Hello, #SEOFOMOerThe January 8th, 2023 edition of #SEOFOMO is here!
ποΈ Search Updates & News from Search Engines β
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βGoogleβs December 2022 helpful content and link spam updates still rolling outβ
βBarry Schwartz / Search Updatesβ
Google said these updates may take one to two weeks longer to complete.
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βNeeva Introduces NeevaAI: Authentic, real-time AI searchβ
βNeeva / Search Releasesβ
Neeva has launched NeevaAI: "At Neeva, we are harnessing the power of AI to transform search from a game of 10 blue links to an experience that combines the best of ChatGPT with the authority and timeliness of search."
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βMicrosoft to Challenge Google by Integrating ChatGPT with Bing Searchβ
βTom Warren / Search Releasesβ
Microsoft is reportedly planning to launch a version of Bing that uses ChatGPT to answer search queries.
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βGoogle's John Mueller On Using AI & ChatGPT For Title Tag Ideasβ
βBarry Schwartz / Search Q&Aβ
"Google's John Mueller said on Mastodon that using AI or ChatGPT blindly for title tag generation is not a great idea. But he added that if you are running out of ideas and need inspiration, you can leverage it for some."
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βGoogle Crawl Budget Help Document Adds If-Modified-Since Sectionβ
βBarry Schwartz / Search Guidelinesβ
Google has added a new section to the crawl budget management help document. The new section is for the If-Modified-Since request header. The section is titled "Specify content changes with HTTP status codes."
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πThis week's SEO Awesomeness
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βHow to Audit Google Renderingβ
βMike Ginley / Technical SEOβ
How is Google rendering your Website pages? Mike goes through different tools you can use and steps to follow.
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βE-Commerce SEO: How To Increase the Visibility of Your Products By Building a Product Knowledge Graphβ
βValentina Izzo / Ecommerce SEOβ
Valentina goes into detail to explain how e-commerce brands can take advantage of product knowledge graphs to increase productβs search visibility and sales.
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β2023 Local SEO Success: Human Power in a Year of Changeβ
βMiriam Ellis / Local SEOβ
Check out the predictions for local SEO in 2023 from Dr Pete, Mike Blumenthal, Amanda Jordan, and more; as well as 3 areas of local search marketing to look at.
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βIs This Googleβs Helpful Content Algorithm?β
βRoger Montti / Search Insightsβ
Google research paper describes an algorithm that can identify low quality webpages, similar to what the helpful content signal does
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βThe SERP Pursuit SEO Quiz (2023 Ed.) β Test Your Knowledgeβ
βBrodie Clark / SEO Quizβ
How well do you know Googleβs SERP features? Take the SERP Pursuit SEO quiz to test your knowledge of Googleβs SERP features!
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βSEOs on Mastodon and other federated social media platformsβ
βJon Henshaw / SEO Professionalsβ
Many people have been setting up Mastodon accounts as an alternative to Twitter. This is a list of SEOs on federated social platforms like Mastodon that use the ActivityPub protocol.
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βHow Can You Prepare For Your SEO Career? [Thread]β
βTom Critchlow / SEO Careersβ
Tom shares two resources to help you upskill your career β a skills matrix to help you understand the various levels and pathways through both agency and in-house careers and discount on SEO MBA courses.
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πΈ New Digital Marketing & SEO Jobs
- βDirector of Growth Product Management at Toptalβ
- βPPC specialist (Search and Display channels, Paid Traffic Agency) at Semrushβ
- βSenior Blog Editor (Organic Search Team) at Semrushβ
- βSenior SEO & Growth Expert at Eventbriteβ
- βSEO Consultant at DealerOnβ
- βSenior Audience Growth Strategist (SEO, Analytics) at 10upβ
- βSEO Manager at momentive.aiβ
See more digital marketing and SEO jobs at the new #SEOFOMO Job Pallet, curating the best SEO and Digital Marketing Jobs in top companies; whether remote, hybrid, or in-person.
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Are you open to a new exciting role? Join the #SEOFOMO Talent Collective, featuring SEOs & Digital Marketers open for job opportunities (with control over what details to share about your profile), to be matched with top companies looking to hire specialists.
β π Free SEO Tools of the Week β
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βAIPRM - A Chrome Extension with ChatGPT Prompts for SEOsβ
βLinkResearchToolsβ
The AIPRM for SEO extension adds a list of curated prompt templates for SEOs to ChatGPT. With just one click access a curated selection of ChatGPT prompts for SEOs.
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βWebChatGPTβ
βAnzor Qunashβ
A Chrome extension that augments your ChatGPT prompts with relevant results from the web.
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ποΈ Upcoming In-Person SEO Events
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βPubcon Austin 2023β
βAustin, USA / February 27-28, 2023 β
The Pubcon Austin 2023 conference is back and will take place on Feb 27 and 28th, 2023, at the AT&T Conference Center on the University of Texas campus. This event will provide four educational tracks each hour and each session will include industry-leading speakers offering the latest strategies in SEO, PPC, Local Search, Social media, Content Marketing, and more.
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βSearch London's 12th Birthday Partyβ
βLondon, UK / February 28, 2023 β
Search London is turning 12 years young on February 28th, 2023. It will be in central London at Bounce, near Farringdon; with cake, pizza and drinks and four great talks. Tickets are 25 GBP plus Eventbrite fee.
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βWTSFest 2023β
βLondon, UK / March 3, 2023β
The Women in Tech SEO Festival is back in London on Friday, March 3rd 2023! A full day conference - 10 brilliant talks by 10 brilliant speakers. Full access ticket includes access to the full-day conference in London, after-party and post-event recordings.
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βRe:signal eCommerce SEO Conferenceβ
βLondon, UK / March 10, 2023β
Join the brightest minds in eCommerce SEO. No vendors. No sales pitches. Just insights, ideas, and open discussions. Join us at the stunning Ham Yard Hotel, for the inaugural Re:signal eCommerce SEO Conference. A purpose-built SEO event, with an all-star line-up of exceptional industry experts and innovators.
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βSearchLove San Diegoβ
βSan Diego, USA / March 13-14, 2023β
Power up your skills over two days, with cutting edge digital marketing presentations. From analytics and optimization, to content and paid promotions, all the crucial topics are covered.
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βinOrbit: Europe's #1 conference for digital marketingβ
βPortoroΕΎ, Slovenia / March 16-17, 2023β
At inOrbit you will learn actionable tactics and techniques from real-life examples our expert speakers have learned through decades in the digital marketing trenches. Grab your inOrbit tickets today! Don't miss out on the highly limited special deals and secure your best rates. Super Early Bird is limited to 100 tickets.
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βSydney SEO Conference 2023β
βSydney, Australia / April 14, 2023β
The Sydney SEO Conference is back on the 14th of April 2023 in Sydney. The event will be an SEO focused conference with several international and local SEO speakers coming down to Sydney for the event. You can expect to take away plenty of actionable SEO tips, tactics and information from the event.
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βYoastCon 2023: Yoast launches 'early owl' ticket salesβ
βNijmegen, The Netherlands / May 10-11, 2023β
On May 10th & 11th, Yoastβs YoastCon conference will return to Nijmegen. The speaker line-up includes some of the worldβs biggest names in SEO, online marketing, and WordPress; including Barry Adams, Jes Scholz, Kate Toon and Chris Lema. Alongside their keynotes, thereβll be a range of interactive workshops, site clinics, networking events and parties.
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π The #SEOFOMO's SEO & Digital Marketers to Follow β
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Other awesome newsletters authors that I follow, who I recommend you to take a look, subscribe and follow too:
- Jamie Indigo (Twitter, LinkedIn), Rich Snippetsβ
- Steve Toth (Twitter, LinkedIn), SEO Notebook
- Areej AbuAli (Twitter, LinkedIn), WTSNewsletterβ
- Tom Critchlow (Twitter, LinkedIn), The SEO MBAβ
- Nick Leroy (Twitter, LinkedIn), SEOForLunchβ
- Kevin Indig (Twitter, LinkedIn), Growth Memoβ
- Marie Haynes (Twitter, LinkedIn), Search News You Can Use β
- Adam Gent (Twitter, LinkedIn), The SEO Sprintβ
- Jessie Willms (Twitter, LinkedIn), and Shelby Blackley (Twitter, LinkedIn), WTF is SEO?β
- Barry Adams (Twitter, LinkedIn), SEO for Google Newsβ
- Paddy Moogan (Twitter, LinkedIn), The New Leader Newsletterβ
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Follow. Them. Now. π
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Expect more awesome SEOs & marketers to follow every week. Do you have any suggestions? Please let me know over Twitter or LinkedIn.
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β π‘ Non-SEO focused awesomeness
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βWhy Marketers Should Follow Their Audiences, Not Predict the Futureβ
βRand Fishkin / Marketingβ
Even marketers who manage to avoid this macro-level trend chasing often fall prey to prediction-focused marketing at the tactical level. Sometimes, it works. See what to do instead.
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β11 Tips To Increase Your Conversion Rate [Thread]β
βAlex Garcia / CROβ
Alex shares 11 actionable tips to increase your landing pages conversions rates such as featuring the 4Cs, answering 5 key questions, adding more clarity, and more.
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β13 AI Content Detection Tools Tested and AI Watermarksβ
βChristoph C. Cemper / AIβ
Do you want to know if a content is written using AI? Christophβs has tested 13 AI content detection tools so you don't have to. Take a look at the results.
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βMeta Fined Over $400 Million By EU For Alleged Personal Data Collection Violationβ
βBrian Bushard / Privacyβ
European Union privacy regulator fined Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta more than $400 million on Wednesday, accusing the social media giant of illegally forcing users to agree to receive personalized ads based on their online activity.
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βWhy advertisers should reassess Google Ads recommendationsβ
βGreg Finn / Ads β
Google Ads is fundamentally changing the way recommendations work. Here's why you should take extreme caution in applying any recommendation.
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βYouTube Predicts What Will Go Viral In 2023β
βMatt G. Southern / YouTube β
YouTube predicts we'll see more travel content in 2023, and an influx of videos about AI-generated content.
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βA huge THANK YOU to loyal #SEOFOMOers referring +5 subscribers
- βMiracle Inameti-Archibong SEO Lead at John Lewis Finance
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