Many major publisher sites have seen even further visibility drops since May 5, when Google rolled out the "site reputation abuse" portion of its spam updates.
Several of these sites certainly had/have section that qualify as Google's definition of "site reputation abuse."
But not all of them.
SEO is no longer just about keywords and backlinks. It's about understanding the deep semantics of content. 🧵
- Google's shift towards vector embeddings has transformed SEO.
- Understanding content beyond the words used is now essential.
- The new @screamingfrog update is a game changer
Inspired by @iPullRank - the best post ive read in years.
We're making links more prominent when ChatGPT browses the internet. This gives more context to its responses and makes it easier for users to discover content from publishers and creators. Browse is available in ChatGPT Plus, Team and Enterprise.
Prompt: “Several giant wooly mammoths approach treading through a snowy meadow, their long wooly fur lightly blows in the wind as they walk, snow covered trees and dramatic snow capped mountains in the distance, mid afternoon light with wispy clouds and a sun high in the distance creates a warm glow, the low camera view is stunning capturing the large furry mammal with beautiful photography, depth of field.”
Introducing Sora, our text-to-video model.
Sora can create videos of up to 60 seconds featuring highly detailed scenes, complex camera motion, and multiple characters with vibrant emotions.
https://t.co/YYpOAcrXQ3
Prompt: “Beautiful, snowy Tokyo city is bustling. The camera moves through the bustling city street, following several people enjoying the beautiful snowy weather and shopping at nearby stalls. Gorgeous sakura petals are flying through the wind along with snowflakes.”
Starting today, we’re rolling out an update to our results in Video mode to only show pages where the video is the main content of the page, to better connect users with the video content they're looking for. We will also be adding a new reason in Search Console to better explain why videos aren't indexed. More in: https://t.co/KEBSifkgnU
@Ammon_Johns@g33konaut@JohnMu From @patrickstox 's presentation:
Myth: Weeks To Render:
• All pages go through the renderer.
• The average wait time is 5 sec according to Google's Martin Splitt.
• The 90th percentile is minutes, not weeks.
• Probably comes from pages not being prioritized for crawling.
Introducing Detailed Q: The SEO playbook of digital goliaths revealed, in-depth.
This is far different to anything I've written before so I've worked for weeks to do the concept justice.
Whatever you're focused on, I hope you'll find a relevant insight.
https://t.co/FzfBkpmDYA
OMG! If you read ANYTHING today - read this look at the evolution of the SEO industry from @sengineland
They took @rustybrick's articles & broke down all the trends.
You can see the impact of the Medic Update on us as well as how "mobile" has fallen off a bit!
My biggest takeaway is "I am stubborn" says Barry.
Insightful!
https://t.co/CKS0d907Hg
@GoogleTrends Embed widgets for any query seems to have broken. I can still embed top 25 queries, but all data for a particular query is showing an error like this. Seems to be a recent problem, is anyone at @Google aware of the issue? @searchliaison
https://t.co/aVMQ42y6fN
Here is a complete data analysis of Content Syndication impact in Google Search for News publishers with the list of most impacted sites and estimated traffic share going to Yahoo syndicated content vs original content. Data by NewzDash based on millions of news rankings in Google Mobile Search Top Stories (News Box Carousel) from Jan to Jun 2023.
Enjoy!!
May have convinced the ChatGPT Code Interpreter to give me its system prompt.
All it took was asking it to count the number of characters in the prompt!
Chat GPT just became an SEO super-tool:
UPLOAD:
1. Queries.csv
2. Pages.csv
3. Countries.csv
4. Dates.csv
QUERY:
Explain traffic spike.
PROCESS:
It combines csv data, looks at the full scope, writes python, *EXECUTES PYTHON*, and shows results. In this case a graph of data and a text interpretation highlighting the dates and the country the spike in traffic is related to.
OUTPUT:
From January to June, I increased sessions on this site by ~247% and went from $0 to $2.5k a month in earnings.
Here's the playbook of how I did it using programmatic SEO, AI, Google Search Console and good ol' blog content:
Hey @screamingfrog team, just confirming if the SEO Spider supports the Ahrefs v2 API? It looks like it's still the old version, but I wanted to check before I upgraded my Ahrefs account 😄