Google’s John Mueller said again that its quality updates, like core updates and the others in the family, can not just impact the ranking of a page in Google Search but also how Google crawls and if Google decides to index that page. John said on mastodon“a lot of the quality updates that we make […]
Recently, Google shared, through the Chrome DevRel teamsome recommendations for optimizing the performance of Core Web Vitals in 2023. Core Web Vitals gathers the main factors of a page loading experience, as the user accesses and interacts with its elements. They are loading speed (largest contentful paint or LCP), visual stability (cumulative layout shift or […]
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. Why? Well, 4xx status codes means the document is not available, so Google won’t check it because the server says it […]
Google launched a few months ago a “check wait time” button for some local results in the Google search results. I guess this tells you how long you have to wait to receive service from the local business, like a restaurant. This was spotted by Anuj Thaker who shared a couple of screenshots on Twitterhere […]
Just a couple of days after the December 2022 helpful content update other December 2022 link spam update finished on January 12thwe are now seeing another update, an unconfirmed update that seemed to have hit on Saturday, January 14th. The chatter began about a day before at WebmasterWorld and the tools, most of them, picked […]
Last week we reported on a comment made by John Mueller of Google about the head section of your HTML and why you should keep it clean. John, on Friday, posted a mastodon thread explaining more about the head section and how search engines interact with it, especially if there is a lot of JavaScript […]
Mike Blumenthal dropped a simple but thoughtful local SEO tip that all businesses should do some time in the near future. Just check the featured photos that Google selected to be displayed in your Google Maps pin overlay. Mike said on Twitter“When the new on the side map was introduced for the Local Pack last […]
Google has a “recent images” photo carousel for some knowledge panels. For example, Google had this for a search on the [golden globes] last week, showing photos from the recently taken and published event. Here is a screenshot that I snagged (click to enlarge it): This was first spotted by Khushal Bherwani who shared this […]
A Reddit thread asks if Google engages in link-buying sting operations where they will pretend to want to buy a link and then use that to penalize the network. John Mueller of Google responded by saying, “I get sent offers all the time to an official Google email address.” That means Google does not need […]
Google is now testing the Google Ads sponsored label in the product listing results within the more products section in an additional result. I cannot replicate this, but Saad AK spotted it and posted two videos of this in action. As a reminder, Google launched the new “sponsored” ad label on mobile last October. Google […]