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Twitter Will Share Ad Revenue With Twitter Blue Verified Creators
Written by Kristi Hines - Elon Musk, owner and CEO of Twitter, announced that starting today, Twitter will share ad revenue with creators. The new policy applies only to ads [...]
How to Block ChatGPT From Using Your Website Content
Written by Roger Montti - There is concern about the lack of an easy way to opt-out of having ones content used to train large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT. [...]
10 Tools You Can Use For SEO Competitive Analysis
Written by Roger Montti - A successful search engine optimization strategy includes competitive analysis. The tools available today offer incredible value at generally reasonable fees. They help users accomplish more [...]
Wayback Machine: 5 Alternatives To Try
Written by Ben Steele - Much of the web is ephemeral. Web pages exist until they don’t. The content on them exists until it’s updated – and then it’s gone. [...]
Duda Announces WooRank Integration
Written by Roger Montti - Duda announced the integration of WooRank SEO auditing and website optimization tool, providing agencies that build sites on the platform an easy way to create [...]
12 Great Link Building Tools That Are Essential To Your Success
Written by Kevin Rowe - Link Research Prospecting And Outreach Reporting AI-Powered Tools 1. Majestic Excellent for identifying the types of domains you should generate links from. 3. Pitchbox Combines [...]
18 Online Review Statistics Every Marketer Should Know
Written by Jon Clark - Online reviews are an unavoidable part of doing business in today’s digital age. Every marketer worth their salt knows that online reputation is everything. Whether [...]
Inside SEJ’s Four-Day Work Week Trial
Written by Ben Steele - In September, Search Engine Journal staff voted to approve a trial run of a four-day work week program! We’re running the program in partnership with [...]
Google Answers How Long It Takes To Recover From Algorithmic Penalty
Written by Roger Montti - In a recent Google SEO office-hours Google answered the question as to how long it takes to recover from an algorithmic penalty that arose from [...]
How To Create B2B Google Ad Campaigns That Convert
Written by Adriana Stein - In a world of multi-channel marketing for B2B, narrowing down a specific space where your leads are generated takes time. Many B2B marketers turn to [...]
The 30 Most-Subscribed YouTube Individuals
Written by Shelley Walsh - MrBeast has just overtaken PewDiePie as the most-subscribed YouTube individual. This is the first time in 10 years there’s been a change at the top [...]
Expert Social Media Marketing Predictions For 2023
Written by Bea Canuel - Social media usage is steadily growing, and we don’t see it slowing down anytime soon. In 2021, over 4.26 billion people used social media worldwide. [...]
Is This Google’s Helpful Content Algorithm?
Written by Roger Montti - 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 [...]
How The ChatGPT Watermark Works And Why It Could Be Defeated
Written by Roger Montti - 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 [...]
URL Redirects For SEO: A Technical Guide
Written by Vahan Petrosyan - 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 [...]
Let’s Talk About Old Content And Redirect Chains
Written by Ryan Jones - 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 [...]
Chrome Canary Features For Technical SEO
Written by Umair Malik - 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 [...]
Instagram Marketing: An In-Depth Gui
Written by Brian Frederick - 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 [...]
How SEO Is Helping Archaeologists Debunk Conspiracy Theories
Written by Ben Steele - 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. [...]
How To Get Google To Index Your Site Quickly
Written by Brian Harnish - 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 [...]
WordPress Anti-Spam Plugin Vulnerability Affects Up To 60,000+ Sites
Written by Roger Montti - 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 [...]
Best SEO Courses Online – Free & Paid Options
Written by Loren Baker - 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 [...]
6 Best Content Calendar Templates To Use In 2023
Written by Donna Almonte - 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? [...]
What Is It & How Can You Use It?
Written by Roger Montti - 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 [...]