Dec 24
17
Kevin Indig shares his successes and challenges in this year’s review.
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2024 Annual Review: How 2024 Went For Me And What Changes In 2025 via @sejournal, @Kevin_Indig
Jonathan Jones attended the Google Search Central Live event in Zurich last week and posted excellent and detailed notes about the event, including a bit more on the more often core updates.
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Google Site Reputation Abuse: Treating Some Sites Within A Site
Google’s John Mueller reiterated in a big way that SEOs and site owners should not spend time disavowing “toxic” links.
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Google: Disavowing Toxic Links Is A Billable Waste Of Time
Google has repurposed its 2014 blog post on faceted navigation best practices (which we covered a decade ago) and created a new help document page named Managing crawling of faceted navigation URLs.
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Google Adds Faceted Navigation To Help Documentation
Google Merchant Center added a new field in the “Promotion conditions” section for “first order” discount. This seems to be for shopping ads set up in Merchant Center.
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New Google Merchant Center Promotion For First Order Discount
When OpenAI launched ChatGPT Search several weeks ago, it was just available to paid users.
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OpenAI Opens ChatGPT Search To All Logged In Users
Dec 24
17
Is ChatGPT a viable alternative to Google?
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Searchquake: Consumers Now Consider ChatGPT A Real Google Alternative via @sejournal, @gsterling
Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt’s comments suggest AI’s future direction, something SEOs should watch closely The post Google’s Ex-CEO on AI: What SEOs Should Pay Attention To appeared first on Search Engine Journal .
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Google’s Ex-CEO on AI: What SEOs Should Pay Attention To via @sejournal, @martinibuster
ChatGPT makes web search, voice features and maps free for all users, expanding access beyond Premium subscribers. The post ChatGPT Update: Free Web Search, New Voice & Maps Features appeared first on Search Engine Journal
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ChatGPT Update: Free Web Search, New Voice & Maps Features via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern
Google warns about fake Googlebot crawlers and suggests tools and methods to identify legitimate traffic. The post Google Warns: Beware Of Fake Googlebot Traffic appeared first on Search Engine Journal .
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Google Warns: Beware Of Fake Googlebot Traffic via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern