New In Microsoft Advertising: Target Shoppers By Browsing Categories With Keyword Boosters
The Microsoft Advertising team announced its PromoteIQ launched a new way to target your ads, by targeting shoppers based on the categories they browse with the ability to also use keywords as a booster for campaign bids.
Bing Webmaster Tools API Missing A Week Of Data
The Bing Webmaster Tools API might have a week of data loss, a data gap, if you will. There was some sort of issue where the API was not returning data after March 3rd and then after Glenn Gabe reported it to Microsoft’s Fabrice Canel, Microsoft fixed…
Daily Search Forum Recap: March 22, 2023
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 has started to roll out Bard, its AI chat feature…
Google Bard Begins To Slowly Rollout – Citations, Limitations & Early Access
Yesterday, Google began to slowly roll out Google Bard to some initial reporters and also Google opened up a waitlist to users in the US and UK. I personally do not have access just yet, but I have a feeling I might have access soon.
Bing Chat Can Make Images With Image Creator
Microsoft has announced that Bing Chat in “creative” mode can now create images based on you inputting a description of what you want it to create or referencing another image. Jordi Ribas from Microsoft said on Twitter, “now you can create an image by…
Google Ranking Updates Added To Google Search Status Dashboard
Google has added a new section to the Google Search Status Dashboard – Ranking. The Ranking section will show the confirmed Google ranking updates that Google already posts on its Google updates page.
Microsoft To Relax Bing Chat Limits On Balanced Mode Before Other Modes
Microsoft is planning first to work on relaxing the Bing Chat limits and chat caps for the balanced mode before working on relaxing those limits on other modes, said Mikhail Parakhin, CEO of Bing.
Google: URLs Excluded By Robots.txt Aren’t Removed Until URLs Are Individually Reprocessed
Google’s John Mueller posted a clarification on how and when Google processes the removal requests, or exclusion requests, you make in your robots.txt. The action is not taken when Google discovers the change in your robots.txt, but rather after first …
Blending Search Console and internal data inside Looker Studio
One advantage of analyzing your performance data outside Search Console is that it allows you to
add more context to your reports, you can enrich the data with internal data you have about your
site. In this post we discuss how to en…
SEO checklist in Excel (2023)
The SEO Checklist in Excel is an excel spreadsheet to help you manage your SEO (search engine optimisation) project from both a site-wide level and a page-level perspective.
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Daily Search Forum Recap: March 21, 2023
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.
Bing Chat is now appearing in the Bing Search answers box section…
Bing Chat Answers Now In Bing Search Results
If you do some queries in Bing Search, you may get the Bing Chat box and a brief answer from Bing Chat at the top. We knew this was coming, Mikhail Parakhin, the CEO of Microsoft Bing said it would a week or so ago and now it seems to be here.
Bing Chat Access Content Behind Paywalls?
There is some concern and speculation on the internet that Microsoft Bing is feeding in content behind paywall and using such content to provide answers in Bing Chat. I asked Bing Chat if it can give answers based on content behind paywalls and it said…
Google: Keyword Stuffing Alone Does Not Make A Page Unhelpful
Google’s John Mueller said that keyword stuffing alone would not make a page be deemed unhelpful. John added that Google is good at ignoring tactics like keyword stuffing, so that alone likely won’t be the reason for ranking issues in Google Search.
Google Tests Only One Star Icon In Local Pack Results
Google is testing showing only one star in the local pack in the search results. This is instead of showing five stars with some of those stars filled in with yellow. I am not seeing the single star partially filled up, but all those businesses may ha…
Google Local Services Ads Updated The Industry & Services Selector
Google has updated the industry and services selector or picker tool within the Google Local Service Ads interface. This makes it a bit faster to find and activate your business’s services and industries.
Vlog #215: Sam Michelson On Google Algorithm Updates With Reputation Management
In part one, we spoke about who Sam Michelson is and his business development techniques. In part two, we dove into CRM software and how they use it, including looking at a new piece of software for partner management…
Where Google Doesn’t Let You Use Its Generative AI Features
On March 14th, Google published its Generative AI prohibited use policy that states where you are not allowed to use its AI features to create content and information. This is not specific to search but as many of you can imagine, this might one day, b…
Google Clarifies Its 15MB Googlebot Limit Is For Each Individual Subresources
Google has updated the Googlebot help document on crawling to clarify that the 15MB fetch size limit applies to each fetch of the individual subresources referenced in the HTML as well, such as JavaScript and CSS files.
Google Business Profile Services Displays Incorrect Pricing (Sometimes Free)
Google Business Profiles lets you see what business listings offer service-wise, they’ve been doing this for a while now, and now they seem to impact your local rankings. But what is new and scary is that Google is making up pricing for your services t…