The April 9th, 2023 edition of #SEOFOMO is here
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🗞️ Search Updates & News from Search Engines

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​Google Search Quality Raters Shift Focus To Chatbot Response Rating​
​Danny Goodwin / Google Search Trends​
​Since January, Insider reports, Google has prioritized rating chatbot prompt responses above rating the quality of search results, at least for some of its contract workers.

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​Bing Preview Release Notes: Performance Improvements on Microsoft Edge and Bing​
​The Bing Team / Bing Product Updates​
​Bing has made several important performance improvements to its AI features including integrating Bing Image Creator into Edge sidebar, and general performance improvements.

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​Bing AI-Generated Stories In Search Results​
​Barry Schwartz / Bing Product Updates​
​Microsoft Bing started to roll out "stories" in the search results side panel. Those stories are AI-generated stories, created by generative AI and not by people.

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​Microsoft Working On Content Controls For Bing Search vs Bing Chat​
​Barry Schwartz / Bing Search Trends​
​Fabrice Canel from Bing hinted that Bing will be adding more controls around crawling, indexing, and serving for Bing Search vs. Bing Chat.

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​Google CEO Sundar Pichai Talks Bard & The Future Of Search​
​Matt G. Southern / Google Search Trends​
​Google CEO Sundar Pichai discusses the company's approach to AI innovation, saying it could change search and web publishing, but Google aims to work with publishers to ensure sustainability.

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​Google Bard Now Better At Math & Logic By Using PaLM, Google Says​
​Barry Schwartz / Google Product Updates​
​Jack Krawczyk, who is the lead on Bard, said that they rolled out improvements around math and logic. It incorporated PaLM, Google's language model, into Bard, which helped it achieve these upgrades.

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​Largest Contentful Paint change in Chrome 112 to ignore low-entropy images​
​Chrome Speed / Google Product Updates
​In Chrome 112, LCP will begin to ignore images with very low content relative to their display sizes. This change was launched to Chrome users starting on roughly April 6, 2023, and was rolled out to existing Chrome installs.

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​Staging and launching a site [Podcast]​
Google Search Off The Record / Podcast Episode
​In this episode of Search Off the Record, John, Gary, and Lizzi chat about launching websites: How can you prevent a staging site from becoming indexed? What is the difference between a site launch and migration? Listen to this episode to find out.

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​Event recap: Search Central Virtual Unconference en español 2023​
Search Central Unconference / Google Event
​On February 17, 2023 Google held the first Virtual Unconference in Spanish after receiving a lot of requests for it. There were 13 discussion sessions orchestrated by 18 facilitators. Here are some of the top highlights and learnings from these sessions.

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👌This week's SEO Awesomeness

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​How to Master Google News Optimization To Boost Content Visibility And Traffic​
​Jes Scholz / News SEO​
​Google News-driven results send over 24 billion clicks per month to publishers. In this guide, Jes explains how you can claim your share and drive quality traffic with a solid Google News SEO strategy.

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​6 Money-Making Content Formats SaaS Companies Should Prioritize — Whiteboard Friday [Video]​
​Chima Mmeje / Content Optimization​
​In today’s Whiteboard Friday episode, expert content strategist Chima Mmeje talks you through the six top content formats SaaS brand can focus on to drive revenue.

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​How to Create Easy-To-Understand SEO Reports​
​Sophie Brannon / SEO Reporting​
​What should you include and avoid in your SEO reports? Which platform to choose for reporting? Sophie explains everything in detail with do's and dont's.

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​6 link building techniques for ecommerce​
​Kevin Rowe / Link Building​
​From reverse product image link building, resource page link building to unlinked brand mentions, Kevin goes through different link building techniques for ecommerce sites.

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​E-commerce SEO: The Essential Guide To Success​
​Kevin Indig / Ecommerce SEO​
​A comprehensive guide to ecommerce SEO by Kevin Indig, going from how to create an SEO strategy for online stores to the different areas to take into account, as well as tools to use.

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​Find Cannibalization At Scale Using GSC [Thread]​
​Antoine Eripret / Content Optimization​
​Keyword cannibalization means that you have more than one content ranking for the same query. It's often a situation you want to avoid. It's easy to spot when you check a couple of URLs, but how to handle at scale? Learn how to use Google Search Console to identify issues.

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​Integrating SEO into the Newsroom​
​Jessie Willms, Shelby Blackley / News SEO​
​Jessie and Shelby share all what's needed to take into account to integrate SEO into the newsroom, from dedicated SEO editors, to tackling breaking news, trending stories, pitching ideas and more. Take a look!

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​Study: 31% of international websites contain hreflang errors​
​Dan Taylor / International SEO ​
​To determine how widespread hreflang issues are and which ones are more common, Dan partnered with NerdyData and found that from those sites with hreflang directives in the head of the HTML that were analyzed, 31.02% contain conflicting ones.

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​The BIG List of SEO Testing Ideas​
​Logan Bryant / SEO Testing​
​Logan shares how once we understand that all SEO investments are experiments, an insanely vast world opens up in which we can unchain SEO testing to look at all investments as test-worthy hypotheses. Here's a big list of ideas!

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​How To Make Your Way To The Main Stage [Thread]​
​Ross Simmonds / SEO Careers​
​Are you an SEO who would like to start speaking or speak more? Then read this thread by Ross with key advice for it.

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💸 New SEO Jobs

• ​Search Engine Optimization Manager at Redwood Software​
• ​SEO Manager at Invicti Security​
• ​Senior Product Manager, Platforms SEO at Fox Corporation​
• ​Senior SEO strategist at Power Digital Marketing​
• ​SEO Consultant at DealerOn​
• ​SEO Manager at Break The Web​
• ​Senior SEO Strategist at Ellipsis​
• ​Digital PR Executive at Blue Array SEO​
• ​SEO Manager - iGaming at Finixio​

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See more digital marketing and SEO jobs at the new #SEOFOMO Job Pallet, curating the best SEO and Digital Marketing Jobs in top companies; whether remote, hybrid, or in-person.
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🛠 Free SEO Tools of the Week

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​XML Sitemap Generator​
​SeoToolBelt​
​Effortlessly create XML sitemaps with this new user-friendly tool. Whether you have a CSV file that needs to be organized by page type, or simply a list of URLs to copy and paste, this powerful tool will generate perfect XML sitemaps for you to download.

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​The G-Trendalyser​
​Orit Mutznik​
​Your 5 Top and Rising Google Trends Dashboard: Get the Top and Rising trends for 5 keywords, directly from Google Trends, no coding needed.

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​Consensus:​ Evidence-Based Answers, Faster​
​Eric Olson​
​Consensus is a search engine that uses AI to extract and distill findings directly from scientific research.

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🙌 The #SEOFOMO's SEOs & Digital Marketers to Follow​
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​Let's follow these amazing SEOs and digital marketers:

• Dave Elliott (Twitter, LinkedIn), Head of SEO - Open to Work
• Chima Mmeje (Twitter, LinkedIn), Content Strategist & Writer - Open to Work
• Alice Roussel (Twitter, LinkedIn), Growth Marketing Manager at Pictarine
• Daniel K Cheung (Twitter, LinkedIn), SEO Consultant & Manager
• Claire Carlile (Twitter, LinkedIn), Local Search Expert at BrightLocal

Expect more awesome SEOs & digital marketers to follow every week. Do you have any suggestions? Please let me know over Twitter or LinkedIn.

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