Is This Google’s Helpful Content Algorithm?
Google published a groundbreaking research paper about identifying page quality with AI. The details of the algorithm seem remarkably similar to what the helpful content algorithm is known to do.…
URL Redirects For SEO: A Technical Guide
Redirects for SEO should be used correctly because they impact how websites are crawled and indexed by Google. While most people think of redirects as an internet detour sign, much…
How The ChatGPT Watermark Works And Why It Could Be Defeated
OpenAI’s ChatGPT introduced a way to automatically create content but plans to introduce a watermarking feature to make it easy to detect are making some people nervous. This is how…
Thanks, 2022 | Google Search Central Blog | Google Developers
Friday, December 30, 2022 You know what time it is: year in a review. With only a few days left of 2022 and with all the quiet in the office,…
Let’s Talk About Old Content And Redirect Chains
While looking through some questions submitted to SEJ after a recent webinar, two of them stuck out to me as related and similar. That means you’re in for a treat,…
10 Biggest & Best PPC Features Of The Year
Can you believe the end of the year is already upon us? With so many changes to the advertising ecosystem, it’s easy for time to fly by. The year 2022…
A Guide to Google’s Knowledge Graph Search API for SEO
As a search engine optimization (SEO) professional, you know that Google has a vast search index with information on just about anything and everything. One of the powerful features of…
Instagram Marketing: An In-Depth Gui
Does your brand have a presence on Instagram? It should. The social media site has more than 2 billion monthly users. That’s billion, with a “b.” And 90% of those…
Chrome Canary Features For Technical SEO
Building for the web is harder than ever. Better mobile technologies and web standards roll out every day. So, how are websites keeping up? Unlimited data plans are a luxury.…
Everything You Need To Know About The X-Robots-Tag HTTP Header
Search engine optimization, in its most basic sense, relies upon one thing above all others: Search engine spiders crawling and indexing your site. But nearly every website is going to…
How To Get Google To Index Your Site Quickly
If there is one thing in the world of SEO that every SEO professional wants to see, it’s the ability for Google to crawl and index their site quickly. Indexing…
11 Ways To Reduce Bounce Rates and Boost Your Conversations
When people visit your website, they’re not just looking for information – they’re looking to make a decision. They want to learn about your product or service, but they also…
How SEO Is Helping Archaeologists Debunk Conspiracy Theories
The opinions expressed within this story are solely the author’s and do not reflect the opinions and beliefs of Search Engine Journal or its affiliates. You may have heard about…
6 Best Content Calendar Templates To Use In 2023
Chances are, as a content creator, you’ve experienced creating a post spontaneously, without any planning. While it may work for some, it’s not ideal. Why? To quote the iconic motivational…
They’re Simply the Best: The Top 25 Moz Blogs of 2022
We published 156 posts on the Moz Blog this year, and as is tradition, it’s time to look back at the most popular ones! You’ll find blogs on new findings…
Best SEO Courses Online – Free & Paid Options
Earning a degree is a good thing for some professions. After all, you wouldn’t want a doctor who learned his trade via YouTube videos taking out your appendix, would you?…
5 Content Marketing Techniques To Grow a New Business
Part of starting a new business is getting its name to potential customers through various marketing channels. Content marketing is one of those channels, and it’s an ideal way to…
WordPress Anti-Spam Plugin Vulnerability Affects Up To 60,000+ Sites
A WordPress anti-spam plugin with over 60,000 installations patched a PHP Object injection vulnerability that arose from improper sanitization of inputs, subsequently allowing base64 encoded user input. Unauthenticated PHP Object…
What Is It & How Can You Use It?
OpenAI introduced a long-form question-answering AI called ChatGPT that answers complex questions conversationally. It’s a revolutionary technology because it’s trained to learn what humans mean when they ask a question.…
How To Target Multiple Cities Without Hurting Your SEO
Can you imagine the hassle of finding an electrician if every Google search returned global SEO results? How many pages of search results would you have to comb through to…
Social Media Career Path: How To Get Started
The social media landscape has changed drastically since we started using Facebook in the mid-2000s. Nowadays, companies rely heavily on social media platforms to connect with their customers and build…
Why SEO Pros Need To Master Prompts: The ChatGPT Revolution
Content generation has grown exponentially in recent years, and prompts have become a must-have tool for SEO professionals. With these simple instructions, it’s possible to generate articles, images, videos, and…
The Best of Whiteboard Friday 2022
We had an amazing year of Whiteboard Friday episodes, ranging in topics from link building to content engines to even, basketball? In case you missed them, here are the top…
Snapchat Marketing: An In-Depth Guide
Social media marketing is all about location. If your target audience is on a platform, then you should be too. And if you’re going after a younger demographic that means…
What is the Risk of Focusing on Competitors SEO Strategies?
Today’s Ask An SEO question comes from Peter, who asks: “What’s the risk of focusing on what competitors are doing, as opposed to charting your own path? If all competitors…
What Is Header Bidding?
The header bidding technology started to develop in 2015, and has since helped many publishers to grow their revenue by as much as 40% (and even, in some cases, to…
5 Great Value Proposition Examples & Why They Work
“Find a need and fill it.” This quote is widely attributed to Henry J. Kaiser, the son of German immigrants who became the millionaire head of a vast industrial empire.…
Twitter Adds Public View Counts To Tweets
Elon Musk announced today that Twitter will now display view counts on tweets, giving users more insight into the reach of other users’ content. Twitter’s tweet view count, otherwise known…
Twitter Enhances Search Results For Cashtags
Twitter is upgrading the user experience for cashtags, showing pricing graphs when users click on the symbol of a major stock, ETF, or cryptocurrency. Adding a dollar sign in front…
Mastodon Reaches 2.5 Million Users, Founder Holds Reddit AMA
Since Elon Musk acquired Twitter, Mastodon, a decentralized and open-source social media platform, has grown its user base from 300K to 2.5M monthly active users. Eugen Rochko, Founder of Mastodon,…