Mastodon shows declined growth, despite concerns with Twitter
Mastodon was onboarding users fast as Elon Musk took over Twitter, but now Mastodon's monthly active users are declining.
Barry Schwartz a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics. Barry can be followed on Twitter here.
Mastodon was onboarding users fast as Elon Musk took over Twitter, but now Mastodon's monthly active users are declining.
Barry Schwartz | Feb 7, 2023 at 11:13 am ETYour Google podcast manager stats will show a drop in clicks and impressions.
Barry Schwartz | Feb 7, 2023 at 8:12 am ETGoogle promises to make their experimental conversational AI service, powered by LaMDA, available more widely in the coming weeks.
Barry Schwartz | Feb 6, 2023 at 2:00 pm ETAfter a couple years of testing, Microsoft has now stopped using the old BingBot user agent.
Barry Schwartz | Feb 3, 2023 at 12:27 pm ETWe know Microsoft Bing is working towards integrating ChatGPT into its search interface.
Barry Schwartz | Feb 3, 2023 at 7:59 am ETIn the Google Q4 earnings call, Sundar Pichai confirmed the company's plans to deliver ChatGPT like features.
Barry Schwartz | Feb 2, 2023 at 8:08 pm ETAs reported earlier, we are now learning more about Microsoft's plans to incorporate ChatGPT into Bing Search.
Barry Schwartz | Feb 1, 2023 at 4:19 pm ETGoogle is working on restoring the reviews over the next few weeks.
Barry Schwartz | Feb 1, 2023 at 3:13 pm ETMicrosoft also released some interesting stats on lastmod dates in XML sitemap files.
Barry Schwartz | Feb 1, 2023 at 12:30 pm ETGoogle has upgraded the video indexing report to help your videos perform better in search.
Barry Schwartz | Feb 1, 2023 at 11:36 am ETYahoo has been dropping hints over the past couple weeks about its return to competing in the search space.
Barry Schwartz | Jan 30, 2023 at 6:00 am ETUS-based dealerships can now add all their inventory to their local business profile in Google.
Barry Schwartz | Jan 26, 2023 at 7:25 am ETThe title and link elements are most important for RSS feed follow in Discover and Google parses img elements within other elements.
Barry Schwartz | Jan 24, 2023 at 8:41 am ETToday, Yoast SEO is rolling out a large update that revamps the user interface.
Barry Schwartz | Jan 24, 2023 at 5:48 am ETRed Ventures' use of AI to write cheap content that ranks well in search sure sounds like the old content farms Google Panda wiped out.
Barry Schwartz | Jan 20, 2023 at 12:52 pm ETThe total number of errors should not change, this is just a reclassification of those errors.
Barry Schwartz | Jan 19, 2023 at 2:00 pm ETThis report no longer requires structured data and if Google finds products in your content, it may show in this report starting January 6th going forward.
Barry Schwartz | Jan 19, 2023 at 6:56 am ETThe update started on December 5th and completed 38 days later on January 12th.
Barry Schwartz | Jan 12, 2023 at 2:19 pm ETThat's a wrap, the second Google algorithm update this month is done rolling out.
Barry Schwartz | Jan 12, 2023 at 2:18 pm ETIn short, don't produce content that is written just for search ranking.
Barry Schwartz | Jan 12, 2023 at 9:57 am ET