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Google Video: Changes With Top Stories With The Page Experience Update
Google has released a really nice and clear video on what top stories changes are happening now with the release of the page experience update. As you know, top stories no longer require AMP and signed exchanges support will allow …
10 things you should do as soon as you sign up for music distribution
Preparing your music for a successful release.
Whenever you release new music, you don’t want it to just be AVAILABLE on platforms like Spotify and Apple Music. You want people to care. Every new release should be a building block …
Daily Search Forum Recap: June 15, 2021
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web…
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Google Launches Search Console Insights After A Year Of Testing
After over 11 months of testing, probably a lot more, Google is taking the Search Console Insights feature out of BETA and officially launching it. Search Console Insights “joins data from both Search Console and Google Analytics with a goal …
Google Dataset Structured Data Adds Funder Property Type
Google has added a new optional property type to the dataset structured data to document who the funders, if any, are for this data. You can define the person or organization that provides financial support for this dataset with this …
Google: Removing People Also Ask Results Takes Longer Than Removing Normal Search Results
Google’s John Mueller said in this past Friday’s SEO video hangout that requesting removal of people also ask results in Google takes longer than would the removal of normal search results. He said this is because the people also ask …
Google: No Sudden Ranking Drop When The Page Experience Update Goes Live
Google’s John Mueller was asked again if “there be a sudden drop in rankings of websites that have poor Core Web Vitals score?” John said no, there won’t be a sudden drop in rankings for these sites. He said “no, …
Google’s John Mueller Drops Tweet On Premature Optimization
John Mueller of Google dropped a fun tweet yesterday where he wrote “thinking about premature optimization, but for SEO…” Premature SEO… Of course, the responses are somewhat interesting and I thought I’d share some of the early responses, but click …
Google: Site Command Rankings Can Be Impacted By Core Updates
I do a ton of site command searches, I do this to find content on specific sites, and I’ve noticed over the years is that the results I get from Google before and after a core update can be impacted …
Google Maps Restaurant Search Results Display Average Ratings Pins
Google is now showing the average review ratings for restaurant listings when you overlay restaurant results in Google Maps. This is currently working for me in the mobile user interface but not the desktop user interface.
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Daily Search Forum Recap: June 14, 2021
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web…
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A musician’s guide to websites
The indie musician’s guide to building a professional website
Whether you’re making a website for your music for the first time, or looking to improve your current site, this guide will show you how to build an effective website to …
Google Deprecates Critic Review Structured Data Support
Google announced on June 10th that it has deprecated support for critic review markup schema and structured data. Google said “we initially tested critic review markup with a group of site owners, and ultimately found that it wasn’t useful for …
Google PageSpeed Insights Adds Partial Field Data
Google has upgraded the Google PageSpeed Insights tool to show partial field data. Google said “previously, field data was only surfaced if all metrics for a page or origin met a threshold of data.” “Now, any metric that meets the …
Site Owner Posts Google Penalty Eviction Notice After Manual Action
A site that lets you do online HTML editing has supposedly received a manual action for unnatural links. So what the site owner did was post a notice to its user base in a big box saying “goodbye” that the …