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🗞️ Search Updates and News from Search Engines

Google October 2023 Core Update Rollout is Now Complete
Barry Schwartz / Google Search Updates
Google has confirmed that the October 2023 Core Update – the third core update this year – has completed rolling out. The update started on October 5, 2023, a day after the October 2023 spam update was released, and completed 14 days later on October 19, 2023.

Google Completes Rollout of October 2023 Spam Update
Matt G. Southern / Google Search Updates
Google finished rolling out the October 2023 Spam Update targeting thin and misleading content as of October 20.

Vehicle Listing Structured Data For Car Dealerships
Google Search Central / Google Product Updates
There's a new and simpler way to provide for-sale vehicle inventory data to Google: Car dealerships can be eligible for vehicle listings on Google by using the vehicle listing markup.

Google Drops Favicon User Agent & Requires Googlebot-Image and Googlebot Crawling
Barry Schwartz / Google Product Updates
Google has updated its favicon search developer documentation to remove the section for the Google Favicon user agent and to clarify that if you want Google to show your favicon you must allow both Googlebot-Image and Googlebot to crawl your pages.

Rich Results Test Supports Validation Of Structured Data For Paywalled Content
Google Search Central / Google Product Updates
You can now use Google's Rich Results Test to validate the use of structured data for paywalled content.

Google Tests Discover Feed On Google Home Page
Barry Schwartz / Google SERP Updates
Google is testing the Google Discover feed on the Google.com desktop home page interface. This test is currently in India, Google confirmed, and is just an experiment.

Baidu to integrate ERNIE 4.0, which ‘rivals’ GPT-4, into Search
Nicola Agius / Baidu Product Updates
Baidu is planning to incorporate Ernie 4.0 into its search engine, which will change its SERPs.

Bing Explains SEO For AI Search
Roger Montti / Bing Search Guidelines
Microsoft's Fabrice Canel explains how AI search is different from regular search and what SEOs should do right now.

Introducing the Microsoft AI Bug Bounty Program featuring the AI-powered Bing experience
MSRC / Microsoft Product Updates
This new bounty program features the AI-powered Bing experience as the first in-scope product with awards up to $15,000.

Large Language Models Can Accurately Predict Searcher Preferences
Paul Thomas, Seth Spielman, Nick Craswell, Bhaskar Mitra / Microsoft Product Updates
"We have found large language models can be effective, with accuracy as good as human labelers and similar capability to pick the hardest queries, best runs, and best groups."

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👌 This week's SEO Awesomeness

How Search Generative Experience Works And Why Retrieval-Augmented Generation Is Our Future
Michael King / Search Trends
Gauge the potential threat level of SGE on your site traffic. Get insights into the likely changes to the search demand curve and CTR model.

How Google’s SGE Snapshots Change Top Black Friday and Cyber Monday SERPs
Yours Truly / Search Trends
Take a look at how the SERP changes with Google's SGE Snapshots for top Black Friday queries and how it could potentially change users' buying search journey.

A Few Words on Seasonality in SEO
Natalia Witczyk / General SEO
Natalia explains the impact of seasonality in SEO across different timeframes -weekly, monthly, and yearly- for the most common scenarios, as well as how to use it to understand fluctuating organic search clicks and more.

Struggling with Indexing your Content in Google? Understand How a Priority System Works [Thread]
Ammon Johns / Technical SEO
Ammon explains why Google might not index all of your site content, including how URLs go through the queues, how Google sets priorities, and more, to understand why you face indexing issues.

(Hard)Core Algorithm Updates
Kevin Indig / Google Algorithm Updates
Kevin analyzes how Google updates have become unpredictable instead of enforcing a straight line, which makes SEO less predictable as a channel... and what you can do about it.

The Ultimate Guide to Schema Markup
Ryan Jones / Technical SEO
Learn about schema markup with comprehensive Ryan's guide: From the concepts to the importance and the different schema types, how to implement them, as well as some advanced schema markup you can use on your site.

What is Local SEO? The Ultimate Guide, By SEOs for SEOs
Ryan Jones / Local SEO
If you're looking to start in local SEO, this insightful resource from Ryan is for you.

SEO outcomes vs. SEO outputs: Understanding the difference
John Morabito / General SEO
Here's how focusing on outcomes, not just outputs, can align your SEO efforts with your organization's goals, resulting in a holistic impact.

Exploring programmatic SEO: Real-world examples and insights
Tom Demers / General SEO
Explore the fundamentals of programmatic SEO through practical examples, from travel and template collections to product comparisons and database-driven pages.

Mastering SEO Audits: Unlocking Insights with the Screaming Frog SEO Spider
Nikki Halliwell / General SEO
A useful step-by-step guide by Nikki going through how to develop an SEO audit making the most out of the features offered by Screaming Frog.

SEO Interview Blueprint [eBook]
SEO for Hire / SEO Careers
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How to fix unassigned traffic in GA4
Gemma Fontané / SEO Measurement
Learn how to classify, track, and manage your web traffic effectively, ensuring your campaign traffic are never in the "Unassigned" category.

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Free SEO Tools For Improved Productivity
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🎙️ Upcoming SEO Events

Global SEO Club October Event with Veronique Duong and Ebere Jonathan [Webinar]
Global SEO Club / Online / October 17, 2023
Join Global SEO Club's webinar to learn about cultural adaption and international SEO with Veronique and location targeting with Ebere. Sign up now!

The Digital PR Summit
Digitaloft / Manchester / April 11, 2024
Digitaloft presents The Digital PR Summit to be held on April 11, 2024, at The Stoller Hall, Manchester, England. Get your tickets now!

Search Central Live Singapore 2023
Google Search Central / Singapore / November 22, 2023
Search Central Live Singapore is coming back this year again on November 22. Registrations are now open until November 8. Fill out the form for a chance to secure your spot at the event.

Digital Transformation Summit
Conductor / Online / October 25, 2023
Change brings risks, but it also brings opportunities to get ahead by adapting your digital strategies. Join the Digital Transformation Summit to learn how.

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💡 This week's SEO Tip: Avoid losing organic search traffic in Web Migrations with this SEO checklist

Some of the worst SEO horror stories happen during Web migrations. Although unfortunately sometimes SEO specialists are not involved since the migration planning -as would be ideal-, many are and go through a variety of difficulties when coordinating the different activities.

To avoid these issues I've created a minimum viable SEO validation checklist with must-do's before, during and after Web migrations to not lose, and instead, win organic search traffic, which you can copy here.

Avoid losing organic search traffic in Web Migrations with this SEO checklist

I highly recommend you not only use it yourself, but share it with across teams whenever you're starting an SEO process, especially the Web development one, so they can see all the tasks involved during Web migrations, and their importance towards organic search traffic and ultimately, user experience.

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Introduction to SEO with Aleyda Solis
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Competition Research with Jo Turnbull
Content Optimization with Crystal Carter
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SEO Strategy with Tory Gray
Setting SEO Goals with Kevin Gibbons
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🙌 SEOs & Digital Marketers to Follow

Follow these amazing SEOs who have lately published awesomeness covered by SEOFOMO:

Michael King (X/Twitter, LinkedIn), Founder and CEO at iPullRank and CMO at AIPRM
Natalia Witczyk (X/Twitter, LinkedIn), CEO & International SEO Consultant at Mosquita Digital
Nikki Halliwell (X/Twitter, LinkedIn), Technical SEO Specialist at Journey Further
Gemma Fontané (X/Twitter, LinkedIn), SEO Consultant Co-Founder Orvit Digital
Ammon Johns (X/Twitter, LinkedIn), Digital Marketing and SEO Consultant

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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