Google Bard vs. the New Bing
Tom compares Google Bard and the New Bing, and shares his first impressions of both AI integrations.
Search Engines
Understanding how search engines work, Google in particular, is important when working in SEO. The basics of crawling and indexing are amazingly useful to understand if you want to rank your own content.
Additionally, Google updates its algorithm several times a year. Understanding the more significant updates, and how they work, can help you to craft content and SEO strategies that are up-to-date.
We've written extensively about how search engines work, and included some of the top resources here. You can also browse the latest posts on search engines from the Moz blog below.
How Search Engines Work : New to SEO? Start with the basics of how search engines operate with our free beginner's guide.
Search Engine Ranking and Visibility : Learn the fundamentals of how search engines rank content on search engine result pages.
Google Algorithm Update History : A complete history of Google algorithm updates since 2000. This includes important links and references for understanding how Google works.
How Search Engines Value Links : Search engines work off a number of signals, but two of the most important are content and links. In this video, Rand Fishkin explains the basics of link evaluation.
MozCast : Is Google updating it's algorithm as we speak? MozCast is the Google algorithm weather report, so you can see how much Google results are changing each day.
Most Recent Articles on Search Engines
Helping Google Navigate Your Site More Efficiently — Whiteboard Friday
This week, Shawn talks you through the ways your site structure, your sitemaps, and Google Search Console work together to help Google crawl your site, and what you can do to approve Googlebot’s efficiency.
Alternative Search Engines: Why They Matter and How to Rank on Them
While Google still holds more than 80% of the market share, ignoring search engines such as Bing, Yahoo, and DuckDuckGo can make you lose out on relevant traffic. So don’t limit yourself to Google’s algorithm as you plan the next year’s SEO strategy.
SEO Recap: ChatGPT
We’re back with another SEO recap with Tom Capper! As you’ve probably noticed, ChatGPT has taken the search world by storm. But does GPT-3 mean the end of SEO as we know it, or are there ways to incorporate the AI model into our daily work?
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An Apple Search Engine? – Whiteboard Friday
In today's Whiteboard Friday, Tom digs into his research on Apple’s moves in search, specifically their recent launch of what he believes is a search engine, how it works, and how they could possibly hope to compete with Google in the future.
ChatGPT Won’t Replace Google Search (Yet)
By now, you’ve probably seen dozens of examples of ChatGPT, using the GPT (Generative Pre-training Transformer) deep learning system. The current models are genuinely impressive, so what does all of this have to do with Google Search and our jobs as search marketers?
What Is a Core Update? – Whiteboard Friday
Recorded at SearchLove London in October — in the wake of three Google updates — Tom presents a different take on core updates in this Whiteboard Friday.
The Ultimate Guide for Taking Full Control of Your Google Business Profile and NMX
Ready for a deep dive into the 40+ features found on Google Business Profiles and the New Merchant Experience? This article will take you through the most common features of these listings, explain what you can and can’t control on them, and teach you how to manage controllable features in the NMX. Here we go!
After Google: Should SEOs Jump Ship?
This post is not about the health of Google search as a product, or about the implications of improving AI products for your SEO strategy right now. (Although, I know of at least one post for this blog being written on that topic!) Instead, this post is about which of these threats, if any, actually stand a chance of unseating Google’s dominance.
SEO Recap: PageRank
Have you ever wondered how Moz employees learn internally? Well, here’s your chance to get a sneak peek into never seen before, internal webinar footage with Tom Capper! Today’s topic: PageRank.
How to Optimize Existing Content for Featured Snippets — Whiteboard Friday
In today’s episode, Crystal discusses how featured snippets show up in several different parts of the SERP, giving you lots of good value for organic reach, and how to claim those opportunities for your existing content.
2022 YouTube and Video SERP Result Changes
In mid-October, we noticed a drop in this type of video result, and that drop became dramatic by late-October. Did Google remove these video results or was our system broken? As it turns out, neither — video results have split into at least three distinct types (depending on how you count).
Local Pack Header Specificity Vanishes while Local Packs Downtrend
In July of this year, Moz published a report analyzing an element of Google’s local results we termed “local pack headers”. About a month after publication, members of the local SEO community began noticing that the extraordinary diversity of headings we had captured had suddenly diminished. Today, Miriam presents a quick follow-up to the manual portion of our earlier study in an effort to quantify and illustrate this abrupt alteration.
3 Important Google Updates to Understand — Whiteboard Friday
With recent shake-ups to the Google algorithm, Lily Ray joins us for this week’s episode to walk you through three of the most important search engine updates that can affect your SEO strategies.