With AI getting more and more hype, marketers worry and ask: will my job disappear? The short answer is: it won’t.

Google stops supporting meta news keywords tag In 2018, we learned that Google had quietly dropped support for the news meta keywords tag. Google did not announce this change, which had actually happened months earlier

Google removes ads from right side of search results In 2016, Google removed ads from the right side of its desktop search results (with two exceptions: Product Listing Ad boxes and Knowledge panel ads) in all languages, worldwide. Google Ads would only appear at the top and/or bottom of the page

Yahoo stops using Google search In 2004, Yahoo stopped using Google’s web search results and rolled out its own new index and ranking system. Although Yahoo had purchased Inktomi in December 2002, Yahoo opted to build its own web search engine

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web. FYI…

Google is warning against using 404 and other 4xx client server status errors, such as 403s, for the purpose of trying to set a crawl rate limit for Googlebot. “Please don’t do that,” Gary Illyes from the Google Search Relations team wrote .

During a recent private meeting with a leading ad agency, Microsoft presented a demo of the updated Bing and revealed its intention to permit paid links within search result responses, according to an anonymous ad executive who attended the meeting. Big plans for the future.

Google pays Apple a share of revenue generated from Chrome search traffic, according to a new report from The Register. Revenue share reveal. In a 356-page report, published June 10, 2022, there was a key redaction: Google pays Apple a share of the search revenue it earns from browser traffic on iOS in the following contexts: in return for being the default search provider on Safari, Google pays Apple a share of revenue derived from Safari search traffic; and pursuant to various commercial arrangements, Google pays Apple a share of revenue derived from [redacted] search traffic.

As I go down the rabbit hole of exploring the new Microsoft  Bing AI with ChatGPT , I keep finding more and more interesting answers. One such example is when I ask Bing Chat a question and it sources itself as one of the answers. Yes, Bing Chat can list bing.com as a citation for an answer in its search results

Learn Google’s best practices for making links crawlable, including guidance on anchor text, internal links, and external links. The post Google Updates Help Article On Link Best Practices appeared first on Search Engine Journal .