Beyond RAG: Why every AI search platform is now agentic and what that means for your content
AI search has outgrown simple RAG. Learn how today’s hidden AI retrieval systems decide whether your content gets surfaced or filtered out.
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How to QA AI-generated content: A complete workflow
Learn how to review and QA AI-generated content with a step-by-step QA workflow: Check for accuracy, maintain brand voice, and improve output quality.
What is 10x content? How to create content that ranks
10x content outperforms the competition. Learn what makes content 10x better, how to craft it, and why it’s key to dominating search and earning trust.
What are external links? SEO benefits and best practices
External links build trust and authority. Learn what they are, why they matter for SEO, and how to use them strategically without hurting your rankings.
What is the Knowledge Graph? How it affects SEO and visibility
Discover how Google's Knowledge Graph works, why it matters for SEO, and how to optimize your content and entities for enhanced search visibility and authority.
SEO in an AI-powered world: What changed in just a year
What does SEO look like when AI tools become the first stop, not the last resort? A look at what’s changed – and what hasn’t.
Apple’s Preference Ranking Guidelines: Leaked doc reveals scoring system for AI-generated responses
An Apple document reveals how AI digital assistant responses are rated for harmfulness, truthfulness, satisfaction, and more.
This day in search marketing history: February 25
SEOs upset over Google featured snippets, plus: Google's red Slow label, Google Panda fallout, PageRank 301 redirect dilution myth and more.
This day in search marketing history: January 2
Google uses paid links and thin content to promote Chrome, plus: why people click on search ads, search quality raters guidelines and more.
Google Ads updated political content policies
Google is ending some election ads exemptions, adding new election ads serving options and changing verification requirements.
FLoC testing hits a snag in Europe; Wednesday’s daily brief
And, which is more difficult for brands, being authentic or conveying authenticity?
Online tax-filing services can no longer hide free services from Google Search results
TurboTax and others are prohibited from noindexing their free e-file landing pages, per new IRS rules.
SearchCap: Why Google Ignores Page Titles & “OK Voice” Actions Expand
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Enterprise SEO in 2014 – Webcast this Thursday This Thursday, May 1, at 1 PM EDT, our sister site, Digital Marketing Depot will host a webcast to help you better understand […]
Bing Improves Tax Related Search Results Before April 15th
Microsoft Bing has added new features to the Bing search results when you search for tax related queries. This is being done because Bing and other search engines see a huge increase in the number of tax related queries between January and April, i.e. before your taxes are due on April 15th. Bing now shows […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, December 9, 2013
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google’s Matt Cutts: Link Spamming Google For A Specific Time Period? Then Mass Disavow Those Links. In a recent video released by Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, Matt answered […]
Google Adds Non-Profit Details To Knowledge Graph
Google announced on Google+ that the Knowledge Graph now supports searches for non-profit organizations. Now, when you search for some non-profits by name on Google, Google will show on the right hand side, in the Knowledge graph box the nonprofit’s financials, cause, assets, tax ID, tax code, recent Google+ posts and more. This seems to […]
2012 Yahoo! Year In Review: Over 500 Top Searches In 50+ Categories
Last year, Yahoo! celebrated ten years of sharing its annual Year In Review feature, marking the occasion by releasing 30 categories of the most popular searches on Yahoo! in 2011, one of the biggest lists up to that point in time. For 2012, Yahoo! one-upped themselves by providing us with the top 10 most popular searches […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, October 18, 2011
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Facebook Gestures: How Users Could Be Sharing Their Opinion Facebook “Likes” have become a universal way to share or promote a piece of content on a blog or website (or Facebook […]
IRS To Audit Google For Offshore Money Practices
IRS Auditing How Google Shifted Profits from Bloomberg News reports Google is undergoing a an audit with “more than typical scrutiny.” The audit is reportedly specifically about how Google shifts profits to offshore subsidiaries to possibly avoid taxes in the United States. The Internal Revenue Service, IRS, has requested additional information from Google, specifically on […]
Blame One Of Calacanis’s Own 5,000 Facebook “Friends” For Putting Him In The NAMBLA Group
Jason Calacanis was a bit upset with Facebook’s new Facebook Groups feature, after he discovered someone added him to a supposed NABMLA group on Facebook. But it wasn’t some stranger that added Jason. It was one of his own Facebook friends. Facebook: Where 5,000 Friends Know Your Name Jason has nearly 5,000 friends on Facebook. […]
How To Use Goverment Website Information To Create Sticky Link Bait
If you have a tiny marketing budget but need big links, this sticky link bait tactic might be for you! A recent report from the Pew Research Center found 61% of all American adults (or 205 million people) look for or completed a transaction on a government website in 2009. This information alone is impressive, but what made […]
How Do Americans Access Government Data? Search Engines.
The Pew Internet & American Life Project has issued a new report about how Americans access government information. They found that 82% of online adults in the United States have been to a government website within the last 12 months, and that 44% started at a major search engine. While social media has become increasingly […]
Google Blurs The Line Between Paid & Unpaid Results Again
Google has a new program that allows local businesses to get paid listings that appear within what’s known as the 7-pack of local listings. But do those listings violate the Federal Trade Commission’s guidelines about proper disclosure of paid search ads? Probably not, but they do seem confusing. The New York Times had a good […]
Live Blogging Google Searchology 2009
Almost an annual event, Google Searchology is a time when Google struts its search stuff in front of assorted reporters. Today’s event gets going at 10am Pacific time. I’ll be live blogging from this page, and you can also watch the event yourself via this webcast. You can also follow @google on Twitter, which will […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, March 31, 2009
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Celebrities, TV, & Taxes: Hottest Search Terms In February
Compete.com says we spent a lot of time searching for information about entertainers, TV, and taxes during January. The terms “rihanna” and “chris brown” are Nos. 1 and 3 according to their data, with “irs.gov,” “hulu,” and “american idol” rounding out the top five. On the flip side of the coin, “circuit city” and “peanut […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, January 13, 2009
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Search Biz: Yahoo & AOL, Again?; IAB On Ad Revenues; Debating Google’s Evilness & More
Does anyone want to dance with Yahoo? Well, Bloomberg is reporting that Yahoo is continuing to talk with Time Warner about buying AOL. The report says the two companies have met “in the past few weeks,” and are discussing a plan where AOL’s advertising business would be given to Yahoo in exchange for Time Warner […]
Beware: Google AdWords Phishing Attempts Continue
Google adwords fuel new URL attack from IDG News reports that the AdWords credit card phishing attempts continue to be a problem. Emails disguised as official Google AdWords emails are being sent to advertisers asking them to update their billing information. When advertisers go through the link and update their billing information, their credit card […]
Is It Time To Change Your Linking Attitude?
Last week Google tweaked its visible PageRank in what seems to be an attempt to stifle the paid link trade. Scores of well known web sites saw their PageRank fall as they were slapped for what many believed was selling links and/or participating in excessive cross-linking. Google has confirmed at least some of the changes […]