Artificial intelligence has taken over the SEO industry in recent months. With the emergence of AI-driven tools like ChatGPT, which can understand and perform all kinds of (SEO) tasks, an ever-lasting question is once again finding its way into lots of headlines: Is the SEO industry dying? First, if you’re impressed with ChatGPT and think […]
Noogler: SEO is spam, ads help you rank In 2012, a Googler made headlines when he said “SEO isn’t good for users or the Internet at large,” and “It’s a bug that you could rank highly in Google without buying ads, and Google is trying to fix the bug.” Was it Matt Cutts, John Mueller, […]
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Google is now testing Bard, its answer to OpenAI’s ChatGPT. We also have gotten our first look at AI-powered features in Google Search. Google CEO Sundar Pichai today announced the soft launch of Bard to a set “trusted testers,” showcasing what this early experimental release looks like with some examples. We knew this was coming […]
Image SEO is an intriguing niche because of the immediate impression images make when viewed. Read on and I will share a comprehensive overview of my image SEO “secret manual.” In this article: The impact of images. Images in search: How they are processed and analyzed. Image SEO: Ranking factors and influential elements. Optimizing the […]
If you’re intimidated by writing any piece of content longer than 1,000 words, don’t be. Long-form content can be just as straightforward as dashing off a 500-word piece. It will take you slightly longer to do it, but there are huge benefits to reap from spending time creating long-form pieces. For one thing, longer content […]
Google AdWords announces Enhanced Campaigns In 2013, Google AdWords announced Enhanced Campaigns. This major update was designed to simplify campaign management across multiple devices and increase adoption rates of mobile advertising among small and medium-sized businesses. Among the notable changes: Tablets and desktops would be grouped together, rather than treated as separate devices. Advertisers would […]
Moz upgrades its Domain Authority metric In 2019, SEO tool Moz announced an update to how they measured Domain Authority (DA). Basically, DA is a score, from 0-100, that “predicts how likely a website is to rank in search engine result pages.” Curious about what changed? Read all about it in Moz upgrades controversial ‘domain […]
Microsoft’s bid to buy Yahoo, Day 4 In 2008, there were some big developments following the news of Microsoft’s bid to purchase Yahoo. Google wasn’t happy about the news. The company objected, suggesting that the move would hurt what it called the underlying principles of the internet: “openness and innovation.” There was some ironic back […]
Microsoft’s Fabrice Canel confirmed this morning that the new Bingbot user-agent is now 100% live today. The new Bingbot will generally be used for crawling 100% of sites, unless something goes wrong and Bing has to fallback to the previous Bingbot user-agent. Bing’s confirmation. Fabrice Canel posted on Twitter, “yes, 100% today. We fallback to […]
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