Head Of Instagram Admits Redesign Is ‘Not Yet Good’ via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that the search company has no plans to separate out indexing and visibility controls specifically between Google News, Search, Discover or Top Stories. If you are in Search, you can be in the top stories carousel and there isn’t a whole set of individual controls for each feature.

After over a year of not having an update on the Google Search Quality Raters Guidelines – Google made several updates to the document yesterday, October 19, 2021. The last update was just over a year ago on October 14, 2020. The document this time around went from 175 pages to 172 pages – so it was trimmed down a bit.

Google’s Webmaster Guidelines have a new name – Google Search Essentials. The new guidelines tell us what is important to focus on when it comes to performing well in Google search. Much of what moved the needle in terms of SEO years ago is no longer effective.  What matters in SEO today are things like E-A-T, core update quality questions, product review questions, and whether content is helpful. So what will give you the best chance of performing well as Google continues to refine and improve […]