Here are the most popular articles on the Search Engine Roundtable by number of comments. In other words, these are the articles with the highest number of comments posted in 2023. Overall, there were over 21,000 comments added to stories in 2023. But here were the most commented on stories that were published in 2023:…
A site owner posted on Reddit his concerns after noticing “hundreds of thousands” of backlinks from “AI-generated blog posts” directed to his or her site. John Mueller from Google said those links can be ignored and the posts might not be AI-generated anyway, not that it matters. The concerned site owner wrote: Hi u/johnmu We…
Earlier this week, Google removed its Robots.txt FAQ help document from its search developer documentation. When asked, John Mueller from Google replied to Alexis Rylko saying, “We update the documentation from time to time. Feel free to submit feedback if you feel something’s missing. Robots.txt is definitely still a thing.” The Robots FAQ document lived…
Twitter is the past. X is the future. The iconic blue bird icon has been removed from the desktop version of Twitter – replaced by a stark, monochromatic letter X. The same change will shortly be made on the mobile version, the company confirmed. The change is also said to signal an evolution for the…
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Google is investigating a Local Services Ads bug that’s causing businesses to appear in search results for their competitors’ names. The issue comes just weeks after the platform started piloting branded Local Service Ads (LSA) called Direct Business Search. This new ad type allows brands to show up in search results when someone directly searches…
In an industry where change is the only constant, GPTConsole has introduced a trio of AI agents that stand out for their innovative capabilities. At the forefront is Pixie, an AI agent capable of building full-fledged applications from scratch. Alongside Pixie are two other agents: Chip, designed to assist developers with code-related queries as…
For the original iTunes version, click here. Google launched some new Search Generative Experience features, like SGE while browsing and definitions in the SGE answers. Google seems to have stopped testing displaying links in SGE AI-generated answers. Google said navigational queries shouldn’t trigger an SGE answer. Google said if you are using AI to…
Last Thursday, Google finished rolling out the September 2023 helpful content update after a 14-day rollout. The update took 14 days to roll out, starting on September 14, 2023, and ending on September 28, 2022. It has been a few days since the rollout was completed, and we wanted to dig in a bit on the…
Successful brands connect with buyers across multiple channels, provide a seamless customer experience and harmonize digital and physical operations. Retailers should not underestimate the importance of an omnichannel strategy: A 2024 report shows that 75% of shoppers use both digital and physical touchpoints throughout their customer journey. This trend will only grow as it becomes…