Pop quiz! How much do you know about news SEO?
Pop quiz! How much do you know about news SEO?
This week: A quiz! Let's start 2024 off by testing your SEO knowledge in a fun, not-so-serious way.
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Hello, and welcome back. Jessie and Shelby here, with the very first issue of 2024! We hope your holidays were merry and bright. Jessie bought curtains — that’s the big accomplishment — after almost two years in this apartment. Meanwhile, Shelby already booked two trips for 2024. Staying in one place? Not for these gals.
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This week: We wanted to start 2024 off by testing the knowledge of our readers in a fun, not-so-serious way. And what’s more fun than a pop quiz?!
We’ve compiled a list of 12 questions on news SEO and search in general, with varying degrees of difficulty. Take the quiz to test your knowledge! And don’t cheat! Let’s get it.
Be sure to share your score in the Slack community or on Twitter (sorry not sorry Elon) by tagging us, @wtf_is_seo!
We have plenty in store for our community in 2024. Have topics you want us to explore this year? Let us know!
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THE JOBS LIST
Audience or SEO jobs in journalism. Want to include a position for promotion? Email us.
Postmedia is hiring a SEO Editor, Automotive (Remote, Canada).
theScore is hiring a Social Media Editor, Betting (Hybrid, Toronto).
The Athletic is hiring a Social Media Associate (Remote, US/Can).
RECOMMENDED READING
Google news and updates:
💭 Google: The top 4 search trends in 2023 in Google Search.
🤖 Barry Schwartz: 2023’s Google algorithm updates in review.
👩💻 John Mueller: Do keyword domain names offer an advantage in Google Search? John answers your questions.
More news and updates
👩🍳 Mia Sato for The Verge: How Google perfected the web (with quotes from Jessie and Shelby!).
📈 SEMRush: The 2024 Google ranking factor study is released, analyzing over 300k results.
😰 Mordy Oberstein: There have been major spikes in anti-Semitic Google searches across the globe.
🧪 SEO Testing: Google Search Console's best features according to the experts at SEOTesting.
📰 Barry Schwartz compiled a list of requested features for GSC from SEOs on Twitter. (We humbly ask: Give us Top Stories reporting!!)
📹 Search Engine Roundtable: A look at YouTube's significant drop in Google News visibility.
🖥️ Search Engine Journal: Are homepages the most important pages for Google?
💸 The Information: OpenAI has offered some publishers as little as $1 million per year to license their content to train its large language models.
🔗 SEOTesting: A list of nine (9) of the best internal linking tools for 2024.
📉 Aleyda Solis: Cheat sheet on how to analyze ranking drops (video).
🔎 John Shehata on Twitter: Google Perspectives is growing on mobile SERPs.
🕵️ Daniel Cheung: How to assess the quality of any backlink (paid, earned, sponsored or otherwise) with a checklist.
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Written by Jessie Willms and Shelby Blackley