Explore the impact of Wikipedia on SEO and Google’s Knowledge Graph. Discover how to use Wikipedia for keyword research, content planning, and successful internal linking. The post Wikipedia And SEO: Everything You Need To Know appeared first on Search Engine Journal .
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Wikipedia And SEO: Everything You Need To Know via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern
Google Search is testing showing a “nearby stores” section that has an embedded map with a “more options” button that leads to a local pack. This is instead of showing the local pack immediately, instead you need to click on the “more options” button to have Google load the local pack.
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Google Search Nearby Stores Map Without Local Pack
I always find it funny how I have so much to write about, day in and day out, on the topic of SEO and search marketing. I mean, fundamentally SEO hasn’t really changed much over the years, but maybe the details have…
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Is SEO Always Changing? Not Really But Details Do.
Google is testing showing a section under the Local Service Ads for call out extensions or other extensions. This increases the visibility of these already super-visible Local Service Ads.
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Google Local Service Ads Test Extra Call Out Extensions
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Google Ads has quietly launched a new brand report. The brand report “is a dedicated brand advertiser experience that provides you with deduplicated reach and frequency metrics across your campaigns,” Google wrote.
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New Google Ads Brand Report
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Microsoft is testing a squared off search bar on the Bing home page. Normally the search bar is curved around the edges but for some reason Bing wants to try a more edged off approach.
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Bing Tests Squared Off Search Bar
Explore the latest content writing trends. Learn how to use them to create valuable and engaging content that stands out and attracts readers
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7 Content Writing Trends For 2025 via @sejournal, @ronlieback
Major outage strikes ChatGPT for users around the world. Both ChatGPT and the API completely down while SORA is only partially affected The post Major Outage Hits OpenAI ChatGPT appeared first on Search Engine Journal
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Major Outage Hits OpenAI ChatGPT via @sejournal, @martinibuster
Google has completed the rollout of the December 2024 spam update after a seven-day rollout cycle. This update started on December 19, 2024 and 12 pm ET, and was completed on December 26, 2024. This was a broad spam update, not a link spam update and was a pretty big and widespread update.
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Google’s Big December 2024 Spam Update Finished Rolling Out
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. Google’s December 2024 spam update is still heated…
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Daily Search Forum Recap: December 26, 2024