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๐๏ธ Search Updates and News from Search Engines
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โGoogle Search Console experience and enhancement bug Identified and Fixedโ
โBarry Schwartz / Google Product Updates
โMany SEOs noticed a drop in the valid or โgoodโ reported URLs in these Search Console experience and enhancement reports. Google fixed the issue on Thanksgiving, Thursday, November 23rd.
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โUpcoming Deprecation Of Crawl Rate Limiter Tool In Search Consoleโ
โGoogle Search Central / Google Product Updates
โThe crawl rate limiter tool in Search Console is being deprecated on January 8th, 2024: "With the deprecation of the crawl limiter tool, we're also setting the minimum crawling speed to a lower rate, comparable to the old crawl rate limits."
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โHow To Let Google Know That Your Google Search, Discover & News Traffic Significantly Droppedโ
โBarry Schwartz / Google Q&As
โGoogle's Search Liaison, Danny Sullivan, said you can reply to a thread on X or post a help thread in Google's forums to let him know about sites that saw a significant drop in Google Search, Google Discover and Google News traffic recently.
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โFollower Count Fully Live In Google Search Result Snippetsโ
โBarry Schwartz / Google Search Updates
โGoogle seems to have fully rolled out the follower count in the search result snippets for social media sites like YouTube, LinkedIn, Instagram, X and others.
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โGoogle Bard Can Now Understand YouTube Videosโ
โBarry Schwartz / Google Product Updates
โGoogle Bard can now respond with answers based on the spoken words in a YouTube video.
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โWhich aspect of my site should I focus on? [Podcast]โ
โSearch Off The Record / Google Guidelines
โIn this episode of Search Off The Record, Martin, Gary, and John discuss aspects of SEO that website owners often overlook. From overall quality to more technical aspects, the Google search team talks about where they focus on their SEO work and why the details add up to a better SEO experience.
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โOpenAI Announces Free ChatGPT Voice Capabilities In Mobile Appโ
โKristi Hines / OpenAI Product Updates
โChatGPT's latest update brings voice interaction to all users for free. Learn how this could reshape your approach to content and SEO.
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๐ This week's SEO Awesomeness
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โGoogleโs Algorithms Uncovered: How the Search Engine Works According to Leaked Documentsโ
โNatzir Turrado / General SEO
โFollowing the recent leak of documents in an antitrust lawsuit against Google, we have a unique opportunity to explore Googleโs algorithms. Natzir analyzed them and shares the top insights in this comprehensive guide.
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โQuality Rater And Algorithmic Evaluation Systems: Are Major Changes Coming?โ
โDawn Anderson / Search Trends
โRecent breakthroughs indicate that AI systems can replace human raters in search evaluation. Still, concerns remain over quality and bias. Dawn digs deeper into Googleโs evaluation process.
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โGoogleโs 2023 Search quality rater guidelines update: Hereโs what changedโ
โLily Ray / General SEO
โThe big focus of changes this year is around user intent and whether Google's search results meet the expectations of users. Read Lily's full analysis.
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โWord to Your Mum: Managing the Future of SEO Without Keywords [Video]โ
โCindy Krum / Search Trendsโ
โCindy dives deep into the impact that language models like MUM, how they are likely to help Google limit the processing power needed to return a good result for a query, and how they are also likely helping Google do a better job at making money from targeted ads.
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โAutomate Backlink Monitoring for free with Google Sheets and GA4โ
โBengรผ Sarฤฑca Dinรงer / Link Building
โBengรผ shares how to track backlinks for free by connecting Google Sheets and Google Analytics 4, as well as how to set up email notifications for automated backlink monitoring.
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โWhat's in Store for SEO in 2024?โ
โDavid Bain / SEO Trends
โDavid asked 101 of the world's leading SEOs to share their number one actionable tip for 2024. Check out this guide to learn and stay one step ahead of your competitors in the upcoming year.
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โSEO Experiment: Do Domains With .cat Extension Rank Better? โ
โFernando Maciรก / International SEO
โFernando shares the outcome of an SEO experiment Human Level ran to identify if .cat domains rank better: "We have not been able to identify a determinant correlation between the language and geolocation of the search and the differential positioning of the different domain extensions.."
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โAI for SEO content creation: 5 real-world examplesโ
โLuca Tagliaferro / Content Optimization
โLinkedIn, CNET, Bankrate and others are testing AI content creation for SEO. Here are key learnings to inform your content strategy.
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โHow to Upskill Yourself in SEOโ
โSara Taher / SEO Careers
โIn order to make an impact and drive results in the ever-changing search ecosystem, the skill sets required for SEOs are evolving faster than ever and we need to keep up! Sara explains how.
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โSEO Product Management: What is it and How To Succeed at It? [Video]โ
โCrawling Mondays / SEO Management
โLearn what is SEO Product Management and how to succeed at it with SEO consultants Sam Torres and Adam Gent by watching the latest edition of Crawling Mondays.
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๐๏ธ Upcoming SEO Events
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โโSearch London: Supercharge GA4 Reports and Collaboration Tips to Make Us Better SEOsโ
โSearch London / London, UK / November 28, 2023
โโLearn how to customize your GA4 reports and the ways collaboration with other departments can strengthen your SEO content and strategy with Kyle Rushton McGregor, Sofia Tyson and more.
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โSuperside / Online / December 5, 2023
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โApply to Speak at BarbadosSEO 2024โ
โBarbados SEO / Barbados / November 6-7, 2024
โLooking to speak at BarbadosSEO in 2024? It's now time to pitch! This year, their speaker pitch process will have two cut-off dates: the first is in December, and the second is in January. 12 speakers + 2 keynotes will be selected from the submissions.
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