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

Google’s Gary Illyes recommends using robots.txt to block crawlers from “add to cart” URLs, preventing wasted server resources. The post Google Reminds Websites To Use Robots.txt To Block Action URLs appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Google once again said you can recover from the damage inflicted on your site by the September 2023 helpful content update with the next core update.

Google added deeper insights for those who use merchant listings to see how well their merchant listings are performing within the Google Image Search tab. A new search appearance filter works for the image filter in the performance report in Google Search Console.

Now that Google is encouraging publishers to use proper lastmod dates in their sitemap files, what happens if your lastmod date is incorrect and shows the wrong date. Gary Illyes from Google said either Google trusts your lastmod date or doesn’t, there is no in between.

Google seems to be testing categorizing or organizing the search results on the search results page.

Apple held its WWDC event yesterday and while I found Craig Federighi’s helmet used for jumping out of the airplane in the Apple skydiving suit to be super entertaining, Apple ended with big news – a new Siri powered by Apple Intelligence (AI) and OpenAI’s ChatGPT.

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