ChatGPT has been an undeniable sensation, so it’s no surprise that tech conglomerates everywhere are in a bit of a frenzy to respond. Google’s AI chatbot, known as Bardwhich was recently announced as a ChatGPT competitor. We look at what we know about it, what it will mean for the larger tech industry, and how […]
Back in 2020, Google Search introduced a feature named people cards. It was only available in India but now it seems like it might be expanding, as I can now see it in the United States. Brian Freiesleben’s card, which he created when it was first announced by spoofing his location to be in India, […]
Well, we knew it was coming and here it is, Bard – Google’s answer to ChatGPT. Google is now having its trusted testers test out Bard and will soon roll it out more widely to users in Google Search and other products in the coming weeks, Google announced. It is not called Appreciate Bard but […]
There may have been another unconfirmed Google search ranking algorithm update – this one also on the weekend, around February 4th, maybe kicking off on February 3rd. I am seeing signs from both chatters within the SEO community, and also, some of the tools are showing big swings around February 4th. The previous updates we […]
Google reported earnings last night and their ad revenue not only slowed but was technically lower year over year. Google’s ad revenue was down about 3.6%, while total revenue was up just around 1%. Here is the snippet from the earnings report showing that: Remember, Microsoft reported earnings the week prior and showed slowed growth […]
Google has updated its search help documentation around canonicalization this morning. The Google Search Relations team split into three distinct sections and updated a lot of the content to provide clearer details around how Google Search and canonicalization works. The three sections include: All of this use to be on a single help page, which […]
In this week’s recap, I covered the unconfirmed Google update that seemed to impact product review sites but maybe more on January 26th. Yandex had a huge leak, and SEOs and marketers dug through the search engine’s source code. Google’s answer to ChatGPT might be Apprentice Bard using LAMDA Sundar Pichai of Google basically confirmed […]
Google has updated the video indexing report within Google Search Console to add impression data and a way to filter the report by your available sitemaps. As a reminder, the video indexing report went fully live in August 2022 after Google started to slowly roll out the video index report within Google Search Console earlier […]
Gary Illyes of Google said in the Google SEO office hours from yesterday that verifying your website in Google Search Console won’t impact your Google Search indexing or ranking whatsoever. Gary said, “Having your site verified in Search Console or changing the verification code and method has no effect on indexing or ranking whatsoever.” John […]
Gary Illyes from Google posted a new PSA on LinkedIn saying that the most common reason a site unexpectedly blocks Googlebot from crawling is due to a misconfiguration of a firewall or CDN. Gary wrote, “check what traffic your firewalls and CDN are blocking.” “By far the most common issue in my inbox is related […]