HomeAdvisor punished by United States agency for allegedly using misleading tactics to sell leads to home improvement companies The post HomeAdvisor Penalized By FTC For Alleged False Claims About Leads appeared first on Search Engine Journal.…

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

Google’s Search Advocate team shares SEO best practices for news sites, emphasizing content quality and effective use of structured data. The post Google’s SEO Best Practices For News Websites appeared first on Search Engine Journal.…

Paid search advertising conversion rates have decreased across nearly all industries year over year. Meanwhile, the cost of generating leads through search ads continues to increase, although not as drastically as in prior years. That’s according to a new 2023 …

Google Bard has added classic and more genuine citations to the answers it provides and also is able to provide better summarization. We do not yet see these improvements and enhancements live yet but Jack Krawczyk from Google shared some …

Bing unveils new chatbot features, including images in responses, optimized topic answers, and improved text formatting and copy-paste. The post Bing Chat Rolls Out 4 Upgrades appeared first on Search Engine Journal.…

Your website is the center of your digital marketing world. It’s where you have the most control and where all digital marketing rivers run toward. Generally, the largest of those traffic sources is organic search.  Yet, all too often, SEO …

In part one with Glenn Gabe, we talk about Bing chat and Google Bard and also the use of AI-generated content……

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What do craft beer, food delivery and B2B buyers have in common? A call for more personalization because of younger, more digitally native buyers. These themes are explored in episode one of The MarTech Podcast: Data Makes the Difference series.…

Microsoft will be bringing dark mode to Bing Chat in the future. Mikhail Parakhin, the CEO of Bing, when asked about dark mode for Bing Chat, he said on Twitter, “Coming, man, coming.”…

After so much testing and several months after going live on mobile search, Google has announced the +topic search bar refinements are now officially live on the desktop search results.…

On Friday afternoon, Microsoft Bing announced its weekly Bing Chat enhancements, including more visual results and layouts, knowledge card images and more features.…

There is a lot of concern and worry around the new Google Search Generative Experience and how that might impact traffic to content creators, publishers, site owners, and the web as a whole. I get that new things are scary, …

Google seems to be showing fewer and fewer local packs for various queries in the Google Search results interface. For the past few days or so, local SEOs have been noticing this trend and it is concerning them and their …