The September 3rd, 2023, edition of SEOFOMO is here! Now with +27.8K Subscribers ๐ฎโ
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๐๏ธ Search Updates & News from Search Engines
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โGoogle Search Generative Experience Officially Rolls Out Links To Webpages Within Answersโ
โBarry Schwartz / Google Search Updates
โโStarting today, when you see an arrow icon next to information in an AI-powered overview, you can click to see relevant web pages and easily learn more by visiting the sitesโ. Google's SGE is also now available to be tested in India and Japan.
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โDebugging Core Web Vitals with Chrome Devtools [Video]โ
โGoogle Search Central / Google Search Guidelinesโ
โHow can you turn Core Web Vitals metrics into actionable steps? Watch this video from Martin Splitt and learn how Chrome can give you extra insights with Devtools.
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โ302 or 310: For Max Page Rank? [Video]โ
โJohn Mueller / Google Search Guidelines
โFind out what redirect type gives your website maximum PageRank.
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โGoogle Search testing โMentioned inโ search snippetโ
โBarry Schwartz / Google Search Updates
โGoogle's expandable carousel search snippet feature informs searchers which other pages mention a website.
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โBing Chat now works on Chromeโ
โBarry Schwartz / Bing Search Updates
โApple Safari support is coming soon to Bing Chat as well.
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โGoogle Updates PageSpeed Insights With Lighthouse 11โ
โRoger Montti / Google Product Updates
โGoogle has updated PageSpeed Insights with a new version of Lighthouse. The new version contains new audits, bug fixes and changes to scoring.
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โGoogle Unveils New Tool To Detect AI-Generated Imagesโ
โMatt G. Southern / Google Product Updates
โGoogle unveils new SynthID tool to detect AI-generated images using imperceptible watermarks.
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โGoogleโs Experimental Feature Makes Webpages Fasterโ
โRoger Montti / Google Product Updates
โGoogle announced origin trials for a new feature available in Chrome right now that raises page speeds to new levels
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โChatGPT Enterprise Now Available From OpenAIโ
โKristi Hines / ChatGPT Search Updates
โAre ChatGPT Enterprise security features and unlimited access to high-speed GPT-4 with 32k token context windows worth the unlisted price?โ
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๐ This week's SEO Awesomeness
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โ"We Analyzed Millions of ChatGPT User Sessions: Visits are Down 29% since May, Programming Assistance is 30% of Use"โ
โRand Fishkin / Search Trends
โIs ChatGPT use increasing? What tasks do people ask ChatGPT to solve? Rand and his team undertook a challenging project with Datos to answer what real people do on the web by analyzing 20M devices (desktop and mobile, covering 200+ countries).
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โGoogle Appears to Have Fixed A Googlebot Bug With How it Handled robots.txt Files Containing Sitemap Links [Thread]โ
โWill Critchlow / Technical SEO
โWill discovered that Google appears to have fixed a Googlebot bug with how it handled robots.txt files containing sitemap links. They fixed the issue in late 2021, but he hasn't been able to find any coverage or discussion.
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โSo Youโve Found JavaScript Issues in Your Site Crawl. What Now?โ
โAmanda King / Technical SEO
โLearn how to debug the most common JavaScript issues, assess the degree of the problem, and communicate with Web developers to move forward with a solution.
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โMastering E.E.A.T: How to Create Content Google Wantsโ
โJessie Willms, Shelby Blackley / Content Optimization
โJessie and Shelby cover Google's EEAT guidelines and explain how mastering these pillars can elevate the visibility of publisher content in search.
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โWe Studied Over 1 Million Domains to Find the Most Common Technical SEO Issuesโ
โPatrick Stox / Technical SEO
โAhrefs looked at +1M domains to find the most common technical SEO issues: 95.2% of sites suffer from 3XX redirects, 72.9% have a missing or empty meta description and more!
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โCombine GSC + Bing Query Data In Google Looker Studioโ
โMike Ginley / General SEO
โCombine Google Search Console + Bing Webmaster tools to get all your keyword data in one place with Looker Studio.
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โ12 strategies to scale your SEO team without losing your cultureโ
โJohn Morabito / SEO Management
โScaling an SEO team doesn't mean sacrificing culture! Learn practical steps to grow your team while maintaining a strong one.
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โAn SEO Guide To Optimizing Your Google Publisher Center Accountโ
โJes Scholz / News SEO
โBoost your brandโs visibility on Google News platforms with this advanced guide for Publisher Center optimization by Jes.
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โExploring Implicit Search Intent For Better SEOโ
โVeruska Anconitano / General SEO
โGo beyond traditional keyword intent and account for the implicit search intent that drives user behavior, including definitions and examples of how to use it for better engagement and user experience.
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โEntities In SEO: What Are They And Why Do They Matter?โ
โDixon Jones/ General SEO
โFrom learning the history of search to distinguishing entities vs. keywords, truly understand what entities are so you can achieve more targeted search traffic.
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โFine-Tuning GPT-3.5: Unlocking SEO Potential with Structured Dataโ
โAndrea Volpini / Technical SEO
โWhile the base GPT-3.5 Turbo model is incredibly versatile, it often serves as a generalist rather than a specialist, particularly in a nuanced field, like SEO. Fine-tuning solves this challenge by allowing us to train the model on specific data sets. Andrea explains more here.
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โForecasting and the Importance of Uncertaintyโ
โRobin Lord / SEO Analysis
โThis post is about a problem that digital marketers have faced for a long time, Forecasts! How โfanโ charts can help? Learn about it and get a Google Sheets no-code template solution for you.
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โHow to Optimize for Mobile: The CRAFT of Mobile SEO [Free Online Course]โ
โCrystal Carter / Page Experienceโ
โLearn how to maximize your website's visibility and performance on mobile devices. Enroll in Semrush Academy's free course by Crystal and drive more traffic.
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โOMG's Guide to Mastering Digital Agency Management [eBook]โ
โChris Simmance / SEO Management
โAn actionable book by Chris going through essential agency management topics, including personal leadership development, fostering a high-performance culture, embracing diversity and inclusion, and staying ahead of emerging technologies.โ
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๐๏ธ Upcoming SEO Events
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โElevate Your Link Building Game: On-page and Off-page Checklist for Successโ
โDigital Olympus / Online / September 5
โJoin the free webinar on September 5th to gain access to Alex Tachalova and Kevin Indig's exclusive SEO checklist, ensuring you get the most value out of every link you build.
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โSEO Vibes on Tour in Parisโ
โWhitePress / Paris, France / September 20
โGet a unique opportunity to learn from insights from top industry experts and grow your network in Paris. Buy your tickets now.
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โNews & Editorial SEO Summitโ
โNESS / Online / October 11 and 12
โThe News and Editorial SEO Summit is happening online in October 2023, and its agenda and speakers have been announced. See who's speaking and get your tickets now. โ
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๐ก This week's SEO Tip: How to address SEO recommendations execution challenges
One of the main challenges that SEO specialists face is the lack of execution of SEO recommendations, which can quickly become an issue since we're not paid to spot a site's issues but to achieve SEO goals by solving those that are actually hurting the Website's business objectives.
The first step to address this? Do a radical SEO audit prioritization. You're likely already prioritizing SEO recommendations based on high impact and low effort, however, this is not enough if you still face buy-in, resources, and support issues for SEO execution.
Itโs time for a radical prioritization, with a maximum of 10 high impact, solution driven, action plan.
This means that you will only include in your SEO recommendations what you really want to be executed right now to help you achieve goals, and leave the rest for future iterations of the SEO process -remember that this is an iterative/incremental one-.
By featuring only your top 10 high-impact must-do SEO actions, your recommendations will becomeโจeasier to go through and execute by the relevant stakeholders.
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You should also leverage data storytelling to explain, engage and drive action with each of your recommendations, making them solution-driven:
- Explain what happened: What is the SEO issue or opportunity about and why is it so important to address.
- Describe why it happened: The cause of the SEO issue or opportunity.
- Specify how to proceed: Propose a solution for the SEO issue or opportunity.
Additionally, you should feature an executive summary at the start of the SEO recommendations,โจto facilitate decision-makers to go through the SEO actions and understand the scope of work, without having to read the whole document; facilitating their approval.
โGet more tips to facilitate your SEO audits and recommendations executions here.โ
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๐ SEOs & Digital Marketers to Followโ
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โFollow and subscribe to these SEO specialists and Digital Marketers with YouTube channels covering SEO:
- Olga Zarr (X/Twitter, LinkedIn), SEO Consultant and host of the SEOsly YouTube Channelโ
- Barry Schwartz (X/Twitter, LinkedIn), CEO of RustyBrick and host of The Search Engine Roundtable YouTube Channelโ
- Paul Andre (X/Twitter, LinkedIn), Director, Growth Marketing at Twingate and host of The SEO Video Show YouTube Channelโ
- Dr. Marie Haynes (X/Twitter, LinkedIn), SEO Consultant, Owner of Marie Haynes Consulting and host of Dr. Marie Haynes YouTube Channelโ
A special mention goes to Martin Splitt, John Mueller, Daniel Waisberg, and more from the Google Search Central YouTube Channel that I recommend you to subscribe as well.
Expect more awesome SEOs & digital marketers to follow every week. Do you have any suggestions? Please let me know over X/Twitter, Threads , or LinkedIn.
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On September 24, 2023, I will randomly choose the two winners among those who are subscribed and have referred at least 2 subscribers between August 27, 2023 and September 23, 2023.
I'll announce the winners over here in SEOFOMO, social media, and will get in touch via email with instructions to follow.
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