OpenAI content deal will enhance ChatGPT with the ability to show real-time content with links in response to queries. OpenAI quietly took steps to gaining more search engine type functionality as part of a content licensing deal that may have positive implications for publishers and SEO. Content Licensing Deal OpenAI agreed to content licensing with … Read more
You can now see Microsoft Copilot, formerly Bing Chat, referrer data in your Google Analytics reports. Himanshu Sharma posted about this on X yesterday, he said, “Copilot has started sending referrer data to GA4.” Himanshu Sharma shared this chart showing https://copilot.microsoft.com showing up in GA4 as a referrer: To see it, you can use the … Read more
In February, Google told us they stopped showing Web Stories in Google Image search results. Well, last *****, Google issued a correction saying Google has been showing Web Stories in Google Images but the Web Stories icon does not show. To make things worse, Search Console had a bug where it was not reporting these … Read more
Google’s Search Liaison responded to a series of posts on Twitter, leading him to beg SEOs to stop trying to “show Google” things, explaining that the process of doing things to your site to rank better in Google is the opposite of the advice Google is giving. Instead, show things to your users/visitors that those … Read more
Google has updated its Google Business Profile help documentation to add a line saying that Google may show your social media posts in Search if you have associated your social media links via your Google Business Profile. Google wrote, “Business Profiles with an associated social media link may find their social media posts surfaced on … Read more
Google confirmed that it deliberately withholds channel-specific KPIs for Performance Max campaigns because it could be “misleading.” Some advertisers suspect Google is not being fully transparent about PMax campaign performance data because doing so would impact its ability to push automation. What Google is saying. When an advertisers asked why Google doesn’t offer channel-level reporting … Read more
Google Ads will soon support showing the Search Partner Network in the Performance Max Placement report. This means Google will show you which sites your PMax ads are running on – which is a first. Google posted the update in this help document saying, “Starting in March, 2024: The Performance Max Placement report will support … Read more
A comparison of January 2024 core web vitals scores of the top content management systems (CMS) shows that all platforms are improving, with Squarespace, WordPress and Wix showing the strongest year over year rate of growth in improvement when compared to the previous year. Core Web Vitals is comprised of a suite of metrics that … Read more
Google announced a deal with Reddit to gain access to real-time access to all of its content so that Google can show even more Reddit content than it already does and to gain access to all of its content for training ******. The agreement between Google and Reddit is explicit that this will result in … Read more
Google has posted a notice within the Google Business Profiles performance report that it will stop sharing as much data under the driving directions report. Google said, “Starting in January 2024, you might see fewer direction requests.” Google said this change is due to privacy reasons. “This is because Google is making updates to better … Read more
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