Tag Archives: Google Update

Google’s John Mueller said on Mastodon that an existing site would not drop in ranking just because it uses an exact match domain. “Changes like that would be due to other reasons,” he added.In response to John personally not being a fan of these exact match, keyword-rich hyphenated domains, an SEO complained one of hisContinueContinue reading “Google Says An Existing Site Won’t Drop In Rankings Just Because It Uses An Exact Match Domain”

Google AdSense is updating the Sites page, where you define which sites you want to monetize using AdSense. The updates are coming on March 20, 2023, and include a redesigned Sites page and some changes to the rules on how site management works.Google said, “The Sites page is the starting point for anyone who wantsContinueContinue reading “Google AdSense Sites Management Changes Coming March 20th”

A major quality improvement should be coming to the new Bing AI Chat feature on Thursday, February 23rd, said Mikhail Parakhin, the CEO of Advertising and Web Services at Microsoft (see LinkedIn).Mikhail Parakhin posted this on Twitter this weekend, saying, “Next week is going to be big. Major improvements in the quality of New BingContinueContinue reading “Microsoft To Release Major Quality Improvement For Bing AI Chat On Thursday”

A week ago, Thanos Bertes posted on LinkedIn, which I found via Mike Ryan on Twitter, that Google Ads disabled the ability in campaign settings to easily opt out of your campaigns being also shown in the Google Search Partner network and the Google Display Network.Thanos wrote, “Google has always emphasized the importance of incorporatingContinueContinue reading “Google Ads Tests Disabling Opt Out Of Search Partners & Display Network”

Microsoft is increasing the price of using the Bing Search APIs by 10x the current cost, effective May 1, 2023, the company posted. That includes using the API for Bing image search, news search, video search, visual search, web search, entity search, and more.Some prices go from $1 per 1,000 transactions to $10 per 1,000ContinueContinue reading “Microsoft Bing Search APIs Price Going Up 10x”