The August 27, 2023, edition of SEOFOMO is here! Now with +27.7K Subscribers 📮​
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🗞️ Search Updates & News from Search Engines

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​Google releases August 2023 Broad Core Update​
​Barry Schwartz / Google Search Updates​
​Google announced that their August 2023 core update is now rolling out and may take up to two weeks to complete. This is the second Google core update of 2023.

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​Let's Talk Ranking Updates [Podcast]​
​Search Off the Record / Google Podcast​
​From changing ranking systems to updated documentation, the Google Search team discusses their holistic approach to SEO, ranking, and more!

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​The Comedy Of Errors​
​Google Search Central / Google Guidelines​
​In this illustrated short story Gary sheds some light on the different types of errors you see while browsing or optimizing sites: DNS, network, server, client.

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​CSV Files Added To List Of File Types Indexable By Google​
​Barry Schwartz / Google Search Updates​
​Google has updated the help document for file types indexable by Google to include Comma-Separated Values (.csv) in the list.

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​New Bing Chat Features Coming: Memory, Code Improvements & More Characters​
​Barry Schwartz / Bing Search Updates​
​Mikhail Parakhin, the CEO of Bing, hinted at these changes on Twitter/X.

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​Perplexity Announces AI Search Updates And Code Llama Chat​
​Kristi Hines / Perplexity Search Updates​
​Discover updates to Perplexity's AI search Copilot with GPT-3.5 Turbo fine-tuning and availability of Code Llama chat for developers.

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👌 This week's SEO Awesomeness

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​Websites That Have Blocked OpenAI’s GPTBot - 1000 Website Study​
​Jonathan Gillham / Search Trends
​Originality.ai analyzed the top 1000 websites worldwide to identify which sites are already blocking GPTBot.

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​SEO Work for Category Pages with results just in time for the holidays​
​Stephanie Briggs / Ecommerce SEO
​With autumn approaching, it’s time to focus on lucrative SEO initiatives that can drive growth in time for the holiday season! Stephanie shares three frameworks for you to use.

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​Google News Surfaces: Terminology, Impact on Traffic and More​
​John Shehata / News SEO
​This infographic by John simplifies and explains each news surface, their importance, what type of news, display, analytics tracking, performance tracking, and impact on Google Organic Search traffic.

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​Google’s New Core Web Vitals Metric: How To Improve Interaction To Next Paint (INP)​
​DebugBear / Core Web Vitals
​Learn how Core Web Vitals are changing and what you can do to score well on Interaction to Next Paint (INP), Google’s new page experience metric.

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​Introduction to SEO in 2023 - How to Learn SEO and Rank Your Websites​
​Ryan Jones / General SEO
​A useful resource from Ryan about how to learn SEO in 2023, the fundamentals and who should be learning about it in 2023 and beyond.

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​So... What does an SEO Product Manager do?​
​Gustavo Pelogia / SEO Careers
​Gus explains what an SEO product manager does, how they spend most of their time building features, the day-to-day and insights to succeed.

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​The Top SEO Myths and How to Dispel Them [Video]​
​Crawling Mondays / General SEO
​Learn about the most common SEO Myths, why are they still a thing, and how to dispel them to avoid issues, with guest SEOs Azeem Ahmad and Garrett Sussman.

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​Review Spam: Wipe Your Cheating Competitors Off The Map With This Strategy​
​Sam Knight / Local SEO
​Learn how to identify cheating competitors who are buying fake reviews, report them to Google, and even the playing field.

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​Detailed Q: Analysing The SEO Playbook of Digital Goliaths In-Depth, Every Quarter​
​Glen Allsopp / SEO Trends
​A brand new report in which Glen shares insights from the companies dominating search results and what they’re doing to stay ahead of the competition.

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​Content Fragmentation: The Quick and Easy Way to Content Ideation​
​Andy Chadwick / Content Optimization
​Andy explains what's content fragmentation: a swift, no-fuss tactic to churn out fresh content ideas. He explains how to simplify your ideation process and boost your content game with it.

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​Map Your Keywords to the Buyer's Journey and User Intent — Whiteboard Friday [Video]​
​Rejoice Ojiaku / Keyword Research
​Rejoice explains how to map your keywords to both the buyer’s purchasing journey and the relative user intent.​
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💸 Latest SEO Jobs

• ​SEO Specialist at Protolabs
• ​SEO Specialist (French) at Miro​
• ​SEO Manager (Freelance/Contractor) at Zedge​
• ​SEO Content Executive English Speaking at GA Agency​
• ​SEO Strategist at Geeky Tech​
• ​Growth Marketing Manager at Cube Dev​
• ​SEO Specialist at SMB Team​
• ​SEO Content Strategist at Silverback Strategies​
• ​Senior SEO Manager at Raketech​
• ​Content Marketing Manager at Lily AI​
• ​SEO Strategist at Kisi​
• ​SEO Executive (Off-Page) – iGaming at Finixio​
• ​Senior SEO Offpage Manager (f/m/x) at iGaming​
• ​Senior SEO Onpage Manager (f/m/x) at iGaming​

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Do you want your SEO job to be featured here for free? Just send it over here!​

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🛠 Free(mium) SEO Tools

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​GMB Everywhere - GBP Audit for Local SEO​
​GMB Everywhere
​View GMB categories, GMB Audits, Review audits, and Post audits. Spy, audit, and crush your GMB competitor with this Local SEO tool.

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​Conductor for Chrome - SEO Extension​
​Conductor
​Experience faster, better, smarter SEO insights in one click directly in your browser. The most advanced SEO extension is now free for all marketers.

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Do you want your free or freemium SEO tool to be featured here for free? Just send it over here!​

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🎙️ Upcoming SEO Events

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​Empowering Women in Search: Navigating the Digital Landscape for Personal Branding and Success​
​Conductor / Online / August 29, 2023
​Discover expert insights on navigating the search industry with Areej AbuAli, founder of Women in Tech SEO. Join the exclusive fireside chat to learn about personal branding, mentorship, and more!

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​Local SEO for Good LIVE​
​BrightLocal / Online / August 30-31, 2023
​​BrightLocal organizes an online event on August 30-31 with top-tier knowledge to support dozens of causes. Two days packed with hours of talks, Q&As, and panels. You won't want to miss it!

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​​BrightonSEO UK & Fringe Conferences​
​BrightonSEO / In-Person and Online / September 14-15, 2023
​The world's biggest search conference is back with its fall UK edition in Brighton, featuring talks covering content, technical, link building, and much more! ​
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Do you want your free or freemium SEO event to be featured here for free? Just send it over here!​

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💡 This week's SEO Tip: Use these Resources to Spot and Recover from a Google Core Update

Google is rolling out a new core update! Unsure about how to identify if you've been affected and what to do about it? Here are a few resources to read and use:

• ​Identify if your site has been likely affected by Google's Core Updates with GSC Guardian Free Chrome Extension by Darwin Santos
• ​A few thoughts on Google core updates based on 15 yrs of studying and advising on Google algorithm/system changes. [Thread] by Dr. Marie Haynes​
• ​What to do when hit by a Google Core Update - A flowchart by Aleyda Solis​
• ​Google's Content Quality [E-EAT], Helpfulness and Page Experience Questions - A checklist to assess and improve your content by Aleyda Solis​

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Do you have an SEO question that you would like me to address with an SEO tip over here? Just send it over here!​

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Are you learning SEO? Watch the latest free LearningSEO.io accelerator sessions for free featuring experienced SEO specialists answering the most common questions about each SEO topic and activity! ​

The SEO fundamentals track Q&A's sessions have been published and are ready to be watched, from the intro to SEO to link building, take a look:

• ​Introduction to SEO ​with Aleyda Solis
• ​Keyword Research with Andy Chadwick​
• ​Competition Research with Jo Turnbull
• ​Content Optimization with Crystal Carter
• ​​​Technical Optimization with Geoff Kennedy
• ​Link Building with Bibi Raven

​Subscribe to the LearningSEO.io YouTube channel and don't miss out on future editions about technical SEO, link building, and more!

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🙌 SEOs & Digital Marketers to Follow​
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​Let's follow the amazing SEOs featured at Digital E-A-T's, here are the latest published profiles:

• Ana Pérez (X/Twitter, LinkedIn, Digital E-A-T Profile), SEO Consultant
• Montserrat Cano (X/Twitter, LinkedIn, Digital E-A-T Profile), International SEO & Project Manager
• Daniel Cheung (X/Twitter, LinkedIn, Digital E-A-T Profile), SEO Manager at Adobe
• Ash Nallawalla (X/Twitter, LinkedIn, Digital E-A-T Profile), SEO Consultant and CEO of CRM911 Digital
• Veruska Anconitano (X/Twitter, LinkedIn, Digital E-A-T Profile), Multilingual SEO Consultant

And more! Take a look at more SEOs featured in Digital E-A-T's.

Expect more awesome SEOs & digital marketers to follow every week. Do you have any suggestions? Please let me know over X/Twitter, Threads , or LinkedIn.

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