Welcome to episode #86 of the SEO Newsletter by #SEOSLY!
I cannot believe it’s half of July already. As always, a lot of interesting things are happening in the world of SEO & AI. There is my selection of the most important news & tips.
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Top SEO news
Here is the most important SEO & AI news from last week.
Bard’s latest update: more features, languages and countries
You can now access Bard in new languages and countries, customize responses, add images to your prompts and more.
Confirmed: Google News Indexing Bug Fixed After 3 Weeks Of Issues
Google confirmed an indexing bug with Google News publishers that went on for about three weeks. It started around June 21st and was officially fixed on Friday, July 14th.
Google Details SEO Guidance For Content Syndication Partners
Danny Sullivan, Google’s Search Liaison, posted a Twitter thread, with slides from a presentation he prepared for an AOP event in London back in May around SEO and Google guidance for content syndication partners.
Google to release new improvements to site names
Google is going to release its second batch of improvements for Site names in the search results “in the near future,” Danny Sullivan, Google’s Search Liaison, said. He said this is coming within weeks, not as long a months.
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Other AI & SEO news
Here is other SEO news, less breaking but equally important.
Google’s Core Web Vitals INP issues email causing concern
Google Search Console sent out emails to site owners where their INP scores are not meeting the mark.
Search Central Live San Francisco 2023
Join the upcoming Search Central Live San Francisco – a conference for website owners, digital marketers, web developers, and SEO professionals hosted by the Google Search team!
Google Quality Rater Traffic In Analytics From Raterhub.com
Have you ever spotted a Google quality rater visiting your website? It is not as uncommon as you thought. You can spot it by searching your analytics from raterhub.com referral traffic.
Screaming Frog SEO Spider Update – Version 19.0
This is important for every tech SEO. “We’re delighted to announce Screaming Frog SEO Spider version 19.0, codenamed internally as ‘Peel’. This update contains a number of significant updates, new features and enhancements based upon user feedback and a little internal steer.”
The latest jobs in search marketing
Land your next job in SEO or PPC. These brands and agencies are hiring to fill open search marketing positions right now.
Recent SEO interviews
Don’t miss those interviews with outstanding SEO experts!
Top SEO Tips
And here are the Google SEO tips for you.
#1: John Mueller on creating fake personas
Google’s John Mueller clears the air about publishers who try to fool Google with fake personas and LinkedIn profiles. Google’s John Mueller expressed his thoughts in a series of tweets about SEOs who create fake personas for a review site, including false LinkedIn profiles. He said if they think nobody can tell that “you’re deluding yourselves.”
#2: Google on fixing Discovered Currently Not Indexed
Google’s John Mueller answered whether removing pages from a large site helps to solve the problem of pages that are discovered by Google but not crawled. John offered general insights on how to solve this issue.
#BetterSEOToday
This week I’m officially launching my new project – #BetterSEOToday – which is about helping you become a better SEO every day.
Picture this: Each day, I’ll be sharing ONE practical & actionable SEO or AI tip to supercharge your SEO game.
- All you need to do is follow me on Twitter & LinkedIn where I will be sharing those tips.
- Additionally, every Friday I will be sending my SEO newsletter subscribers the recap of SEO tips from past 7 days.
- I may also shoot a weekly video summarizing the tips, so make sure you’re subscribed to my SEO YouTube channel.
Videos to watch this week
And here are the videos you don’t want to miss this week.
Other articles & resources to read
And you need to allocate some time to read these articles from other SEOs. They are brilliant.
5 Google Analytics 4 ‘flaws’ that you can use to your advantage
Many marketers believe GA4 falls short in many areas. But these perceived issues are actually positive improvements.
By Alan K’necht.
I Secretly Worked As A Google Search Quality Rater (You Can Too)
But not only did they hire me as an official rater, but I also learned a lot about the job that would help with working more successfully as an SEO.
By Cyrus Shepard.
10 simple steps to analyze your brand SERP and build an effective digital strategy
Learn the key parts of a brand SERP and ways to guide Google to show the information you want your audience to see.
By Jason Barnard.
5 SEO tasks you can automate to save time and money
In this article, Manick shows you how SEO automation can save you time and money. But, keep in mind that these automations don’t do the job for you—they simply augment your capabilities.
By Manick Bahn.
Bard is now connected to Google Lens. What can it do?
As of July 13, we can now use Images within Bard. It then integrates with Google Lens.
By Marie Haynes.
Topic Clusters for SEO: What They Are & How to Create Them
Topic clusters (or content clusters) are groups of webpages used to establish authority around a particular subject, particularly in the eyes of search engines.
By Rachel Handley.
ChatGPT SEO prompts: Do emulators dream of electric sheep?
A very deep dive into how ChatGPT works and how it cannot help you with SEO. A must-read!
By Shaun Anderson.
GA4 for SEOs: 4 GA4 Explorations all SEOs Need
Previously a 360-only feature, explorations became a feature for all GA4 users. After undergoing a recent facelift, explorations are cleaner, easier to use, and much more user-friendly. In today’s blog post, we’re going to be talking about four explorations all SEOs need for their GA4 accounts.
By Jake Peterson.
How to Choose the Next Location for Your Business Using Local SEO
As local SEOs, our conversations often revolve around various strategies on how to get the best possible results for our work, but one crucial initial step oftentimes seems to be overlooked. This is step one, the starting point that could significantly influence the success of countless businesses.
By Andy Simpson.
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