John Mueller of Google said on Twitter that “publishing frequency alone does not make something spam.” Google’s algorithms don’t look at the content volume as a spam signal alone.

Google seems to be testing a new box in the search results named perspectives and opinions. The naming convention reminds me of Google perspectives, but this acts differently, as the old perspectives were featured snippet based, and these new perspectives and opinions are more product review based.

Here is another PSA from Gary Illyes of Google. In short, if you serve a 4xx status code with your robots.txt file, then Google will ignore the rules you have specified in that file.

Discover the top YouTube videos for 2022 and see what works in various industries. The post The Significant 7: Top YouTube Videos, Shorts, And Ads of 2022 appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

Website indexing is one of the first steps (after crawling) in a process of how web pages are ranked and served as search engine results. The post Website Indexing For Search Engines: How Does It Work? appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

ChatGPT is trending right now, but do you know how to use it? Learn the art of making prompts and harnessing the power of AI. The post From Zero To ChatGPT Hero: How To Harness The Power Of AI In Marketing appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

Google Speed Update: New ranking algorithm designed for mobile search In 2018, Google announced the “Speed Update” – a new ranking algorithm designed for mobile search – would go live later in the year. The “Speed Update,” as we’re calling it, will only affect pages that deliver the slowest experience to users and will only affect a small percentage of queries. It applies the same standard to all pages, regardless of the technology used to build the page. The intent of the search query is still a very strong signal, so a slow page may still rank highly if it has […]

In a move sparking controversy across tech and developer communities, Twitter appears to have cut off access to third-party apps like Twitteriffic and Tweetbot. The post Twitter Cuts Off Access To Third-Party Apps appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

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…

Blog posts are quite possibly the most common content type that exists. You read them, I read them, we all read them – but which ones actually made an impact on you? Which blogs gave you useful information? Which ones made you think, or taught you something new? Most importantly, which drew you closer to the brand that created them? Ultimately, writing a blog post should accomplish that for your business (or your client’s business). On top of that, a good blog post written for SEO should pull in ideal traffic from search engines and convert those visitors into leads. […]

Late last week, Google Business Profiles had a bug where uploading images to your business profile would fail. This was reported first by Tim Capper on Twitter on Thursday and the issue continued in through the weekend.

Google’s John Mueller said that Google Search Console’s URL Inspection tool to submit a page to be crawled would probably not see the quota increase anytime soon. He said on Mastodon, “given how much junk we get submitted there, I don’t see us increasing those limits.”

Just a couple of days after the December 2022 helpful content update and link spam update finished, we are now seeing another update, an unconfirmed update that seemed to have hit on Saturday, January 14th.

Mark Saltarelli and I spoke about his history and about B2B digital marketing in part one…

If you want your site to be at the top of search engines, you likely have started researching SEO best practices. Perhaps you have mastered all that you need to know about technical SEO, but your WordPress site still doesn’t seem to be ranking well, and you want to get down to the root of the problem. As the most popular CMS worldwide, there’s no doubt that many top results on search engines are WordPress websites. Image Source: W3Techs.com Read on to find some of the most common reasons your WordPress site is not ranking and how to resolve them. […]

Google Business Profiles seems to be testing, beta testing, the ability for businesses to add more details, to “say more about” their business attributes.