19th December 2024 / goodsignals.com SEO Trivia: What is the most searched-for Christmas film? Answer. Last night, just six days after it began, Google's December 2024 Core Update completed its rollout! Short but impactful, this update caused quite a stir, with significant surges and notable drops in rankings, and even some reversals of changes made during November's core update. While it’s tough news for sites that dropped after recent gains, it’s great for those that rebounded after earlier...
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12th December 2024 / goodsignals.com SEO Trivia: Just one week after completing the last core update, did Google roll out another one? It’s true! Just one week after the Google November Core Update finished rolling out, Google has launched the December 2024 Core Update. This update is expected to wrap up in about two weeks -around Christmas Day.For us, there’s never been a more exciting time to work in SEO and web search. However, if SEO is just one of the many things you’re juggling and the...
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Every Wednesday / 18th September 2024 / goodsignals.com Weekly Trivia: What's the TV show everyone in the UK is Googling right now? Happy Cheeseburger Day 🍔! Let's all head to McDonald's for dinner today - they're offering double cheeseburgers for just 50 cents. Can't resist a delicious deal like that!The big news recently is that OpenAI has introduced the o1 model. Trained to perform complex reasoning, the new AI model can answer a wide range of queries, including coding, medical diagnosis,...
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Every Wednesday / 11th September 2024 / goodsignals.com Weekly Trivia: The biggest winner of the August Core Update in the UK is reddit.com. True or false? Happy Hot Cross Bun Day! Wait... Wasn't Easter back in March?Welcome to another week packed with fresh updates! All eyes are on Apple Intelligence after its big Monday reveal. Next month, we can expect AI-assisted text rewrites, a revamped Siri, transcription, and enhanced image search. Plus, it’ll come integrated with ChatGPT to handle...
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Every Wednesday / 4th August 2024 / goodsignals.com Weekly Trivia: What's the most searched men's haircut on Google? Happy Eat an Extra Dessert Day! I'm craving a banana split.The August 2024 Google Core Update is finally complete after 19 days of waiting, and the results are shaking up SERPs across the web. An early survey by Barry Schwart shows that around 44% of sites are hit by the update, while 27% are seeing improvements and the rest (29%) are not impacted. To see the full results, it...
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Every Wednesday / 28th August 2024 / goodsignals.com Weekly Trivia: Who is the top trending person on Google in the UK this month? Happy Bow Tie Day! A symbol of classic elegance and confidence, do you know the bow tie originated from 17th-century Croatian soldiers?Now entering the third week of the Google Core Update, how's your site doing? While we are still waiting to see the full effects, many sites - including Housefresh - have seen significant traffic surges. We are likely to see AI...
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Every Wednesday / 21st August 2024 / goodsignals.com Weekly Trivia: How many people are willing to wait for a website to load more than 10 seconds? Happy Spumoni Day! In case you didn't know, spumoni is a moulded Italian dessert layered with chocolate, cherry and pistachio flavours - perfect for summer days.As mentioned in our last newsletter, a Google core update is rolling out. It's still too early to see the results, but some sites hit by the September 2023 helpful content update are...
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Special Edition / 15th August 2024 / goodsignals.com It’s official! Google’s second core algorithm update of 2024 is rolling out right now and will take about a month to finish. We’ve been expecting one ever since reading Danny Sullivan’s comment on Search Engine Roundtable that “I (Danny) would expect we’ll see one (a core update) in the coming weeks.”For us, there’s never been a more exciting time to work in SEO and web search. But if SEO is just one of many things you’re juggling, and the...
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Every Wednesday / 14th August 2024 / goodsignals.com Weekly Trivia: What is the most frequently linked website in AI Overviews? Happy World Lizard Day! Fun fact: do you know Komodo dragons are one of the few reptiles that can give "virgin births"?Before diving into our top picks, here are some other updates from this week: Google's Gemini Live AI assistant app has begun rolling out to advanced subscribers on Android and will soon expand to iOS devices; You can expect a "Deep Research" feature...
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