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The April 23rd, 2023 edition of SEOFOMO is here
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🗞️ Search Updates & News from Search Engines

Google Search Console To Drop Page Experience Report, Mobile Usability Report & Mobile-Friendly Tests
Barry Schwartz / Google Search Updates
Google will deprecate the page experience report within Google Search Console, the mobile usability report, and the mobile-friendly testing tool. This announcement was clouded in the news of the helpful content guidance gaining details on page experience. Google said this deprecation is not because mobile friendly and usability are not important.

Here Is What Changed With The Google Helpful Content Guidance - Page Experience & More
Barry Schwartz / Google Search Updates
Google announced it made some changes to its guidance around what makes content considered helpful, including adding in good page experience to the equation. Google also made some other changes to this document, which Barry details here.

Google removes several search ranking algorithm updates from its ranking systems page
Barry Schwartz / Google Search Updates
Google quietly updated its documented Google ranking systems page and completely removed several page experience-related ranking systems from it.

Google Introduces New Crawler To Optimize Googlebot’s Performance
Matt G. Southern / Google Search Updates
Google introduced GoogleOther, a new web crawler, to optimize operations, streamline R&D tasks, and reduce strain on Googlebot.

Google Publisher Center Reader Revenue Manager & Search Console Subscribed Content Report
Barry Schwartz / Google Product Updates
Google has launched functionalities for news publishers, including a new Reader Revenue Manager within the Google Publisher Center and a Subscribed content report in Google Search Console.

Shipping And Returns Information On Google Search Web Results
Google Search Central / Google Product Updates
Google Search now shows an expanded display of shipping and return information on Google Search text results for merchant sites and also making it easier to monitor and fix the structured data required to enable this display using the Search Console Shopping reports and tools.

Search Console data exports, status dashboard, and more! - Google Search News (April ‘23)
John Mueller / Google Search News
In this April episode of Google Search News, John Mueller talks about the latest news regarding new Search Console data exports, fresh Search guidelines, a status dashboard, and more.

Bard now helps you code
The Keyword / Google Product Updates
Google has updated Bard with the ability to help people with programming and software development tasks, including code generation, code debugging, and explanation.

LaTeX Support in Bing Chat
The Bing Team / Bing Product Updates
Bing has shipped support for LaTeX markup —allowing Bing chat to correctly display complex mathematical expressions. This makes Bing chat an even more useful tool for learning math concepts or writing technical research papers.

US Begins Study Of Possible Rules To Regulate AI like ChatGPT
David Shepardson, Diane Bartz / Search Trends
“Responsible AI systems could bring enormous benefits, but only if we address their potential consequences and harms. For these systems to reach their full potential, companies and consumers need to be able to trust them.”

Inside the secret list of websites that make AI like ChatGPT sound smart
Kevin Schaul, Szu Yu Chen and Nitasha Tiku / Search Trends
The Washington Post set out to analyze one of these data sets to fully reveal the types of proprietary, personal, and often offensive websites that go into an AI’s training data. Take a look!

Override network response headers and more with Chrome 113
Chrome Developers / Google Product Releases
You can now override response headers in the Network panel. Previously, you needed access to the web server to experiment with HTTP response headers. With response header overrides, you can locally prototype fixes for various headers.

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👌This week's SEO Awesomeness

Humanizing AI-Generated Content: A Guide for Content Teams
Jeff Coyle / Content Optimization
There’s some anxiety that using generative AI without human intervention could lead to unintended consequences. To explore this concern, Jeff looks at how to make sure the output from generative AI is more human.

How To Use ChatGPT For Keyword Research
Daniel Smullen / SEO Automation
ChatGPT can be a powerful assistant to speed up your keyword research processes. Daniel shares a series of prompts to get your started.

The Best Product Category Page Optimization Checklist You’ll Find On The Internet
Daniel K Cheung / Ecommerce SEO
Your ecommerce product category pages play an essential role in your online store customer journey, Daniel has created a comprehensive checklist to help you optimize them without leaving anything out.

SEO Auditing Large Websites [Video]
Yours Truly / Crawling Mondays
Learn how to develop effective SEO audits for Large Websites with Jamie Indigo and Patrick Stox. In this episode of Crawling Mondays we go through the differences of doing an audit for a big vs a small site, the errors to avoid, steps to take, tools to use and more.

How to hire an SEO agency
Jamar Ramos / General SEO
Wondering how to choose between an in-house SEO team or outsourcing, and what to do if you decide to hire an SEO agency? Don't worry, Jamar has your back!

Taxonomy SEO, Knowledge Graph, and ChatGPT Go Hand In Hand. Here’s Why.
Emilia Gjorgjevska / SEO Automation
Learn with Emilia how to build a resilient taxonomy SEO by combining it with ChatGPT and Knowledge Graph to drive more online sales. FAQs are included.

Relevance is Not a Qualitative Measure for Search Engines
Mike King / Content Optimization
Learn how a content relevance score against the top query results can determine whether your SEO strategy should focus on links or content.

Updated: Google's Content Quality [E-EAT], Helpfulness and Page Experience Questions [Sheets]
Yours Truly / Content Optimization
I've updated the EEAT & Helpfulness Content Checklist to also Include the new Page Experience Questions shared by Google. Both in English and Spanish.

How Google may identify and evaluate authors through E-E-A-T
Olaf Kopp / EEAT
Learn how Google can potentially evaluate content pieces through their authors' experience, expertise, authoritativeness and trustworthiness.

How to Create an SEO Strategy [Plus Free Tools & Templates]
Zach Edelstein / General SEO
Zach shares a 10-step plan for finding SEO opportunities and insights to get you started and create an SEO strategy, along with free tools and templates.

How to create how-to content in 7 steps
Julia McCoy / Content Optimization
The right how-to content with clear steps and instructions can help grow your rankings for key informational queries. Here's your guide to creating a great "how to" article.

SEO for Lead Generation: How to Drive High-Quality Leads Using Product-Led Content
Si Quan Ong / General SEO
The buyer’s journey is not linear, that’s why, in this post, Si explores a better way to generate leads via SEO.

Re:commerce 2023 - All Speaker Presentations [Videos]
Re:signal / SEO Events
Re:signal has made their Re:commerce conference videos publicly available for everyone to live the experience online. Check them out now.

BrightonSEO Presentation Slides - April 2023 [Sheets]
Lino Uruñuela / SEO Events
An aggregation of the amazing decks of the BrightonSEO presentations from last week.

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🥳 Introducing the new SEOFOMO Logo & Mascot: How should we call it?

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🛠 Free SEO Tools of the Week

Earn and Predict More Traffic with Search Performance Data Graph [Script]
Valerio Cusinato
Earn and predict more traffic with Search Performance Data Graph with a scatter plot Python script with 3 models to predict clicks thanks to Position, CTR and Impressions from Google Search Console.

Orbitwise
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Analytics Debugger
‎‎David Vallejo
This Chrome extension allows you to debug the Google Tag Manager and Google Analytics Implementations and supports various tools.

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Selena Vidya (Twitter, LinkedIn), SEO strategy consultant and President at Orthris
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Elizabeth Rule (Twitter, LinkedIn), SEO Analyst & Account Manager at Sterling Sky
Gus Pelogia (Twitter, LinkedIn), SEO Product Manager at Indeed
Gabriella Sannino (Twitter, LinkedIn), International SEO and Managing Partner at Level343
Gareth Hoyle (Twitter, LinkedIn), Managing Director at Marketing Signals
Nick LeRoy (Twitter, LinkedIn), Freelance SEO Consultant and Owner of SEOJobs.com
Callum Scott (Twitter, LinkedIn), Co-founder & Technical SEO Consultant at Blue Orchid Digital
Geoff Kennedy (Twitter, LinkedIn), SEO & Digital Marketing Consultant
Nikki Halliwell (Twitter, LinkedIn), Technical SEO Specialist at Journey Further

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