Technical SEO: The 20 Minute Workweek Checklist via @sejournal, @josephrobison

What if your site gets hacked and there is a ton of spammy content placed on it? Do you have to worry about negative consequences on your Google rankings and overall SEO efforts? John Mueller of Google said Google can filter out the most obvious hacks but what is placed on your website is what Google likely sees, so make sure to be on top of your security.

Google has improved its system to count clicks and impressions for the Google Search Console Discover performance report. The Discover performance report within Google Search Console helps you track how much visibility your content and articles are obtaining within Google Discover; that report was updated. This update started on November 28, 2022. Please note that you may see an increase in your clicks and impressions within this report, but it is just a reporting change and not a change related to your actual performance in Google Discover. What is […]

Back in 2017, Google announced that it was working with The Trust Project to help publishers use “eight trust indicators that newsrooms can add to their content.” But Google’s Danny Sullivan said that was the extent of it, and that Google does not use The Trust Project directly for how it ranks websites in its search results.