Susan Urban

Just another Seattle search and inbound marketing guru. ☺
Addicted to SEO since 2001.
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[Susan Urban @UrbanSeattle]

@iPullRank Great Q&A today. Did the Leak have an element that uses the ratio of: number of indexed pages to # of pages Google discovered. For example, GSC shows 25k pages discovered & only 255 pages indexed. Is there an element that looks at this ratio as a measure of quality?

[Susan Urban @UrbanSeattle]

@RyanJones Great session at SMX @RyanJones. Can you share what tool you are building and what tool you use to track AI overviews?

[Susan Urban @UrbanSeattle]

@rustybrick @iPullRank Adding another Mike King @iPullRank session is even better! Thanks

[Susan Urban @UrbanSeattle]

@rustybrick Hi Barry have you thought about changing the SMX Keynote to What We Can Learn from Google Leak and invite the amazing Michael King @iPullRank to join you? Or can Michael change his presentation from RAG to What I Have Learned from Google API Leak?

[Susan Urban @UrbanSeattle]

Google tells us Apil 26th that it was done on the 19th! Ugh!

[Google Search Central @googlesearchc]

The March 2024 core update is complete, having ended on April 19. The ranking feedback form is now ready at https://t.co/EiM7C8PtaS and will remain open through May 31. We’ve also updated our Debugging drops in Google Search traffic help page here: https://t.co/pxz3nXBXxP

[Google DeepMind @GoogleDeepMind]

Soccer players have to master a range of dynamic skills, from turning and kicking to chasing a ball. How could robots do the same? ⚽

We trained our AI agents to demonstrate a range of agile behaviors using reinforcement learning.

Here’s how. 🧵 https://t.co/RFBxLG6SMn

[Marie Haynes @Marie_Haynes]

Oh wow. Now it all makes sense.

Because I have a Pixel phone, I am starting to see some of the AI related changes. Google is pushing out.

When I open up my phone there is a search bar right in front of me. If I type something I get a regular search. But if I tap the microphone I get assistant.

Assistant acts like a librarian that decides what you're most likely to find helpful. Search is like letting you browse the whole library. I commented this week on how assistant is like a mini SGE that just chooses one feature - whichever one is most likely to be helpful to you. Perhaps it's a carousel of websites, often one. Or maybe a map or a YouTube video.

Now it all makes sense why Google didn't put links in the SGE answer that was stitched together from websites. Because what we saw in Labs was never going to go into production because Bard will replace that.

SGE is just one giant test, learning which parts of it people are finding helpful so that it can improve assistant. Wow.

[Susan Urban @UrbanSeattle]

"...while Google is REALLY good at understanding user intent, SGE is far from it. Both algos are based on ML, & my assumption is that it might take a while for Googlers to find a way to merge these two ecosystems." Great insights by @bart_goralewicz https://t.co/VA7m5aUC71 #SEO

[Susan Urban @UrbanSeattle]

Great post by @bart_goralewicz on SEO fluff not working anymore. If the content isn't truly helpful, remove it. Google is not that stupid anymore. https://t.co/FW6q1uMGOa

[Klay Thompson @Thompsonklay]

@neuralink I nominate all and every politician to be put forward for the Prime study and all human trials, it’s a win-win.

[jquant — e/acc ⚡️ @jquant_]

@OpenAI delivery driver pulling up to @openai 🍕

[Logan Kilpatrick @OfficialLoganK]

@OpenAI Never stop shipping 🧡 glad our free users get to experience this magic.

[🌊💙 Viking Resistance 💙🌊 @BlueCrewViking]

@emilychangtv @karaswisher @bchesky @sama @btaylor @eshear @adamdangelo And #ChatGPT is now down for all users. Wow...

[Jesse Cohen @JesseCohenInv]

@satyanadella Nadella playing 3D chess, while the rest are playing checkers.

Big win for $MSFT, bad news for $NVDA and $GOOGL.

[Susan Urban @UrbanSeattle]

"Less crap is more. Sites have not learned their lesson." Totally agree with @MordyOberstein #smx

[Rand Fishkin (follow @randderuiter on Threads) @randfish]

NEW research: https://t.co/jzwMVQnznJ

We worked w/ @LiveDatos to analyze millions of ChatGPT visits; some fascinating takeaways:

- Traffic's down (not just b/c school's out) 🏫
- Programming assistance is ~30% of use ⌨️
- #DnD and #rpg use-cases are surprisingly popular 🐉

[Rowan Cheung @rowancheung]

How AI sees the 'most stereotypical person' from different countries and states.

Images generated with Midjourney AI:

1. Florida:

[Rick Lamers @ricklamers]

Couldn't get access to ChatGPT Code Interpreter so I wrote my own! And Open Sourced it of course 🕺

https://t.co/cxHIFRb1FO

[Lior Alexander @LiorOnAI]

OpenAI also announced a new Code interpreter: an experimental ChatGPT model that can use Python, handle uploads and downloads