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๐ฃ SEOFOMO News, Updates & Announcement - Nov 10, 2024
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โGoogle AI Overviews "Highlight" Feature Expands AI Responses โBarry Schwartz / Google Search Trends โGoogle is testing a new feature in the AI Overviews within Google Search. There is this "highlight" button that when you click on, it lets you highlight text in the AI Overview, which then in turn gives you more AI Answers.
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โGoogle & Bing In Dublin For IETF Event To Improve Crawling & AI Controls โBarry Schwartz / Search Industry Trends โGoogle's Gary Illyes and John Mueller, along with Bing's Fabrice Canel and probably other representatives from these search engines spent time in Dublin this week to attend the IETF 121 Dublin meeting with the goal of submitting ideas on how to improve the Robots Exclusion Protocol.
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โOpenAI Reddit AMA And SEO For ChatGPT Search โRoger Montti / ChatGPT Search Updates โOpenAI's CEO and executives offered answers on Reddit that hint at what SEO for ChatGPT Search will look like.
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โChatGPT Search Is Powered By Bing's Index & More โBarry Schwartz / ChatGPT Search Updates โ"OpenAI's VP of Engineering confirmed that ChatGPT Search uses Bing. They wrote: we use a set of services and Bing is an important one."
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โReport: 22% Of Sites Hit By Google's Helpful Content Update Are Up 20%+ โBarry Schwartz / Google Search Updates โ"Glenn Gabe is tracking about 400 of them, so he provided an update saying 88 (or 22% of them) have seen a 20% increase since the August 2024 core update. Some had full recoveries but most did not, and most saw no lifts at all."
โThe 'bias machine': How Google tells you what you want to hear โThomas Germain / Google Search Trends โ"We're at the mercy of Google." Undecided voters in the US who turn to Google may see dramatically different views of the world โ even when they're asking the exact same question.
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โGoogle On When To Split Load Across Subdomains Or Other Domains โBarry Schwartz / Google Search Q&A โJohn Mueller was asked about when it makes sense to host images or other content on separate subdomains or domains. He said it makes sense if Google is having trouble crawling as much as it wants to crawl.
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โGoogle Proposes New Shipping Data Schema Including Type ShippingService โBarry Schwartz / Google Search Q&A โGoogle created a proposal on the schema Github proposing expanding and enhancing shipping data in schema.org. One of the enhancements is a new schema type named ShippingService, that groups shipping constraints such as delivery locations, time, weight and size limits and shipping rate.
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โGoogle Trends for Researchers [Video] โGoogle Search Central / Google Trends Tutorials โDaniel Waisberg and Omri Weisman dive into the concept of nowcasting in economics and explore two compelling examples of how researchers leverage search interest data to gain insights into the world.โ
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โAI vs. SEO: What does the Future of Search look like? โJohannes Beus / Search Trends โWhat sources are included in the AIOs, how many sources does Google actually link to in an AIOs, and how to prepare for AIOs in the EU? Johannes goes through what the future of search looks like.
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โSearchGPT vs. Google vs. Bing: Search Results Review โDan Taylor / Search Trends โTo compare the search results in ChatGPT to Bing and Google, Dan looked at a number of queries to understand the possibility and limitations of SearchGPT.
โHow To Create Helpful Content Post-HCU โMaryann Muthami / Content Optimization โActionable steps to create content that resonates with your audience while staying aligned with search engine helpful content guidelines.
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โHow To Optimize Your Ecommerce Site For Holiday Shoppers โWinston Burton / Ecommerce SEO โGet your ecommerce site ready for the holiday season. A comprehensive guide to optimize your online store to capitalize on the holiday season around the corner.
โInternational SEO and Hreflang: An Actionable Guide โGianluca Fiorelli / International SEO โGianluca goes through common mistakes and misconceptions about Hreflang and how to tackle them in this comprehensive guide. โ
โWhat if Schema.org is justโฆ Labels? โJono Alderson / Technical SEO โWhat if schema.org does nothing more than add neat little tags to our content - tags that Google may or may not pay attention to? Jono goes through it.
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