MozCon is returning in-person to Seattle August 7-8, 2023 and this year, we’re excited to bring the Future of Search to our stage.

Google AMP stories launch In 2018, Google launched a new, visually rich mobile content format designed to generate more engagement from users. Breaking with previous guidance, Google didn’t intend for this type of AMP content to match your non-mobile content. Instead, this mobile-only content was supposed to be unique.

Google penalizes JCPenney for link scheme In 2011, JCPenney was caught engaging in link schemes and, as a result, found itself on the receiving end of a Google penalty. The New York Times was apparently perplexed by how well jcpenney.com ranked in organic search for practically everything the retailer sold

Yahoo officially rejects Microsoft In 2008, rumor became reality as Yahoo rejected Microsoft’s $45 billion bid to buy Yahoo. The company concluded that the proposal substantially undervalued Yahoo and was not in the best interests of Yahoo and its stockholders. Microsoft basically rejected Yahoo’s rejection, calling it “unfortunate” and pledging to “pursue all necessary steps” to get what it called its “full and fair” proposal to be accepted.

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…

Google is updating its Lighthouse 10 tool to remove one of the overall Core Web Vitals metrics, Time To Interactive (TTI). Google will be assigning the TTI weight to Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS), which will give CLS a total of 25% of the overall performance score. TTI is not a Core Web Vitals metric used in Search Console or ranking, but it was used in Lighthouse, Google’s developer tool.

Google will begin to accept and run ads for online horse racing in the following states: Maryland Pennsylvania West Virginia Virginia The Google Ads  Gambling and games policy  for United States country-specifics will be updated in February 2023.

Yusuf Mehdi, Corporate Vice President & Consumer Marketing Office at Microsoft, announced last night that in 48 hours, over one million people had joined the waitlist for the new AI-powered Bing search engine. One million.

SMX Advanced, the premier conference for experienced senior-level search marketers, returns online June 13-14. It’s certainly an exciting time for search.

ChatGPT is top of mind for many people in the content creation and SEO spaces – and even seems to be a developing obsession inspiration to Google itself. The biggest question for SEOs and people trying to create content to drive traffic from search engines is obviously: How can ChatGPT help create content for SEO? ChatGPT performs a few specific functions that can help you with content creation for SEO like: Writing whole SEO-focused blog posts, articles, and landing pages