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π₯ Search Updates, SEO News & More [SEOFOMO, Jan 19, 2025]
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π₯ βMost Popular SEOFOMO News Stories & Contributors Of The Week
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βGoogle Rejects EUβs Call For Fact-Checking In Search & YouTubeβ βMatt G. Southern / Google Search Trendsβ βGoogle rejects EU's fact-checking requirements for search and YouTube, defying new disinformation rules. Google claims its current moderation tools are already effective enough.
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βGoogle Manual Actions For News & Discover Policy Violations Updatedβ βBarry Schwartz / Google Search Guidelinesβ βGoogle quietly updated the manual action policy violations list for News and Discover policy violations. Google removed the adult-theme and artificial freshening sections and then added a slew of deceptive practices sections.
βEvidence That Google Detects AI-Generated Content βRoger Montti / Google Search Trendsβ βEvidence surfaces indicating that Google detects AI-generated content within a specific context for search quality.
β25 tips for 2025 by SEO Expertsβ βGeorge Nguyen / Search Trendsβ βTo help you overcome the main current SEO challenges, George asked 25 of the SEO industryβs top experts to tell you about the approaches and tactics that are top-of-mind as we start the year.
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βIndexWatch US: SEO Winners in Google US Search 2024β βLily Ray / Search Trendsβ βLily goes through the SISTRIX annual winners list and analyzes some of the more interesting gains throughout 2024. βSuccessful strategies occasionally involved programmatic SEO leveraging AI, along with successful site consolidations and migrations, and an emphasis on comprehensive, authoritative contentβ.
βDoes CTR Manipulation Work Long-Term?β βJoy Hawkins / General SEOβ βJoy ran an experiment to find out if click-through rate (CTR) manipulation still works and for how long. βRankings go up as long as the fake clicks continue. The moment the campaign ends, the rankings drop back to their original positionβ.
βHow to Integrate LLMs into Your SEO Workflowβ βAleyda Solis / AI Searchβ βStruggling to integrate LLMs into your SEO workflow? I go through how to harness AIβs potential while ensuring originality with effective validation systems in this guide.
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βEntity SEO: The Guide to Understandingβ βGinny Jones / General SEOβ βSee how targeting the right entities can attract the right audience, drive conversions, and boost your revenue.
βUsing Gemini to get insight into Your E-E-A-Tβ βMarie Haynes / Content Optimizationβ βMarie goes through using LLMs to learn more about your E-E-A-T and shares inspiration on how to improve upon it in this guide.
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βThe Battle Against Index Bloat: What You Need to Knowβ βJahnelle Pittman-Seaman / Technical SEOβ βJahnelle explains what index bloat is, why it matters, and how to fix it with crawl budget optimization in this step-by-step guide.
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βThe Role of JavaScript in E-Commerce SEO βShafqat Abbas / Technical SEOβ βShafqat shares the essentials of JS in e-commerce SEO, common challenges, and actionable optimization tactics to use JavaScript's full potential while ensuring strong SEO performance.
βSEO DOM Monitor [Chrome Extension]β βJonathan Clarkβ βMonitor and detect dynamically added content on web pages for SEO analysis and identify hidden content search engines might miss.
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This week's SEOFOMOer to follow is Anthony Barone, Co-Founder and Managing Director of StudioHawk UK, the Agency Social Club and the Dreamland conferences, who's also the next SEOFOMO London Meetup co-host, taking place in just a few days.
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Anthony runs the day to day operations of StudioHawk London as the leader and SEO specialist on the ground. He's also co-founder of Dreamland, a retail, ecommerce and DTC brand growth conference.
β βMetaβs Community Notes Wonβt Apply to Paid Ads. Marketers Still Have Questionsβ βPatrick Coffeeβ βMeta assured advertisers that its βCommunity Notes,β which will let users crowdsource annotations on posts that they believe are false or need context, wonβt apply to paid ads when they arrive later this year, according to people with direct knowledge of the conversations.
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