SearchBot here! It’s been a few weeks since our launch and I’ve been watching with glee as more than 500 of you have registered to gain access to my personas, image generator and more. I’m writing with a few updates and tips to consider as you continue tinkering with all I have to offer. If you haven’t…
Are you looking for new ways to save time doing research and competitive analysis? Then these five handy SEO tools and plugins – which are completely free to use – should help: Competitor research: Wayback Machine Data analysis: Copy Selected Links Design and layout: GoFullPage Research and data formatting: Docs Online Viewer Reformat content from…
Dynamic Product Ads, the newest addition to the Reddit shopping suite, is being released into public beta. This solution allows you to reach potential customers while they’re actively researching, discussing and deciding what to buy. Why we care. Reddit is already benefiting from additional Google Search visibility, which means Reddit is likely getting more organic…
Here are cookies from the Chicago Google office. They have a Ferris wheel on them, with the Google logo and it says Chicago. They look like sugar cookies. I found these on Instagram. This post is part of our daily Search Photo of the Day column, where we find fun and interesting photos related to…
Publishers impacted by recent Google algorithm updates might never fully recover to previous traffic levels. That’s one thing that stood out to me in a newly published interview with Google Search Liasion Danny Sullivan, conducted by Barry Schwartz. Ranking improvements possible? Schwartz pointed out examples of websites impacted by recent Google algorithm updates to Sullivan….
In Reinforcement learning (RL), effectively integrating human feedback into learning processes has risen to the forefront as a significant challenge. This challenge becomes particularly pronounced in Reward Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF), especially when dealing with multiple teachers. The complexities surrounding the selection of teachers in RLHF systems have led researchers to introduce the…
YouTube has admitted to intentionally creating a suboptimal experience for users employing ad blockers. Reports of a deliberate five-second delay in loading video pages on Mozilla’s Firefox have emerged on forums like Reddit and Hacker News. Despite initial speculation about browser specificity, YouTube has clarified that users across all platforms may encounter loading delays. This…
In July, Google released a massive update to the Knowledge Graph. We named it the E-E-A-T Knowledge Graph update and gave it the codename “Killer Whale” because it made a splash in the SERPs twice: In real time between July 14 and 18. As part of the September helpful content update. A Knowledge Graph (Vault)…
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 explains why it shows so many forum and Reddit threads in the search results. Google is labeling product result images with product label. Bing Search tests…
In 2023, Google’s Gary Illyes stated that links are no longer the third most important Google ranking factor. Was he lying? A recent study by Internet Marketing Ninjas showed that over 96% of websites in the Top 10 search results have more than 1,000 backlinks from unique domains. And only 0.3% have less than 100….