A Google podcast highlights the potential for factual errors in AI-generated content, stressing human oversight is critical. The post Google Stresses The Need To Fact Check AI-Generated Content appeared first…
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Google updated their Googlebot and Crawler documentation to add a second list of IP addresses The post Google Crawler Documentation Has A New IP List appeared first on Search Engine…
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Over the past few days, while I was offline, the SEO chatter around the Google search ranking volatility continued to be super heated. The Google tracking tools seemed to calm…
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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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2024’s top SEO podcasts offer deep dives into search marketing, analytics, and industry trends. The post Top 17 SEO Podcasts For 2024 appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
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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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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 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…
Google’s John Mueller offers his thoughts on whether publishing multiple sites can negatively affect rankings The post Google Answers Whether Having Two Sites Affects Rankings appeared first on Search Engine…
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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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Don’t rely on the Wayback Machine alone. Discover these top alternatives for archiving websites and preserving online history. The post Wayback Machine: 5 Alternatives To Try appeared first on Search…
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2024 WordPress vulnerability report shows top reasons why many WordPress sites were compromised over the past year The post 2024 WordPress Vulnerability Report Shows Errors Sites Keep Making appeared first…
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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.
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There have been some people noticing that the Google Notes On Search labs experiment has an end date of May 2024 and thus they are expecting Notes on Search to…
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On August 31, 2021, Google notified advertisers it would drop support for expanded text ads for responsive search ads. Google is now reminding advertisers that Ad customizers for text ads,…
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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…
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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…