Should you be worried that ChatGPT taking over your SEO job? Here’s what to expect about the hot topic in this week’s Ask An SEO. The post Will AI Kill SEO? We Asked ChatGPT appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

rel=next/prev was not found on Google. That’s an error. In 2019, we learned Google had stopped supporting the rel=next/prev markup it had introduced in 2011. Worse than that, Google hadn’t been using it for indexing for a “number of years,” according to Google’s John Mueller. All the while, Google continued to recommend using it, so SEOs, publishers and developers invested resources into implementing and maintaining the markup – all for no benefit. Google apologized for the “oversight” a day later. Also on this day Google Ads Editor version 2.0 supports Performance Max campaigns 2022: The update also included support for custom […]

Learn how to work more efficiently with smaller in-house marketing budgets by executing SEO strategies that only cost money when they work. The post Enterprise SEO: 4 Ways To Boost SEO ROI With No Overhead Costs appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

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

ChatGPT experienced an outage affecting all users. Find out where to go to get the latest updates from OpenAI. The post ChatGPT Is Down: OpenAI Reports Major Outages For ChatGPT And Labs Users appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

Learn about the new feature from TikTok that allows users to refresh the For You feed for fresh content recommendations.  The post TikTok Will Allow Users To Refresh The For You Feed For Fresh Recommendations appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

In part one, we spoke about who Sam Michelson is and his business development techniques. In part two, we dove into CRM software and how they use it, including looking at a new piece of software for partner management…

To get results from paid search, you’ll need to deliver better campaigns and increase your bids, which drives costs up. However, increasing your bids won’t always mean more clicks. Eventually, you’ll reach a point where increased bids will only return little to no gain. This is the law of diminishing returns at play. When running PPC campaigns, you are contending with this concept and many other factors outside your control. In this article, we’ll explore the law of diminishing returns and various factors making paid search even more demanding today. This will help you set better expectations when assessing your […]

Microsoft Bing has added Bing Chat answers in the Bing Search results in place of some of the answer boxes. We knew this was coming, as Mikhail Parakhin, who leads up Bing Search and Bing Chat, suggested would happen a week ago and now it seems to be here. What it looks like. Here is a screenshot of one of many queries that triggers the Bing Chat answer in Bing Search: What happens. When you search in any browser in Bing and you see this Bing Chat box come up, you can see the first answer above. But then if […]

The topic of blacklists and whitelists for Bing and Google are not new. But now we have chat bots and AI features and Mikhail Parakhin was asked if there is a blacklist for some sites with the Bing Chat sidebar feature in the Edge browser. Mikhail Parakhin said no, “not really” he said.

Google is now testing highlighting snippet text in the Google Explore feature in light blue, darker blue, and a brownish color. After months of testing, Google launched the featured snippet text highlight feature earlier this month. Now, it seems Google is trying it out in the Google Explore feature.

Google Business Profiles lets you see what business listings offer service-wise, they’ve been doing this for a while now, and now they seem to impact your local rankings. But what is new and scary is that Google is making up pricing for your services that are almost always incorrect and sometimes dangerous for that businesses.

Google has updated the Googlebot help document on crawling to clarify that the 15MB fetch size limit applies to each fetch of the individual subresources referenced in the HTML as well, such as JavaScript and CSS files.

On March 14th, Google published its Generative AI prohibited use policy that states where you are not allowed to use its AI features to create content and information. This is not specific to search but as many of you can imagine, this might one day, bridge over to Google’s webmaster guidelines (or search essentials).

Goal-setting is one of the most important pieces of content strategy. Every guide you’ve ever read on building a content strategy probably mentions goals somewhere. Goals matter because they give your content marketing direction and purpose. Instead of creating content randomly, you’ll create content for specific reasons, and each piece will contribute to growth. Because, without goals, content is just content. But add a goal behind it, and it becomes a tool for your business. But it’s one thing to say, “Set goals for your content marketing.” It’s another thing entirely to put that into action. If you’re new to […]

Google explains why it’s recommended to combine multiple structured data into one script The post Google Explains Why Sites Should Combine Structured Data appeared first on Search Engine Journal.