As 2022 proved once again, SEO is never boring.  Was 2022 the year of AI – or perhaps the official dawning of the age of AI? For the last month, it’s been hard not to read about or avoid the temptation to spend hours playing with ChatGPT.  We also had our usual share of algorithm updates, new tools and features, acquisitions, and plenty more changes.  One constant through it all? For 16 years, Search Engine Land has covered all the biggest stories, just as we did again in 2022.  Here’s our look back at the biggest SEO news of 2022 […]

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Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…

Google’s John Mueller said that removing internal duplicate content and other technical issue fixes won’t lead to your site recovering from a Google spam update. John said that these spam updates look more at the “actual content” than if you have technical issues or duplicate content on your site.

Google’s John Mueller said that “writing unique text, adding infographics, and a video” does not by default make that content “good, accurate, and helpful.”

ChatGPT is cool, very cool, in fact, I used it for fun for my video introduction earlier this month, but does this put SEOs out of a job? Will it write all of our content, will it give SEO recommendations, and will it provide coding examples, that will replace the needs for SEOs? Most SEOs don’t seem too worried.

In 2018, John Mueller of Google said Google does not use cache-control headers when crawling. He said then that the has no impact on GoogleBot and how it crawls your web pages. He said that again today, at the end of 2022, but added, “at most, they might be used in rendering for embedded content.”

This year had different stresses accompanying the Google algorithm updates, fewer pandemic stresses, and more recession-related stress. We had ten confirmed Google algorithm updates this year, the same number of confirmed algorithm updates we had in 2021. This year, we had a brand new ranking system named the helpful content update, and we had two of them. Also similar to last year, Google rolled out two big algorithm updates at the end of the year. Google confirmed algorithm update summary We whipped up this timeline documenting all the confirmed Google search algorithm updates in 2022, so you can visualize the […]

Google Ads will soon allow some cannabidiol (CBD) and topical, hemp-derived CBD products to be advertised on its network. Google posted this policy update and said this begins on January 20, 2023.

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