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Microsoft Announces ChatGPT Capabilities Coming To Bing
Microsoft announces ChatGPT integration into Bing and the Edge browser to enhance user experience and productivity.
From Competitors To Partners: Conductor Acquires Searchmetrics
Conductor and Searchmetrics join forces to offer a comprehensive SEO solution for customers. Learn more about the impact of this acquisition.
Chrome 110 Changes How Web Share API Embeds Third Party Content
Chrome 110 introduces a “potentially breaking change” to third-party embedding. This is why it’s actually a good thing.
Getty Images Sues Stability AI For Copyright Infringement
Getty Images sues Stability AI for allegedly copying over 12 million photos, captions, and metadata without permission.
Google CEO Confirms AI Features Coming To Search “Soon”
Google announces new AI-powered features in search results and introduces an experimental conversational AI service, Bard, powered by LaMDA.
YouTube Shorts Monetization: How Revenue Sharing Works
YouTube Shorts creators can now join YouTube’s Partner Program and earn money with their content. Learn about the requirements and how the revenue-sharing model works.
Microsoft Bing & ChatGPT: 5 Possible Features At Launch
Microsoft Bing powered by ChatGPT may offer more personalized results and features, with a chatbox replacing the search bar, summarized responses, and conversational search.
Google Updates Structured Data Guidance To Clarify Supported Formats
Google updated the structured data guidance to clarify why JSON-LD is preferred and to confirm that Microdata & RDFa are fine
Twitter Will Share Ad Revenue With Twitter Blue Verified Creators
Twitter Blue Verified creators can now earn a share of ad revenue for Twitter Ads in their reply threads.
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