Keyword-rich domains may harm a website’s long-term success, warns Google Search Advocate John Mueller.
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Google’s John Mueller Cautions Against Keyword-Rich Domains via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern
Google has published a new link best practices in their SEO and search developer documentation. Originally it was a document about how to create crawlable links, but the document has been to include not just how to make links crawlable but also: Anchor text placements How to write good anchor text Internal links within your content External links from other sites Crawlable links The first section is very similar to the original document, which you can see on the Wayback Machine .
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Google publishes new link best practices
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…
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Daily Search Forum Recap: February 15, 2023
If you’re still on the waitlist for the new Bing, then it shouldn’t be too much longer. Corporate Vice President & Consumer Chief Marketing Officer, Microsoft Yusuf Mehdi posted on Twitter that they’ll be rolling it out to “millions of people” over the next couple of weeks. Hey all! There have been a few questions about our waitlist to try the new Bing, so here’s a reminder about the process: We’re currently in Limited Preview so that we can test, learn, and improve
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Bing’s new ChatGPT has multiple personalities
With YouTube Shorts monetization, how much money can creators make compared to the TikTok Creator Fund? Here are the differences. The post YouTube Shorts Monetization: How It Compares To TikTok appeared first on Search Engine Journal
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YouTube Shorts Monetization: How It Compares To TikTok via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern
Google made $224 billion from ad revenue in 2022, which has helped hide four major cultural problems within the company, according to former Google engineer Praveen Seshadri. Why we care. Although Seshadri was not a member of the search team, he offers some interesting insights from within Google that may help us understand why Google has been lagging behind Microsoft and OpenAI in the ongoing AI wars – and why Google brought back co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin during its “code red” period
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Ex-Googler: Ad revenue is hiding Google’s fundamental problems
February 2023 is just halfway through and it’s already been a red-letter month in SEO following dual announcements from Google and Microsoft regarding their new AI-powered search functionality. Since then, SEOs have fielded plenty of questions from clients trying to understand what the news means for their brands
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3 questions SEOs are fielding in the wake of AI-powered search
Here we go again; yet another Google search ranking algorithm update seems to have touched down on February 14th, maybe as early as February 13th, and seems to be continuing to shake things up throughout today. We previously covered unconfirmed updates on the 8th/9th and also the 4th.
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Another Unconfirmed Google Search Ranking Algorithm Update Around February 14th
Last night, Google Ads started to suspend and mass disapprove Google Ads and Google Merchant Center campaigns.
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Swarm Of Google Ads Campaign Ad Disapprovals & Suspensions
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The other week I spotted this Twitter thread where someone was able to ask Microsoft Bing AI chat what its codename is. In short, Bing AI responded that it was “Sydney.” The back-and-forth interaction is very Westworld interaction-like, which is funny.
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Microsoft Bing AI Codename: Sydney