Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today… …

Google has posted an exam to test your SEO knowledge on crawling. Google said this is to test your knowledge on how Google crawls and indexes websites. This is a true and false test, with explanations on why the answer …

Looks like Google is testing another design and layout for displaying forums in the search results. Now Google is labeling this “discussions” and showing it in this two column and multiple rows carousel interface. …

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Google’s John Mueller said on Reddit this morning that the page experience update that incorporates core web vitals is more than a tie breaker ranking signal. He said “it is a ranking factor, and it’s more than a tie-breaker, but …

This is an SEO/SEM blog, we get some of our traffic from people doing SEO/SEM related queries in Google Search. But some SEOs are claiming that Google is sending more of those searchers to google.com sites, like the Google blogs, …

Microsoft announced their next AI model, a large-scale sparse model that complements our production Transformer models, they are calling MEB or “Make Every Feature Binary.” Microsoft said this makes the search results on Bing more relevant. …

Google’s local pack user interface and design tests have been a bit whacky over the past several days. Google is now showing a super sparse looking local pack for bus rental types of queries. Google is just showing the directions …

I start off this week with the big Google webmaster report for August… …