SEO newsletter issue #474

CEO of Hardbacon.ca said traffic is surging back for them based on the August core update

"to took Google 11 months to correct the mistake they made in September 2023, and the damage is done." ... "I have to officially sign the bankruptcy by Friday."

Via Julien Brault

Via Bing: Bing Webmaster Tools or Google Search Console: A comparison

Big attempts to highlight features that '?fantastic features that often fly under the radar'.

Via Fabrice Canel

Google quietly launches new AI crawler

Google rolled out a new bot for commercial AI customers and documentation for site owners to track its visits.

Via Roger Montti

Authors sue Anthropic for copyright infringement over AI training

Writers and journalists said that Anthropic used pirated versions of their works and others to teach Claude to respond to human prompts.

Via Blake Brittain

OpenAI signs deal to train on Condé Nast content, surface stories in ChatGPT

OpenAI has inked a deal with Condé Nast — the publisher of storied outlets such as The New Yorker, Vogue, and Wired.

Via Kyle Wiggers

Advanced SEO Industry News???

Google AI Overviews, organic results overlap jumps to 99%, analysis finds

The sources cited in Google AI Overviews now match one or more of the webpages from the top 10 Google organic search results 99.5% of the time.

Via Danny Goodwin

Google discovered - Currently not indexed - Quality, timing or server speed

Google's Martin Splitt posted a video in his SEO Made Easy series on the topic of the Google Search Console "Discovered - Currently Not Indexed" page indexing report status note.

Via Google Search Central

Google: Many noindex & nofollows do not signal site quality issues

"Can using a lot of nofollow or noindex tags signal to Google that the site has many low-quality pages?"

Via Barry Schwartz

Google AI Overviews are impacted by Core Updates

"These are a part of search, and core updates affect search, so yes."

Via Nicholas McDonough

Google Search Console search appearances documentation updated

Google has greatly expanded and clarified its documentation around how Search Appearances work within the Google Search Console reports.?

Via Barry Schwartz

Via Google: Crawling smarter, not harder

Misconceptions around crawl frequency and site quality, what's challenging about crawling the web nowadays, and how search engines could crawl more efficiently.?

Via Google Search Central

Thumbnails back in Google search result snippets for many

With the release of the August 2024 core update, many small publishers are starting to see their images show up in the search results again.

Via Barry Schwartz

Google’s revamped (video) documentation shows 4 reasons to refresh content

Google's updated Video SEO documentation shows four strategies for improving your content's effectiveness.?

Via Roger Montti

Nuances with SEO take experience to read between the lines

Could unanswered blog comments cause SEO issues? No, it's not a problem. However if you have a forum or Q/A site, then be very careful having many urls with just a question and no answer.?

Via Glenn Gabe

Some Google Helpful Content Update resurrections with August Core Update

"Retro Dodo and House Fresh both confirmed seeing improvements for the first time."

Via Barry Schwartz

Google search ranking bug impacting large number of results (updated)

"On August 19th, John Mueller said while it is not fully fixed, the visible effect is no longer there."

Via Barry Schwartz

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