Bing Chat To Ultimately Remove Chat Limits
Right now you cannot sit all day and ask Bing Chat questions, no matter how lonely you are, at some point, Bing will say to give it a break. But those limits, one day, will be removed and you will be able to talk to Bing Chat all day and all night, if…
Daily Search Forum Recap: March 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 has finished rolling out the big broad core update for March 2023, it was a big one…
Google March 2023 Broad Core Update Done Rolled Out
The Google March 2023 Broad Core update finished rolling out yesterday morning at about 10:30 am ET. It took 13 days to roll out, kicking off on March 15th at 10:30 am ET and completing on March 28th at 10:30 am ET.
Google Search Console Bulk Data Export Now Supports Multiple Properties
Several weeks ago, Google enabled the ability to export your Google Search Console data in bulk, automatically, to Google’s BigQuery. Now, Google announced that you can do this across multiple properties in Google Search Console, into a single Google C…
Google Showing Fewer Brand Names In Search Result Titles
Google may be showing less site names and brand names in the title of the search results snippet. Yes, Google has a sitename and favicon change for the search results, so maybe Google is less likely to repeat the site name in the title of the search re…
ChatGPT Bot – You Can Block OpenAI Plugins If You Want
With all the talk about ChatGPT and other AI bots, did you know that there is an OpenAI ChatGPT bot and it respects the robots.txt protocol? So if you want, you can block OpenAI’s ChatGPT bot from crawling, indexing and using your content and data from…
Bing Chat Math Results Rolling Out Nicer Formatting
Microsoft Bing will soon be rolling out cleaner and nicer math result formatting. Mikhail Parakhin from Microsoft Bing said this is already out to 10% of users for all chat modes.
Google Perspectives, About This Author & More Goes Live
Google has launched the new perspectives feature, added an “about this author” section, globally rolled out “about this result” and made it easier to access “about this page” in the Google Search bar and search results.
Google Search Console Core Web Vitals Report Update
Google updated the Core Web Vitals report in Google Search Console on March 27, 2023. The update may have resulted in a change in the number of URLs in your Core Web Vitals report, the search company wrote.
Microsoft Fixes Missing Data In Bing Webmaster Tools API
Microsoft has fixed the missing data in the Bing Webmaster Tools API. As a reminder, there was a bug that caused the Bing Webmaster Tools API to stop working, then Microsoft fixed it but about a weeks of data was missing. Now, Microsoft has filled the …
Bing Chat Bests Google Bard Says SEOs
By now, many of you, not all of you, have played with both Bing Chat and Google Bard. So far, about 70% of SEOs find Bing Chat to be better than Google Bard, based on a small Twitter poll by Brodie Clark.
Google Ads Editor Version 2.3 Gains Business Information Assets, Location Assets & More
Google has released version 2.3 of the Google Ads Editor, this comes four and a half months since version 2.2 was released in November 2022. The new version gains image assets, location assets, b business information assets, PMAX text asset automati…
Google Search Console Breaks Out Merchant Listings and Product Snippets Reporting
Google has updated some of the reporting within Google Search Console to break out the Merchant listings and Product snippets differences. You can see the difference in performance between how your search results do between Merchant listings and Produ…
Vlog #216: Sam Michelson On Search Intent, Features & 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…
Local Ranking Study For 2023 From Whitespark
The folks over at Whitespark has published there 2023 local ranking factors study, where they asked dozens of local SEO experts to rank what they think are the most important ranking signals for local pack and organic local search rankings.
Google Ads Tests Blue Badges For Verified Advertisers In Search
Google is testing showing blue badge icons and labels on some search ads for advertisers who are verified by Google Ads. The blue label is a blue circle with ridges and checkmark within it.
Google Might Not Fully Render A News Article Before Showing It In Search
Gary Illyes from Google said that in some cases, Google may not fully render a page before showing it in Google Search or Google News. It depends on how timely that content is and how quickly Google needs to index and serve it in Google Search.
Google Currently Looking Into AMP Support in GA4
As you know, Google Analytics 4 does not support tracking AMP pages. Well, Google’s Ads Liaison, Ginny Marvin, said on Friday that Google is “currently looking into it and will share an update as soon as we have one.”
Microsoft Exec Burns Google Over Lack Of Citations In Bard
As a reminder, when Google launched Bard, I, along with some others, were taken back by the lack of citations and links to sources provided in its answers. A Microsoft executive of over 21 years, Michael Schechter, Vice President, Growth and Distribut…
Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Bard Launched, Bing Chat Image Creation, Generative AI Policies & More SEO/SEM News
The Google broad core update for March is not done yet, and we see tremors. Google started to roll out Bard, and while it is fast and has a sleek interface, it was a bit underwhelming when compared to Bing Chat. In fact…