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Google is testing showing only one star in the local pack in the search results. This is instead of showing five stars with some of those stars filled in with yellow. I am not seeing the single star partially filled up, but all those businesses may have 5-star reviews and not 3 out of 5 […]
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Google’s John Mueller said that keyword stuffing alone would not make a page be deemed unhelpful. John added that Google is good at ignoring tactics like keyword stuffing, so that alone likely won’t be the reason for ranking issues in Google Search. This conversation came up on Mastodon when someone pointed to a specific page
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Last month we introduced the new AI-powered Bing and Microsoft Edge, your copilot for the web, delivering better search, complete answers, a new chat experience and the ability to create content. Already, we have seen that chat is reinventing how people search with more than 100 million chats to date. Today we’re taking the chat
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If you do some queries in Bing Search, you may get the Bing Chat box and a brief answer from Bing Chat at the top. We knew this was coming, Mikhail Parakhin, the CEO of Microsoft Bing said it would a week or so ago and now it seems to be here. This shows up
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There is some concern and speculation on the internet that Microsoft Bing is feeding in content behind paywall and using such content to provide answers in Bing Chat. I asked Bing Chat if it can give answers based on content behind paywalls and it said no, it cannot. But I am not sure if this
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If you’re looking to build more backlinks to your website, checking how your competitors built and earned their backlinks is a good starting point. That’s because understanding how they got links can help inform your link building strategy. In this post, you’ll learn how to find, replicate, and learn from your competitors’ backlinks. How to
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A couple of weeks ago was International Women’s Day at Google had an event at the Google Dublin office for the day. Part of that is they made up a board or two for the day that says Women @ Google. This was shared on Instagram – here is also a video they made of
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The topic of blacklists and whitelists for Bing and Google is not new. But now we have chatbots 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. He said if
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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 Explore in search is the
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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.
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