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……

Has your list of followers on LinkedIn changed? If so, it’s because LinkedIn said it is now removing “hibernated” and “restricted” accounts from the connection and follower counts of all members and will continue to regularly do so heading forward.…

Elon Musk today announced that Linda Yaccarino will be the next Twitter CEO. The announcement. Musk tweeted the news, adding that Yaccarino would “focus primarily on business operations.” Musk will focus on product design and new technology. Musk added: “Looking …

Microsoft announced a number of new features that have been added to Bing Chat this week, including images within answers, optimized knowledge answers and more. “Some of these features may appear temporarily in your Bing chat experience as we experiment …

Google is now rolling out the related topics search filter feature on desktop search results. This first launched on mobile search last December and now, Google is bringing it fully to desktop search. What it looks like. Here is a …

Meta has introduced the AI Sandbox, which will bring generative AI to its advertisers. Meta’s three new generative AI features. Select Meta advertisers can now create text variations, generate images from prompts and adjust image sizes – all with the …

Gary Illyes from Google said that having invalid schema markup does not hurt your rankings or your site. He said the worse case, if Google cannot parse the markup, it won’t use it.…

I am seeing signs of another Google search algorithm ranking update touching down over the past couple of days, which is why I am naming it the Google I/O Search Algorithm Ranking Update. This is not confirmed by Google but …

What a crazy week with Google I/O, where Search took the spotlight for the first time in a long time at the event. Google also may have rolled out an unconfirmed search ranking update around the same time as Google …

Optimizing for search requires time and effort, as most SEO experts would attest.  It could take several months or even years to outrank established competitors who have been optimizing their sites for a long time. That said, many websites can …

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Several years ago, Google Search added a search feature to help you pronounce words. Google Search has now added to that feature a way to practice your pronunciation directly in the search results.…

Ginny Marvin, Google’s Ads Liaison, posted on Twitter the other day saying, “The deadline is not changing,” when asked about a rumor that the GA4 deadline was being pushed off. That rumor is not true she said.…

Google Bard had a bunch of updates roll out at Google I/O, which I did not cover the other day, because, well, there was a lot of core search I had to cover. Google removed the waitlist for Bard, and …

What if you had a hub on your website where all your visitors could discover your amazing content? What if this hub helped your audience get solutions and answers, find relevant information, learn about your products/services, and discover new content?…

Prevent internal traffic from interfering with your data analysis via GA4 by following this step by step guide. The post How To Exclude Internal Traffic In Google Analytics 4 appeared first on Search Engine Journal.…

Migrate your site to HubSpot CMS successfully when you learn about its SEO functionality, integrations, and gaps in this detailed guide. The post Migrating To HubSpot CMS: An SEO Walkthrough For New Users appeared first on Search Engine Journal.…