The AI-generated answers in Google’s Search Generative Experience (SGE) do not match any links from the top 10 Google organic search results 93.8% of the time. That’s according to a new Authoritas analysis, which focused primarily on commercial keywords. Why we care. Google SGE is expected to reduce organic traffic significantly to websites for many … Read more
Google’s John Mueller explained why some links that you think are important might not be that important for search ranking purposes. He responded to a question on Reddit asking why an important link is not shown by the third-party link trackers. The person asked, “I have the most important (parent company) domain linking to the … Read more
This is the last SEO video recap of the year, and I covered a summary of all the confirmed Google algorithm updates in 2023. I also discussed the Christmas Google search ranking volatility we saw earlier this week. Bing Chat added favicons to links. Google’s John Mueller said SEO won’t die in the first half … Read more
Microsoft has added favicons to the links within Bing Chat / Copilot. Favicons should make the links beneath the AI-generated answer more clickable and noticeable to users. I personally now see the favicons on all my tests within Bing Chat, now known as Copilot. I am not sure if this is a limited test or … Read more
What Are Internal Links? Internal links are hyperlinks that point to different pages on the same website. These differ from external links, which link to pages on other websites. Here’s what an internal link looks like on a live page: And here’s a sample of what its code looks like on the backend of a … Read more
Google’s John Mueller responded to a thread in Reddit about finding and fixing inbound broken links, offering a nuanced insight that some broken links are worth finding and fixing and others are not. Reddit Question About Inbound Broken Links Someone asked on Reddit if there’s a way to find broken links for free. This is … Read more
The debate over the significance of links has been a recurring theme in SEO. Recently, Google’s Gary Illyes has once again ignited discussions around the topic when he said that “people overestimate the importance of links,” and it hasn’t been in the top three ranking factors for some time. Such statements from Google have been … Read more
Google announced yesterday that the Google Search Generative Experience has added new “supportive” links to the AI-powered answer snapshots. Google wrote, “you’ll now be able to see AI-generated descriptions of some sources, supported by information on high-quality sites that talk about that website. We’ll showcase links to these sites in the AI-generated description of the … Read more
Google is now rolling out the about this image feature that it announced back in May and is also adding new links to the SGE AI powered answers, the company announced. SGE AI answers with supporting links Google said it is now adding to the Search Generative Experience‘s AI-generated AI answers “descriptions of some sources, … Read more
Google is testing having links overlay, like watermarks, on product result images. I can replicate this on some browsers, but not all, so it looks like a test where Google can see if searchers are clicking on the link within the image or not. This was spotted first by Khushal Bherwani, who posted about this … Read more
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