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🗞️ Search Updates & News from Search Engines

January 2023 Google SEO office hours: Will Disavowing Links Make My Site Rank Better?
Google SEO Office Hours / Search Q&A
Check out the transcript of the January 2023 edition of the Google SEO Office Hours, in which Googlers answer questions about lastmod in sitemaps, spammy links being bad for rankings, removing a staging subdomain from Google index, disavowing links making a site rank better, and more!

Google's Gary Illyes On Recovering From The Helpful Content Update: "you can't always get back to where you were."
Barry Schwartz / Search Q&A
Gary Illyes from Google said in his Q&A session at PubCon that while recovering from a Google helpful content update is possible, you can't always get back to where you were.

Google On lastmod Tag In XML Sitemap: Update The Date If You're Providing Something New
Barry Schwartz / Search Q&A
Google's John Mueller spoke a bit more about when you should update the date in the lastmod tag in XML sitemaps: "if you are providing something new for search engines that you'd like reflected in search, then update the date, if not, then don't."

Datasets at your fingertips in Google Search
Natasha Noy and Omar Benjelloun / Search Releases
Google makes it easier to search for datasets. You can click on any of the top three results to get to the dataset page or you can explore further by clicking "More datasets."

Exporting Search Console Data To Spreadsheets - Google Search Console Training [Video]
Google Search Central / Google Search Console Training
In this video, Daniel Waisberg discusses how to export Search Console data to spreadsheets so you can add more context to reports, enrich your data, and do more advanced analysis with data.

JavaScript Product Page Problems [Video]
Google Search Central / SEO Fairy Tales
In this episode of SEO Fairy Tales, Martin Spiltt and Jamie Indigo chat in-depth about a Javascript technical SEO problem, specifically how 3 million product page listings got lost from Google’s index.

Site moves: Are they getting any easier? [Podcast]
Search Off The Record / Search Guidelines
With the right resources, site moves or domain changes don’t have to be as hard as we once remember. In this episode of Search Off the Record, join Lizzi, Gary, and John for a chat about site moves. Learn about the different types of site moves, common issues, and how to move your site without harming search ranking results.

Google execs tell employees in testy all-hands meeting that Bard A.I. isn’t just about search
Jennifer Elias / Search Trends
"I just want to be very clear: Bard is not search... it’s an experiment that’s a collaborative AI service that we talked about... the magic that we’re finding in using the product is really around being this creative companion to helping you be the sparkplug for imagination, explore your curiosity, etc.”

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👌This week's SEO Awesomeness

9 Years of the Google Algorithm
Dr. Peter J. Meyers / Search Updates
What can we learn from nine years of Google rankings data, and how can it help us prepare for the future?. Dr. Pete analyzes it and shares some insights!

How Google’s Latest ‘Helpful Content System’ Update is Impacting SERPs
Lily Ray / Search Updates
Lily shares insights about The Helpful Content system and how to future-proof your content strategies to build sustainable organic traffic growth.

The Keys for Ecommerce SEO Success for 2022 [Presentation]
Yours Truly / Ecommerce SEO
Learn how to maximize your ecommerce organic search opportunities in 2023 focusing on 3 key areas for online stores: creating content that aligns with users intent, leveraging product search features, and avoiding common ecommerce SEO bugs.

Machine Learning in Search: Google's ML APIs vs OpenAI's APIs for SEO Use Cases [Presentation]
Lazarina Stoy / SEO Automation
Lazarina goes through the different use cases of machine learning APIs for search marketers; looks at APIs by Google Cloud and OpenAI and identify the best to use for your SEO projects, based on the task at hand.

How Search Works [Presentation]
Patrick Stox / Search Trends
A comprehensive presentation by Patrick with an advanced look at what we know about of Google's systems.

ChatGPT (and other AI bots) as SEO Companions: How to Leverage Them Through the SEO Process [Presentation]
Yours Truly / SEO Automation
SEO processes that don’t leverage the opportunities given by the latest AI functionalities & tools will struggle to be competitive in the not-so-far future. Learn how to make the most out of ChatGPT, Chatsonic and the Bing Bot for SEO in this presentation.

SQL for SEO
Antoine Eripret / SEO Automation
There has never been a better time to learn SQL as an SEO to leverage the new Google Search Console to BigQuery export feature Learn from Antoine the basics of SQL for SEO analysis and some simple yet powerful use cases.

SEO Fails: Horror Stories From Some Of The World’s Smartest SEOs
David Broderick / General SEO
From noindexing entire sites to setting the rank tracker to the south pole. Experienced SEOs have gone through many challenges, issues and also... horror stories. Learn from them here.

Image SEO: Optimizing Images Using Machine Learning
Andrea Volpini / Image Optimization
Images can contribute to improve a site organic search visibility as well as its user experience. Learn how Andrea used neural networks to describe the content of images.

Marketplace SEO: What It Is, Examples and Tips
Brodie Clark / Ecommerce SEO
An actionable guide from Brodie sharing 5 tips that SEO Managers of Marketplace websites should keep in mind to achieve long-term success with SEO.

How to find your real SEO competitors
Lidia Infante / Marketplace SEO
Competitor analysis is key to developing an effective SEO strategy, but your idea of who your competitors are could be just the tip of the iceberg, or worse yet, completely off. Learn how to effectively identify them in this guide.

An Often Overlooked SEO Tactic Is to Target "Branded Search" Queries. Here's why is fundamental and what to do [Thread]
Carl Hendy / General SEO
Carl shares why optimizing for your branded searches can lead to an improved user journey for new and existing customers. In most cases branded queries are easier to compete. A win for customers, win for SEO. Here are some examples!

How to Advance Your SEO Career – Whiteboard Friday [Video]
Noah Learner / General SEO
As SEOs, we know how to optimize websites, but what about our careers? In this episode of Whiteboard Friday, Noah shares his insights from his own search marketing career path, with tips for those people in the beginning and middle stages of their career.

The State of AI and SEO [Survey]
iPullRank, MarketMuse / SEO Automation
SEO and Content teams are figuring out AI generation in earnest and developing workflows for integrating it into their organizations. Let's see how by taking this survey.

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