Remember, there are site-level quality algorithms at play here. It's not a url versus url situation really. The Verge is trusted by Google, so a new article about the best printers could quickly rank. If they continued to do this, and a lot, then we could see some bigger changes…

Most don't need to worry about crawl budget, but if you have a large-scale and complex site, this is important to understand. Crawl budget is allocated by hostname (so subdomain).

YouTube important for you (and Shorts)? -> Why do I get a couple hundred/thousand views on my Short only for it to drop down to nothing a few hours/days later?

Product Lead for Shorts: 'For the Shorts feed, you have to start playing the actual video (views) and see if someone…

Hungry for ecommerce data? Sunday morning is a great time to read my latest post about bulk exporting Merchant Listings data from Google Search Console using Analytics Edge. Following my tutorial, you can go beyond the 1K row limit in the GSC UI, export all of your Merchant…

Bye-bye side panel. Now you must pin menus. This is live for me now -> Google has removed the specific side panel button and opted to add shortcuts in the top bar to streamline how you interact with bookmarks, reading mode, history, and more chromeunboxed.com/chrome-123-sid…

In between text posts and live chat rooms (that sort of died out). Sounds like the app is buggy, but interesting. Would you like a feed of audio recordings? -> Airchat, Naval Ravikant's social media app built around audio recordings, which the app transcribes, relaunches on iOS…

Training AI on other AI images. Yep, it's complicated -> Adobe used images created by tools like Midjourney and uploaded to its stock marketplace by users, to train Firefly; Adobe says ~5% of images were AI-generated

'The AI images were fed into Firefly training via Adobe's…

Wonder why Google launched a spam update recently and issued thousands of manual actions for pure spam? -> A case study of the creation of an AI-powered local “news” website, directed to produce partisan stories on a US Senate race; a Fiverr developer created it for $80

'The…

Microsoft starts testing ads (app promotions) inside the Start menu on Windows 11 in the Insider builds in the US, and says the app promotions can be disabled in Settings

'Building on top of recent improvements like grouping recently installed apps and showing your frequently…

Good Morning Google Land! This is the April 13 edition of 'Core Update Notes'. Well, I said we could be in for an interesting end to this update, and I'm seeing more volatility this morning. The weather tools are spiking today and I am seeing a lot of volatility with some sites…

'LinkedIn needs a spark, with revenue growth hovering below 10% since 2022' -> Last week, LinkedIn began letting advertisers pay to amplify posts from some users through Thought Leader ads, as it enters the market of influencer marketing

'By opening up Thought Leader ads,…

Remember Facebook Graph Search and how many thought that was the start of FB's search engine? :) -> Meta is testing an AI-powered search bar in Instagram to let users chat with Meta AI and discover content techcrunch.com/2024/04/12/met…

Google tests removing links to CA news sites to measure the impact of the California Journalism Preservation Act and pauses investments in the CA news ecosystem (Jaffer Zaidi / The Keyword)

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