OpenAI has announced the launch of ChatGPT Plus, a premium version of their popular ChatGPT chatbot. This service aims to provide subscribers with a faster response time, priority access to new featur...
According to a recent study by Microsoft's Bing, most websites have XML sitemaps that include a critical component known as the "lastmod" tag. This tag indicates the last time a webpage link...
Google has released an update to the Search Console Video Indexing Report, designed to help publishers and content creators gain more comprehensive insights into how their videos are performing in sea...
Yelp recently released their 2022 Trust and Safety Report, which detailed the steps they have taken to crack down on lead generators, fake review groups, and businesses incentivizing reviews. To comba...
Google recently launched a new report in Search Console to help users measure the performance of their videos on Google and identify possible areas of improvement. On Wednesday, February 01, 2023, the...
We are pleased to share new updates to the Video Indexing Report on Search Console, which launched last July, to help users understand the performance of their videos on Google and identify potential...
In July 2022, Google launched a new report in Search Console to help webmasters understand the performance of their videos on Google and identify any potential areas for improvement. On February 1, 20...
Google Search Advocate John Mueller and Analyst Gary Illyes recently discussed SEO tips for news publishers during a Q&A recording. Mueller addressed the proper use of the lastmod tag, while Illye...
OpenAI, the AI research firm behind ChatGPT, has released a new tool – the AI Text Classifier – to help distinguish between AI-generated and human-generated text. This tool is intended to help mitigat...
OpenAI has released an update to its popular language model, ChatGPT, to enhance its accuracy and improve its ability to handle math equations. According to their January 30th release notes, the new u...
The search marketing community is trying to make sense of the leaked Yandex repository containing files listing what looks like search ranking factors. Ryan Jones (@RyanJones) believes that this leak...
Google Ads Liaison Ginny Marvin recently announced that the new account-level negative keywords feature is now available to worldwide Google Ads advertisers. This feature, which was first announced in...
Twitter is making a major change to its account suspension policy starting February 1, 2021. Users can now appeal account suspensions and will be evaluated based on new criteria for reinstatement. Acc...
This year, with the help of Search Central's efforts, 2022 has been an eventful year for webmasters, video publishers and online sellers. From launching new reports and features within Search Console...
The Google Search Central team has been busy and excited to host the Search Central Live (formerly known as Webmaster Conference) events around the world, with recent events in Singapore and Tel Aviv....
Search engine rankings are increasingly being evaluated based on criteria such as E-A-T (expertise, authoritativeness, and trustworthiness). Now, a new E is being added to E-A-T: experience. The idea...
The concept of E-A-T (Expertise, Authoritativeness, and Trustworthiness) has been used by many creators to evaluate if their search ranking systems are providing helpful and relevant information. To f...
On Wednesday, December 14, 2022 Google launched the December 2022 Link Spam Update in an effort to leverage the power of its AI-based spam-prevention system, SpamBrain. The update is designed to detec...
On Wednesday, December 14th, 2022, Google announced an update to its AI-based spam-prevention system called SpamBrain. This update will use SpamBrain to detect and neutralize the impact of unnatural l...
On Wednesday, December 14, 2022 Google announced a new spam-prevention system called SpamBrain. This AI-based system leverages the power of artificial intelligence to detect sites buying links or pass...
As we enter 2023, Google is introducing the Google Search Status Dashboard (https://status.search.google.com/) as a tool to help keep the public informed of disruptions to its search systems such as c...
Today (December 14, 2022), Google is introducing the Google Search Status Dashboard to communicate the status of Search going forward. This new dashboard will replace the externalization of system dis...
As we move into 2023, Google is introducing a new tool for the public to understand the current status of the systems which impact their Search service - crawling, indexing, and serving. This is part...
When looking for a particular book in a library, it can be difficult to identify the exact one you are looking for amongst the 129,864,880 available titles (http://booksearch.blogspot.com/2010/08/book...
The European Copyright Directive, which is being implemented across the European Union, aims to give new rights to news publishers while allowing consumers continued access to information through onli...
On Monday, December 12 2022, Google published a blog post in Czech discussing the European Copyright Directive. This Directive protects news publishers' content online by allowing search engines such...
Twitter is expanding its recommended tweets feature to all users, including those who have not seen them in the past. This change means that algorithmically selected tweets from accounts you don't fol...
LinkedIn is upgrading its messaging experience with a new ‘Focused Inbox,’ which aims to cut down on spam and surface more relevant messages. The next time you login to LinkedIn and open your inbox, y...
Google has made a number of updates to its ad disapprovals policies throughout the year, mostly focused on providing more context to advertisers about why their ads have been disapproved. In January,...
In a Google Search Office Hours video, Googler Lizzi Sassman clarified a common misperception about what thin content really is. The actual definition of thin content is more along the lines of conten...
