Kenichi Suzuki

@suzukik
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SEO Blogger and Google Product Expert
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@rustybrick Both the updates are continuing to rollout. Normally these types of updates would have concluded by now, but rollouts can slow or pause when we get into the holiday periods.
@zigojacko @pedro @johnmu We regularly show support of SEO in content meant for the general public, such as when we announced the helpful content system. https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2022/08/helpful-content-update
What creators should know about Google's August 2022 helpful content update  |  Google Search Central Blog  |  Google Developers

Google Developers

The story of Googlebot and the cats ...

#seo #googlebot #cats #comic #japanese

Did you ever buy links because a certain googler who we'll not name, but his name starts with a "G" and ends with "ary", said at a conference you should buy links?
yes
12.2%
no
24.4%
Grumpary is not a real name
63.4%
Poll ended at .
Google brings continuous scroll to desktop search results

This is now rolling out for English / U.S. search results.

Search Engine Land
Do you include noindexed and 404/410 pages in your sitemaps?
yes
5.7%
no
78.4%
I do whatever I like with my sitemaps
15.9%
Poll ended at .

After ingesting Stack Overflow content, ChatGPT is now banned on Stack Overflow.

https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/421831/temporary-policy-chatgpt-is-banned

Interesting to see where this will head. (I don't know what exactly is used to run ChatGPT, my assumption is that it includes public SO content.)

#ai #nlg #gpt #chatgpt #gpt3

Temporary policy: ChatGPT is banned

Moderator Note: This question being featured is still the best tool we have to announce this policy sitewide. However, people have been using this for protracted debate and discussion. As such, this

Meta Stack Overflow

Interested in Crawl Budget? We know that 404s/410s don't waste crawl budget, but what about 400s (Bad Request)? Nothing was documented, so I pinged Google's @johnmu and @lizzi. And now we have a new myth/fact in the crawl budget doc! 4XX, other than 429s, don't impact crawl budget. Thanks Lizzi and John!

BTW, the noindex myth/fact is also new. Lizzi added that one at the same time. Great that Google is clarifying these things with SEOs and site owners! Can be confusing for sure.

#google #seo

Googlebot crawls from US based IP addresses. Keep that in mind when you're doing geo redirects/blocking.
Also, if you happen to be working for a CDN or a network solutions company like f5, have you seen this?
https://developers.google.com/static/search/apis/ipranges/googlebot.json
Google's @johnmu said using HTTP/3 is unlikely to help with your SEO / rankings or your core web vital scores https://www.seroundtable.com/google-http-3-seo-34492.html
Google: HTTP/3 Likely Won't Help Your SEO

Google's John Mueller said on the last Google office hours that using HTTP/3 for your server will likely not have any impact on your SEO or rankings in Google Search. He said it also would not likely

Search Engine Roundtable