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🗞️ Search Updates & News from Search Engines

Google April 2023 reviews update is finished rolling out
Barry Schwartz / Search Updates
Google has confirmed that the April 2023 reviews update is now finished rolling out. This update announced on April 12, 2023, has officially completed rolling out over a 13-day period.

Google updates site names in search results after numerous complaints
Barry Schwartz / Search Updates
Google pushed out a fix to resolve some of the inappropriate or unexpected site names selections displayed in its search results. This comes days after Google posted a Web form asking for user feedback about site names that were inaccurate, inappropriate, or wrong.

Google: Page experience is not a ranking system, but it is a ranking signal
Barry Schwartz / Search Guidelines
Google page experience was never a ranking “system” but is still considered a ranking “signal”. Google emphasized that just because page experience was removed as a ranking system, it does not mean it does not reward pages that have a good page experience.

Google Updates Googlebot Verification Documentation
Roger Montti / Search Guidelines
Google updated the official Googlebot documentation with new guidance about visits from IPs associated with GoogleUserContent.com

Microsoft: Bing Chat To Show Referrer Analytics Data In Coming Weeks
Barry Schwartz / Bing Product Updates
Fabrice Canel from Microsoft said they will soon pass referrer data and show clicks and impressions from Bing Chat.

Bing Chat Reduces Disengagement By Over 3X For Most Egregious Category
Barry Schwartz / Bing Product Updates
Microsoft has reduced the number of disengagements in Bing Chat by over three times for its most egregious category, said Mikhail Parakhin, the CEO of Microsoft Bing.

Intro to Search Console APIs - Google Search Console Training [Video]
Google Search Central / Search Console Training
In this episode of Search Console Training, Daniel Waisberg talks about Google Search Console API. Learn about four different Search Console API methods, with examples of which data can be exported through each of them.

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👌This week's SEO Awesomeness

The SEO Strategy Stack
Adam Gent / General SEO
Adam discusses the problem with SEO strategies and presents the SEO Strategy Stack, its components, its benefits, and the differences between good, bad, and misaligned strategies.

5 Case Studies Showing The Benefits Of Server-Side Rendering
Kevin Indig / Technical SEO
Although Google claims the rendering method has no impact on organic rankings, these case studies show a significant increase of organic search traffic after implementing SSR.

Google’s Newest Reviews Update Elevates Real-Life Experience
Lily Ray / Search Updates
Lily analyzes into how Google has expanded its reviews ranking system to address content featuring any type of review, not only product ones.

Visibility Leaders in Travel – Content That Performs In Search
Sistrix / Travel SEO
Which travel domains dominate the SERPs across different search intents? This study by Sistrix features the winners in this sector and shares insights on why and how you can compete.

Content Pruning SEO: How to Resolve Cannibalization & Improve Quality
Elias Grouhi / Content Optimization
In the modern search landscape, content quality is key to organic search success. Learn how content pruning can help win back traffic lost to content quality and cannibalization issues and turn previously published URLs into a source of organic growth.

How to create a resource page
Julia McCoy / Content Optimization
Follow these steps to create a resource page that delivers real value for your readers and bolsters your content strategy.

How Content Is Evolving Thanks to AI — Whiteboard Friday [Video]
Ross Simmonds / Content Optimization
There's no question that AI has already started to have a meaningful impact on organizations that create content every single day. In this video, Ross shares how our workflows, processes, and content creation will positively evolve thanks to AI.

SEO Split Test Result: ChatGPT-Generated FAQs Enriched with FAQPage Schema
Koen Leemans / SEO Testing
"We found that adding FAQ content marked up with FAQPage structured data resulted in a significant 4.3% increase in clicks to the tested pages."

Client-Side Vs. Server-Side Rendering
Dan Taylor / Technical SEO
Learn when you should choose CSR or SSR based on how it will impact your site rankings and user experience.

Keyword research essentials for local SEO
Celeste Gonzalez / Local SEO
Learn about the differences between traditional and local keyword research from Celeste, and how to identify high-value keywords for your local SEO process.

16 of the best AI and ChatGPT content detectors compared
Tom Demers / Content Optimization
Tom tested the top detection tools for AI-generated content. Here's what they are good and bad at, plus what to expect when using them.

Register to SMX Advanced Online June 2023 [Free Online Event]
Search Engine Land / Events
SMX Advanced is back online and happening on June 13-14. Check out the tactic-rich agenda, featuring advanced-level sessions covering from AI to GA4 for SEO and register for free.

ChatGPT Prompt Engineering for Developers - [Free Online Course]
DeepLearning, OpenAI / Courses
Learn how a large language model (LLM) works and how to use it to quickly build new and powerful applications, along with some best practices.

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Fery shares a new case study showing how they developed a digital PR campaign in the insurance sector that got backlinks from reputable Websites like the Independent executing a simple idea: "Which are the UK cities you are more likely pass your MOT" (UK's vehicle safety and emissions test).

To develop it, they analyzed government data to find the areas in the UK with the highest and lowest MOT pass rates, to rank the 118 UK areas by percentage of pass rates for an MOT.

ow to earn DR 90 links with Digital PR in the Insurance Niche

Learn more about the case study here.

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Localboss
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Copymate
Copymate
Copymate is your ultimate solution to effortlessly create dozens of high-quality, long-term and SEO optimized articles in record time.

Website Text Extractor
thruuu
Simply enter the URL of the webpage you want to analyze, and this free tool will quickly scan the page and extract the main body text.

Anchor Text Optimizer
WordLift
Use this free tool to optimize your anchor text using LLMs.

🙌 The SEOFOMO's SEOs & Digital Marketers to Follow

Let's follow these amazing SEOs:

Celeste Gonzalez (Twitter, LinkedIn), SEO Strategy at RicketyRoo
Chris Johnson (Twitter, LinkedIn), Head of Data & Engineering at bamboonine.co.uk and Founder of Horseman
Filipa Serra Gaspar (Twitter, LinkedIn), SEO Manager at Zooplus and SEO Consultant
Dixon Jones (Twitter, LinkedIn), CEO at inLinks
Dan Smullen (Twitter, LinkedIn), Head of SEO at Betsperts Media & Technology Group
Krystal Taing (Twitter, LinkedIn), Director, Pre-sales Solutions at Uberall

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