Google September 2023 Helpful Content Completed Rolling Out - Targeting SEO-First Content

Daily Search Forum Recap: September 29, 2023

Sep 29, 2023 • 4:00 pm | (0) by Barry Schwartz

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.

Google launched a new user agent to let you block your content from Bard or other AI Google projects...

Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google September Helpful Content Update Done, SGE Updates, Links Not A Top Ranking Factor, Bing Hiding Ads & Google’s 25th Birthday

Sep 29, 2023 • 8:01 am | (0) by Barry Schwartz

This week in search, Google finished rolling out the September 2023 helpful content update, which seemed to target SEO-first, search engine-first content in a big way. Google won’t be rolling back that update, if you were wondering...

Google-Extended Is The New Google Crawler To Block Bard Or Google AI

Sep 29, 2023 • 7:51 am | (0) by Barry Schwartz

Google has announced a new Googlebot, a new Google crawler, named Google-Extended that you can use to control if your content can help improve Bard and Vertex AI generative APIs or future Google AI products. So if you want to disallow Bard from using your content, you specify so in your robots.txt with the user agent Google-Extended.

Google Local Chat With A Live Agent Rolling Out?

Sep 29, 2023 • 7:41 am | (0) by Barry Schwartz

In May we reported Google was testing a "chat with a live agent" button for some local panels within Google Search. Well, that feature might be rolling out more fully now.

Google Rolls Out Updates To The Search Generative Experience Including Algorithm Improvements

Sep 29, 2023 • 7:31 am | (0) by Barry Schwartz

Google has rolled out some updates to the Search Generative Experience (SGE) the company announced on its blog. One update is that SGE should now respond with higher-quality, more accurate responses, the second update is to write responses on sensitive topics based on Google's quality and safety principles. Google also released the about this result feature for AI SGE responses.