For the original iTunes version, click here. This past weekend (a week ago) we saw the first ranking volatility likely from the Google March 2024 core update. We also some saw possible reversals or recoveries a few days later. Then today, Friday, March 15th, I am seeing more ranking volatility likely related to the core […]
Google has updated its Web Stories documentation to explain where Web Stories can show in search. Google said Web Stories no longer will show up within Google Image Search, the carousel view and made some changes to where these Web Stories show within Google Search. Google wrote, “Web Stories don’t appear in Google Images anymore, […]
Google’s Danny Sullivan said on Friday, “We don’t confirm any of the things [page experience or core web vitals] as a direct ranking factor.” He added, “But to reiterate we look at many things not one thing and even the one thing might not be a direct ranking factor.” “It doesn’t say it is a […]
Google has announced that March 12, 2024 will be the official date for when Interaction to Next Paint (INP) will replace First Input Delay (FID) as a Core Web Vital metric. We knew it was coming in March but we didn’t have the specific date until now. Google wrote: We’re announcing that INP will officially […]
Web design strategies for building sustainable websites by Adam | December 22, 2023 Sustainable web design is, about creating and maintaining websites in a way that minimizes their impact on the environment while also optimizing resource efficiency and ensuring long-term viability. It involves considering the social and economic aspects of web development as a whole. […]
SendGrid’s Web API and SMTP Relay are the two primary methods of integrating with and sending email through SendGrid. You can think of their differences like methods of delivering a package: you could send a package in the mail, or you could drive it to the destination yourself. While the methods of delivery are different, […]
Google’s next step for its Search Generative Experience is SGE while browsing. In Chrome on desktop and in the mobile Google app on iOS and Android, Google SGE can summarize longer web page content for you. Yea, it is similar to Bing Chat’s Edge sidebar feature. Google wrote, “SGE while browsing was specifically designed to […]
Bing Chat will be adding a feature to tell it not to search the web for an answer. Mikhail Parakhin, the CEO of Bing Search at Microsoft, said on Twitter“#nosearch is coming” when asked if Bing Chat can exclude web search results from the answers. So in the future, you should be able to tell […]
Google seems to be showing fewer and fewer local packs for various queries in the Google Search results interface. For the past few days or so, local SEOs have been noticing this trend and it is concerning them and their clients. Joy Hawkins posted about this in the Local Search Forums saying, “I’ve been tracking […]
Google seems to be testing a grid-like format for local results in the mobile web search results. We see these grid formats primarily for product and shopping search results, but I don’t think I’ve seen this for local search listings. This was spotted by Brandon on Twitter who posted a video cast of this in […]