We’ve all been there: tapping our fingers on our desks, wondering how we’ll fill our content calendar for the month. The simple solution may be to source ideas from competitors or plug a few topics into a keyword research tool and see what comes up. This is by no means a bad process, and sourcing
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For the most part, search engines have operated the same way for the last two decades. They’ve improved at determining intent, providing relevant results and incorporating different verticals (like image, video or local search), but the premise remains the same: input a text query and the search engine will return a mix of organic links,
John Mueller, a Google Search Relations Advocate, confirmed this morning that the search company changed how it handles soft 404 detection and classifications. The change is that now Google looks at each page by device and potentially can assign the soft 404 classification differently across the same URL on mobile versus desktop. What are soft
On July 1, Google began rolling out the July 2021 core update, this came about one-month after the June 2021 core update. While the June 2021 core update took more time to roll out and be felt, this July 2021 core update was felt almost immediately in a big way. It is hard to know for
Google published a new podcast episode where John Mueller, Gary Illyes, Martin Splitt and a guest from the Google search quality team named Dewey spoke about how the search company tackles search result spam and how Google ranks search results. The new episode can be found here or listened to on YouTube. How Google ranks
Searchmetrics crawled over 2 million URLs, crunched the numbers, and performed correlation analysis across the top 20 organic Google search positions to get a sense of how websites were performing before the Google Core Web Vitals Update. As well as the 3 Core Web Vitals, they looked at 12 additional related ranking signals to offer
In its first application, Google’s Multitask Unified Model (MUM) technology enabled the search engine to identify more than 800 variations of vaccine names in over 50 languages in a matter of seconds, the company announced in a blog post on Tuesday. Examples of search results for vaccines, powered by Google’s MUM. Image: Google. What is
The Google July 2021 core update is now rolling out, today July 1, 2021. This update will take about one to two weeks to fully roll out. Google said on the Search Liaison account “the July 2021 Core Update, previously announced, is now rolling out.” “These typically take 1-2 weeks to finish,” Google added. We
John Mueller, a Google search relations representative, posted a new video in the AskGooglebot series answering the question: how long does SEO take for new pages? The answer started off with the classic John Mueller response of “it depends,” but he dug deeper into a more precise answer. How long does it take. It can
Google said it has “significantly expanded” the help guide it has for how Google Search handles various forms on redirects. The redirects and Google Search help document use to be a few paragraphs long, but now it goes into much greater detail. What is new. The old page had general advice on the important of
Google has released the second part of the “spam update” today, June 28. The update comes after part one rolled out on June 23. “The second part of our spam update has begun today, and it will also conclude later today unless we share otherwise,” Google said. Impact. Both parts of this spam update were
When Google announced the rollout of the page experience update a week ago, Google told us that last Thursday Google would allow non-AMP pages to show in the top stories carousel. Many of us were checking to see if we could spot non-AMP content in the top stories carousel and then on Monday some of
Google is testing a new search feature that tells the searchers when the results for their query are new and thus possibly unreliable. The notice reads “it looks like these results are changing quickly.” “If this topic is new, it can sometimes take time for results to be added by reliable sources.” Vox first reported
Ever wonder how your various HTTP status codes or how your network or DNS responds to GoogleBot may impact how well your site performs on Google Search? Well, Google has published a new guide and help document detailing how HTTP status codes and network or DNS errors impact your Google Search performance. The document. You
The competition for site traffic, users’ attention and trust is constantly intensifying, and now, people have more choice than ever about where they can go to find the information or products they’re looking for. That’s why search engines like Google are emphasizing expertise, authoritativeness and trustworthiness (E-A-T) as a measure of content relevance and quality.
Google has announced yet another Search update they’re calling a “spam update.” The spam update runs today, and Google said it will also officially “conclude today.” The company also said it will once again run another spam update next week and will inform us when that update has started and concluded. These updates are one-day
Google Merchant Center has a new policy named “Inaccurate availability” that is caused “due to inconsistent availability between the landing page and checkout pages on your website,” the company said. This policy replaces the existing “Delivery issues” policy violation and goes into place on September 1, 2021. What is the inaccurate availability policy. Google explained
Shopify now allows site owners to edit their robots.txt files, Shopify CEO Tobi Lutke announced via Twitter on Friday. For Shopify sites, the robots.txt file can be edited through the robots.txt.liquid theme template. Why we care Robots.txt files tell search engines which pages of your site they can access. While this is a basic feature,