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Google’s search quality raters protest for higher pay
Google's search quality raters – the people who help evaluate Google's search results – want a raise.
Why SEO should be a product
Treating search engine optimization as a product means dedicating ample resources to growing organic traffic and revenue. Learn more here.
How much will backlinks matter in 2023?
While backlinks' importance to Google has waned over the years, earning natural links through high-quality content still helps with SEO.
This day in search marketing history: February 2
Google's revamped Partners program, plus: Bing again denies copying Google results, YouTube using Amazon's algorithm and more.
Report: Microsoft Bing’s ChatGPT feature to be faster and richer with GPT-4
As reported earlier, we are now learning more about Microsoft's plans to incorporate ChatGPT into Bing Search.
ChatGPT Plus launches, it costs $20 a month
OpenAI said users can access the paid version of its popular ChatGPT service during peak times and get faster responses to prompts.
Webinar: 4 disciplines for SEO teams to drive performance
Tune in for templates and examples you can use to set your goals.
Google Maps removed policy-abiding reviews from Local Guides
Google is working on restoring the reviews over the next few weeks.
Google testing new search design with AI answers over organic results
We may have gotten our first preview of at what chatbot-style Google desktop search results will look like later this year
Microsoft Bing to rely more on lastmod date in XML sitemap files for crawling
Microsoft also released some interesting stats on lastmod dates in XML sitemap files.
Google Search Console Video indexing report gains video impressions overlay and sitemap filter
Google has upgraded the video indexing report to help your videos perform better in search.
Is Google using a ChatGPT-like system for spam and AI content detection and ranking websites?
Key SEO takeaways from Google's 2020 paper on how text-generation models can be successfully used to detect low-quality content.
This day in search marketing history: February 1
Bing accused of copying Google's search results, plus: Microsoft tries to buy Yahoo, about this result, fake locksmith issues and more.
OpenAI launches new tool to detect AI-generated text
This new web-based AI Text Classifier tool predicts how likely it is that text was written by a human or AI.
Twitter announces the end of CoTweets
Twitter discontinues co-tweeting feature after it failed to meet expectations under Elon Musk's leadership.
LinkedIn now lets you add an SEO title and description
Publishing articles on LinkedIn? Now you can customize how your SEO title and description will appear in search engines.
Internal linking for ecommerce: The ultimate guide
Learn nine best practices for internally linking pages on ecommerce websites, plus examples of ecommerce SEO done well.
This day in search marketing history: January 31
Google releases URL Inspection Tool API, plus: AdWords IF functions, Page Speed Update confusion, local paid inclusion and more.
Yandex scrapes Google and other SEO learnings from the source code leak
Yandex isn't Google, but there is a lot SEOs can learn about how a modern search engine is built from reviewing this codebase.
Baidu working on AI chatbot service that will be added to search
Baidu reportedly is planning to launch its AI chatbot as a standalone app before incorporating it gradually into search by March.