Gartner has predicted that search will drop 25% by 2026 due to the rise of Generative AI (gartner.com/en/newsroom/pr…). Roger Montti thinks otherwise (searchenginejournal.com/why-prediction…) and I agree with him. Read his article to see why.

OpenAI's instant-use ChatGPT organizes the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. 🔥

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🔥A 27-year SEO expert, who also worked at Bing for almost 10 years, shares advice on how to become a better SEO

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ICYMI: Let’s Be Real: Reddit In The SERPs Lacks Credibility. via Roger Montti: searchenginejournal.com/lets-be-real-r…

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11 Elementor Addon Plugins, with 15 total vulnerabilities, affect up to 3 million WordPress websites. This is crazy. I've never seen anything like this before. SearchEngineJournal®

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Negative feedback on Google's decision to dilute the SERPs with Reddit posts is well founded. The lack of experience and expertise inherent in many Reddit answers present a negative user experience in Google's search results. SearchEngineJournal® Please RT 🙏

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I was contacted about AI spam sites ranking for recipes, local travel, comparisons, and health topics. A private FB group had a raging discussion about it. I examined one to show how it probably beat Google's March 24 spam update. SearchEngineJournal®

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Sam Altman opens up what an AI Search Engine would look like: Building another Google is not what he has in mind.

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𝟳 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗧𝗼 𝗕𝗲 𝗦𝗸𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗼𝗳 𝟮𝟱% 𝗦𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗗𝗿𝗼𝗽 𝗯𝘆 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲
Why prediction that AI chatbots will cause a 25% drop in search volume by 2026 has zero chance of happening

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Finally got around to reading that prediction that AI chatbots will cause a 25% drop in search volume by 2026 and I have to say... In my opinion, facts that went unconsidered raise questions about the likelihood of that actually happening. 🧐
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Nice video of the final #Pubcon event! Thanks for posting this!!! 😸

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Mordy Oberstein *Marred by Marmite” Wix I already know about yours! 🤩

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗢𝗳 𝗦𝗘𝗢: 𝗗𝗠𝗢𝗭 𝟮𝟬𝟬𝟯
A DMOZ listing was said to help sites rank, so it was a BIG deal. Because DMOZ listed sites in alpha-numerical order, people optimized their listing with low-quality domain names that started with numbers and the letter A. 🤣

𝗠𝗮𝗷𝗼𝗿 𝗔𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁: 𝗚𝗼𝗼𝗴𝗹𝗲 𝗚𝗲𝗺𝗺𝗮 𝗔𝗜
Google released an Open Source AI created with Gemini technology.
👉 Optimized for laptop/desktop/cloud
👉 Democratizes access to AI
👉 Analyze & Generate Content

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Google adds support for Product variant schema markup!

Something I wrote about in an article on Search Engine Journal - 2 months ago - so you could prepare yourself.
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Now let the rat races begin!
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WordPress User Survey Published 😺📢
👉 55% of WordPress survey respondents did not agree that WordPress meets their needs
👉 Site editing experience cited as a leading source of frustration
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Pubcon Pro Las Vegas is happening March 4 - 6. Get your tickets by Feb. 16 to save $500. And, while we won't have a booth this year, you can find our very own Roger Montti on stage, and Jennifer McDonald plus one of our editors (they're still duking it out to see who!)…

𝗚𝗼𝗼𝗴𝗹𝗲 𝗚𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗶 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗸

👉 This is probably what caused that Google Gemini Chat Leak.

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