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🗞️ Search Updates and News from Search Engines

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​Google Says There’s No Way To Block Content Only From Discover Feed
​Matt G. Southern / Google Search Q&A
​Google confirms there is no option to block content only from Discover at the moment , unlike News.

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​Google: Removing Massive Disavow Lists Should Not Worry You
​Barry Schwartz / Google Search Q&A
​John Mueller was asked if you should worry about massive link disavow lists and their removal. John said you should not be worried at all.

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​Google Confirms Ranking Boost For Country Code Domains
​Roger Montti / Google Search Q&A
​Google's Gary Illyes confirmed that country code domain names perform better in search results because Google gives an edge to local sites.

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​Google: Core Update Expected In The Coming Weeks
​Barry Schwartz / Google Search Q&A
​Danny Sullivan said that he expects the next core update to be rolling out in the coming weeks.

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​Google Tests AI-Organized Local Search Results Page
​Barry Schwartz / Google Search Trends
​Google seems to be testing its AI-organized search results pages for local search queries.

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​English Google SEO office-hours from July 2024
​​​​Google Search Central / SEO Q&A
​​​​Listen to the audio recording of the Google SEO office-hours from July 2024, going through many SEO community questions: "How does Google handle incremental CMS migration and Hreflang?", "What non-search features does GoogleOther crawling support?" and more.

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​Billions Of Google goo.gl URLs Will No Longer Work
​Barry Schwartz / Google Product Updates
​Starting August 23, 2024, goo.gl links will start notifying users that the link will no longer be supported after August 25, 2025 prior to navigating to the original target page.

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​Welcome to the Google Trends Tutorials [Video]
​Google Search Central / Google Trends Tutorials
​Get insights about current events, cultural trends, consumer behavior, and more with Daniel Waisberg on Google Trends Tutorials, a new YouTube series!

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​OpenAI announces GPT-4o mini: advancing cost-efficient intelligence
​OpenAI / OpenAI Product Updates
​“GPT-4o mini enables a broad range of tasks with its low cost and latency, such as applications that chain or parallelize multiple model calls, pass a large volume of context to the model and more”.

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🙋🏻‍♀️ SEOFOMO AMA

Get answers to your burning SEO questions through the new SEOFOMO “Ask Me Anything” series.

Since the next edition of SEOFOMO, I’ll be answering the SEO questions I receive through this form as a new AMA section in the SEOFOMO newsletter and/or video in Crawling Mondays.

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​Ask your SEO questions here!​

👌 This week's SEO Awesomeness

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​Google's Site Reputation Abuse Update Leads Gaming Affiliate To Reduce Financial Forecast
​Barry Schwartz / Search Trends
​Catena Media, a publicly-traded online gambling information company, issued its Q2 earnings update a couple of weeks ago, saying they have reduced its revenues forecast due to the Google Site reputation abuse policy update.

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​How to Get Search Traffic Without Ranking for Anything
​Tim Soulo / General SEO
​Tim shares a simple trick for getting search traffic for the keywords you want to rank for—without actually ranking for them: Second-hand search traffic.

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​7 Key Questions and Tools to Assess Your Site Organic Search Rankings Drops
​Aleyda Solis / Search Trends
​Learn about the fundamental questions to ask, data to assess and tools to use to analyze a site rankings drop.

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​From Clicks to Community: Embracing the Shift from the Traffic Era to Audience Era
​Scott Purcell / Search Trends
​Create comprehensive content, focus on authority and expertise, and enhance user engagement. Scott shares actionable tips for publishers in this guide.

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​Local link building: How community and local activities lead to backlinks
​Celeste Gonzalez / Local SEO
​Learn effective ways to build links for your local business based on IRL activities, like events, sponsorships and partnerships. Find how local content creation improves your authority and brand awareness.

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​The 11 Known Google Business Profile Fields That Impact Your Rank
​Miriam Ellis / Local SEO
​Business Title, Address, Categories... Miriam discusses these and other Google Business Profile fields that can have a positive impact on how you rank.

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​Unlocking SEO and Revenue with Accessibility [Presentation]
​Lea Scudamore / General SEO
​Lea goes through the 5 crucial steps to WCAG compliance and enhancing user experiences, from crafting a digital accessibility statement to optimizing audio, video, forms, and more.

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​The Impact of the EU Digital Markets Act on SEO
​Mitul Gandhi / General SEO
​Mital explains the impact of the Digital Markets Act on SEO, how Google's response is changing search results, and how to measure the effects.
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​AI Overview Trends: Insights from 5,000 HR and Workforce Management Keywords for SaaS
​Helene Jelenc / AI Search Trends
​A study about Google’s AI Overview trends from thousands of HR and workforce keywords. How often does AI Overview appear for transactional intent vs informational, top of funnel queries? Learn about this and more!

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​2024 Salary and Career survey: How much search marketers make
​Danny Goodwin / SEO Careers
​Learn the average search marketing salary ranges, plus what most impacts compensation in Search Engine Land's 2024 Salary and Career survey.

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​Testing Ideas From the Google API Leaks — Whiteboard Friday [Video]
​Will Critchlow / Search Trends
​Will shares four testing ideas relating to the Google API leaks to help answer what is and what isn’t a Google ranking factor in this insightful Whiteboard Friday.

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​4 Ways PPC and SEO Can Work Together (And When They Can’t)
​Si Quan Ong / General SEO
​You don't have to choose between SEO or PPC. The best companies use both. Here's how they can work together.

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💸 Latest SEO Jobs

• ​SEO/PR Associate at Approachable Systems​
• ​Senior Offsite Manager – Global SEO at Adidas​
• ​SEO Country Manager LATAM Market at GreenTomatoMedia​
• ​Digital Marketing Specialist at LiveChatAI​
• ​Technical SEO Manager at Remitly​
• ​SEO Manager at Honeybook​
• ​SEO strategist at Scaled Agile​
• ​SEO Specialist at Veracity​
• ​SEO and Content Specialist at PetDesk​
• ​SEO Engineer at Pulumi​

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🛠 Free(mium) SEO Tools

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​Schema.org Validator [Updated Design]
​Schema.org
​The Schema.org Website and validator have a new design. Check it out.

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​Botpresso SEO Chrome Extension
​Botpresso
​Comprehensive Chrome SEO extension empowers you to analyze any webpage in seconds: On-Page SEO Audit, Advanced Heading Management, Effortless Image Optimization, and more.

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Are you looking for more SEO Tools? Take a look at the SEOFOMO SEO Toolbox​

🎙️ Upcoming SEO Events

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​SEO IRL 2024​
​SEO IRL / Toronto, Canada / $85.47 / October 4, 2024
​Learn and connect with top SEO experts in this year’s SEO IRL with Mike King, Fery Kaszoni, Bibi Raven, Steve Toth and more.

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​Networking for Enterprise SEOs - Chicago
​seoClarity / Chicago, United States / October 24, 2024
​Learn about enterprise SEO, meet other SEOs from the area, and hear insights from Kevin Indig.

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​Ahrefs Evolve 2024
​Ahrefs / Singapore / October 24-25, 2024
​2 days in sunny Singapore. 500 digital marketing enthusiasts. 18 top speakers from around the world. Join the event and let the magic happen.

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​See more upcoming SEO events in the new SEOFOMO Events Section​

🙌 SEOs and Digital Marketers to Follow

This week's SEOs and digital marketing specialists to follow are:

• Gianluca Fiorelli (X, LinkedIn), Senior Strategic and International SEO Consultant
• Natalie Slater (X, LinkedIn), Freelance SEO Consultant
• Silvia Martin (X, LinkedIn), Independent SEO Consultant and Founder of Trebole
• Geoff Kennedy (X, LinkedIn), SEO & Digital Marketing Consultant
• Nick LeRoy (X, LinkedIn), Freelance SEO Consultant and Owner of SEOJobs.com
• Natalia Witczyk (X, LinkedIn), CEO & International SEO Consultant Mosquita Digital
• Hannah Butcher (X, LinkedIn), Freelance SEO & Content Marketer
• Jo Turnbull (X, LinkedIn), SEO and Digital Marketing Consultant at Turn Global

Expect more awesome SEOs & digital marketers to follow every week. Do you have any suggestions? Just let me know over here!​