search Console [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Incorrect Last Modification Date In HTTP Header Does Not Hurt Your SEO Google's John Mueller felt the need to post a PSA that said having an incorrect date set in your [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google 3D / AR Images On The Desktop Search Interface Google is now testing displaying the 3D/AR or 360 product images on desktop. This was live for [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

May, 20 2023

Neeva, The Ad-Free Search Engine, Announces Closure via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Neeva, the subscription-based, ad-free search engine, announces shutdown due to sustainability [...] - Search Engine Journal

May, 19 2023

Google: SSL Certificate Does Not Boost SEO via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google's John Mueller says that an SSL certificate won't boost your SEO - Search Engine Journal
What is content readability and how to make your content easier to read Content that doesn’t get read is useless. Learn how to create content your audience will read [...] - Search Engine Land
Keyword difficulty in SEO guide: Everything you need to know Here’s what keyword difficulty means for SEO, how the score is measured and tips for using it [...] - Search Engine Land
John Mueller Of Google On Gambling With SEO Shortcuts For the past 20 years, I've seen the SEO line; well, this SEO trick that is against Google's [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
YouTube to offer unskippable 30-second ads on connected TV YouTube is the most popular streaming service on TV screens in the U.S., with an estimated 150 [...] - Search Engine Land
OpenAI launches ChatGPT iPhone app The free ChatGPT app offers the same features as the web version, syncs history across devices and [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Documents Supported Languages For Translated Search Results Google has added to its support documentation the specific languages the Google Search translated [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Business Profiles Expanding Language Assistance Selection Google Business Profiles seems to be expanding which businesses can add and edit the languages they [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Dog Parking (Barking) Sign - Search Engine Roundtable

May, 18 2023

Google To Remove Inactive Accounts via @sejournal, @brookeosmundson Google will start removing inactive accounts that have been dormant for two years. Read more about [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Search Algorithm Ranking Volatility Around May 17th (Unconfirmed) For the past couple of days or so, maybe starting as early as May 16, 2023 through today, May 18, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
How to scale the use of large language models in marketing Learn ways to scale the use of large language models, the value of prompt engineering and how [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Analytics 4 audience builder gets a refresh GA4 has added new dimensions and metrics, more robust manipulation of event value and event count, [...] - Search Engine Land
New Google AI tools will let advertisers generate media assets YouTube creators may also get multiple AI-generated suggestions on what topics they could create [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Chrome will soon add 6 relevance and measurement APIs These enhancements are designed to offer a more realistic preview of the digital landscape without [...] - Search Engine Land
Google defines which languages translated search results will show up in Google Search The languages include Bengali, English, French, German, Marathi, Portuguese, Spanish, Tamil, and [...] - Search Engine Land
Microsoft Bing Chat is rolling out access to Bing Chat to more users Unauthenticated users, users not signed into Bing, may start to be able to use Bing Chat soon. - Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: May 18, 2023 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Bing Chat Rolling Out Not Signed In Access With Limited Chat Sessions Microsoft is rolling out allowing "unauthenticated" access to Bing Chat. This means, if [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
The future of SEO and why it’s not dying Here's what's in store for SEOs as the industry heads into a new era and why we must not get too [...] - Search Engine Land

May, 17 2023

How to optimize for entities Optimizing for entities will help your content perform better in search engines. Learn how to get [...] - Search Engine Land
Google-InspectionTool – the new Google crawler for Google testing tools Google has added a new Google crawler to its list, this one is uses for testing tools you use in [...] - Search Engine Land
How to optimize your Google Ads’ post-click content How can you further optimize your Google Ads program once everything is humming along smoothly? [...] - Search Engine Land
Popping Champagne On Google Dublin Office Bridge - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Console Insights Data Change Notice For Google Analytics 4 Google Search Console Insights is posting a notice that says there may be data changes in its [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Tests Circled-In Favicon Design Google is testing circling-in, drawing a circle around, the favicons displayed in the mobile search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
New Googlebot: Google-InspectionTool Added To Crawler User Agents Google has added a new user agent to the list of Google crawlers, Googlebots. This one is named [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

May, 16 2023

Google Helpful Content Update Can Demote & Now Promote Content The other day we reported how Google will be releasing an update to the helpful content system that [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Microsoft Unveils New Mobile-First Experiences For Bing & Edge via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Microsoft enhances the Bing mobile experience, integrates cross-platform chats, and adds innovative [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Bard Now Shows Citations Like Bing Chat Google announced last night that it is now better at showing citations, by adding a number by the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Navigate the world of AI before your competitors do by Ignite Visibility Join an expert-led AI ad event every digital marketer should attend. - Search Engine Land
3 Performance Max reporting and data limitations Be mindful of these limitations when extracting and analyzing PMax performance data within and [...] - Search Engine Land
50% of product searches start on Amazon Amazon dominates, but ratings and reviews, search engines and brand websites all play key roles in [...] - Search Engine Land
Amazon plans to add generative AI to its search experience Amazon is planning an AI initiative to reshape the future of search on the platform, according to [...] - Search Engine Land
Reading The Daddy Works at Google Book - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: No Plans For Historical Data With Search Console to BigQuery Bulk Data Export Google's John Mueller clarified that there are no plans to enable historical data exports with the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
5 ways to set the stage for a successful SEO engagement Tackling these items from the outset gives yourself a springboard into an effective SEO engagement [...] - Search Engine Land

May, 15 2023

Google’s SEO Best Practices For News Websites via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google's Search Advocate team shares SEO best practices for news sites, emphasizing content quality [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Reduces Local Pack Results In Web Search? Google seems to be showing fewer and fewer local packs for various queries in the Google Search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
HomeAdvisor Penalized By FTC For Alleged False Claims About Leads via @sejournal, @martinibuster HomeAdvisor punished by United States agency for allegedly using misleading tactics to sell leads [...] - Search Engine Journal
SEO and website design: How to build search engine-friendly sites Everything you need to know about SEO and website design and how to build a truly search [...] - Search Engine Land
Bing Chat Now With Visual Search Comparisons, Knowledge Cards & More On Friday afternoon, Microsoft Bing announced its weekly Bing Chat enhancements, including more [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Bard adds genuine citations in responses and more concise summaries Google released an update today that is better at summarizing information and identifying sources [...] - Search Engine Land
Why Google Needs To Encourage Clicks To Publishers In The Search Generative Experience - It's About Ads & Revenues There is a lot of concern and worry around the new Google Search Generative Experience and how that [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
10 SEO challenges faced by fast-growing SaaS companies When done right, SEO efforts can reduce SaaS customer acquisition costs and maximize marketing ROI [...] - Search Engine Land
Search ad conversion rates down, cost per lead up in 2023 While CPCs increased, a drop in conversion rates resulted in higher CPLs in the 23 industries [...] - Search Engine Land
Larger language models do in-context learning differently Posted by Jerry Wei, Student Researcher, and Denny Zhou, Principal Scientist, Google Research [...] - Google Research
Vlog #223: Glenn Gabe On Google Broad Core Updates In part one with Glenn Gabe, we talk about Bing chat and Google Bard and also the use of [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: May 15, 2023 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable
Consensus and subjectivity of skin tone annotation for ML fairness Posted by Candice Schumann, Software Engineer, and Gbolahan O. Olanubi, User Experience Researcher, [...] - Google Research
Google NYC Store Gave Away Free Flowers For Pixel 7a Launch - Search Engine Roundtable

May, 12 2023

Bing Preview Release Notes: Images in Chat Answers, Export, and More This week, we’ve continued to ship the new features we announced on May 4th and respond to [...] - Bing Search
Google Search Pronunciation Practice Feature Several years ago, Google Search added a search feature to help you pronounce words. Google Search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google I/O Search Algorithm Ranking Update - Unconfirmed I am seeing signs of another Google search algorithm ranking update touching down over the past [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Bing Chat gains image answers with knowledge cards and optimized answers These optimized answers go across shopping, weather, finance, jobs, autos, and recipes. - Search Engine Land
Quick SEO wins: 4 simple tactics to boost your organic traffic Take advantage of low-hanging fruits to boost your search visibility. Here are four ideas to help [...] - Search Engine Land
Why your website needs a resource center and how to create it Here are tips and examples to help you set up a resource center to boost your website traffic, [...] - Search Engine Land
Google rolling out related topics filter on desktop search results This was launched on mobile back in December and is now on desktop. - Search Engine Land
LinkedIn starts filtering connection, follower counts LinkedIn will no longer include restricted and hibernated accounts as part of the total number of [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Reiterates: Google Analytics 4 Deadline Is Not Changing Ginny Marvin, Google's Ads Liaison, posted on Twitter the other day saying, "The deadline is [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: Invalid Schema Markup Doesn't Hurt You Gary Illyes from Google said that having invalid schema markup does not hurt your rankings or your [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

May, 11 2023

Google Teases Update To Helpful Content System via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google teased a forthcoming update to its helpful content system at I/O. Here’s what we know [...] - Search Engine Journal
These 2 charts show Microsoft Bing’s search market share problem If Microsoft was hoping the new Bing would steal search market share from Google, well, the [...] - Search Engine Land
Forget link building, think link earning Here's why SEOs should move one from building links, how link earning works and the results you can [...] - Search Engine Land
How to steal your competitors’ featured snippets with ChatGPT (prompts included) A seven-step, ChatGPT-assisted process to streamline your featured snippet optimization and boost [...] - Search Engine Land
The interplay between organic and paid Google search by Digital Marketing Depot While many marketers understand that SEO and SEM work better together, the relationship between [...] - Search Engine Land
New Core Web Vitals Metric Coming: Interaction To Next Paint via @sejournal, @martinibuster Interaction to Next Paint upgraded from experimental metric to Pending Core Web Vital Metric - Search Engine Journal
Now Live: Google Search Perspectives Also, at Google I/O, Google announced the launch of "Perspectives" and the perspectives [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Helpful Content System To Find Hidden Gems In Blogs & Forums In Future Update Google also announced an upcoming update to the helpful content system (update) that will be [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
YouTube wants users to stop using ad blockers YouTube wants people using ad blockers to allow YouTube Ads, so the platform is experimenting with [...] - Search Engine Land

May, 10 2023

Supercharging Search with generative AI We’re starting with an experiment in Search Labs called SGE, Search Generative Experience, [...] - Inside Search
The new Google search generative experience: Here’s what it looks like AI-generated answers will appear above Google's search results listings. Google will cite the [...] - Search Engine Land
Google to update the helpful content system algorithm in the coming months Google said this update will help it 'understand content created from a personal or expert point of [...] - Search Engine Land
Wix Breaks New Ground With Launch Of Wix Headless via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Wix launches Wix Headless, enhancing developer flexibility and scalability by integrating its [...] - Search Engine Journal
New Google perspectives, about this image and AI-generated image labels In addition to the new Google Search generative experience, Google launched a few new features in [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Unveils Search Upgrades At I/O: Generative AI & ‘Perspectives’ via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google unveils AI-driven enhancements to Search at Google I/O, including a generative AI feature [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Finally Unofficially Comments On Drop in FAQ Rich Results Over the past month or so, we've been seeing a huge drop in the number of FAQ rich results Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
6 ways to use ChatGPT for Amazon marketing Amazon sellers can use the AI chatbot for data collection and analysis to marketing and customer [...] - Search Engine Land
Search Ads today and in the future As we use the power of generative AI to create more natural and intuitive Search experiences, ads [...] - Inside Adwords
15 ways to get smarter with your content and SEO Here’s a practical and timeless formula for SEO and content marketing success with a new take [...] - Search Engine Land
Google’s John Mueller Reminds Of Nuance In Nofollow Attributes via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google's John Mueller reminds of the different choices available when using nofollow link attributes - Search Engine Journal
Help us build the future of Search with Search Labs We're introducing Search Labs, a new way for you to sign up to test bold new products and ideas [...] - Inside Search
Introducing INP to Core Web Vitals In early 2020, Google's Chrome Team introduced the Core Web Vitals to provide a suite of quality [...] - Google Webmaster Central
Google will replace FID with INP as Core Web Vitals metric Google Search Console will add Interaction to Next Paint in the Core Web Vitals report later this [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Launches New Features To Improve Image Verification via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern To combat misinformation, Google updates search results with "About this image" and [...] - Search Engine Journal
What ads look like in the new Google Search generative experience Advertisers won't be able to immediately track how ads perform in the new Google Search experience [...] - Search Engine Land
Google I/O Is Today - Watch The Keynote Here Google I/O kicks off today and we are all expecting really big Google Search-related news today. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: High Quality Content Might Still Be Of Low Value To The Web Google's John Mueller had one of his good oneliners again. He posted a reply on Twitter saying, [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

May, 9 2023

How Google’s Hreflang x-default Enhances Website Navigation via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google highlights hreflang x-default's benefits, including enhanced user experience, improved URL [...] - Search Engine Journal
6 strategies to maximize your marketing budget by Digital Marketing Depot Learn why SEO is the best marketing strategy during a recession and how to identify new [...] - Search Engine Land
Microsoft: Bing Chat Growing Faster Than Servers Can Handle Microsoft Bing Chat is growing so fast that the team can't add enough GPUs fast enough to keep up [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
An SEO guide to nofollow, UGC and sponsored links With these attributes, you have greater control over how search engines identify certain links. [...] - Search Engine Land
Google On Protecting Anchor Text Signal From Spam Site Influence via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google explains one way it maintains the quality of their anchor text signals - Search Engine Journal
News content could vanish from Meta in Canada Meta strikes back at 'flawed' legislation that would force it to pay news publishers to use their [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Business Profile Conversion Actions & Chats In Google Ads Anthony Higman shared a couple new Google Ads and Google Business Profile items yesterday on [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
7 important YouTube Ads lessons you need to learn Trying to figure out why your YouTube Ads results aren’t better? Here are key lessons from [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Maps With Addresses In Multiple Languages Google can show your business address in more than one language within Google Maps and the Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Microsoft Advertising Ads For AI Chat Solutions Microsoft Advertising announced a new ad solution for AI-powered chat experiences and solutions. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Microsoft: Bing Chat AI Models May Be Updated Three Times Per Year Mikhail Parakhin, the CEO of Bing Search, said on Twitter that Bing Chat's various AI models take [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

May, 8 2023

Is This What Google Search May Be Launching At I/O? For the past couple of weeks now, we've been hearing reports of how Google will change Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Your guide to Google Ads keyword terminology Improve your PPC targeting strategy by understanding the differences in keyword terminology and [...] - Search Engine Land
How x-default can help you A few recent issues made us realize that the hreflang x-default value is potentially underused [...] - Google Webmaster Central
An SEO’s guide to understanding large language models Here's what SEOs need to know about large language models, natural language processing and [...] - Search Engine Land
Google: hreflang x-default Can Help Feed URLs To Google It Might Not Otherwise See Gary Illyes from Google posted on the Google Search blog about some of the more "hidden" [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
An SEO’s guide to understanding large language models (LLMs) Here's what SEOs need to know about large language models, natural language processing and [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Search Snippet With Visual Explore Features We have seen the Google Explore feature many times, but here is a similar explore feature but as a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: May 8, 2023 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Coconut Chia Pudding At Google - Search Engine Roundtable
Vlog #222: Glenn Gabe on AI Content, E-E-A-T & The Future In part one with Glenn Gabe, we talk about Bing chat and Google Bard and also the use of [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Bing Search "Learn More On" & Microsoft Edge Deal Days Microsoft Bing is testing a new section named "Learn more on." This section seems to give [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Local Business Panel: Chat With Live Agent Google has been rolling out "chat with live agent" buttons in some local business panels [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

May, 7 2023

Google Search to become more “visual, snackable, personal, and human” With Google I/O around the concern, we are all expecting big news from Google on how Google Search [...] - Search Engine Land

May, 5 2023

Top 10 SEO benefits of building a brand that people trust To grow your business, brand building and SEO must go hand in hand. Here's what you'll stand [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Early May Search Algorithm Unconfirmed Update Heats Up Earlier this week, we reported on an unconfirmed Google search ranking update on May 1st and 2nd. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Issues Statement About Support for Cross-Domain Canonicals via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google clears the air about their support for the canonical link element - Search Engine Journal
Google: We Do Not Trust Links From Spammy Sites In the latest Google SEO office hours, Google said that Google does not trust outbound links from a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
How to turn polls and surveys into great content Here's why you should use polls and surveys to inform content creation and how to turn audience [...] - Search Engine Land
Google: No Healthy Percentage Of Traffic For Googlebot Activity John Mueller of Google said there is no percentage of traffic you should expect from your Googlebot [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Tests Perspectives Search Menu Filter Google seems to be testing the ability to filter by perspectives. Google is testing a button to [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Yellow Onesie With Baby - Search Engine Roundtable

May, 4 2023

Google: It's A Terrible Idea To Disavow Links Based On Third-Party Metrics Google's John Mueller said it is a "terrible idea" to disavow links based on metrics from [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google Indexing Speed: Key Factors Include Quality + Popularity via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google's Gary Illyes advises focusing on high-quality content and increasing social media [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Updates Guidance on Cross-Domain Canonicals via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google changed their guidance on the use of cross-domain canonicals for syndicated content - Search Engine Journal
Google no longer requires video descriptions as part of structured data Empty descriptions will no longer show up as errors in the Search Console reports. - Search Engine Land
Microsoft Unveils Next-Gen Bing & Edge: The Future of Search via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Microsoft enhances Bing and Edge with improved AI, visual capabilities, multi-session experiences, [...] - Search Engine Journal
AI in search: Insights from Bing’s Fabrice Canel Microsoft veteran Fabrice Canel offers insights into the state of AI in search and the integration [...] - Search Engine Land
Bing Chat available to more users, gains more visual answers, chat history and third-party developer capabilities Over half a billion chats were conducted on Bing Chat since it launched, 3-months ago. - Search Engine Land
How to use incentives in your PPC ads to drive more sales Too often, bad prices or UX can hinder a sale. But with a small incentive, you can break through [...] - Search Engine Land
Google: Search Impression Share Not Coming To PMax Campaigns Google Ads seems like it will not be adding Search Impression Share reporting to Performance Max [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: May 4, 2023 Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... - Search Engine Roundtable

May, 3 2023

Google Announces 8 New Top Level Domains Including One For Lawyers via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google announces new Top Level Domains including one that has value for law firms - Search Engine Journal
May 1st & 2nd Google Search Ranking Algorithm Update - Unconfirmed Over the past couple of days, I have been seeing signs of a possible Google search ranking [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google no longer recommends canonical tags for syndicated content Instead, Google says block your syndicated content from being indexed. - Search Engine Land
Chrome HTTPS Lock Icon Is Going Away via @sejournal, @martinibuster The Chrome lock icon scheduled to be replaced by another one that is less misleading - Search Engine Journal
Why most brands fail at link building: Top 5 mistakes Here’s why most brands fail at link building and how the successful ones build high-quality [...] - Search Engine Land
10 ways to build quality backlinks for any website Learn how you can scale your link building efforts and achieve SEO success in any industry or niche. - Search Engine Land
GA4 custom funnel reports are here The report can help you identify steps in the funnel that need improvement. - Search Engine Land
YouTube has a new interface, and not everyone is excited about it The experiment is only available to a handful of people at the moment. - Search Engine Land
Google Updates Canonicalization Help Document: Don't Use Canonicals For Syndicated Content Google has updated its help documentation for canonicalization. It removed a line about syndicated [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Microsoft Advertising Gains Campaign-Level Change History, Code-Free Conversions & Postpones Enhanced CPC Microsoft Advertising announced many new changes and information yesterday, including a new [...] - Search Engine Roundtable

May, 2 2023

Google’s John Mueller Clarifies WebP Image Indexing Confusion via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google's John Mueller addresses concerns about WebP image indexing, clarifying its appearance in [...] - Search Engine Journal
Google Tests Colored Backgrounds For Shopping Ad Carousel Google is testing using different lightly colored backgrounds for the shopping ads carousel in [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
4 performance PR secrets to boost your search visibility These PR trade tips can help your brand land big placements and reap valuable search discovery and [...] - Search Engine Land
Google: Avoid Using "Coming Back Soon" Pages For Site Migrations Google's John Mueller said he would "try very hard to avoid having a "coming back [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
May 2023 Google Webmaster Report While last month's Google webmaster report was filled with the Google March core update, the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google: We Use A Mix Of Factors To Determine Content That Demonstrates E-E-A-T Google has been saying for years now that there is no E-A-T (or now E-E-A-T) algorithm, but Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
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May, 1 2023

Google’s John Mueller Tackles “Dumb” SEO Questions On Reddit via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google's John Mueller demystifies SEO tactics in a Reddit Q&A, emphasizing unique content, [...] - Search Engine Journal
SEO product manager vs. SEO manager: What’s the difference? Learn the different expectations between these two roles and how each is designed to operate within [...] - Search Engine Land
New Google Business Profiles Tips To Avoid Bulk Verification Delays Google has a help document on "Common issues that delay bulk verification" that it [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Poll: Most SEOs Got Started By Reading & Practicing Alone A poll on Twitter asks SEOs how they got started doing SEO. The poll showed that most got started [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
More effective media buying on apps Details on how Google Ads plans to buy media on apps and an update on Google bidding with [...] - Inside Adwords
ChatGPT fails: 13 common errors and mistakes you need to know Learn ChatGPT's limitations so you can establish guardrails for using the tool and leverage its [...] - Search Engine Land
Google On Using Noindex & Canonical Tags Historically, Google has said you should not use a noindex along with a canonical tag at the same [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Google expands media buying with real-time bidding integrations The integrations are meant to assist advertisers in becoming more competitive when targeting new [...] - Search Engine Land
Google Image & Video Search Test Blurring Explicit Content, Instead Of Removing It Google Image Search and Google Video Search has historically simply removed content from its search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
Brave Search Cuts Ties With Bing & Goes Independent via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Brave Search achieves full independence, operating solely on its own index, bolstering user privacy [...] - Search Engine Journal
New ways to build awareness with YouTube Shorts This week at the IAB NewFronts, we’re announcing new ways to introduce Shorts into your [...] - Inside Adwords
Google Knowledge Local Panel "Often Searched Together" Section Google seems to be testing a new section on the local knowledge panels named "often searched [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
3 new enhancements for YouTube Shorts The new features are being announced at the IABFronts conference this week. - Search Engine Land
Google Europa Nap, Parents, Game Room Sign - Search Engine Roundtable