Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today… …
Day: February 4, 2022
SEOs Says Google Page Experience More Important Despite There Being No Impact
Aleyda Solis did a Twitter poll thread, multiple polls in a Twitter thread, around the Google page experience update. In short, the poll shows that page experience related metrics, such as core web vitals, is more important to their SEO …
Google Buying Guides In Search Results
Google is testing, at least I can’t replicate it right now, enhanced buying guides in the search results. Basically this “buying guide” in Google Search lets you really drill into the options around what products you can buy based on …
Google Doesn’t Use MUM For Ranking Or Much Of Anything In Google Search
So I wrote this pretty deep dive into how Google uses AI in Google Search at Search Engine Land, and Google posted a shorter version on their blog. I noticed after that, some folks were saying that Google uses MUM …
Google: No Mechanism To Force Title Tag Changes Even For Legal Reasons
As you may remember, in August 2021 Google changed the algorithm it uses to determine your title links (tags) in the search results and it caused a huge issue in the SEO community. A couple months later, Google toned down …
Googler Says Web 3.0 Won’t Kill SEO
All the craze right now is Web3 or Web 3.0, the new iteration of the World Wide Web based on the blockchain, which incorporates concepts including decentralization and token-based economics. And some are concerned it will kill SEO, that Web …
Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google URL Inspection API, Manual Actions Galore, New Partner Programs, Earnings, MUM, Web3 & More
I posted the monthly Google webmaster report for February 2022, so check it out. Google released a new API for the Google URL Inspection Tool – it is exciting. Google seems to be clearing out the manual action backlog. Google …
Daily Search Forum Recap: February 3, 2022
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. Google Maps documented some of its review spam and enforcement practices and policies……