SEARCHENGINES
New Feature: Easily Find Question Ideas ❓

Today we are pleased to announce the release of a new feature called Questions. A simple name for a very powerful feature. 🚀
As you may already know, SERPed.net allows you to find keyword ideas with the help of Keyword Research tools, like our Ultimate Research tool for example.
Well, you can now find question ideas in addition to keyword ideas, to use as part of your SEO strategy… or a dedicated “People Also Ask” strategy.
The “People Also Ask” box in Google’s search results is indeed a great way to get extra exposure. As a reminder, this feature answers questions related to the user’s search query. Each answer that is provided by Google comes from a webpage, which could very well be yours.
Questions in SERPed.net
The Questions feature is available in Ultimate Research, which is located in the Keyword Research section.
To generate question ideas, open Ultimate Research and run a search.
Then on the results page, click on the “QUESTIONS” tab located here:
The system will then find question ideas from various sources, including but not limited to: Google, YouTube, Yahoo!, Bing and Quora. The search can take a minute or so, so please be patient.
Here are some results:
As you can see in the screenshot above, we generated various question ideas for the keyword “dog training”, including:
- How much does dog training cost?
- How to use dog training clicker?
- How much is dog training at Petco?
- How to use dog training collar?
- …among many others
Each question comes with several metrics including the search volume, search volume trend, cost per click, traffic value and pay-per-click competition. You can also see the source of each question.
If you want to export results in the form of a PDF, TXT or CSV file, simply click on the three dots at the top right and choose a format.
This a great way to find questions to target and include in your content, as well as find question ideas to be included in Google’s “People Also Ask” SERP feature.
Please note that generating question ideas does NOT cost any extra credits!
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Source: Julien Duc
SEARCHENGINES
Most SEOs Think Yahoo Won’t Be Able To Compete In Search

As you know, Yahoo is planning a come back to search with a new way of thinking about Yahoo Search. What that means, we don’t know yet, but we do know Yahoo is thinking hard about how they can compete. Greg Sterling ran a Twitter poll asking if Yahoo has a shot at it, and most say, nope – Yahoo Search is dead on arrival.
The poll on Twitter asked, “Yahoo is planning to “relaunch” search. Is there a chance to revive it?” It received a nice number of responses, 631 responses. The results were not too optimistic.
- 43.7% said nope, dead on arrival
- 26.6% said depends on the UI/UX
- 29.6% said yes, now is the time
Here is that poll:
Yahoo is planning to “relaunch” search. Is there a chance to revive it?
— Greg Sterling 🇺🇦 (@gsterling) January 30, 2023
Personally, I think Yahoo has a good shot at it, better than most other companies. But time will tell and I am very much looking forward to seeing what Yahoo Search comes out with.
Forum discussion at Twitter.
SEARCHENGINES
Google Clarifies JSON-LD, Microdata & RDFa Are All Supported For Structured Data

Google has clarified in its search developer documents that JSON-LD, Microdata and RDFa are all fully supported forms for structured data and Google Search. Google wrote, “all three supported formats are equally fine for Google, as long as they are valid and implemented properly per the feature’s documentation.”
The old paragraph in the documentation read:
Google Search supports structured data in the following formats, unless documented otherwise:
The new paragraph in the documentation now reads:
Google Search supports structured data in the following formats, unless documented otherwise. In general, we recommend using a format that’s easiest for you to implement and maintain (in most cases, that’s JSON-LD); all 3 formats are equally fine for Google, as long as the markup is valid and properly implemented per the feature’s documentation.
This was updated because Google’s Ryan Levering spotted the embedded tweet below, that shows there is confusion on which Google may or may not prefer. Ryan said, “We might need to tweak the wording for Google’s main structured data page.”
He said that Google “primarily recommend JSON-LD because sites screw up Microdata a lot more than they do JSON-LD because it’s embedded. We don’t have some secret plans to remove support for Microdata. Particularly for schema that is either very annotation/text heavy or very simple (so you don’t need to do meta tag gymnastics), Microdata can make more sense.”
Interesting that they are using ProfilePage markup for individual author pages. And wow, somehow it’s not in JSON-LD lol, but in microdata. ok ok 🤔 https://t.co/XKWZbzzMbL pic.twitter.com/Q0MQzG6W99
— 🐝 Olesia Korobka 💙💛🐝 (@Giridja) February 1, 2023
So Lizzi Sassman updated the docs to reflect this.
Forum discussion at Mastodon.
SEARCHENGINES
February 4th Google Search Ranking Algorithm Update

There may have been another unconfirmed Google search ranking algorithm update – this one also on the weekend, around February 4th, maybe kicking off on February 3rd. I am seeing signs from both chatter within the SEO community, and also, some of the tools are showing big swings around February 4th.
The previous updates we reported about was an unconfirmed update around January 26th, then on January 18th, then January 14th – you can see the full list over here.
SEO Chatter
Let’s start by looking at some of the chatter within the SEO community. There is chatter both at WebmasterWorld and here in the comments areas:
Global site traffic continued firm all day Thursday for me and ended at 140.3%. Today has started ok for a Friday.
Seeing some sharp increase in traffic as well. Tech based sites are performing really well. Around 40% increase overall. Although a good share of Chinese bot like traffic is also present.
So, my site got a lovely boost a couple of weeks ago. Keywords I hadn’t ranked for in years plus some I had never ranked for particularly well were appearing. Two weeks later and google have yanked the rug out from under me again. A keywod I was on page 1 for is now bottom of page 4. Another that I was page 1 for – page 8 now.
I’m seeing ranking hold relatively steady, but traffic has been much worse this week. The previous two weeks were unusually high though. Yesterday search was down 17% and the day before that it was flat, but traffic to my home page has dropped considerably again. Most of the decline is USA traffic
Feels like Google released another update on Saturday 4th, no?
I noticed big changes on all my websites around 4 pm GMT onwards.
Massive volatility spotted. Seeing crazy fluctuations in rankings too.
Maybe a G Update is just around the corner?
Got hammered yesterday – almost as bad as any core update.
The fluctuation that started 24-36 hours ago is increasing gradually.
Traffic was up this morning, up until 6am UK time, then zero traffic for 4 hours. 4 hours?? How is that even possible if throttling isn’t the case?
All this chatter was between February 3rd and February 5th.
Google Tracking Tools
Here are what the tracking tool are showing:
Have you seen any big swings in rankings or traffic with your site since the weekend?
Here’s the product review site that surged on 1/26 like others I saw. It reversed on 2/3… The other I shared remains up. Again, whatever Google is pushing is impacting some product review sites heavily. It’s like they creep in/out of the gray area for a short time & surge/drop: pic.twitter.com/nUd6M0JgGc
— Glenn Gabe (@glenngabe) February 6, 2023
Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.
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