SEO newsletter issue #466

Blue Array announce a brand new SEO industry tool - AskSEO.ai

We had great pleasure announcing AskSEO.ai at LondonSEO XL via Jake Evans who has been leading the project.

Finally, a tool that helps you?corroborate?and cite your SEO recommendations ?with authoritative sources. This is both a time saving and trust enhancing tool for SEO professionals.

Jake will also be speaking about AskSEO.ai at Agency Hackers event 'The Robots Are Coming ' in July.

Via Jake Evans

Google is killing infinite scroll on search results

Continuous scrolling search results on desktop are already removed with mobile device removal ‘in the coming months.’?Google told Search Engine Land that “this change is to allow the search company to serve the search results faster on more searches.

Via Andrew Liszewski

AI deals between Microsoft and OpenAI, Google and Samsung, in EU crosshairs

"Vestager also cited concerns about Big Tech blocking smaller AI developers from reaching users and businesses."

Via Foo Yun Chee

Microsoft AI CEO: Web content is ‘freeware’?

?? Mustafa Suleyman believes almost all web content can be used for AI training unless explicitly restricted by the creator.

Via Danny Goodwin

Reddit’s upcoming changes attempt to safeguard the platform against AI crawlers

"Along with the updated robots.txt file, Reddit will continue rate-limiting and blocking unknown bots and crawlers from accessing its platform."

Via Aisha Malik

Shopify’s AI ‘Sidekick’ chatbot for merchants is now in early access

Sidekick functions as a support chatbot for merchants, helping them do things like make discount codes, generate reports about your store, or suggest blog post ideas.

Via Jay Peters

OpenAI’s ChatGPT for Mac app is now available to everyone

"OpenAI touts that the ChatGPT app for macOS is designed to “integrate seamlessly into anything you’re doing on your computer.”

Via Chance Miller

Advanced SEO Industry News???

Can AI perform technical SEO analysis effectively?

"impressive despite being totally wrong."

Via James Allen

Google Colab for SEO: How to get started

Learn the benefits of Google Colab for SEOs, from fast setup to AI integration, and how to use it to run Python code seamlessly in the cloud.

Via John McAlpin

Few news publishers have blocked Apple from using their content to train its AI models

This is after Apple Intelligence was announced at WWDC and new documentation published for blocking Applebot-Extended.

Via Glenn Gabe

Google: When you should fix pages 404 status codes

Gary Illyes from Google has shared some cases where you should fix pages returning a 404 status code.

Via Barry Schwartz

Google search showing more health related AI overviews

"the sourcing appears to be improving in AIO. Plus the ability for high quality sites to actually receive traffic from AIO, as opposed to spammy/low quality sites that don’t otherwise rank."

Via Barry Schwartz

Google: Our search rankings can improve at scale & system level

"our ranking systems aren't perfect and that I see content that we ought to do better by, as well as content we're rewarding when we shouldn't."

Via Barry Schwartz

Google tests AI overview link cards at the top

Instead of having them deep at the bottom, they are being tested at the top, which would clearly drive more clicks to publishers than the current implementation.

Via Barry Schwartz

Google June 2024 spam update done rolling out

This spam update took 7 days to fully roll out and is now complete.

Via Barry Schwartz

Via Google: Inside Search Quality: Using metrics and data science to improve Search

In this episode of SOTR, Lizzi and John sit down with Elizabeth Tucker to go behind the scenes of Search Quality product management.?

Via Google Search Central

Made Us Smile???

Via?Fery Kaszoni

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