New Bingbot user-agent now fully live
After a couple years of testing, Microsoft has now stopped using the old BingBot user agent.
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After a couple years of testing, Microsoft has now stopped using the old BingBot user agent.
Barry Schwartz | Feb 3, 2023 at 12:27 pm ETWe know Microsoft Bing is working towards integrating ChatGPT into its search interface.
Barry Schwartz | Feb 3, 2023 at 7:59 am ETIn the Google Q4 earnings call, Sundar Pichai confirmed the company's plans to deliver ChatGPT like features.
Barry Schwartz | Feb 2, 2023 at 8:08 pm ETAs reported earlier, we are now learning more about Microsoft's plans to incorporate ChatGPT into Bing Search.
Barry Schwartz | Feb 1, 2023 at 4:19 pm ETGoogle is working on restoring the reviews over the next few weeks.
Barry Schwartz | Feb 1, 2023 at 3:13 pm ETMicrosoft also released some interesting stats on lastmod dates in XML sitemap files.
Barry Schwartz | Feb 1, 2023 at 12:30 pm ETGoogle has upgraded the video indexing report to help your videos perform better in search.
Barry Schwartz | Feb 1, 2023 at 11:36 am ETYahoo has been dropping hints over the past couple weeks about its return to competing in the search space.
Barry Schwartz | Jan 30, 2023 at 6:00 am ETUS-based dealerships can now add all their inventory to their local business profile in Google.
Barry Schwartz | Jan 26, 2023 at 7:25 am ETThe title and link elements are most important for RSS feed follow in Discover and Google parses img elements within other elements.
Barry Schwartz | Jan 24, 2023 at 8:41 am ETToday, Yoast SEO is rolling out a large update that revamps the user interface.
Barry Schwartz | Jan 24, 2023 at 5:48 am ETRed Ventures' use of AI to write cheap content that ranks well in search sure sounds like the old content farms Google Panda wiped out.
Barry Schwartz | Jan 20, 2023 at 12:52 pm ETThe total number of errors should not change, this is just a reclassification of those errors.
Barry Schwartz | Jan 19, 2023 at 2:00 pm ETThis report no longer requires structured data and if Google finds products in your content, it may show in this report starting January 6th going forward.
Barry Schwartz | Jan 19, 2023 at 6:56 am ETThe update started on December 5th and completed 38 days later on January 12th.
Barry Schwartz | Jan 12, 2023 at 2:19 pm ETThat's a wrap, the second Google algorithm update this month is done rolling out.
Barry Schwartz | Jan 12, 2023 at 2:18 pm ETIn short, don't produce content that is written just for search ranking.
Barry Schwartz | Jan 12, 2023 at 9:57 am ETInitially launched about a decade ago, now Apple is adding numerous features for businesses, including messaging.
Barry Schwartz | Jan 11, 2023 at 11:09 am ETAlso, Google will no longer support custom call to actions.
Barry Schwartz | Jan 11, 2023 at 8:16 am ETGoogle said these updates may take one to two weeks longer to complete.
Barry Schwartz | Jan 6, 2023 at 4:22 pm ET