IndexNow Now Sharing URLs Between Search Engines & IndexNow API

When IndexNow was first announced by Microsoft Bing in October, it was not yet at a point where the participating search engines we co-sharing URLs - but that is no longer the case. Participating IndexNow search engines, which is still just Microsoft Bing and Yandex, are now co-sharing URLs.

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Microsoft Bing Tests Related Searches On Left

Microsoft Bing is testing placing the related searches list on the left side of the search results page. Normally, Microsoft places these related searches on the right side of the Bing search results page.

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Google Search Showing (1) In Shopify Websites Titles

Most SEOs often look at titles tags when browsing web sites, I mean, I do, while the average person does not. So you've probably seen numbers in the tab bar representing an unread direct message count or chat request. Well, Shopify sites using chat-bot script was adding a 1 to the titles of pages and that is what Google has been indexing.

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Poll: 90% Of SEOs Are Vaccinated

A Twitter poll with over 1,320 votes shows that 90% of SEOs are vaccinated. Well, at least 90% of the SEOs who took the poll are vaccinated. Although, I'd think that 90% figure is probably accurate across the industry.

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Google Ads Versatile Text Ads = Responsive Search Ads?

Steve Plimmer posted a screenshot from the Google Ads console's change history log showing how Google has named the RSAs, response search ads, versatile text ads. It makes you wonder if Google will rename RSA responsive search ads to VTA versatile text ads or if this is just how Google originally named it internally and forgo to remove some references?

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