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Google: Headings With Hierarchical Structure An “Awesome Idea”
Google’s John Mueller says headings with a hierarchical structure is an “awesome idea & a great practice”
Google’s Q4 Report: The Challenges & Opportunities For Marketers
Google’s parent company saw a 9% decline in revenue and 1% drop in Search revenue. CEO Sundar Pichai remains optimistic due to investments in AI.
How to Block ChatGPT From Using Your Website Content
This is how ChatGPT gets website data to learn from and how to block that from happening.
Response to ChatGPT $20 Plan: Take My Money!
New $20 ChatGPT subscription plan was greeted by a virtual stampede of enthusiastic users ready to shower money on OpenAI
Google’s Mueller Criticizes Negative SEO & Link Disavow Companies
John Mueller criticized negative SEO services as well as certain kinds of link disavow companies, saying that they were “making things up”
OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Plus For $20 Per Month
OpenAI begins offering ChatGPT Plus for $20 per month with faster response times and priority access.
Bing Revamps Crawl System To Enhance Efficiency
Bing is revamping its crawl scheduling to better use the information provided by the “lastmod” tag in XML sitemaps.
Google Updates Search Console Video Indexing Report
Google’s updated Search Console Video indexing report now includes daily video impressions and a sitemap filter feature.
Yelp Details Removal Of Paid Review Groups & Lead Generators
Yelp releases report on how they removed lead generators and closed down paid review rings on social media sites in 2022
Google SEO Tips For News Articles: Lastmod Tag, Separate Sitemaps
Maximize the visibility of news articles with tips from Google’s John Mueller and Gary Illyes on the proper use of lastmod tags and separate sitemaps.
OpenAI Releases Tool To Detect AI-Written Content
OpenAI, the AI research firm behind ChatGPT, has released a new tool to distinguish between AI-generated and human-generated text.
ChatGPT Update: Improved Math Capabilities
OpenAI has released an update to its popular language model, ChatGPT, to enhance its accuracy and improve its ability to handle math equations.
Yandex Search Ranking Factors Leak: Insights
Catch up with the Yandex ranking factors leak and what it’s all about. Gain a better understanding of how search engines generally work.
11 Disadvantages Of ChatGPT Content
Virtually all ChatGPT content contains one or more of these flaws. This is how to prevent them.
New Google Ads Feature: Account-Level Negative Keywords
Google Ads introduces account-level negative keywords worldwide, providing advertisers with greater brand safety and suitability.
Twitter Introduces New Appeal Process For Suspended Accounts
Starting February 1, Twitter users will be able to appeal account suspensions for evaluations based on new criteria for reinstatement.
Google’s Insights On Robots.txt, Semantic HTML, & Rel-Canonical
Google Analyst Gary Illyes offers guidance on large robots.txt files, the SEO impact of website redesigns, and the correct use of rel-canonical tags.
Yoast SEO Founder: WordPress Admin Interface Is “Simply Bad”
Joost de Valk says “This is how we lose CMS market share to companies like Wix”
Is ChatGPT Use Of Web Content Fair?
A review of ethical concerns regarding how ChatGPT and other large language models use web content without attribution
Google Updates Discover Follow Feed Guidelines
Google updated the Discover Follow feed guidelines to highlight the importance of two feed elements
Meta Reinstates Trump to Facebook & Instagram
Meta lifts two year ban on former president Trump, promises that guardrails will impose heightened penalties for new violations of policy
Google Optimize Discontinued: What Businesses Need To Know
Google announced that Optimize and Optimize 360 will be discontinued on September 30. Users are encouraged to download their data before it becomes unavailable.
Twitter Rolls Out Search Keywords Ads To All Advertisers
Twitter rolls out a new ad unit, “Search Keywords Ads,” allowing users to promote sponsored tweets in search results to reach a wider audience.
Microsoft CEO: “Every App Is Going To Be An AI App”
Microsoft CEO, Satya Nadella, states that AI will be integrated into all of Microsoft’s applications in the future.
8 States vs. Google: A Closer Look At The DOJ’s Antitrust Lawsuit
The U.S. Department of Justice files its second antitrust lawsuit against Google. This time, they’re suing over ad tech monopoly allegations.
Google Merchant Listing Experiences: Tips For Optimizing Product Pages
Google’s Developer Advocate Alan Kent shares ways to optimize product pages to ensure eligibility for merchant listing experiences in search results.
LinkedIn’s New Feature Can Help You Find Must-Read Newsletters
LinkedIn’s new feature allows users to see which newsletters other users are subscribed to, helping users discover new content and stay up-to-date on industry trends.
Yoast SEO 20.0 Update Makes Big Changes
Yoast SEO 20.0 WordPress plugin introduces bold design updates that will change how users interact with the plugin
Microsoft & OpenAI Extend Deal To Make AI Accessible To Everyone
Microsoft is continuing its partnership with OpenAI, creators of ChatGPT, through a new multi-year, multi-billion dollar investment to speed up the development of AI technology.
TikTok Staff Can Decide What Goes Viral
TikTok confirms employees can manually boost videos’ reach by using a “heating” button, bypassing the algorithm intended to drive the TikTok experience.