Microsoft announced it would be testing the ability of third parties who are delegated or authorized providers to advertise for certain government services with review and pre-approval. This is for US-based advertisers with the Microsoft Advertising Search Network and Microsoft Audience Network. It is supported for these approved government services: Recreational passes/licenses including but not […]

It looks like review spammers are using ChatGPT and other AI tools to generate fake reviews. These reviews are being posted in Google Business Profile local listings and causing a headache for small businesses. I spotted this via the Local Search Forum but it was also posted on the Review Fraud website recently as well.

A majority of all website visits worldwide are attributed to mobile devices. Optimizing your website for mobile has never been more important in SEO. In this article, I’ll kick things off by explaining what mobile SEO is and why it’s important. I’ll then get to the core focus of this article, sharing my top 10 tips

Google had Sally’s hand-rolled ice cream stop by the Dublin office. It looks like they had some small station and I guess they sold or gave away some ice cream to Googlers. I spotted this image on Instagram. This post is part of our daily Search Photo of the Day column, where we find fun

Google has launched the new perspectives feature, added an “about this author” section, globally rolled out “about this result” and made it easier to access “about this page” in the Google Search bar and search results. (1) After several months of testing perspectives and it appearing to go live on mobile featured snippets, Google has

Microsoft Bing will soon be rolling out cleaner and nicer math result formatting. Mikhail Parakhin from Microsoft Bing said this is already out to 10% of users for all chat modes. Here is what the new formatting looks like: Here is what the old formatting looks like: Mikhail Parakhin posted this on Twitter and wrote,

With all the talk about ChatGPT and other AI bots, did you know that there is an OpenAI ChatGPT bot and it respects the robots.txt protocol? So if you want, you can block OpenAI’s ChatGPT bot from crawling, indexing and using your content and data from your website. This will block the ChatGPT plugins specifically.

Several weeks ago, Google enabled the ability to export your Google Search Console data in bulk, automatically, to Google’s BigQuery. Now, Google announced that you can do this across multiple properties in Google Search Console into a single Google Cloud project. Google said on Twitter, “Following feedback from the community, today we’re updating bulk data