Hello, #SEOFOMOerThe January 8th, 2023 edition of #SEOFOMO is here!

๐Ÿ—ž๏ธ Search Updates & News from Search Engines โ€‹
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โ€‹Googleโ€™s December 2022 helpful content and link spam updates still rolling outโ€‹
โ€‹Barry Schwartz / Search Updatesโ€‹
Google said these updates may take one to two weeks longer to complete.
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โ€‹Neeva Introduces NeevaAI: Authentic, real-time AI searchโ€‹
โ€‹Neeva / Search Releasesโ€‹
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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โ€‹Microsoft to Challenge Google by Integrating ChatGPT with Bing Searchโ€‹
โ€‹Tom Warren / Search Releasesโ€‹
Microsoft is reportedly planning to launch a version of Bing that uses ChatGPT to answer search queries.
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โ€‹Google's John Mueller On Using AI & ChatGPT For Title Tag Ideasโ€‹
โ€‹Barry Schwartz / Search Q&Aโ€‹
"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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โ€‹Google Crawl Budget Help Document Adds If-Modified-Since Sectionโ€‹
โ€‹Barry Schwartz / Search Guidelinesโ€‹
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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๐Ÿ‘ŒThis week's SEO Awesomeness

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โ€‹How to Audit Google Renderingโ€‹
โ€‹Mike Ginley / Technical SEOโ€‹
How is Google rendering your Website pages? Mike goes through different tools you can use and steps to follow.
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โ€‹E-Commerce SEO: How To Increase the Visibility of Your Products By Building a Product Knowledge Graphโ€‹
โ€‹Valentina Izzo / Ecommerce SEOโ€‹
Valentina goes into detail to explain how e-commerce brands can take advantage of product knowledge graphs to increase productโ€™s search visibility and sales.
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โ€‹2023 Local SEO Success: Human Power in a Year of Changeโ€‹
โ€‹Miriam Ellis / Local SEOโ€‹
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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โ€‹Is This Googleโ€™s Helpful Content Algorithm?โ€‹
โ€‹Roger Montti / Search Insightsโ€‹
Google research paper describes an algorithm that can identify low quality webpages, similar to what the helpful content signal does
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โ€‹The SERP Pursuit SEO Quiz (2023 Ed.) โ€“ Test Your Knowledgeโ€‹
โ€‹Brodie Clark / SEO Quizโ€‹
How well do you know Googleโ€™s SERP features? Take the SERP Pursuit SEO quiz to test your knowledge of Googleโ€™s SERP features!
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โ€‹SEOs on Mastodon and other federated social media platformsโ€‹
โ€‹Jon Henshaw / SEO Professionalsโ€‹
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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โ€‹How Can You Prepare For Your SEO Career? [Thread]โ€‹
โ€‹Tom Critchlow / SEO Careersโ€‹
Tom shares two resources to help you upskill your career โ€” 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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โ€‹AIPRM - A Chrome Extension with ChatGPT Prompts for SEOsโ€‹
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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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โ€‹WebChatGPTโ€‹
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A Chrome extension that augments your ChatGPT prompts with relevant results from the web.

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๐ŸŽ™๏ธ Upcoming In-Person SEO Events

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โ€‹Pubcon Austin 2023โ€‹
โ€‹Austin, USA / February 27-28, 2023 โ€‹
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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โ€‹Search London's 12th Birthday Partyโ€‹
โ€‹London, UK / February 28, 2023 โ€‹
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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โ€‹WTSFest 2023โ€‹
โ€‹London, UK / March 3, 2023โ€‹
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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โ€‹Re:signal eCommerce SEO Conferenceโ€‹
โ€‹London, UK / March 10, 2023โ€‹
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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โ€‹SearchLove San Diegoโ€‹
โ€‹San Diego, USA / March 13-14, 2023โ€‹
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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โ€‹inOrbit: Europe's #1 conference for digital marketingโ€‹
โ€‹Portoroลพ, Slovenia / March 16-17, 2023โ€‹
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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โ€‹Sydney SEO Conference 2023โ€‹
โ€‹Sydney, Australia / April 14, 2023โ€‹
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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โ€‹YoastCon 2023: Yoast launches 'early owl' ticket salesโ€‹
โ€‹Nijmegen, The Netherlands / May 10-11, 2023โ€‹
On May 10th & 11th, Yoastโ€™s YoastCon conference will return to Nijmegen. The speaker line-up includes some of the worldโ€™s biggest names in SEO, online marketing, and WordPress; including Barry Adams, Jes Scholz, Kate Toon and Chris Lema. Alongside their keynotes, thereโ€™ll be a range of interactive workshops, site clinics, networking events and parties.
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๐Ÿ™Œ The #SEOFOMO's SEO & Digital Marketers to Follow โ€‹
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โ€‹ ๐Ÿ’ก Non-SEO focused awesomeness

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โ€‹Why Marketers Should Follow Their Audiences, Not Predict the Futureโ€‹
โ€‹Rand Fishkin / Marketingโ€‹
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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โ€‹11 Tips To Increase Your Conversion Rate [Thread]โ€‹
โ€‹Alex Garcia / CROโ€‹
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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โ€‹13 AI Content Detection Tools Tested and AI Watermarksโ€‹
โ€‹Christoph C. Cemper / AIโ€‹
Do you want to know if a content is written using AI? Christophโ€™s has tested 13 AI content detection tools so you don't have to. Take a look at the results.
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โ€‹Meta Fined Over $400 Million By EU For Alleged Personal Data Collection Violationโ€‹
โ€‹Brian Bushard / Privacyโ€‹
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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โ€‹Why advertisers should reassess Google Ads recommendationsโ€‹
โ€‹Greg Finn / Ads โ€‹
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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โ€‹YouTube Predicts What Will Go Viral In 2023โ€‹
โ€‹Matt G. Southern / YouTube โ€‹
YouTube predicts we'll see more travel content in 2023, and an influx of videos about AI-generated content.

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