When Google first launched its Search Generative Experience, it labeled the “end” date of the program as December 2023 for US users and February 2024 for India and other countries. Well, now that end date was removed from the Google Search Labs interface. Here is what it looked like before: Here is what it looks […]
Here is the December 2023 Google webmaster report for all of you. Here I recap what happened and changed with Google Search on the organic space over the past month or so. The big items, the November 2023 core and reviews updates rolled out. Google also told us the hidden gems algorithm was live. Google […]
The Google November 2023 core update and Google November 2023 reviews update are still both rolling out, and we have no estimated time of when they will finish rolling out. Both are well past their estimated two-week rollout period. I ran a poll yesterday asking SEOs when they think it will be done, and most […]
While it has been calm for the past several days, today is a new day and I am seeing some signs of more volatility and ranking fluctuations as of the past 24 hours or less. Some of the automated tracking tools are picking it up, and I am seeing some renewed chatter in the SEO […]
Words: Diamond Dave Images: Getty Images After support band, The Twilight Sad, leave the stage of this sold out show, there are no tunescoming from the PA or a DJ encouraging the crowd to dance, only the sound of a thunder storm andstrobe lights flicking like lightning which seems just perfect. Robert Smith stalks the […]
Google’s Search Liason, Danny Sullivan, said that the Google December 2022 helpful content update would take longer to roll out than originally expected. The update started to roll out on December 5th and was expected to finish earlier this week. Google wrote on Twitter, “We are not” done yet rolling out the helpful content update. […]
This was a busy week, and I honestly thought it would start to slow down, but I was wrong; I’m wrong a lot. Google launched another algorithm update, the December 2022 link spam update, which it baked into SpamBrain into the update. Google also released a large update to the Search Quality Raters Guidelines, adding […]
Google began rolling out a revised link spam update on December 14, 2022, named the December 2022 link spam update. This update is new in that it uses SpamBrain AI to “detect both sites buying links, and sites used for the purpose of passing outgoing links,” and not just “detect spam directly,” Google said. The […]
Since July 2022, Twilio SendGrid and other senders throughout the email industry have seen a significant increase in Spamhaus listings. Twilio SendGrid has seen a 99% increase in listings per month on average. These listings are for senders exhibiting behaviors associated with sending unwanted or unsolicited email. The listings are mostly informational, which means that […]
Google has officially confirmed the launch of the second release of the Google helpful content update/system. It started lightly on December 5th but became noticeable, according to Google, on December 6th, which is why Google did not announce it until the 6th. This update adds new signals, most notably making it work for all languages […]