Report: OpenAI To Launch Search Engine
Over the past week or so, I’ve seen two signals that OpenAI will launch its own search engine of sorts soon. The first is that search.chatgpt.com is showing in the log files for some servers, and also, yesterday, there were more business-oriented rumo…
Google Ads To Automatically Pause Low-Activity Keywords Next Month
Google Ads will automatically pause low-activity keywords starting in June 2024. That means campaigns with keywords that were created over 13 months ago and have zero impressions over the past 13 months will be paused.
Forbes Completely Removes (410 Server Status) Coupon Directory
A couple of weeks ago Forbes blocked its coupons directory on its website from being crawled by Google. Now Forbes has completely wiped out all the coupons from its site, serving a 410 status code and removing the coupons link from its navigation.
Google Ads To Disallow Services For Deepfake Sexual Content
Google Ads, Shopping Ads, Admob, and other Google Ads products will soon disallow deepfake sexual content, synthetic sexually explicit content, or synthetic content containing nudity services. I mean, this seems like something they should have disallo…
Did Google really lose search market share to Microsoft Bing in April?
Google has lost search market share in the U.S., North America, globally and elsewhere. Meanwhile Bing and Yahoo grew. Is the data accurate?
Daily Search Forum Recap: May 1, 2024
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 Ads posted its first feature announcement in over two months…
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Google Ads Posts First New Feature Announcement In Two Months – PMax Updates
Google Ads has posted its first new features announcement in its help section in over two months. This was to announce several Performance Max campaigns features, which we will get into below. But like I reported earlier, Google has not posted anythin…
Googling “Flag GIF” Leads To Nazi Flags In Google Search
If you search for [flag GIF] on Google, click on the “waiving” refinement, you are taken to images of Nazi flags. I waited a full week to report on this, a full week from when Google acknowledged the issue and it is still an issue.
Bing Webmaster Tools Notifications & Insights Bug Fixed
Fabrice Canel from Microsoft confirmed Microsoft has fixed a bug with Bing Webmaster Tools showing inaccurate and/or irrelevant notifications in the notifications and insights section. Fabrice wrote, “Happy to report that the fix has been implemented …
Google SGE AI Overviews Has A New Title – AI Answer
Google is now labeling or using the title of its SGE, Search Generative Experience, “AI Answer.” This replaces the title “AI Overviews” and “Al overviews are experimental.” This change happened on Monday, I believe.
Most SEOs Did Not Send Feedback To Google On The March 2024 Core Update
Google opened up its feedback form after it announced the Google March 2024 core update was completed and it seems most SEOs did not send Google feedback. Why? Maybe because many don’t believe Google will use that feedback to help them? Maybe because …
video is not the main content type of the page
video pages are removed from the index
Reminder: New Google Search reputation abuse policy starts soon
Google’s new Search spam policy related to reputation abuse (or parasite SEO) will take effect in just a few days, after May 5.
Google Ads will pause low-activity keywords starting in June
Active keywords with no impressions in the past 13 months will be paused. If you re-enable them, they could be paused again after 3 months.
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The future of SEO in an AI-powered world
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Optimizing for INP, the new Core Web Vitals metric
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