Daily Search Forum Recap: February 13, 2023 - Search Engine Roundtable

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.

Publishers, as expected, are super concerned over the new AI features in Google and Bing, leading to fewer clicks to their content. Google updated its policy circumvention web search spam policy. Google reorganized a bunch of the sitemaps SEO documentation. Google said CDN bot interstitials are really not search engine friendly. And six-plus years, Google is still migrating sites to mobile-first indexing, but we may be almost done. Finally, I have another vlog for you.

Search Engine Roundtable Stories:

• Big Publishers Concerned With AI Powered Search From Google & Bing
  It is somewhat satisfying to see non-SEOs dig deeper into how search is changing at Google and Bing and to hear the concerns they have about these changes. We covered your concerns as SEOs and publishers a week ago but now the big publishers are voicing their concerns around AI-search and what it means for publishers.
• Google Simplifies Policy Circumvention Spam Policy
  Last November Google introduced a new catchall search spam policy named policy circumvention. That spam policy was listed to be able to take action on sites that bypass the other Google spam policies through other means.
• Google Reorganizes Sitemaps Documentation
  I believe Google changed the sitemaps-related search developer documentation last week. I am not sure if any of the content...

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