Google is going to release its second batch up improvements for site names in the search results “in the near future,” Danny Sullivan, Google’s Search Liaison, said. He said this is coming within weeks, not as long a months. Danny Sullivan wrote this on Twitter yesterday, “We’re still working through more improvements to the system […]
When I started my business, I was far from a content strategy or digital marketing expert. I launched BAUCE Magazine with an English degree and a dream: To create a lifestyle site that would help women from disadvantaged backgrounds attain wealth, build their empires, and look good while doing it. So, I just wrote the […]
Gary Illyes from the Google Search team said on LinkedIn that you should avoid using LLMs and AI for diagnosing potential SEO issues or other issues with your site. Gary wrote, “don’t use them for diagnosing potential issues with it.” Gary wrote, “LLMs have a very high wow factor, but they have no clue about […]
Google’s John Mueller said he would “try very hard to avoid having a “coming back soon” page during a revamp.” He said if you must have the “coming back soon” page then do so for a day or so but serve a 503 server status code. John wrote this on Twitter, “I’d try very hard […]
This week, we had the Google April 2023 reviews update finish rolling out after 13 days. That update was pretty heated toward the last week of the rollout. Google clarified that page experience is a ranking signal but not a ranking system. Google asked you to submit issues with site names in the search results […]
Trump supporters and police clash as they try to storm US Capitol … [+](Photo by Joseph Prezioso / AFP) Joseph Prezioso / AFP Photo (Photo JOSEPH Prezioso/AFP/Getty Images). AFP via Getty Images Parler, the social media platform that once courted Kanye West as a buyer and was popular with the Jan. 6 insurrectionists, has been […]
Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that just because a site appears to be doing super well in terms of Google ranking and SEO today that it won’t degrade one day in value. John added, “just because something’s in Google News now doesn’t mean it’ll be there forever.” Sometimes sites just lose their luster, the […]
Microsoft Bing is testing adding an “official site” label in the search results. If you search for a specific site, you may find that Bing adds to the title of the search result snippet the words “Official Site.” This was spotted by Shameem Adhikarath and posted on Twitterbut I cannot replicate it myself: I don’t […]
Microsoft Bing is testing placing a site’s favicon on the right side of the search result title’s snippet. We are accustomed to seeing it on the left for Google search results, we even saw Bing testing it on the left on mouse cursor hover overbut here it is being tested on the right. Shameem Adhikarath […]
Google has updated the site move related search documentation this week. It seems like most of the changes were mostly about simplifying things around site moves, removing some content, clarification and so forth. Gary Illyes said on mastodon“just cleaned it up; it collected a lot of potentially unnecessary sentences over the years. And we linked […]