Daily Search Forum Recap: February 28, 2023

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.

Google said it might have its own way of sending traffic to publishers with its AI chat, Bard...

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Boat At The Google Kirkland Office

Google Boat At Kirkland Seattle Office

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Daily Search Forum Recap: February 27, 2023

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Google's John Mueller On Rewriting Your Content With ChatGPT

Google's John Mueller went back and forth multiple times with some SEOs on the topic of using ChatGPT not to write content from scratch but to rewrite existing content. The responses from John are educational, useful and somewhat funny as well.

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Google Pulls The Current List Of Googlebot IP Netblocks From Production Systems

Gary Illyes from Google noted that the list of Googlebot IP addresses that Google started to publish in 2021 and has updated last month is actually maintained in real-time by pulling directly from the "production systems' configuration files," he said.

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Bing "Content Medically Reviewed By" Doctor For Health Queries

Microsoft Bing now shows if the content is medically reviewed by a medical professional for health-related search queries. So if you search for [heart burn] or other health-related queries, Bing will show you which doctor reviewed the content and even link you to their LinkedIn profile.

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Bing AI Chat Now Tests Response Tones: Precise, Balanced & Creative

Microsoft Bing is testing a feature to set the tone you get from Bing AI Chat. You can select precise, balanced and creative tones.

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Google Sourdough Bread

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Daily Search Forum Recap: February 24, 2023

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web...

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Bardogs Show At The Google Zurich Office

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Daily Search Forum Recap: February 23, 2023

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web...

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Google: Google Discover Impacted By Many Search Signals, Including Now The Helpful Content Update

Google has updated both the Google Discover help documentation and the Google helpful content system page documentation to clarify that Google Discover uses many of the same signals as Google Search for ranking. The big news is that previously Google told us the helpful content update did not impact Discoverr, but now Google says it does.

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Google Valentine's Day Treats & Decore

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Daily Search Forum Recap: February 22, 2023

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.

Bear with me - a lot going on today...

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Prometheus: Why Bing AI Chat Is So Fast & Up-To-Date

Microsoft's Jordi Ribas, Corporate Vice President of Search & AI at Microsoft put together a detailed blog post explaining the Prometheus technology and how Bing uses it to make Bing AI chat fast and current.

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Report: Google Business Profiles Services Now Impact Local Rankings

Joy Hawkins and friends re-did a study they did years ago to discover that now the services you add to your Google Business Profiles now have an impact on your local rankings - at least way more than it did in 2019.

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Googler Dancing At Dublin Office

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Daily Search Forum Recap: February 21, 2023

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Google: Existing Sites Won't Drop In Rankings Just Because Its An Exact Match Domain

Google's John Mueller said on Mastodon that an existing site would not drop in ranking just because it uses an exact match domain. "Changes like that would be due to other reasons," he added.

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Google AdSense Sites Management Changes Coming March 20th

Google AdSense is updating the Sites page, where you define which sites you want to monetize using AdSense. The updates are coming on March 20, 2023, and include a redesigned Sites page and some changes to the rules on how site management works.

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Google: Core Web Vitals Shouldn't Be Top Of The List For Most Small & Local Businesses

Google's John Mueller said on Mastodon that for small and local businesses, "in most cases," core web vitals work should not be at the top of their list. He said this because the page experience ranking factor is not huge and more so, for sites with very few pages, Google doesn't usually have CrUX data for the pages on that site, and in those cases, the data is not used.

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Google Top Contributor Bluetooth Mini Speaker

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Daily Search Forum Recap: February 20, 2023

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Google's Gary Illyes On Noindex With Redirects

What happens when the noindex, nofollow directives are in the HTTP header and that URL is also being redirected somewhere, will Google respect or ignore the directive. Gary Illyes from Google hinted that Google will likely ignore the directive to be safe.

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John Mueller With Google Smoke

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