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Google has updated its favicon documentation for Google Search to add definitions for each supported rel attribute value in the Google Search favicon documentation.
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Google postpones Chrome’s third-party cookie deprecation to 2025 amid challenges, giving websites more transition time. The post Google Further Postpones Third-Party Cookie Deprecation In Chrome appeared first on Search Engine…
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Google revised their favicon documentation with new wording that makes it easier to understand The post Google Revised The Favicon Documentation appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Google warns of “new reality” amid search struggles, accelerates timelines, while critics allege prioritizing revenue over quality. The post Google Warns Of “New Reality” As Search Engine Stumbles appeared first…
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Gary Illyes from Google said on stage at the SERP conference last week that there is no way that Google would change how the 301 redirect signal works for SEO…
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Microsoft is testing moving the lock icon in the Bing Search results snippets from the left of the URL to the right of the URL. Well, most of the time…
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Google’s John Mueller offered his insight into the extraordinary outcome of why three similar domain name migrations The post Google Explains A Weird Domain Migration Outcome appeared first on Search…
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I am not sure how many times Google has said that you do not need to disavow spammy links, that you can ignore link spam attacks and that links pointing…
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Google’s Gary Illyes said that Google needs very few links, confirming that we’re closer to a post-links algorithm The post Google Confirms Links Are Not That Important appeared first on…
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Gary Illyes from Google spoke at the SERP Conf on Friday and he said what he said numerous times before, that Google values links a lot less today than it…
Google is testing showing answers in the Discussions and Forums section within the search results. Google will show the question and then add a shaded box with one of the…
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Google is testing showing a “Post” button in the carousel of buttons in the Google Business Profile local listing panel. So when you view your owned business in Google Search,…
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Keyword optimization involves improving your pages to better use your target search queries.
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Google DeepMind researchers invent a high performance alternative to transformer models that uses less computing resources The post Google DeepMind RecurrentGemma Beats Transformer Models appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
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Google’s Gary Illyes responded to a question about 404 errors that coincided with a drop in search rankings The post Google On 404 Errors And Ranking Drops appeared first on…
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Google’s John Mueller on diagnosing why a WordPress site disappeared from the search index after changing web hosts The post Google On Diagnosing A Deindexed WordPress Site appeared first on…
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Google’s Gary Illyes answers whether changing web hosting platforms can negatively impact SEO The post Google Answers If Changing Web Hosting Affects SEO appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
The Google March 2024 core update is still rolling out, almost 6 weeks now, and we saw two shifts of ranking volatility, both mid-week and the weekend before. Google’s Danny…
Google is testing another ad format, another card like format, for its search ads. We previously saw the vertical and tall ad cards, then the carousel horizontal card format and…
Google was asked if having two websites and Google finding out about them would cause the websites to drop in rankings. John Mueller from Google said that is “not likely,”…
Gary Illyes from Google said in the recent Google SEO office hours the Google Indexing API may work for unsupported content formats, but that you shouldn’t be “surprised if suddenly…
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Fabrice Canel from Microsoft announced that BingBot now fully supports Brotli compression and will soon be testing zstd Zstandard compression, a lossless data compression, for its crawler.
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Learn social media marketing: why you should have your business on social media, and valuable strategies and tips that won’t require a serious investment of your time, money, and effort.
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Google says brief 503 downtimes are acceptable, but extended unavailability can impact crawling. The post Google On The SEO Impact Of 503 Status Codes appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Mozilla boosts Firefox page load times by 10%, enhancing user experience for faster, smoother websites. The post Mozilla Squeezes More Speed From Firefox Browser appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Learning how to write a conclusion that engages the reader takes practice. Use these tips for inspiration.
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Learn the eight steps to easily integrate Google Analytics 4 with your Wix website for enhanced user insights.
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Google has discontinued its support for video carousel markup and has thus removed it from its video structured data help documentation. Initially, Google tested video carousel on a limited number…
Google sent out emails a couple of days ago to businesses asking them to register their Automated External Defibrillator (AED) with Google Business Profiles. Google said, “you could save lives”…
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Google abruptly stops supporting the video carousel (limited access) rich results structured data and removes the documentation The post Google Ends Video Carousel Structured Data Test appeared first on Search…
Harness the potential of Schema Markup to create a content knowledge graph that enhances search engine understanding of your web content. The post Extending Your Schema Markup From Rich Results…
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