As a reminder, the Google helpful content system/update is a sitewide algorithm. It looks at your site as a whole when applying its ranking system to the Google Search results. So changing a character on one page of your site, won’t do anything to help you recover from this Google ranking algorithm. Danny Sullivan, Google’s […]
Google has the ability for you to request content about you to be removed using the exploitative removal practices from Google. One user was afraid to use it because she thought the site owner would be notified of that request. Google’s Search Liaison, Danny Sullivan, said that Google does not notify the site in these […]
This is just another attention-grabbing exercise from Elon, so I don’t want to give it any air. But to clarify, when Elon Musk says this: Block is going to be deleted as a “feature”, except for DMs — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 18, 2023 That’s actually not going to happen. Why? Because it would violate […]
I have seen some folks in the SEO industry suggest that there will be some sort of search ranking and SEO impact with the sale of Google Domains to Squarespace. I just wanted to clarify this sale should have zero impact on your Google Search rankings or SEO efforts. Some think that when Google sells […]
Elon Musk Won’t Endorse A Presidential Candidate For Now—But Wants To Interview Them On Twitter [unable to retrieve full-text content] In the wake of news that Republican Florida Governor. Ron DeSantis will announce his presidential campaign on Twitter tomorrow, billionaire Twitter CEO Elon Musk said he isn’t planning to endorse anyone for president yet.
Did you know that some of the improvements being made to the Bing Chat AI models will lead to improvements to the Bing Search core ranking algorithms? Mikhail Parakhin, the CEO of Bing, said this on Twitter yesterday. Glenn Gabe asked him “So AI model improvements will ultimately improve Bing’s core search algo, but the […]
Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that just because a site appears to be doing super well in terms of Google ranking and SEO today that it won’t degrade one day in value. John added, “just because something’s in Google News now doesn’t mean it’ll be there forever.” Sometimes sites just lose their luster, the […]
As you know, we’ve been playing with Google bardit just started to roll out a couple of days ago. Early on, we were disappointed thus far with how limited it seemed and more so, how it rarely linked to sources and content creators. Now, Google got back to us on why this is the case. […]
A new Twitter poll shows that most SEOs do not yet feel comfortable recommending using AI to write client content. The poll asked, “Would you recommend using an AI writer to your clients?” Most SEOs said no. Mordy Oberstein posted this poll on Twitter and there were over 600 votes. About 66% said no, they […]
An SEO asked if links on YouTube videos will help with your Google SEO. Then someone said that it would help get your content indexed faster. Both are false and myths because YouTube links have nofollow attributes on them, so Google does not count them. John Mueller from Google even replied that links on YouTube […]