Google often says that is algorithmic updates, be it core updates, page experience updates, and other search related updates can take several days to several weeks or even several months to fully roll out. What does that mean, how does …
Google: Quality Is A Site Level Signal
I am not sure why there are such extreme divisions in the SEO industry around site level vs page level signals. Some say Google only uses page level signals for rankings and some say Google uses both, page and site …
Now Live: Google My Business Performance Report Direction Requests & Website Visits
Last month we reported that Google updated its documentation to say the new Google My Business performance report will soon have driving direction requests and website visits. Well now, according to Colan Nielsen, Google is rolling out those metrics slowly …
Google Browse More Ideas Search Feature
Google on mobile search has a new box for “browse more ideas” for some queries. This box shows is a fancy query refinement to get you to do more searches to refine your query to something more specific.
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Daily Search Forum Recap: June 16, 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 Page Experience Update Rolling Out Between June 15 & End Of August
So yesterday, Google not only said the June 2021 core update finished rolling out on June 12th, but also said that on June 15th it began to start the slow process of rolling out the page experience update. Reminder, this …
Google June 2021 Core Update Finished Rolling Out On Saturday, June 12th
Well, the June 2021 core update that was announced on June 2nd, began rolling out at 6:30pm ET on June 2nd, but was not really felt much until a few days later is officially done rolling out. It actually took …
Google Video: Changes With Top Stories With The Page Experience Update
Google has released a really nice and clear video on what top stories changes are happening now with the release of the page experience update. As you know, top stories no longer require AMP and signed exchanges support will allow …
10 things you should do as soon as you sign up for music distribution
Preparing your music for a successful release.
Whenever you release new music, you don’t want it to just be AVAILABLE on platforms like Spotify and Apple Music. You want people to care. Every new release should be a building block …
Daily Search Forum Recap: June 15, 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 Launches Search Console Insights After A Year Of Testing
After over 11 months of testing, probably a lot more, Google is taking the Search Console Insights feature out of BETA and officially launching it. Search Console Insights “joins data from both Search Console and Google Analytics with a goal …
Google: Site Command Rankings Can Be Impacted By Core Updates
I do a ton of site command searches, I do this to find content on specific sites, and I’ve noticed over the years is that the results I get from Google before and after a core update can be impacted …
Google’s John Mueller Drops Tweet On Premature Optimization
John Mueller of Google dropped a fun tweet yesterday where he wrote “thinking about premature optimization, but for SEO…” Premature SEO… Of course, the responses are somewhat interesting and I thought I’d share some of the early responses, but click …
Google: No Sudden Ranking Drop When The Page Experience Update Goes Live
Google’s John Mueller was asked again if “there be a sudden drop in rankings of websites that have poor Core Web Vitals score?” John said no, there won’t be a sudden drop in rankings for these sites. He said “no, …
Google: Removing People Also Ask Results Takes Longer Than Removing Normal Search Results
Google’s John Mueller said in this past Friday’s SEO video hangout that requesting removal of people also ask results in Google takes longer than would the removal of normal search results. He said this is because the people also ask …
Google Dataset Structured Data Adds Funder Property Type
Google has added a new optional property type to the dataset structured data to document who the funders, if any, are for this data. You can define the person or organization that provides financial support for this dataset with this …