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Google rich results guidelines now prohibits weapons, recreational drugs, tobacco & vaping products and gambling-related products
This better aligns Google Search guidelines with merchant guidelines.
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Google documents how to inject canonical tags using JavaScript
Google still recommends you avoid using JavaScript for canonical tags but if you must, Google provided these recommendations.
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How to empower your SEO and digital marketing strategy with data
Set up your dashboards. Run experiments. Improve your conversion rate. Monitor trends. Revamp and update your SEO strategy. Repeat.
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What to do if you’re negatively impacted by a major algorithm update
At SMX Advanced, Glenn Gabe shared how SEOs can address -- and prepare for -- major Google updates.
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How Google creates knowledge panels
The influence of the Knowledge Graph is growing fast and should be included in your SEO strategy.
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Core Web Vitals scores improving for top-ranked sites
New research looks at the top rankings for 500 keywords in Education, B2B Tech, Finance, and Retail.
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Googlebot will crawl and index the first 15MB of content per page
Make sure the content you want Googlebot to crawl, index and ultimately rank is within the first 15MB of that page.
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Google cuts back on SEO office hours format, frequency
This is a substantial change to the original format that has been so helpful to SEOs over the past decade.
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Google updated guidelines for product variants pages and rich results
If you have pages with product variant switches, it may reduce your chances to show rich results in Google Search.
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How to improve E-A-T with semantic search
Semantic search knowledge can be a game changer. At SMX Advanced, Marie Haynes shared how SEOs can use it to improve E-A-T.
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Google Search Console compare feature in performance reports
This feature can be very useful in debugging Google Search issues with rankings, indexing and potentially crawling.
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Google Search Console item classifications updated to show valid or invalid
This is just a reporting change, no changes have been made to crawling, indexing or rankings with this announcement.
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5 tips to develop authoritative content for Google and searchers
Here's an inside look at Wirecutter's SEO strategy for creating content that ranks and helpful experiences for users.
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Why 100% indexing isn’t possible, and why that’s OK
While 100% indexing may be possible in terms of 'technical,' it鈥檚 likely not going to be possible in reality.
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Google to sunset old Search Console message panel
Google will officially remove the legacy message panel on August 1, 2022.
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Twitter removes nofollow attribute from links in tweets
It is unclear if Twitter intentionally removed the attribute or not and even so, if Google would count links in Twitter posts.
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Google May 2022 core update is finished rolling out
This update took 15 days to roll out and is now done, you should now dig in and see how your site was impacted and what actions to take next.
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Google updates its title algorithm for multi-language or transliterated/scripted titles
Make sure your titles match the language and/or script of your page or Google may change it for you.
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Google help document adds author markup best practices
Make sure to verify that you are following these new best practices to ensure your rich results show properly in Google Search.
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Google adds learning video rich results
These rich results show in English in all regions for academic learning content on desktop and mobile.