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This day in search marketing history: February 9
Google Buzz launches, plus: Bing Ads outage, Google search time capsule, Adwords yellow ads return, Yahoo rejecting Microsoft and more
Twitter Blue subscribers can now Tweet 4,000 characters
The new feature is available in the US only.
Google reiterates guidance on AI-generated content – write content for people
Also consider evaluating the "who, how and why" of your content.
Search Engine Land’s updated What is SEO guide is now available
Our newly updated SEO guide is more helpful than ever, providing an overview of the key foundational elements you need to know.
New with Google multisearch, Google Maps, and more previews of Bard
Google Lens is now used over 10 billion times per month.
Bing Webmaster Guidelines updated for “conversation mode” and AI
Bing also updated the answers section to incorporate the new AI version of Bing Search.
This day in search marketing history: February 8
Google Chrome's 'not secure' warning, plus: Search Ads 360, Google News and Discover penalties, content farms and more.
Test driving the new Bing
I got early access to the new ChatGPT integrated Bing browser and decided to test it out.
Missing links: Where are sources in Google’s AI search results?
Forget zero-click. Now we have zero-link search results from Google. Is this an act of war on publishers?
The new Bing: Microsoft unveils its ChatGPT-like, AI-powered search engine
In addition to adding ChatGPT, using GPT-3.5, Bing is applying AI to improve the relevancy of its core search ranking engine.
Mastodon shows declined growth, despite concerns with Twitter
Mastodon was onboarding users fast as Elon Musk took over Twitter, but now Mastodon's monthly active users are declining.
Understanding and resolving ‘Discovered – currently not indexed’
Learn potential reasons why you're seeing this status in Google Search Console, plus ways to address related crawling and indexing issues.
Google Search podcast carousel going away on February 13
Your Google podcast manager stats will show a drop in clicks and impressions.
Conductor acquires Searchmetrics in big enterprise SEO merger
Conductor said the deal will help it better support global organizations. Both platforms will eventually become one unified platform.
Is AI threatening SEO strategy?
Is AI taking over the SEO Industry? Understand how to leverage the technology and its limitations to your SEO efforts.
This day in search marketing history: February 7
Noogler spreads SEO myths, plus: Google posts rejected, Enhanced Campaign reactions, algorithm suggestions, Super Bowls and more
Google launches Bard, its answer to ChatGPT – here’s what it looks like
Google promises to make their experimental conversational AI service, powered by LaMDA, available more widely in the coming weeks.
10 awesome reasons to attend an SMX Master Class
Live Q&A. On-demand access. Attend from anywhere. The list goes on!
Advanced image SEO: A secret manual
Learn how search engines process images and key image SEO tactics to implement from this comprehensive overview.