Daily Search Forum Recap: April 10, 2025
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Aleyda Solis’ SEOFOMO published a survey of ecommerce owners and SEOs that indicates a wide range of uses of AI, reflecting popular SEO tactics and novel ways to increase productivity, but also reveals that a significant number of the respondents have yet to fully adopt the technology because they are still figuring out how it…
The question today comes from Raoof, who asks: “I completely lost my website due to financial disputes with the hosting company. I have no backup and the only thing I have left is a domain. I am currently preparing a new website with the previous content and theme. Can I use the previous domain or…
Google’s Gary Illyes answered questions during the recent Search Central Live Deep Dive in Asia about whether or not they use the new Multi‑Vector Retrieval via Fixed‑Dimensional Encodings (MUVERA) retrieval method and also if they’re using Graph Foundation Models. MUVERA Google recently announced MUVERA in a blog post and a research paper: a method that…
Google just blog.google/products/search/google-search-ai-mode-update”>rolled out AI Mode to US users. I was testing if the clicks would show in Google Search Console, but they aren’t showing up. A post by Tom Critchlow on LinkedIn made me wonder how a click on a link in AI Mode would be recorded in analytics. The tl;dr is that clicks…
Implementing a 301 redirect in your blog/htaccess-file/”>.htaccess file (a text file for configuring aspects of websites hosted on Apache servers) is a useful way to permanently redirect one URL to another in a way that preserves ranking authority. Using .htaccess files to implement 301 redirects lets you execute complex patterns, like pattern-based redirects (redirects that…
What’s the Difference Between 301 and 302 Redirects? 301 and 302 redirects are HTTP status codes that send users from one URL to another—the difference is, a 301 signals to search engines and browsers that the move is permanent, while a 302 signals the move is temporary. Here’s a quick comparison of the 301 vs….