One of the most advanced SEOs of all time, Bill Hartzer, is giving away free advanced link training lessons. The post Free Advanced Link Training Lessons appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Google’s updated crawl budget documentation recommends serving a 304 response code to Googlebot for pages that haven’t changed.

Google Earth’s AI image generator was rolled back after the internet used it to create realistic scenes of destruction. The post Google’s AI Image Generation In Google Earth Literally Became Disastrous appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Listing inconsistencies, review language, and third-party citations now decide whether AI assistants name your business. Fix them in this order before chasing AI visibility tactics. The post Reviews, Reputation & Listings: The Local Signals AI Now Reads appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

I am seeing signs of another Google Search ranking update with a lot of volatility hitting this past weekend again.

The Google Business Profile help page on Help protect against fraudulent calls and texts has been updated. It now includes how to identify legitimate texts over WhatsApp and RCS messages, it also updated a lot of the examples of the types of calls and messages you get, plus more.

Microsoft has confirmed it is working on bringing filtering capabilities to the Bing Webmaster Tools performance reports.

The European Commission’s AI transparency law that has taken effect contains four exemptions from its AI labeling requirements. The post EU Commission Article 50 AI Transparency Law Has Four Exemptions appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Google Search is testing asking searchers to sign in to verify they are humans and not bots conducting the searches. I don’t think Google has done this before, geneally when Google tries to verify human versus bot activity, Google will serve a captcha and has done so for many years. But this test is asking the searcher to sign in.

Google Trends now lets you compare up to 400 search terms across 8 groups of terms and up to 50 terms in each group. Previously, it was 125 search terms across 5 groups of terms and up to 25 terms in each group. That is a 220% increase, if my math is correct.