Category Archives: Digital Marketing

I am seeing signs of another Google search ranking algorithm update just a few days after the February 4th Google search ranking update – both of these have not been confirmed by Google. This February 8th and 9th Google update may be even stronger than the previous update.I probably should have covered this yesterday, butContinueContinue reading “February 8th/9th Google Search Ranking Algorithm Update (Unconfirmed)”

Google’s Danny Sullivan reiterated that when it comes to AI content, Google is fine with it, as long as the content is useful and written for people. If you are using AI to write spam, then that is against Google’s guidelines. But Google also added a new section to the people-first content section on “who,ContinueContinue reading “Google On AI Content: Think About The Who, How, and Why For Your Content”

Owen Yin shared some screenshots of what he said he saw on the Microsoft Bing website. It looks like the beta version of the upcoming ChatGPT features that we are all expecting Bing to announce in the coming weeks (maybe even this coming Tuesday).Owen shared these screenshots on Twitter and then posted more details onContinueContinue reading “The New Bing: Microsoft Unveils Its Chatgpt-Like, AI-Powered Search Engine”

Google has updated the video indexing report within Google Search Console to add impression data and a way to filter the report by your available sitemaps.As a reminder, the video indexing report went fully live in August 2022 after Google started to slowly roll out the video index report within Google Search Console earlier inContinueContinue reading “Google Search Console Video Indexing Report Gains Impressions & Sitemap Filters”

Microsoft Bing posted a new blog post saying “for XML sitemaps, one of the most critical tags you can include in your sitemap is the “lastmod” tag.” And it will become even more critical as Bing is reworking its crawl scheduling stack to rely more on this lastmod field.Yes, by June, the way Bing decidesContinueContinue reading “Microsoft Bing: lastmod Tag In XML Sitemap File Is Critical”