With the steady rollout of algorithm updates (hello, March core update), significant changes to tried and true platforms (farewell, UA), and unprecedented advancements in generative AI and other machine learning technologies, one of the biggest challenges search marketers face today is staying up-to-date with the latest tactics and adapting their strategies accordingly. Attend SMX Advanced, online June 13-14, for free, to keep […]

Guides are all over the web. Google any word + “guide,” and you’ll probably find someone has written about that topic, no matter how obscure. But there’s a good reason for this: Well-written guides are extremely valuable pieces of content. When your audience encounters your guide at the right place and time, it can be […]

It’s been 11 years since Google launched one of its most significant algorithm updates, Penguin. Here, we’re looking back over more than a decade of Penguin.  Find everything you want to know about Google’s Penguin algorithm update – what it is, why it was launched and its impact – plus Search Engine Land’s coverage of […]

Microsoft Bing Chat said it is now better at responding to news questions and also reduced unnecessary duplicate searches, end conversation triggers, and returning no response to queries. News answers. Bing wrote, “We’ve taken steps to help Bing give better answers if you’re asking questions about news. Bing said we should try to ask Bing […]

Google has now added new details that explain the three categories its Google crawlers fall into, they include Googlebot, special-case crawlers and user-triggered fetchers. In addition, Google now lists a JSON formatted file containing the list of IP addresses each of these different crawler types use. Types of Google crawlers. At the top of this […]

Google quietly updated its documented Google ranking systems page and completely removed several page experience-related ranking systems from the page. Google removed the page experience system, the mobile-friendly system, page speed system and the secure site system from the page. These removals makes you wonder if any of these algorithm updates mattered at all to […]

Google Bard can now help you code, and it supports over 20 different programming languages, including C++, Go, Java, Javascript, Python, and Typescript. So those of you that do a lot of coding during your search marketing tasks may want to utilize Google Bard or other AI chat engines, like ChatGPT or Bing Chat, to […]

The role of click-through rate (CTR) in SEO has been debated for many years. Several industry studies have asserted that CTR is a ranking factor – a claim that’s been ardently denied by many Googlers.  Whether it’s a direct ranking signal or not, CTR has its place in SEO. This article explores why CTR matters […]