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Ishaan Singh Shekhawat
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Learning and Sharing about all things SEO | Computer Engineer
I wasn't expecting these outstanding results when changing my hosting server -
"A greater number of anchor text variations within internal links was significantly correlated with higher rankings."
"Sites with smaller external link profiles may wish to limit the number of navigational links in preference of in-body text links. The reason is that if Google does indeed tend to prefer the first links on the page—and these are navigational—this limits the number of anchor text variations you can send to any page."
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Claude+ got it right that it's redundant to add both, but it still got the answer WRONG!
"The page will still only be noindexed once, whether it's via robots.txt or the meta tag."
Only GPT-4's answer was RIGHT, and it felt like it completely understood what it was talking about.
Plus, I really liked that it gave the answer in the first sentence itself and didn't talk gibberish before getting to it.
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Does the page gets noindexed when you simultaneously block it from robots.txt and noindex it through the meta tag?
I asked this popular SEO question from these AI Chatbots - ChatGPT, Claude/Claude+ (backed by Google), and GPT-4.
And only one of them got it right:
Both ChatGPT and Claude got it completely wrong.
ChatGPT: "the page may still be crawled but not indexed"
Claude: "by doing both you're essentially just being doubly sure the page is not indexed."
Just finished the first chapter of the Product-Led SEO book by Eli Schwartz.
Lots of insights here!
The most important thing to note from Microsoft's event today is that websites will be used as sources for AI-generated answers.
Not just on the search results page but also on the chat interface (Image Credits: The Verge) -
So Google has updated the classifier again for deciding upon unhelpful content with its new rollout on Dec 5.
It's important to note that sites previously impacted by its first rollout that have improved their content now have a chance to be reclassified as publishing helpful content again through this rollout.
And here is their official documentation if anyone wants to read it: https://developers.google.com/search/updates/helpful-content-update
