On the 151th anniversary of the MET, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the largest art museum in the United States, Google posted a GIF as a Doodle on its home page to celebrate the day. The MET was established on …
Daily Search Forum Recap: April 12, 2021
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…
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Google: After Rendering; Focus On If Your Site Adds Value Over Others
Gary Illyes from Google said when it comes to ranking in Google, it is often not about your core web vital scores, if you are using AMP, nor your database size. After you know that Google can access and render …
Google Has Changed Cumulative Layout Shift Metric
Google has made changes to how it calculates the CLS, cumulative layout shift, metric within core web vitals. Specifically maximum session window with 1 second gap, capped at 5 seconds. This was done to make it “more fair for long …
Microsoft Bing Can Crawl Parameterized URLs Occasionally
Frederic Dubut from Microsoft said Bing “may still crawl parameterized URLs occasionally.” He said that the “most common parameters are taken into account in indexing” but it still may crawl the other parameterized URLs here and there.
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Vlog #115: Fay Friedman On Duplicate Content, Featured Snippets & People Also Ask
In part one, Fay Friedman and I spoke about E-Commerce SEO vs Other SEO & Common SEO Audit Issues in part two we spoke more about duplicate content…
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Google Product Reviews Update Was Really Big For Affiliates & Review Sites
Last Thursday, Google began rolling out the new Google Products Reviews Update – I covered everything Google has said about it over in that story but now, it is time to cover the impact. It has been a few days …
Why Google Often Treats 302 Redirects As 301 Redirects
Google’s John Mueller has said many times that 302s vs 301s are pretty much the same thing in terms of how Google treats redirects. He often said not to worry about using a 302 over a 301 or the other …
Google Search Console Performance Report Image Metrics Algorithm Updated
On April 6th, Google said it made an update to “the algorithm for counting image impressions in Search results.” This might lead to a “Small drop” in the image impressions you see reported in the Google Search Console Performance Report.…
Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Product Reviews Update, Discover Guidelines Update, Regex On Search Console & Google/SEO Adversarial/Evolutionary Thread
The big news this week is that a new confirmed Google search ranking algorithm hit the shelves today, Google named it the Google Product Reviews Update…
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Google Video Structured Data thumbnailUrl Adds Support For WebP & SVG
Google made a small update to the video structured data help documents to communicate that the thumbnailUrl now also supports WebP and SVG image formats, in addition to the already documented BMP, GIF, JPEG, and PNG image formats.
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Google Product Reviews Update: A New Search Algorithm Update Hits The Shelves
Google has announced a new search ranking quality algorithm update to its search engine it is called the product reviews update. This update is aimed at rewarding high-level product review content, above thinner product review content. This is not a …
Google Discover New Guidelines Won’t Show These Types Of Content
Google updated its Google Discover guidelines to specify that it won’t show “content that’s not desired or that might confuse readers.” Google specifically gave these examples of content that it might not show in Google Discover.
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