Tag Archives: Seo

Google’s John Mueller confirmed that the GoogleProber and the GoogleProducer (which we covered here) are both legit Googlebot user agents and crawlers. “These are official Google requests with a user-agent specific to the Google News config in Publisher Center so if they are blocked the feeds you set up may not work properly,” John added.JohnContinueContinue reading “GoogleProber – Confirmed Google User Agent”

Yesterday I was at the Microsoft office with dozens of other media folks (lots of famous YouTubers also) for Microsoft to showcase its next evolution of Bing, the co-pilot for the web powered by the upgraded ChatGPT.I should start by saying the leaks were accurate representation of this but the demos were far more impressive.ContinueContinue reading “Microsoft Bing’s New AI Features Are Really Impressive & Thought Out”

Microsoft has updated the Bing webmaster guidelines to support the updates with the new co-pilot, AI, ChatGPT-powered version of Bing. Bing updated the answers section and added a new section for “conversation mode and Bing image creator.”The current Bing webmaster guidelines is here and the section Bing updated was around here – it should jumpContinueContinue reading “Microsoft Bing Updates Webmaster Guidelines: Conversation Mode and Bing Image Creator”

Google Business Profiles Removing Emojis & Special Characters From Business Names?For the past few weeks, there have been reports via the Local Search Forum that Google has been removing emojis and special characters from business names within Google Business Profiles. This means if you try to add an emoji for your name to stand outContinueContinue reading “Remove Emojis from Google Business Profiles”

A few weeks ago, we reported that Google dropped the podcasts carousel from the search results. Well, now Google confirmed the podcast carousel is 100% going away within the Google Search results.Google posted in the Google Podcast Manager the other day a message that reads, “Note: Google Search will stop showing podcast carousels by FebruaryContinueContinue reading “Google Confirms Podcast Carousels Going Away In Search On February 13”