Google Rolls Out Updates To The Search Generative Experience Including Algorithm Improvements
Google has rolled out some updates to the Search Generative Experience (SGE) the company announced on its blog. One update is that SGE should now respond with higher-quality, more accurate responses, the second update is to write responses on sensitiv…
Bing Chat History For Personalized Answers Only For Edge Now
Last week, we reported about the new Bing Chat personalized answers feature that uses your chat history to give you a more tailored answer to your queries. But that might only work in Edge, Microsoft’s browser.
IndexNow Added To Wix
Wix now supports IndexNow, the Microsoft initiative to make indexing more efficient and faster. With that, Microsoft said, “more than 60 million websites are publishing over 1.4 billion URLs per day to the IndexNow API.”
Google Ads VP Emails Chrome & Search Team For Ranking Tweaks & Query Injections From Chrome
A new email was leaked as part of the DOJ investigation, this was was from Jerry Dischler, the Vice President of Google Ads. The email was to Prabhakar Raghavan, who leads up all of search including Google Search and Google Ads but also to the leads of…
Search Central Live Zurich is back!
We’re very excited to announce that Search Central Live is coming back to Zurich on Tuesday, October 24th, 2023!
After our last Search Central Live event in Zurich in December 2019, we’re back in town for more presentations, Q&A and networking!
Google September 2023 Helpful Content Completed Rolling Out – Targeting SEO-First Content
Google, at around 3 am ET this morning, announced that the September 2023 Google helpful content update has finished rolling out. It took about 14 days, starting on September 14, 2023, and completing today on September 28, 2023. This update really went…
Microsoft Advertising Hiding Search Ads On Bing Search Again?
A few months ago we reported how it was nearly impossible for a trained SEM to spot the ad label on these Microsoft Advertising search ads on Bing Search. Well, now, Bing is testing not showing an ad label at all on these ads in Bing Search.
Google Ads Gains Share Alerts With Expiration Dates
Google Ads seems to have added a new feature to the account alerts section that lets you set up alerts to go to email addresses but now lets you define when those alerts may expire. So if you want to share alerts for a short or defined period of time, …
Google: We Won’t Stop Giving Advice To SEOs Despite Some Creating Made For Google Sites
Google’s John Mueller defends Google’s position of helping SEOs by providing documentation, video content, and responses to questions on multiple channels. This comes after some are upset that Google is targeting content and websites that are overly SE…
Google Ads Prescription Drug Services Medicines Policy Updated
Google will update the Google Ads Healthcare and Medicines policy from Prescription drug sale policy to Prescription drug services. “The Healthcare and medicines policy page will be updated to reflect the new language on October 10, 2023,” Google said.
ChatGPT Relaunches Browse With Bing Respecting Robots.txt Protocols
OpenAI has relaunched the browse with Bing feature in ChatGPT which lets users use ChatGPT leveraging the index of Bing Search. This was after Open AI turned off the feature after it was caught accessing content behind paywalls.
Google To Block Bard Shared Conversations From Google Search
Google launched shared conversations in Google Bard about a week ago and forgot to ensure search engines can’t index the results. The robots.txt had(s) nothing in it to block bard.google.com/share from being indexed and since Google Search likes to in…
Google Updates Charts & Content On Analyzing Organic Search Traffic Drops
A few years ago, Google’s Daniel Waisberg wrote two blog posts, one on analyzing Google Search traffic drops and the other on improving SEO with a Search Console bubble chart. Both those blog posts are now new evergreen Google search help documents wit…
Google’s 25th Birthday Doodle Shows Some Of The Early Google Logos
Today is Google’s official 25th birthday and to celebrate Google has a special Doodle that showcases some of Google’s early Google logos. Google wrote, “Let’s take a walk down memory lane to learn how we were born 25 years ago…”
Microsoft: Bing Chat Precise Mode Now Better
Bing Chat’s precise mode has received a big upgrade that makes those answers a lot better. “Finished rolling out a pretty big update in our Precise mode of Bing Chat – no new features, just better answers,” Mikhail Parakhin from Microsoft announced on X.
Google Spam Policies & Ranking Systems Guide Updated For CSAM Content
Google has added new content to its spam policies and ranking systems guide specific to child sexual abuse material (CSAM) content. Google now clearly says that they “always remove such content when it is identified” and Google will “demote all conten…
Google Helpful Content Update’s Last Surge Of Ranking Fluctuations?
Over the past couple of days, I’ve seen more chatter of ranking movement for those SEOs initially impacted by the September 2023 helpful content update. I wonder if this is the last push, the last surge, of this helpful content update before Google sa…
Microsoft Advertising Copilot To Create Ads and New Compare & Decide Bing Chat Ads
At the Microsoft AI event last Thursday, Microsoft also announced new AI-based ad features in the upcoming months. This includes Copilot, which will help you create ads in Microsoft Advertising, and a new ad format exclusive to the Bing Chat interface …
Bing Offers Methods To Block Bing Chat From Using Your Content
Bing decided not to wait for the alternative approach to a robots.txt method for blocking AI tools from using your content and decided to go with what is out there now, meta tag approaches. Bing will continue to work with the rest of the AI community …
Google Ads May Suspend Advertisers Over Non-Fulfillment Issues
Google Ads will update ads policies to suspend advertisers over non-fulfillment and non-delivery of products or services due to a lack of qualifications.