Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today… …
Day: April 29, 2022
5 Ways to Feel More Confident About Your Music
It’s easy to get down about your music. Your dreams, your talents, your identity, your time — they’re all wrapped up in your music. So while you work hard to master songwriting, recording, performing, artist branding, or …
Search News Buzz Video Recap: AI Lawyers Demanding Links, Google Not Stealing Content, Old Bingbot, Google URL Parameter Tool & AdWords API Gone & More
This week in search, a reporter uncovered that sketchy SEOs are making up fake lawyers using AI to send out fake DMCA requests demanding links to their sites… …
Replacing Your Blog With An App Landing Page Will Impact Your Google Rankings
It is not too uncommon to see app developers, before the app is launched, to launch a blog on the home page of the app’s domain name. This is done to gain traction on the domain name before the official …
Google Search Tests Lighter Purple Color For Clicked On Search Results
Google Search is testing a lighter colored purple for the links you have clicked on and visited in the search results. This report came from both Mordy Obserstein and Khushal Bherwani and I can replicate it myself in different browsers.…
Google Asked If You Should Avoid Naming Your Company Or Product 404?
We know that sometimes Google can be triggered to treat your pages as a soft 404, essentially Google thinks that page should be 404ed and thus removed from the search results. So one SEO asked if he should avoid naming …
Google Search Console Caches Inspection Tool Live Test URLs For 90 Days
In Google Search Console, you can use the URL Inspection Tool to test how Google sees a URL in its index versus in real time by using the live test button. Jamie Indigo asked on Twitter how long does that …
Old BingBot User-Agent To Stop Being Used In Fall 2022
Fabrice Canel from Microsoft Bing announced on the Bing blog that the search company will retire the legacy BingBot user-agent in the Fall of 2022. Instead, Bing will use a user-agent that is more representative of its evergreen BingBot rendering …