Back in 2020, Google Search introduced a feature named people cards. It was only available in India but now it seems like it might be expanding, as I can now see it in the United States.

Well, we knew it was coming and here it is, Bard – Google’s answer to ChatGPT. Google is now having its trusted testers test out Bard and will soon roll it out more widely to users in Google Search and others products in the coming weeks.

Conductor and Searchmetrics join forces to offer a comprehensive SEO solution for customers. Learn more about the impact of this acquisition. The post From Competitors To Partners: Conductor Acquires Searchmetrics appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

If you see “Discovered – currently not indexed” in Google Search Console, it means Google is aware of the URL, but hasn’t crawled and indexed it yet.  It doesn’t necessarily mean the page will never be processed. As their documentation says, they may come back to it later without any extra effort on your part.  But other factors could be preventing Google from crawling and indexing the page, including: Server issues and onsite technical issues restricting or preventing Google’s crawl capability. Issues relating to the page itself, such as quality. You can also use Google Search Console Inspection API to […]

Google may be testing a new layout for videos it displays in the Google Search results. Google is testing a new format for how the videos show in the Google Search results.

As you know, Yahoo is planning a come back to search with a new way of thinking about Yahoo Search. What that means, we don’t know yet, but we do know Yahoo is thinking hard about how they can compete. Greg Sterling ran a Twitter poll asking if Yahoo has a shot at it, and most say, nope – Yahoo Search is dead on arrival.

Enterprise SEO platform Conductor today announced it has acquired Searchmetrics, another enterprise SEO platform and one of its closest competitors. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. This is the second large acquisition for Conductor within the last year. On Feb. 16, 2022, Conductor acquired Content King. I caught up with Conductor CEO and co-founder Seth Besmertnik to find out what this deal means for Conductor and its customers, as well as Searchmetrics’ customers and employees. What it means for Conductor. One of the big draws of the Searchmetrics acquisition was its European customer base. Searchmetrics has 1,000 global […]

Google’s hard push into machine learning and automated bidding – and away from more manually controllable optimizations – builds a sense of exasperation for experienced PPC marketers. The January revision to the “remove redundant keywords” recommendations, where they announced the removal of redundant exact and phrase match keywords in favor of broad match, was an aggressive example of that trend.  And it’s made some of us wonder if it’s time to reconsider a long-time little sibling of the paid search world, Microsoft Advertising. In late 2022, Microsoft announced its ambitious goals for capturing a greater share of brand advertising budgets. […]

Google will be removing the podcast carousel fully from Google Search on February 13, 2023. There is a notice in the Google Podcast Manager about the podcast carousel going away. The notice. The notice reads, “Note: Google Search will stop showing podcast carousels by February 13. As a result, clicks and impressions in How people find your show will drop to zero after that date.” Here is a screenshot: Didn’t it already go away. A few weeks ago, a bunch of SEOs who manage popular podcasts or like to consume podcasts, noticed that the podcast carousel was gone from the […]

Artificial intelligence has taken over the SEO industry in recent months.  With the emergence of AI-driven tools like ChatGPT, which can understand and perform all kinds of (SEO) tasks, an ever-lasting question is once again finding its way into lots of headlines: Is the SEO industry dying? First, if you’re impressed with ChatGPT and think it may be threatening SEO, you may be surprised to know that according to the tool itself, the SEO industry is going to be just fine: AI may change the way SEO is done, but it is unlikely to replace the entire profession. While AI […]

Learn how to generate additional revenue for yourself or your business with the best high-ticket affiliate marketing programs. The post 13 Best High-Ticket Affiliate Marketing Programs 2023 appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

Noogler: SEO is spam, ads help you rank In 2012, a Googler made headlines when he said “SEO isn’t good for users or the Internet at large,” and “It’s a bug that you could rank highly in Google without buying ads, and Google is trying to fix the bug.” Was it Matt Cutts, John Mueller, or another prominent Googler who said this? No. It was actually a Noogler (or new Googler). So did this this new employee slip up and reveal what Google really thinks? No. Far more likely, he simply didn’t know what he was talking about. Google didn’t […]

Getty Images sues Stability AI for allegedly copying over 12 million photos, captions, and metadata without permission. The post Getty Images Sues Stability AI For Copyright Infringement appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

Chrome 110 introduces a “potentially breaking change” to third-party embedding. This is why it’s actually a good thing. The post Chrome 110 Changes How Web Share API Embeds Third Party Content appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web. Google may have had another unconfirmed search ranking update, this one around February 4th…

Google is now testing Bard, its answer to OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Google CEO Sundar Pichai today announced the soft launch of Bard to a set “trusted testers,” showcasing what this early experimental release looks like with some examples. We knew this was coming, as Pichai mentioned this on the Google earnings call. What Bard looks like Let’s first start with what it looks like in Google Search – because that’s what everyone has been waiting to see. So let’s jump into some examples. Here is a screenshot Google provided. It shows how Googe Search uses Bard to respond to long queries […]