Google CEO Sundar Pichai finally took action and made significant leadership changes. Prabhakar Raghavan, who ran Google Search, Ads, Commerce, Geo, Assistant, and Payments, now reports to Pichai as Chief Technologist and hands the Search reins over to Nick Fox. Pichai announced, “He’ll return to his computer science roots and take on the role of … Read more
Google looks stupid right now. And AI Overviews are to blame. Google’s AI Overviews have given incorrect, misleading and even dangerous answers. The fact that Google includes a disclaimer at the bottom of every answer (“Generative AI is experimental”) should be no excuse. What’s happening. Google’s AI-generated answers have gained a lot negative mainstream media … Read more
Everyone in SEO uses ChatGPT. But even after all these months, I still see many folks using it wrong. Let’s explore three common mistakes and how you can fix them. Mistake 1: Asking it questions it doesn’t have the answer to Believing everything ChatGPT says is never a good idea, but believing answers to questions it doesn’t … Read more
I am seeing some new reports, some publicly, and some not, of Google Search getting the dates they display in the Google Search results wrong. This is a common issue that Google has struggled with over the years but recently seemed to have been getting better at. A number of folks at VentureBeat complained about … Read more
Google’s John Mueller said if you see that your sitelinks in Google Search are going to the wrong country version URL on your site, then try using hreflang. John said on X, “This is kinda what hreflang is for (and even that isn’t a guarantee that languages/regions won’t mix).” Daniel_Howard posted an SEO issue where … Read more
Gary Illyes from Google posted how serving a 304 HTTP server status code can “backfire spectacularly,” even though the 304 can be a super useful signal for search engines. Gary Illyes wrote on LinkedIn, “HTTP 304 (not modified) is super useful to signal crawlers that the content they’re accessing hasn’t changed since it was last … Read more
Let’s say you already have rolled out your internal linking for SEO plan before. However, you’re not getting the results you expected from it for various reasons. In this part, we’ll talk about what these possible causes are and how you can remedy them to ensure that you’re getting the most out of your internal … Read more
Google’s John Mueller said it doesn’t matter either way if you put your blog posts on a subfolder of /blog or just on the root directory of the site, without the /blog. The best part is that John not only said “sometimes SEOs tell you myths about getting better ranking one way or the other … Read more
May 1, 2019 | Posted by Mordy Oberstein I’m on the hunt for user intent insights in 2019. I’ve resolved to make this year about going deep into intent and how Google handles it. Instead of getting into the finer points of user intent and Google’s proficiency in meeting it on multiple levels, … Read more
About a week ago, Google did its last batch of moving sites to mobile-first indexing and some mobile-friendly sites were still noticing their sites were being reported as being crawled using desktop indexing. It turns out, there is a reporting bug in Google Search Console that may show the wrong mobile indexing status for some … Read more
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