After I/O: What To Know Following Google’s Big Month – Ep. Special via @sejournal, @Amanda_ZW

“What’s the difference between crawling, rendering, indexing and ranking?” Lily Ray recently shared that she asks this question to prospective employees when hiring for the Amsive Digital SEO team. Google’s Danny Sullivan thinks it’s an excellent one. As foundational as it may seem, it isn’t uncommon for some practitioners to confuse the basic stages of search and conflate the process entirely. In this article, we’ll get a refresher on how search engines work and go over each stage of the process.    Why knowing the difference matters […]

Google’s new Search Generative Experience seems to be missing one thing that SEOs and reporters often look at: the number of results Google returns for that query.

Google’s John Mueller explained that you really need to look at your site as a whole when determining if your site is quality or not. Do not simply look at the pages Google did not index or the pages Google does not show in the search results.