Gary Illyes from Google said when it comes to ranking in Google, it is often not about your core web vital scores, if you are using AMP, nor your database size. After you know that Google can access and render …
Google Product Reviews Update Was Really Big For Affiliates & Review Sites
Last Thursday, Google began rolling out the new Google Products Reviews Update – I covered everything Google has said about it over in that story but now, it is time to cover the impact. It has been a few days …
Vlog #115: Fay Friedman On Duplicate Content, Featured Snippets & People Also Ask
In part one, Fay Friedman and I spoke about E-Commerce SEO vs Other SEO & Common SEO Audit Issues in part two we spoke more about duplicate content…
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Google Search Console Performance Report Image Metrics Algorithm Updated
On April 6th, Google said it made an update to “the algorithm for counting image impressions in Search results.” This might lead to a “Small drop” in the image impressions you see reported in the Google Search Console Performance Report.…
Why Google Often Treats 302 Redirects As 301 Redirects
Google’s John Mueller has said many times that 302s vs 301s are pretty much the same thing in terms of how Google treats redirects. He often said not to worry about using a 302 over a 301 or the other …
Google Product Reviews Update: A New Search Algorithm Update Hits The Shelves
Google has announced a new search ranking quality algorithm update to its search engine it is called the product reviews update. This update is aimed at rewarding high-level product review content, above thinner product review content. This is not a …
Google Video Structured Data thumbnailUrl Adds Support For WebP & SVG
Google made a small update to the video structured data help documents to communicate that the thumbnailUrl now also supports WebP and SVG image formats, in addition to the already documented BMP, GIF, JPEG, and PNG image formats.
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Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Product Reviews Update, Discover Guidelines Update, Regex On Search Console & Google/SEO Adversarial/Evolutionary Thread
The big news this week is that a new confirmed Google search ranking algorithm hit the shelves today, Google named it the Google Product Reviews Update…
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Google Discover New Guidelines Won’t Show These Types Of Content
Google updated its Google Discover guidelines to specify that it won’t show “content that’s not desired or that might confuse readers.” Google specifically gave these examples of content that it might not show in Google Discover.
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Google Video On Making Successful Web Stories
Google’s Pascal Birchler, Developer Relations Engineer, posted a nice video on how to get started with Web Stories. The video goes through what Web Stories are, how to create Web Stories, and how to rank well and get traffic using …
Google: You Can’t Reduce Your Google Rankings In A Specific Country
A site owner on Reddit asked if there is a way to remove his site from Google Search in a specific country, specifically Indonesia. John Mueller of Google said there really is not way of doing that, he said “you …
Google Merchant Center Product Data Specification Updates
Google posted a list of changes or updates rolling out now and in the upcoming months for the Merchant Center product data specifications. Google said “this year’s updates focus on improving the quality of product information across free listings and …
Google Local Search Trends With COVID-19
The other day Google posted a blog post named the latest local shopping trends; local is now digital. In this blog post, Google shared a lot of trends the company tracked with local searches in 2020 due to COVID-19.
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