It has been a while since I covered the keyword meta tag and for some reason the topic has come up recently, so I decided to cover it again. In short, Google Search still does not use the keyword meta tag for ranking purposes. Google does not look at the words in your keyword meta […]
After years of development, Apple has today unveiled the first iteration of its AR glasses – which is essentially a Meta Quest unit, minus VR. Apple’s first step into mixed reality is called the Vision Pro, which will incorporate a range of potential use cases. As outlined in the video, Apple’s touting this as a […]
Google’s John Mueller spoke a bit more about when you should update the date in the lastmod tag in the XML sitemap file. He said on Twitter if you are “providing something new for search engines that you’d like reflected in search,” then update the date, if not, then don’t. John said, “Are you providing […]
Microsoft Bing posted a newblog post saying “for XML sitemaps, one of the most critical tags you can include in your sitemap is the “lastmod” tag.” And it will become even more critical as Bing is reworking its crawl scheduling stack to rely more on this lastmod field. Yes, by June, the way Bing decides […]
Google’s John Mueller said on mastodon that using AI or ChatGPT blindly for title tag generation is not a great idea. But he added that if you are running out of ideas and need inspiration, you can leverage the tools for some ideas. John wrote, “I don’t know if AI is the right approach to […]
Google has updated the Google tag (the new Google tag) to include a new tap coverage summary and offering deeper Google Ads, Google Analytics, and various CMS integrations. Google wrote “we’re unveiling another set of capabilities that provide more visibility into your site’s measurement coverage and simplify the setup.” The new tag coverage summary, you […]
India’s smartwatch market grew 312% YoY in Q2 2022, according to data released by Counterpoint. This growth can be attributed to growing consumer interest in smartwatches as an accessory and as a fitness tracker. Interestingly, the market has seen the emergence of strong local brands such as Fire-Boltt and Noise, vying for market share. In […]
Instagram is opening its product tagging feature to every user in the US, regardless if the account is a business or a creator level. Starting last week, every American user can tag products in their posts, which was originally only available to approved creators. For other countries, this feature will be available over the next […]
As you may remember, in Aug 2021 Google has changed the algorithm it uses to determine your title links (tags) in the search results (which they later Confirmed and later explains what has changed) and it causes huge complaints in the SEO community. A few months later, Google weakened some of these title changes for […]
This week, we had another unconfirmed Google search ranking update on January 22nd. Google has admitted defeat with its FLoC cookieless proposal and is now going with Topics API. Google launched a new robots tag named indexifembedded that controls indexing of embedded content. Google Search Console had an image search reporting bug it is working […]