Google: Even High Quality Pages Can Still Not Be Indexed By Google Search
Generally, Google has said that when pages are not indexed and there are no technical issues, the reason it might not be indexed is that the page does not meet the quality marks to be included in the Google Search index. But John Mueller of Google said…
Daily Search Forum Recap: September 29, 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 launched a new user agent to let you block your content from Bard or other AI Google projects…
Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google September Helpful Content Update Done, SGE Updates, Links Not A Top Ranking Factor, Bing Hiding Ads & Google�s 25th Birthday
This week in search, Google finished rolling out the September 2023 helpful content update, which seemed to target SEO-first, search engine-first content in a big way. Google won’t be rolling back that update, if you were wondering…
Google-Extended Is The New Google Crawler To Block Bard Or Google AI
Google has announced a new Googlebot, a new Google crawler, named Google-Extended that you can use to control if your content can help improve Bard and Vertex AI generative APIs or future Google AI products. So if you want to disallow Bard from using …
Google Local Chat With A Live Agent Rolling Out?
In May we reported Google was testing a “chat with a live agent” button for some local panels within Google Search. Well, that feature might be rolling out more fully now.
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…
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…