Announcing the Search Central Live Brazil roadshow
We’re very excited to announce that Search Central Live is coming to Brazil! Following our
successful events last year, we’re continuing our mission to help you enhance your site’s performance
in Google Search. We’re organizing three events in Brazil, starting with São Paulo on March 9, then
Brasília on March 14, and finishing with Belo Horizonte on March 16.
Announcing the Search Central Live Brazil roadshow
We’re very excited to announce that Search Central Live is coming to Brazil! Following our
successful events last year, we’re continuing our mission to help you enhance your site’s performance
in Google Search. We’re organizing three events in Brazil, starting with São Paulo on March 9, then
Brasília on March 14, and finishing with Belo Horizonte on March 16.
Five things you need to know about content optimization in 2023
Discover 5 must-know factors for successful content optimization, including the emerging technologies and significance of audience behavior.
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Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Algorithm Update, Yandex Search Factors Leaked, ChatGPT Craze (Bing/Google), Bing Lastmod & More Yahoo Search
In this week’s recap, I covered the unconfirmed Google update that seemed to impact product review sites but maybe more on January 26th. Yandex had a huge leak…
Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai Confirms New Chat Based Search Feature Coming Really Soon
Last night I reported on Search Engine Land, based on the earnings report and earnings call, that Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai has confirmed the search company will release a chat based search feature based on its own AI, LaMDA, in the coming weeks and m…
Is The New BingBot Now Fully Live Today For Microsoft Bing?
As a reminder, since April, Bing has been slowly testing a new BingBot user agent, slowly rolling it out to more percentages of crawls over the year. It should have rolled out to 100% of all crawls last month. But now Fabrice Canel said this week that …
Google Does Major Refresh Of The Canonicalization Help Documentation
Google has updated its search help documentation around canonicalization this morning. The Google Search Relations team split in three distinct sections and updated a lot of the content to provide clearer details around how Google Search and canonicali…
Is This The Microsoft Bing ChatGPT Search Interface?
Owen Yin shared some screenshots of what he said he saw on the Microsoft Bing website. It looks like the beta version of the upcoming ChatGPT features that we are all expecting Bing to announce in the coming weeks (maybe even this coming Tuesday).
Google Ad Revenues Down 3.6% Year Over Year, Working On Cost Structure
Google reported earnings last night and their ad revenue not only slowed but was technically lower year over year. Google’s ad revenue was down about 3.6%, while total revenue was up just around 1%.
Google Search Console Video Indexing Report Gains Impressions & Sitemap Filters
Google has updated the video indexing report within Google Search Console to add impression data and a way to filter the report by your available sitemaps.
Microsoft Bing: lastmod Tag In XML Sitemap File Is Critical
Microsoft Bing posted a new blog post saying “for XML sitemaps, one of the most critical tags you can include in your sitemap is the “lastmod” tag.” And it will become even more critical as Bing is reworking its crawl scheduling stack to rely more on t…
GoogleProducer: A New Googlebot Crawler From Google?
Google may be crawling the web with a new crawler, a new Googlebot, named GoogleProducer. This useragent is not listed on the official Google crawlers page but maybe it is too new to be listed yet?
Google Testing Apprentice Bard: Google’s Answer To OpenAI’s ChatGPT?
CNBC reported the other day that Google is working on its own AI chatbot named Apprentice Bard. Apprentice Bard is reportedly built on Google’s AI LaMDA language model stack and while Google is being more cautious with this rollout, Google is working o…
February 2023 Google Webmaster Report
It is time for the Google webmaster report, where I summarize the most important SEO and webmaster-related Google topics for the past month. Google completing the long rollout of the December 2022 helpful content update and link spam update may be the…
Google: Firewalls or CDNs Issues Are The Most Common Reason For Blocking Googlebot
Gary Illyes from Google posted a new PSA on LinkedIn saying that the most common reason a site unexpectedly blocks Googlebot from crawling is due to a misconfiguration of a firewall or CDN.
Google: Search Console Verification Does Not Impact Your Ranking
Gary Illyes said in the Google SEO office-hours from yesterday that verifying your website in Google Search Console won’t impact your Google Search indexing or ranking whatsoever.
Google Blasts Agencies That Sell Links & Disavow Link Services
John Mueller of Google blasted SEO or marketing agencies that sell both link-building services and disavow link services. He said on Twitter, “These agencies (both those creating, and those disavowing) are just making stuff up, and cashing in from thos…
Google: Nofollow Site Credit Links Footer Links If You Control Them
Google is still recommending that you nofollow your credit links in your footer, if you have control over those links. So the site designed by or powered by or made by types of links, nofollow those links if you can. If you can’t – then don’t worry ab…
Google Ads To Update Government Documents and Official Services Policy On March 31
After months of silence and no policy updates from Google Ads, Google has posted that it will be updating its Google Ads Government documents and official services policy in a big way.
New updates to the Search Console Video indexing report
Last July we launched a new report in Search Console to help you understand the performance of your videos on
Google and identify possible areas of improvement. Today, we are happy to share a few more updates to the report
on Search …