Since Elon Musk acquired Twitter, Mastodon, a decentralized and open-source social media platform, has grown its user base from 300K to 2.5M monthly active users. The post Mastodon Reaches 2.5 Million Users, Founder Holds Reddit AMA appeared first on Search …

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There is an interesting thread on Mastodon where Danny Sullivan and John Mueller, both of who work at Google, talk about making Mastodon more search-engine friendly. The thread was started by Gabe Rivera of Techmeme, when he wanted a way …

Since April, Bing has been slowly testing a new BingBot user agent, slowly rolling it out to more percentages of crawls over the year. Fabrice Canel from Microsoft said while the new BingBot is still only doing 50% of all …

Gary Illyes from Google said on LinkedIn that if you want to you can use a single robots.txt file for all your international sites. He added that he is not saying this is a good idea, but rather, technically, you …

Most SEO experts are still afraid to publish their success stories, with a few notable exceptions.  Many are simply unable to share their work even when it’s successful. How can SEOs stop practicing “ghost optimization”?  Before we dive into this …

Here are the top five Winter TikTok trends to give you inspiration and help you create potentially viral videos for your TikTok marketing The post TikTok Trends Right Now: Winter 2022 appeared first on Search Engine Journal.…

Social media allows you to tell your story, humanize your brand, build an audience, and stay on top of mind with your targets. The post 17 Awesome Examples Of Social Media Marketing appeared first on Search Engine Journal.…

Set up header bidding and boost your revenue by +30% or more by creating selling pressure on Google Adx. The post What Is Header Bidding And How To Implement It appeared first on Search Engine Journal.…

Learn why local search is important and how to optimize your business for the local search results to maximize performance. The post 12 Proven Local SEO Tips To Dominate The SERPs And Map Pack appeared first on Search Engine Journal…

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

SEO should be an important part of your marketing plan, no matter what the economic conditions. The post SEO During A Recession (Does It Still Work?) appeared first on Search Engine Journal.…

Microsoft’s Fabrice Canel has said that in early January 2023, the new BingBot will be responsible for 100% of Bing’s crawling activity. The new user agent is now responsible for about 50% of all crawls. Some history. In 2019, Microsoft …

Gary Illyes from Google said on LinkedIn the other day that sitemaps are hints, not orders. Meaning just because you submit an XML sitemap file to Google, it does not mean Google will index and rank that content.…

Google will update its Google Advertising policies to disallow the promotion of content or engaging in behavior that risks harm to Google users, Google employees, or the Google Ads ecosystem. If you do this, Google can restrict or block your …

Google’s Search Liason, Danny Sullivan, said that the December 2022 helpful content update would take longer to roll out than originally expected. The update started to roll out on December 5th and was expected to finish earlier this week.…

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